Eudoxus Systems Ltd is a group of mathematicians who enjoy helping businesses to make better decisions and run their operations more efficiently. We do this by analysing business problems and building mathematical models of them. We then apply mathematical techniques such as optimization to the models and translate the resulting solutions back into the real world. Often we embed our models within operational systems so that they can provide day-to-day assistance to those businesses.
Our main technical strength lies in models involving linear programming and its more complex relative, integer programming. These are techniques which we have been using for the past 20 years to tackle planning and scheduling problems around the world. We also believe in promoting their wider use, hence this web site with its examples of applications and its lecture notes to help you learn how to apply the techniques yourself.
The main business areas in which we work are the oil industry and paper and packaging. The oil industry reflects our background: at one time or another all our staff have been employed by BP or its software subsidiary, Scicon. Paper and packaging is a more recent interest and reflects the complexity of the problems facing the industry, where planning and scheduling problems are made harder by the complexities of deckling and trim loss optimization.
Our work remains focused on optimization but we also move beyond that and use techniques such as simulation where appropriate. We are very conscious of the limitations of the various mathematical techniques we use and that what clients want are solutions, not elegant pieces of research.
We called our company Eudoxus after the Greek mathematician Eudoxus of Cnidus. We also liked the fact that "eudoxos" is Greek for "of good repute".
To find out more about what we do, browse around this site. We hope that it will be of interest to you. If you want to get in touch you can do so by telephone or fax. Please remember, however, that we are a business and that we have to earn all our revenue. We cannot afford to respond to enquiries from students.
