The Large Scale Optimization Systems Laboratory focuses on optimization techniques aiming at solving large scale systems with operations research techniques (e.g., metaheuristics and decomposition techniques) arising in different engineering areas such as communication networks (e.g., network design, network provisioning, optical grid dimensioning) and industrial engineering (staff scheduling, train scheduling, reasoning under uncertainty in expert systems, clustering or data mining, optimization of multi-agent systems).
The Laboratory also runs a weekly seminar series. More information here.