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Optimisation
Optimisation is a key area of Data Science that focuses on finding optimal solutions to the many complex, multi-decision problems that occur in our society.
The Optimisation research group at Monash IT is recognised for its strong links between theory and practice, fuelled by our excellent connections with the broader research community and industry partners.
Our researchers are working on both targeted and generic solving techniques to address complex discrete optimisation problems, with the view to making optimisation technologies more widely accessible, across a range of applications. In particular, our team is focused on research that helps users (a) model and solve these problems more easily, (b) interrogate the system regarding the provided solution, and (c) interactively re-optimise based on additional user information. In this way, it has a “human-in-the-loop” approach to Discrete Optimisation that makes our team quite unique.

Research Areas
Modelling, solving, analysing, searching, and much more.

Industry Collaborations
We make sure our research helps our industry partners.

Our People
Meet our team of leading researchers in the Optimisation space

PhD Projects
Our PhD program attracts world-class computer scientists.

MiniZinc
The MiniZinc modelling language is at the core of our research.

Research Projects
Our team attracts many grants and produces excellent publications and tools.

OPTURION
Opturion is a commercial optimisation platform developed in partnership with Melbourne University and NICTA (now Data61).

Association for Constraint Programming
The ACP is the community organisation for constraint programming, the technology underlying much of our solving technology.