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26-507: The company was founded in 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) in September 1997 by former Bolesian employees including Dr. Victor Allis . Allis and several colleagues initially began developing a scheduling application for an aluminum manufacturer as a side project. It was offered first to Allis's then-employer, but Bolesian was not interested. Because the software they developed was highly configurable, and thus of use to many other types of companies, it

52-644: A Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Maastricht University , The Netherlands, and graduated cum laude with a M. Sc. in Computer Science from the Vrije Universiteit , The Netherlands. He has more than 30 publications to his name; the majority of his published work reports on research in search technologies. He started his career in 1987 as a freelance teacher, course developer and mentor of various AMBI courses for NOVI. Allis has lectured at

78-620: A hybrid approach to supply chain management. In addition to its world headquarters in Den Bosch and its North American headquarters in Radnor, Quintiq has offices in Melbourne , Australia; Shanghai , China; Vantaa , Finland; Düsseldorf , Germany; Rome , Italy; Petaling Jaya , Malaysia; and London , United Kingdom. Notable companies and organizations which use Quintiq software include Copenhagen Airport , Danone , international shipping company DHL ,

104-456: A solution of 4×4×4 Qubic game using his proof-number search technique. In 1995 he joined Bolesian (a knowledge technology firm in the Netherlands which is a daughter company of Capgemini and specialized in developing advanced systems based on artificial intelligence) as a senior consultant and manager. In 1997 he co-founded Quintiq and was appointed as the company's CEO. Allis relocated to

130-521: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Computer Olympiad The Computer Olympiad is a multi-games event in which computer programs compete against each other. For many games, the Computer Olympiads are an opportunity to claim the "world's best computer player" title. First contested in 1989, the majority of the games are board games but other games such as bridge take place as well. In 2010, several puzzles were included in

156-438: Is a Dutch computer scientist and co-founder of the election information technology firm Activote. In his graduate work, he revealed AI solutions for Connect Four , Qubic , and Gomoku . His dissertation introduced two new game search techniques: proof-number search and dependency-based search . Proof-number search has seen further successful application in computer Go tactical search and many other games. Allis holds

182-512: Is an abstract strategy game among the Mancala family of board games (pit and pebble games). Backgammon is a board game for two players where the checker-like playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice; a player wins by removing all of his pieces from the board before his opponent. Bridge is a trick-taking card game for four players. Bridge participation in the Computer Olympiad

208-493: The COVID-19 pandemic . Abalone is a strategy game using a hexagonal patterned board with 14 marbles for each of two players. The objective is to push six of the opponent's marbles off the edge of the board. Amazons is played on a 10×10 chessboard by two players each with four amazons (queen chess pieces). Moves are made to block squares and the winner is the last player able to move his pieces to an unblocked square. Awari

234-649: The Computer Games Workshop ; the 13th, with the International Computer Games Championship , the World Computer Chess Championship , and a scientific conference on computer games; and the 14th with the World Computer Chess Championship and a scientific conference on computer games. Rybka was retroactively disqualified from all ICCC events due to plagiarism . Rankings were adjusted appropriately. The 15th Olympiad

260-608: The Leiden Centre of Data Science . The 21st Olympiad was held 7–13 July 2018 in Taipei, Taiwan alongside the 10th International Conference on Computers and Games. The World Computer Chess Championships took place from 13–19 July in Stockholm , Sweden. The 22nd Olympiad was held 11–17 August 2019 in Macau, China and the 23rd (2020), 24th (2021), and 25th (2022) Olympiads were held online due to

286-507: The Philadelphia office Quintiq in 2010, remaining CEO and a co-owner. Quintiq was acquired by Dassault Systemes in July 2014. In 2019, Allis and Sara Gifford co-founded Activote, a Boston-based election information technology company. This article about a Dutch scientist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article relating to a computer scientist

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312-541: The Computer Olympiad and tries to organise the event on an annual basis. In the year 2024, parody website Mike Row Soft added an image of the Olympics with various Linux distros displayed inside the circles, and color-matched. The games which have been contested at each Olympiad are: After an eight-year hiatus, the Computer Olympiad was revived by bringing it into the Mind Sports Olympiad . The chess competition

338-609: The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Jumbo (supermarket) , KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, freight forwarder P&O Ferrymasters, and retailer Walmart . On July 24, 2014, Dassault Systèmes announced plans to acquire Quintiq for $ 336 million. The deal was subject to regulatory approval in Germany and Austria. By October 2014, the sale was complete. Victor Allis Louis Victor Allis (born 19 May 1965)

364-543: The Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam as an assistant professor in artificial intelligence. In 1992, his program Victoria won the 4th Computer Olympiad in the game of Gomoku without losing a single game. His programs had also won first places at the Computer Olympiad in games of Connect Four (1989), Awari (1990, 1991, 1992), and Qubic (1991), thus making him winner of all four early Computer Olympiads. He co-authored

390-693: The competition. Developed in the 1980s by David Levy , the first Computer Olympiad took place in 1989 at the Park Lane Hotel in London . The games ran on a yearly basis until after the 1992 games, when the Olympiad's ruling committee was unable to find a new organiser. This resulted in the games being suspended until 2000 when the Mind Sports Olympiad resurrected them. Recently, the International Computer Games Association (ICGA) has adopted

416-455: The gold medal in Computer Go, was originally written in assembly language by a retired chemistry professor of Sun Yat-sen University , China. The 11th Olympiad was held in conjugation with the 14th World Computer Chess Championship and the 5th Computer and Games Conference . Human FIDE 37th Chess Olympiad co-hosted this event; the 12th, with the 15th World Computer Chess Championship and

442-407: The objective being to capture one's opponent's king piece. Many computer-versus-computer events are held beyond those of the Computer Olympiad. Chinese chess is a strategy board game for two players from the same family as western or international chess. Known primarily as Xiangqi internationally, the game is referred to as Chinese chess in the Computer Olympiad competitions. Chinese dark chess

468-414: The software include adaptive capacity planning, automated real-time scheduling, a multi-function company planner, a multi-scenario macro planner, materials management tools, and proprietary algorithms for coordinating production with customer orders. Competitor software is more robust in a number of specific areas, and for this reason some Quintiq users employ both Quintiq software and competitors' products in

494-822: The tournament directors. The 10th Olympiad was in 2005 in Taipei ; the 11th, in 2006 in Turin ; the 12th, in 2007 at the Amsterdam Science Park ; the 13th, in 2008 at the Beijing Golden Century Golf Club; and the 14th, in 2009 in Pamplona . The 10th Olympiad wasa held at the same time and location as the 11th Advances in Computer Games and its organizing committee was made up of J. W. Hellemons (chair), H. H. L. M. Donkers , M. Greenspan , T-s Hsu , H. J. van den Herik , and M. Tiessen . Hand Talk, which won

520-643: Was a special event, since it was adopted by the International Correspondence Chess Association (ICCA) as the 17th World Microcomputer Chess Championship (WMCC 2000). The 5th Olympiad was in 2000 at London's Alexandra Palace ; the 6th, in 2001 at Ad Fundunm at Maastricht University ; the 7th, in 2002 in Maastricht ; the 8th, in 2003 in Graz ; and the 9th, in 2004 in Ramat Gan . The 7th Olympiad

546-612: Was adopted by the ICCA as the 10th World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC), and the 8th was held in conjugation with both 11th WCCC and the 10th Advances in Computer Games Conference . Because of this, no medals were awarded for the two chess events. The 9th was held in conjugation with WCCC and the Computers and Games 2004 Conference ; no medals were awarded to the two chess events. Jonathan Schaeffer and J. W. H. M. Uiterwijk were

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572-505: Was bought by Dassault Systèmes . Quintiq's Supply Chain Planning software has three layers or modules: one based on service-oriented architecture , with both optimization and planning management features; one that provides a variety of different templates for use in different industries; and one customized for each Quintiq customer. Quintiq's uses AI pattern recognition to help customers manage their supply chain logistics. Other features of

598-439: Was decided that a new firm should be created around the software. Preparing the software for sale to as wide a variety as possible of corporate customers took two years of development. Quintiq sold its software to a client for the first time in 1999. In 2011, two investment firms, LLR Partners Inc. and NewSpring Capital Ventures LP, bought into Quintiq, giving them a 48% stake in the company's ownership. Later in 2014, Quintiq

624-559: Was held in 2010 in Kanazawa, Japan along with the 18th World Computer Chess Championship (WCCC), and a scientific conference on computer games. The 16th Olympiad was held in 2011 at Tilburg University at the same time as the 19th WCCC. The 17th Olympiad was held in 2013 at Keio University 's Collaboration Complex on the Hiyoshi Campus, and was at the same time as the 20th WCCC and a scientific conference on computer games. The 18th Olympiad

650-582: Was in 2015 at Leiden University and was organized by the International Computer Game Association , the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science , and the Leiden Centre of Data Science . The 19th Olympiad was held 27 June – 3 July 2016 and the 20th Olympiad was held 1–7 July 2017, both at Leiden University and organized by the International Computer Game Association , the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science , and

676-591: Was largely discontinued when in 1996 the American Contract Bridge League established a new official World Computer Bridge Championship, to be run annually at a major bridge tournament. Starting in 1999, that event is now co-sponsored by the World Bridge Federation . Chess is a two-player board game played on a checkered game-board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. Each player begins with 16 pieces of varying characteristics,

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