Contract Services

West of Pluto Software also provides contract services for custom software development in the areas of game programming, modeling and simulation of physical systems, pattern recognition, control systems, and artificial intelligence. We have specific expertise in the area of wireless game development using the following software technologies:

  • Mobile phone and PDA software: J2ME, BREW, Mophun, PalmOS
  • Software languages: Java, C/C++, Tcl/Tk
  • J2EE (Servlets, JSP, EJB, JMS), HTML, XML, SMS, WAP/WML using JBoss, Tomcat, Apache
  • JDBC and database integration with MySql

Dr. Marc Ilgen, President and Chief Scientist of West of Pluto Software, performs all custom development. Dr. Ilgen has 21 years of experience in software technology development and is an expert in a broad range of technical disciplines, including:

  • Wireless game development: Developer of several games for BREW, J2ME, Mophun, WAP, and SMS phones, with server-side components developed using J2EE tools (Servlets, EJB, JDBC).
  • Artificial and computational intelligence: Rule-based systems, finite state machines, fuzzy logic systems, neural networks, and statistical inference.
  • Agent-based modeling and simulation: Numerical simulation of multi-agent systems in complex dynamic environments
  • Complex systems simulation: Numerical simulation of physical systems including spacecraft, aircraft, missiles, nuclear fusion reactors, plasma physics
  • Text, image, and video information exploitation: Content-based text and image retrieval, named entity extraction, natural language processing, object detection.
  • Internet computing: Intelligent Internet search agents and shopbots
  • Statistical modeling: Markov and Hidden Markov Models, Stochastic Context Free Grammars with applications to text exploitation and bioinformatics
  • Estimation theory: linear and nonlinear Kalman filters, factorized Kalman filters
  • Optimization: Numerical methods for nonlinear deterministic and stochastic optimization, with and without constraints
  • Guidance, control, and dynamics: Classical, state-space, optimal and robust control, aerospace vehicle guidance, orbital mechanics, trajectory optimization, 3DOF and 6DOF vehicle dynamics.

His full resume is available in either HTML or Microsoft Word formats:
Resume in HTML
Resume in MS Word

We’re interested in hearing from you regarding custom software development efforts. Please send an email to services@westofpluto.com and tell us about your project so that we can quote you a price.

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