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EVENT 03-06-2022
Rescheduling of vehicles with considerable revenue growth and cost savings
On June 8th, under the "Disruption management and increasing capacity" session, SISCOG's Innovation Department Head Ricardo Saldanha, and optimisation specialist Rita Portugal, will present the paper entitled “Rescheduling rolling stock rosters as a profit optimisation problem” at the flagship World… -
EVENT 11-03-2022
SISCOG sponsors the 2022 European Lisp Symposium
As an all-time adopter of the Common Lisp programming language, SISCOG partners with this European event as a supporter and one of the participants in the “Enlightening Lightning Talks”. Held annually, and with the 2022 edition taking place in Porto, 21-22 March, the event is a forum for the disc… -
NEWS 15-02-2022
AI4RealAg finalist in the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award
The AI4RealAg project, an intelligent system capable of generating useful forecasts and information for farmers, is one of the 12 finalists of the 2021 Crédito Agrícola Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award. -
NEWS 06-12-2021
SISCOG certifies the balance between professional, family and personal life
Certification under NP 4552 recognizes the company's competence and capacity to provide the conditions for employees to reconcile these three dimensions. -
EVENT 05-11-2021
Fair satisfaction of personal preferences at IO2021
SISCOG presents “Crew rostering with fair satisfaction of personal preferences" at Congress on Operations Research. This paper shows how personal and work life can be combined to the satisfaction of both workers and employers. -
EVENT 22-10-2021
Operations Research Seminar for Master students
Today we will give a Seminar to Master students about how statistics and Operations Research (OR) techniques can be used to support Public Transport decision-makers in their strategic planning, addressing two conflicting goals: offer better mobility possibilities to a growing number of passengers, a… -
EVENT 07-09-2021
Intelligent Agriculture project AI4RealAg at the AgroGlobal 2021 tradeshow
Intelligent Agriculture, a current imperative, will be part of the 2021 AgroGlogal tradeshow session titled “Innovation and mechanization towards the future”, September 8th, 10.00 a.m., which will include Ernesto Morgado, SISCOG co-founder, as a panelist. -
NEWS 26-05-2021
SISCOG receives ISO 27001 certification
Information Security Management added to the company’s certifications portfolio that includes Quality, Research, Development and Innovation, and Environment. -
Paper
Optimising timetables with Machine Learning
SISCOG has just published a scientific paper addressing the optimisation of public transport timetables with respect to passenger’s total travel times, combining several techniques that have never been applied in the field, including reinforcement learning. The approach applied to real-world data pe… -
CASE STUDY
VIA RAIL Canada saves millions in optimised operation
SISCOG has released a case study that highlights the financial and management advantages of the decision-support and optimisation system used by the Canadian operator VIA RAIL. One of the benefits was a 10M CAD saving by reducing the need for one train set, while increasing overall passenger seat av… -
PAPER
Rescheduling in emergency scenarios
Unexpected events bring different levels of disruptions to our lives and to businesses. Public transport is no exception. And here, the impact may be multiple – on passengers, staff, revenue, and profit. -
Article
CREWS helps the Dutch Railways cope with extreme weather
SISCOG's CREWS-based system, an advanced tool that includes Operations Research, helps to reschedule the Dutch Railways' (NS) crew and cope with extreme weather conditions. In an article from Impact Magazine, Pieter-Jan Fioole, Senior Research Leader, and Dennis Huisman, Expertise Manager Logisti…