The Optimisation and Constraints Solving (O&Cs) Research Group is devoted to solving difficult optimisation and constraint satisfaction problems such as those occurring in scheduling, timetabling and graph and document layout.
 
Major research topics in the group are:

- Constraint programming
- Constraint-based graphics
- Mathematical programming
- Meta-heuristic approaches
- Simulation
- Information visualisation
 

and applications in

- Bioinformatics
- Healthcare and
- Decision support 

We have developed several software tools based on these techniques.
 
We have a large number of national and international research partners. For a quick overview of our research activities visit our project pages or find detailed material in our list of publications.