The Toronto Intelligent Decision Engineering Laboratory


TIDEL Research Group
TIDEL Research Group


The Toronto Intelligent Decision Engineering Laboratory

is concerned with the structure, organization and manipulation of information for automated and human decision making.

Our primary research focus is the extension of AI and optimization techniques to this end. As a result, we are interested in methodologies such as constraint programming, local search, hybrid AI/OR techniques, stochastic optimization, machine learning, data mining, and representation and reasoning about preferences.

The applications we are currently studying include: scheduling, supply chain management, algorithm control, decision-making in uncertain and dynamic environments, and development of intelligent restaurant and hotel reservation systems. Other broad areas of interest include security, planning and scheduling of web services, automated composition and software engineering.


University of Toronto Mechanical and Information Engineering