Membership
A table listing all the current members of the group with links to their homepages.
 

Alumni
A table listing all previous members of the group  with links to their homepages. Many of our alumni have remained in research and industry.
 

Visitors' information
Information about visiting the group including how we might be able to help you find additional funding to help support  a sabbatical visit to one or more of our sites.
 

Vacancies
Information about any job vacancies at the group's sites.
 

Gallery
Photographs of the group at work and play.

A Brief History of APES

APES (Algorithms, Problems,  and Empirical Studies) is an informal group of researchers interested in the understanding of algorithms and problems through empirical studies.

One of our main interests is in constraint programming, but we also have interests in  propositional satisfiability, graph colouring, theorem proving, scheduling, search, and many other areas of Artificial Intelligence.

The APES group was founded in 1995 by Ian Gent, Patrick Prosser, Barbara Smith, and Toby Walsh. 

We meet at least once a year, sometimes twice, for an informal workshop to discuss our research and plan future directions. We interact extensively the rest of the year via email. An important way of communicating ideas within the group is through a series of informal research Footnotes; we have just (May 2002) reached Footnote 750!  

Currently we have members at the Universities of Alberta, Cork, Glasgow, Huddersfield, Leeds, St Andrews, Strathclyde, Waterloo  and York.