Artelys has opened a new office in Montréal, Québec, on April 2, 2012.

This new location is part of Artelys strategic development in North America. Artelys will offer specific products dedicated to meet Canadian needs in terms of studies and software solutions.

Artelys aims to develop R&D partnership agreements with Canadian Universities.

Artelys is also a new member of the Canadian Operation Research Society.

For further information, please contact us:

Artelys Canada
1819, René Lévesque Ouest, Bureau # 202
H3H 2P5 - Montréal (QC), Canada
Tel: 514 798 1860 
Fax: 514 289 9594

Artelys participated in the INFORMS Conference at the Hyatt Regency, Huntington Beach, California, USA, April 15–17, 2012.

This professional event gathered numerous experts and well-known speakers in business optimization and analytics. At this occasion, Artelys introduced its comprehensive and efficient range of optimization tools, including Artelys Kalis and the software suite Artelys Crystal, dedicated to solving complex business challenges.

During the conference, Artelys hosted a stand where our consultants answered questions regarding Artelys’ products and services, and demonstrated our innovative and operational solutions.

Together with ParisTech Fondation, Artelys supports Forecasting workshop 2011/2012. Meetings, organized by Mathieu Cornec, researcher at the Economy and Statistics Research Centre, aim to promote R&D projects around Forecast.

Events and conferences gather academics, institutions and professionals around forecasting field to discuss the latest forecasting methods and applications.

Objectives for 2011/2012 season are to extend the Forecast workshop meetings to an international level and benefit from worldwide knowledge and experience. In this context, the Forecasting workshop will be a four-days event, where world-acknowledged speakers will present their research around the forecasting field with equal emphasis on the application and theory.

Further information:

http://previsions.blogspot.com

http://www.crest.fr

Artelys will participate to the E-World fair, which will take place in Essen, Germany from February 7th to February 9th. With more than 500 exhibitors from 48 countries, more than 18 000 visitors, this professional event is one of the biggest fair for the Energy and Water industries.

Artelys offers innovative solutions specially designed to these sectors, which are part of his core business. At this occasion, Artelys Crystal software suite, composed by open and scalable business platforms, enabling organizing, controlling and optimizing activities around physical or financial assets management will be exposed at Artelys’ booth.

Artelys’ consultants will be available to answer all your questions and introduce you, through software presentations and demonstrations, to our innovative and operational solutions.

Artelys will be located in hall 2, stand 2 – 511. If you wish to have tickets for the E-World fair, please contact us.

For more information:

E-world 2012 website

Artelys exhibitor

The Innovation Day organized in Paris in February 2^nd, by Artelys and FICO, will present the latest updates and new features of FICO Xpress and Artelys Kalis.

During this conference, participants will have the opportunity to meet and exchange with the development teams of FICO^TM Xpress Optimization suite and the constraints programming solver Artelys Kalis.

Topics

• General presentation of FICO^TM Xpress Optimization suite and its modules

• Grid & Cloud computing with Mosel – new perspectives

• Artelys Kalis – parallel version & FICO^TM Xpress integrated module: Xpress-Kalis

• Xpress-SLP – fast non-linear models solving

• Future evolutions in FICO^TM Xpress suite

Feel free to contact us if you are interested in participating in this event.

Through the impetus driven by Artelys, the European research project CitInES was launched October 1, 2011. Artelys is one of the few French SMEs that managed to build up a European FP7 project.

Through the impetus driven by Artelys, the European research project CitInES was launched October 1, 2011. Artelys is one of the few French SMEs that managed to build up a European FP7 project.

With €2.85 million budget, the overall objective of CitInES is to design and demonstrate a multi-scale, multi-energy decision-making tool. The software aims to optimize the energy efficiency of cities or large industrial complexes by enabling them to define sustainable, reliable and cost-effective long-term energy strategies.

Local authorities and large industrial complexes lack resources to define efficient and effective energy investment strategies in their context. The tools and methodologies developed in the CitInES project will support wise decisions and then define a reliable, efficient and sustainable energy strategy.

Demonstrations of the developed tools, and Artelys Crystal City in particular, will take place in two Italian cities, Cesena and Bologna (400,000 inhabitants), and in one oil refinery in Tupras, Turkey.

Artelys, with high-quality partners, aims to offer adapted operational decision support tools for local authorities and industries.

CitInES in brief

Challenges

Decision support tool for local authorities and industrials to:

• Simulate, assess and compare energy investment programs
• Optimize their local energy strategy to reduce cost-effectively CO2 emissions
• Assess financial and environmental long-term risks and propose robust energy schemes to face fuel and CO2 price uncertainties

Context

• Financial support: European Commission (FP7 projet)
• Launch date: October 1^st 2011
• Duration: 30 months
• Budget : 2.85 M€

Consortium

• Coordinator: Artelys
• Local authorities: Bologna (400 000 inhabitants) andCesena
• Industrial complex: Tupras (Turkish refinery)
• Partners: Ervet, AIT Tomorrow Today, Schneider Electric, INESC Porto, INRIA, Mines ParisTech

KNITRO 8.0 is officially released. Recent benchmarks demonstrate that KNITRO is by far the best solver in its category.

Ziena and Artelys are proud to announce the launch of KNITRO 8.0. This new version contains significant improvements over the previous version, both in terms of speed and robustness, and includes many new parallel features. More details about the new features available here.

KNITRO customers under Annual License Maintenance Service contract may update to KNITRO 8.0 free of charge. For further information, please contact us.

KNITRO 8.0 is also available for trial in our download section. Try it now!

If you are interested in purchasing KNITRO, please contact us. Our sales team will be pleased to provide you with all the information you need.

Hans Mittelmann benchmarks − KNITRO beats the competition!

According to recent benchmarks*, KNITRO delivers the best performance among all nonlinear solvers. The results obtained on a set of 48 test problems demonstrate KNITRO's superiority, both in terms of speed and robustness.

* Hans Mittelmann, Benchmarks for Optimization Software, http://plato.asu.edu/bench.html (direct access to the NLP solver section)

A new version of KNITRO will be released by Ziena Optimization LLC in November, 2011.

On August 21, 2011, Artelys signed a partnership agreement, I-lab, with the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA).

This bilateral agreement over 3 years enhances Artelys' ability to offer to its clients state-of-the-art technologies and innovative solutions through research and development.

The "I-lab" aims to develop robust and efficient numerical components and software to manage large interconnected systems (smart-grids) and energy assets portfolios. Artelys Crystal suite will be improved and completed with the tools developed through the partnership.

Artelys intends, thanks to the I-lab partnership, to increase its position into the energy system optimization market and to become a leader in this sector.

A new version of Xpress has been released by FICO^TM

A benchmark of Optimization Software has been presented at Informs Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research in April 2011.

Xpress 7.2 delivers the best performance of any solution on the market and solves your problems faster than any of its competitors (According to Hans Mittelmann’s* and MIPLIB 20102** benchmarks)!

FICO Xpress Optimization Suite 7.2 offers…

• A complete set of state-of-art optimization engines that are robust, reliable and faster than competing solutions
• Unique capabilities for large scale optimization, including the ability to solve ultra-large problems (with true 64 bit capabilities) and support for distributed optimization across multiple machines
• A powerful, easy-to-learn modeling language with Xpress-Mosel
• The premier visual development environment, Xpress-IVE, for developing and refining mathematical models

Artelys distributes and supports FICO™ Xpress Optimization Suite. The constraint programming solver developed by Artelys - Artelys Kalis - has been integrated as Xpress-Kalis into FICO’s suite since 2005.

* Hans Mittelmann, Benchmarks for Optimization Software, http://plato.asu.edu/bench.html
** Thorsten Koch et al., MIPLIB 2010 – Mixed Integer Program Library version 5, Mathematical Programming C, 2011