http://www.linearoptions.com/News-and-Press-Releases.htmlen-usTue Feb 07 16:53:32 EST 2012Tue Feb 07 16:53:32 EST 2012CommuniSite RSS Generatorhttp://www.linearoptions.com/News-and-Press-Releases.html0http://www.linearoptions.com/News-and-Press-Releases.html?NID=273Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce is leading the Innovation Gainesville project (innovationgainesville.com) to unite and transform Gainesville from a sole College Town into a business-attractive area using the right pillar: Innovation for Economy Growth. One of the specific concerns for this initiative addresses the allowing of a collaborative channel among Industry and Research Centers. Even if, on one side, entrepreneurship is not yet taking all advantages from the ideas produced by the Academia, then on the other few investigation centers are actually listening to the needs of the Industry. Hopefully, this mismatch will cease and a more creative Gainesville will emerge. The funds in which companies should invest relative to new technologies, media advertising, personnel, location of new facilities, and new sources of revenue, should take into account the balance between risk and corporate strategies. It is well known that few decision makers have the right tools to proactively control risk and promote growth at the same time. A complex decision requiring quantitative evaluation is often required towards innovation. Enterprises’ shift to a creative modus operandi should incorporate scientific and numeric validation in their practices to improve effectiveness. Matching a precise evaluation of the present scenario with clear goals can support forecast and accelerate growth. It is time to embrace new methodologies for explicit challenges. One of our core methodologies at Linear Options is the use of advanced mathematical methods and statistical capabilities to help companies develop predictive analysis and create new solutions for new circumstances. 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Querido, Ph.D.Tue Feb 09 00:00:00 EST 2010http://www.linearoptions.com/News-and-Press-Releases.html?NID=266http://www.newsweek.com/id/224585Jeneen Interlandi,Jerry Adler- NEWSWEEKTue Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2009http://www.linearoptions.com/News-and-Press-Releases.html?NID=221Gainesville Sun  9/4/2009 - Health care reform plans have attracted extremes in media coverage. The overhauling is being exposed and widely discussed in its social, political, entrepreneur, legal, and of course economic viewpoint. Although all attention is on how to build consensus, there is much more to heal about healthcare.  About 50 million Americans are living without health insurance today. Expanding Medicaid eligibility for those citizens will certainly bring beneficial results, but is the American health system ready for this? What about Optional Home Nurses Visits? Can hospitals survive health care reform? Excessive wait times, lack of information, shortage of integration between departments, inadequate databases, and insufficient staff are attributes often found in hospitals, where business optimization techniques have been seldom applied. Quantitative analysis experts can state precisely which technology can be applied to support decision making, in order to quantify costs and performance goals. The present health care condition urges a debate over which unit, department, hospital or clinic are able to provide efficiency during and after the changes acquired from the reform. It is time for a new “stress test”, this time not on U.S. banks, but on the overall health care system (news and press release).A very active debate will continue nationally, looking for regulations, new programs and policy. However, a fundamental shift to a smarter, fact-based health care system has to be applied to the present scenario. An optimized system with more predictive information strategy can present solutions to this essential value chain.www.linearoptions.com“We assist health care managers achieve changes, reduce gaps and find balance by building a foundation with sophisticated modeling and advanced analytical methodologies.”Tania Querido, Ph.D.Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 EDT 2009http://www.linearoptions.com/News-and-Press-Releases.html?NID=162 In recent news article (NYTimes.com – 02/22/09), the use of simulation techniques by the Obama administration to launch a “stress test” was highlighted as a unique mechanism to evaluate and judge the 20 biggest U.S. banks. This analysis will be performed in the next weeks as part of the plan to support the banking system. It will bring up possible challenging scenarios that include different types of downturns: “The stress tests will use computer-run ‘what if’ situations to estimate what would happen to each bank under Depression-like conditions, with unemployment surging to 10 or 12 percent, for example, or home prices dropping 20 percent further, Treasury and Federal Reserve officials said.” This way, the government will be able to predict how stable financial institutions are in these demanding times.Decision making in Finances, Industries, or even in Hospitals is highly promoted by simulation, which is a descriptive way to model systems and processes. Simulation reproduces the behavior of a system, using a model that describes each step of its processes. It comprises statistical concepts and probability distributions and consists of a flexible modeling mechanism that can easily handle complex relationships. Depending on the number of variables - and in the government case we know this is a huge number - simulation offers an easier understanding of the system than it could be accomplished by flow charts or spreadsheets analysis. Besides, its dynamic and accurate nature makes decision making almost effortless.In another viewpoint, simulation provides reliable forecasts that would lead to decisions addressed to redesigning processes or supporting some brainstorming.As conclusion, the NYTimes.com article claims: “But because the tests involve nightmarish economic conditions, the results of the tests are likely to strengthen the case that some of the major banks need more capital. That would increase the likelihood that the government would increase its stake and dilute or even wipe out the shares held by private investors.”… “The tests, officials said, would simply make clearer whether a particular bank needs more capital now or might need more in the future if conditions become worse.”Simulation models as well as other mathematical tools that lead to improvement of processes are widely used by decision makers. The broad applications of these techniques have been reported in areas like government, health care, commerce, manufacturing, human resources, finances and others. Due to the role of mathematical models in subjects like stock trading, simulation continues to be a success when used for forecasts. It is not exaggerated to remark that this valuable mathematical tool outlines the frontier between the Industrial and the so-called Knowledge-based economy.Linear Options Consulting LLCwww.linearoptions.comT. Querido, Ph.D.Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2009http://www.linearoptions.com/News-and-Press-Releases.html?NID=161Linear Options Consulting launched its web site www.linearoptions.com on August 21, 2008, with an enhanced new look. It has been merged from the former web site, with other sources to form a site that provides online visitors with remarkable improvements in navigation, consistency, and look.The new homepage introduces visitors to the professional services in a straightforward approach. The online visitor has immediate access to the web site's major topic areas that allow browsing and searching through information about Linear Options’ methodologies, including the use of Optimization and Simulation tools, and their potential applications to industry.Enrichments to the web site include:* Clear Appearance - Better images and the new page layouts provide visitors with comfortable look and experience.* Improved Navigation - Web pages work in a consistent and integrated way, making it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for and know where they are within the web site.* New Features - New features on the web site include articles, and more detailed information about methodologies and applications, a site index and links to professional WebPages.Linear Options Consulting continues offering the high level services and looks forward to provide solutions for your business.Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2008http://www.linearoptions.com/News-and-Press-Releases.html?NID=160Linear Options Consulting is a Solution Provider firm which applies advanced scientific methods that help to make more efficient business decisions. The use of unique and powerful techniques (such as mathematical modeling and simulation) lead to analytical solutions when organizations deal with complex situations and offers them the strength to make better decisions in diverse areas such as Manufacturing, Healthcare and Hospitals, Banking, Transportation, Wholesale Distribution, Education and Research, Agriculture, Warehouses, and many others.A detailed, in-depth business quantitative analysis is performed in designing a precise model which will be used towards improvements in facility design, productivity, staff planning, scheduling of workforce, logistics, and resource management.Linear Options has worked in the decision making of such leading industries as Votorantim Metals, Volkswagen in Germany, Varig Airlines in Brazil and Petrobras. Among the achieved system improvements, we can cite the scheduling of messages in Controller area networks. These integrated networks are important in the automotive industry since they control many components of cars including brakes, engine parts, deployment of airbags, etc. Traditionally, these networks could be validated only through the use of costly physical prototypes that would simulate these automobile components. We thus developed a cost saving mathematical model able to perfectly simulate these automobile components without the need for any physical prototypes.We have also developed a mathematical program focusing on storage and retrieval - a logistic tool that allows items to be stored in the slots of a storage bank for subsequent retrieval by a picking mechanism. The problem of assigning items by type and weight to storage slots in order to minimize the total distance traveled by the picking mechanism immediately reduced the total cost of the manufacturing process. This analysis is highly original and is an important and cost-saving approach to coordinating the decision-making process in distribution and transportation of any supply chain. Another worth to mention project involved the development of an algorithm for the optimal location of management centers, minimizing distances between units under the same administration and taking into account the flow of customers to achieve maximum efficiency.In Linear Options Consulting we narrow down difficult choices to the best possible results when numerous options and outcomes are present, offering the best case scenario in complex situations after trying out approaches for improvement with the use of Simulation. Statistical methods can also be applied to measure and control risk, find valuable connections and make reliable forecasts. Linear Options Consulting is composed of an experienced group formed by PhDs in Industrial Engineering and Production Engineering, with an extensive background and International publications released on the field of Optimization. We are conducting research, modeling problems, developing software and offering solutions for several companies and industries worldwide.www.linearoptions.comTania Querido, Ph.D.Thu Jan 10 00:00:00 EST 2008