The LIDIC group aims at the development of intelligent systems, i.e., novel tools based on the computational intelligence approach. Intelligent Systems are extremely versatile, including self-adaptive and self-organized characteristics, which are able to provide optimal or cuasi-optimal solutions for real world problems. Their application is highly recommended when traditional methods are impractical due to the increasing complexity to obtain good quality solution. New trends in the development of intelligent systems include biological models (these are also known as "bio-inspired intelligent systems").

Our research is mainly concerned with the field of computational intelligence where computer programs simulate the behaviour of certain natural systems which inspire the different techniques. Bio-inspired computational intelligence techniques include but are not limited to Evolutionary Computation, Ant Colony Optimization, Particle Swarm Optimization, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, and many others. These techniques provide models and solutions which usually emerge from non structured, complex and non stationary environments as can be found in many real world problems.

The LIDIC group also does research on Intelligent Agents which are known as software and robotic entities that are capable of independent action in open and unpredictable environments. Accordingly, the design of an intelligent agent must include perception, planning, knowledge representation, reasoning, problems resolution, search, uncertainty and machine learning.

Additional research areas in LIDIC group include: Multi-agent systems, Hybrid Systems, Computer Imagery, and Parallel algorithms. The last research area aims also at improving the search techniques concerning both, quality of the results and running times. The application areas are optimization and self-adaptation in industrial, business, and productive systems. The LIDIC group has been supported by the UNSL, CONICET, and the "Agencia Nacional de promoción Científica y Tecnológica (ANPCYT)". The following are some of the international institutions with which the LIDIC group have been interacting actively during the last years: University of Charlotte at North Carolina (USA), University of Aston (Birmingham, U.K.), Ecole Politechnique (Paliseau, France), the Center for Applied Systems Analysis (CASA, Dortmund, Germany), Polithenica University of Bucharest (Bucharest, Rumania), Universidad de la Laguna (Tenerife, España), Universidad de Málaga (España), CINVESTAV (México), University of Adelaide (Australia), and Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences.