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Company type | Private |
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Industry | software |
Founded | 1986, Lisbon, Portugal |
Key people | João Pavão Martins, Ernesto Morgado (Founders and CEO) |
Products | Resource scheduling and management solutions – ONTIME, FLEET, CREWS |
Number of employees | 140 (2016) |
Website | www.siscog.pt |
SISCOG is a software company that provides decision support systems for resource planning and management in transportation companies, with special experience in the field of railways.
The initial ideas for founding SISCOG started to be discussed in 1982, while João Pavão Martins and Ernesto Morgado were Ph.D. students in artificial intelligence at the State University of New York at Buffalo. These ideas were influenced by the success of the first commercial expert systems and led to the company's incorporation in 1986.
In the last 30 years, SISCOG has developed several software products that offer users different levels of decision support. These range from validating all the constraints pertaining to a problem and performing helpful calculations while the users build the plan (manual mode), to pointing out directions for achieving a solution (semi-automatic mode), or even achieving an optimized solution by themselves (automatic mode). These products use a combination of artificial intelligence and operational research optimization technologies to produce solutions that attempt to fit the client's needs.
SISCOG has implemented its decision support systems in companies like the Canadian Railways, Dutch Railways, Finnish Railways, Norwegian State Railways, Danish State Railways, DSB S-Tog (Copenhagen Suburban Trains), London Underground, and Lisbon Metro.
SISCOG's products have been awarded in 1997, 2003 and 2012 with the "Innovative Application Award" given by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) [1] [2] and was laureated with the Computerworld Honor in 2006. [3] In 2015, the Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport (CASPT) recognized a SISCOG and Netherlands Railways' joint paper entitled "Security crew scheduling at Netherlands Railways" with the "Best Practice Paper Award". [4]
SISCOG offers a family of integrated products, each composed of several integrated modules. These modules address the whole resource scheduling and management cycle in transportation companies and are fully customizable to the reality and needs of each individual company.
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