Items where Author is "Kheiri, Ahmed"

Journal Article

Kheiri, Ahmed and Jacko, Peter (2025) Automated Scheduling of GECCO 2023. ACM SIGEVOlution, 17 (3): 2. pp. 1-7. ISSN 1931-8499

Yates, William B. and Keedwell, Edward C. and Kheiri, Ahmed (2024) Explainable Optimisation through Online and Offline Hyper-heuristics. ACM Transactions on Evolutionary Learning and Optimization. ISSN 2688-3007

Davison, Matthew and Kheiri, Ahmed and Zografos, K. G. (2024) Modelling and solving the university course timetabling problem with hybrid teaching considerations. Journal of Scheduling. ISSN 1094-6136

Tarhan, Istenc and Zografos, Konstantinos G. and Sutanto, Juliana and Kheiri, Ahmed (2024) A quadrant shrinking heuristic for solving the dynamic multi-objective disaster response personnel routing and scheduling problem. European Journal of Operational Research, 314 (2). pp. 776-791. ISSN 0377-2217

Tarhan, İstenç and Zografos, Konstantinos G. and Sutanto, Juliana and Kheiri, Ahmed and Suhartanto, Heru (2023) Corrigendum to “A multi-objective rolling horizon personnel routing and scheduling approach for natural disasters” : [Transp. Res. Part C: Emerg. Technol. 149 (2023) 104029]. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 151: 104117. ISSN 0968-090X

Butterwick, Thomas and Kheiri, Ahmed and Lulli, Guglielmo and Gromicho, Joaquim and Kreeft, Jasper (2023) Application of selection hyper-heuristics to the simultaneous optimisation of turbines and cabling within an offshore windfarm. Renewable Energy, 208. pp. 1-16. ISSN 0960-1481

Tarhan, Istenc and Zografos, K. G. and Sutanto, Juliana and Kheiri, Ahmed and Suhartanto, Heru (2023) A multi-objective rolling horizon personnel routing and scheduling approach for natural disasters. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 149: 104029. p. 104029. ISSN 1556-5068

Swan, Jerry and Adriaensen, Steven and Brownlee, Alexander E.I. and Hammond, Kevin and Johnson, Colin G. and Kheiri, Ahmed and Krawiec, Faustyna and Merelo, J.J. and Minku, Leandro L. and Özcan, Ender and Pappa, Gisele L. and García-Sánchez, Pablo and Sörensen, Kenneth and Voß, Stefan and Wagner, Markus and White, David R. (2022) Metaheuristics “In the Large”. European Journal of Operational Research, 297 (2). pp. 393-406. ISSN 0377-2217

Kheiri, Ahmed and Lewis, Rhyd and Thompson, Jonathan and Harper, Paul (2021) Constructing operating theatre schedules using partitioned graph colouring techniques. Health Systems, 10 (4). pp. 286-297. ISSN 2047-6973

Kheiri, Ahmed and Gretsista, Angeliki and Keedwell, Ed and Lulli, Guglielmo and Epitropakis, Michael and Burke, Edmund (2021) A hyper-heuristic approach based upon a hidden Markov model for the multi-stage nurse rostering problem. Computers and Operations Research, 130: 105221. ISSN 0305-0548

Kheiri, Ahmed and Ahmed, Leena and Boyacı, Burak and Gromicho, Joaquim and Mumford, Christine and Özcan, Ender and Dirikoc, Ali Selim (2020) Exact and hyper-heuristic solutions for the distribution-installation problem from the VeRoLog 2019 challenge. Networks, 76 (2). pp. 294-319. ISSN 0028-3045

Drake, John H. and Kheiri, Ahmed and Özcan, Ender and Burke, Edmund K. (2020) Recent Advances in Selection Hyper-heuristics. European Journal of Operational Research, 285 (2). pp. 405-428. ISSN 0377-2217

Kheiri, Ahmed (2020) Heuristic sequence selection for inventory routing problem. Transportation Science, 54 (2). pp. 302-312. ISSN 0041-1655

Kheiri, Ahmed and Dragomir, Alina and Mueller, David and Gromicho, Joaquim and Jagtenberg, Caroline and van Hoorn, Jelke J. (2019) Tackling a VRP challenge to redistribute scarce equipment within time windows using metaheuristic algorithms. EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics, 8 (5). pp. 561-595. ISSN 2192-4376

Ahmed, Leena and Mumford, Christine and Kheiri, Ahmed (2019) Solving urban transit route design problem using selection hyper-heuristics. European Journal of Operational Research, 274 (2). pp. 545-559. ISSN 0377-2217

Wilson, Dennis and Rodrigues, Silvio and Segura, Carlos and Loshchilov, Ilya and Hutter, Frank and Buenfil, Guillermo López and Kheiri, Ahmed and Keedwell, Ed and Ocampo-Pineda, Mario and Özcan, Ender and Peña, Sergio Ivvan Valdez and Goldman, Brian and Rionda, Salvador Botello and Hernández-Aguirre, Arturo and Veeramachaneni, Kalyan and Cussat-Blanc, Sylvain (2018) Evolutionary computation for wind farm layout optimization. Renewable Energy, 126. pp. 681-691. ISSN 0960-1481

Kheiri, Ahmed (2018) Foreword. OR60: The OR Society Annual Conference. I.

Kheiri, Ahmed and Keedwell, Ed (2017) A Hidden Markov Model Approach to the Problem of Heuristic Selection in Hyper-Heuristics with a Case Study in High School Timetabling Problems. Evolutionary Computation, 25 (3). pp. 473-501. ISSN 1530-9304

Asta, Shahriar and Karapetyan, Daniel and Kheiri, Ahmed and Özcan, Ender and Parkes, Andrew J. (2016) Combining Monte-Carlo and hyper-heuristic methods for the multi-mode resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem. Information Sciences, 373. pp. 476-498. ISSN 0020-0255

Kheiri, Ahmed and Özcan, Ender (2016) An iterated multi-stage selection hyper-heuristic. European Journal of Operational Research, 250 (1). pp. 77-90. ISSN 0377-2217

Kheiri, Ahmed and Özcan, Ender and Parkes, Andrew J. (2016) A stochastic local search algorithm with adaptive acceptance for high-school timetabling. Annals of Operations Research, 239 (1). pp. 135-151. ISSN 0254-5330

Ahmed, Leena N. and Özcan, Ender and Kheiri, Ahmed (2015) Solving high school timetabling problems worldwide using selection hyper-heuristics. Expert Systems with Applications, 42 (13). pp. 5463-5471. ISSN 0957-4174

Kheiri, Ahmed and Ozcan, Ender (2015) Erratum : Constructing constrained-version of magic squares using selection hyper-heuristics (Computer Journal (2014) 57:3 (469-479) DOI:10.1093/comjnl/bxt130). Computer Journal, 58 (8). p. 1857. ISSN 0010-4620

Kheiri, Ahmed and Keedwell, Edward and Gibson, Michael J. and Savic, Dragan (2015) Sequence analysis-based hyper-heuristics for water distribution network optimisation. Procedia Engineering, 119 (1). pp. 1269-1277. ISSN 1877-7058

Kheiri, Ahmed and Özcan, Ender (2014) Constructing constrained-version of magic squares using selection hyper-heuristics. Computer Journal, 57 (3). pp. 469-479. ISSN 0010-4620

Kalender, Murat and Kheiri, Ahmed and Özcan, Ender and Burke, Edmund K. (2013) A greedy gradient-simulated annealing selection hyper-heuristic. Soft Computing, 17 (12). pp. 2279-2292. ISSN 1433-7479

Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings

Notice, Danielle and Pavlidis, Nicos and Kheiri, Ahmed (2025) Supervised Dimensionality Reduction for the Algorithm Selection Problem. In: Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems : Contributions Presented at the 23rd UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2024), September 2-4, 2024, Ulster University, Belfast, UK. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing . Springer, Cham, pp. 85-97. ISBN 9783031788567

Davison, Matthew and Kheiri, Ahmed and Zografos, K. G. (2024) Matheuristic for Approximating a Frontier for a Many-objective University Timetabling Problem. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling - PATAT 2024 :. Technical University of Denmark, DNK, pp. 239-242. ISBN 9780992998462

Davison, Matthew and Kheiri, Ahmed and Zografos, K. G. (2022) Optimising Scheduling of Hybrid Learning using Mixed Integer Programming. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling - PATAT 2022 Volume III (2022) :. PATAT, BEL, pp. 279-286. ISBN 9780992998455

Steenson, Alexander and Özcan, Ender and Kheiri, Ahmed and McCollum, Barry and McMullan, Paul (2022) An online learning selection hyper-heuristic for educational timetabling. In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling : PATAT 2021. UNSPECIFIED, BEL, pp. 129-146. ISBN 978-0-9929984-3-1

Kheiri, Ahmed and Keedwell, Edward C. (2022) GECCO 2022 Tutorial : Selection Hyper-heuristics. In: GECCO 2022 Companion - Proceedings of the 2022 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference :. GECCO 2022 Companion - Proceedings of the 2022 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference . ACM, New York, pp. 983-996. ISBN 9781450392686

Kheiri, Ahmed and Keedwell, Edward (2022) Selection hyper-heuristics. In: GECCO 2022 : Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion. ACM, New York, pp. 983-996. ISBN 9781450392686

Boyacı, Burak and Nayeem, Muhammad Ali and Kheiri, Ahmed (2021) A Matheuristic Approach for Finding Effective Base Locations and Team Configurations for North West Air Ambulance. In: GECCO '21: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion :. ACM, New York, pp. 1817-1824. ISBN 9781450383516

Ahmed, Azza O. M. and Osman, Shahd M. Y. and Yousif, Terteel E. H. and Kheiri, Ahmed (2021) A reinforcement learning hyper-heuristic for water distribution network optimisation. In: 2020 International Conference on Computer, Control, Electrical, and Electronics Engineering (ICCCEEE) :. IEEE. ISBN 9781728191126

Pylyavskyy, Yaroslav and Kheiri, Ahmed and Ahmed, Leena (2020) A reinforcement learning hyper-heuristic for the optimisation of flight connections. In: IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC) :. IEEE, GBR. ISBN 9781728169293

Alrasheed, Maab and Mohammed, Wafaa and Pylyavskyy, Yaroslav and Kheiri, Ahmed (2020) Local search heuristic for the optimisation of flight connections. In: International Conference on Computer, Control, Electrical, and Electronics Engineering (ICCCEEE) :. IEEE. ISBN 9781728110073

Alrasheed, Maab and Mohammed, Wafaa and Pylyavskyy, Yaroslav and Kheiri, Ahmed (2019) Local search heuristic for the optimisation of flight connections. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Control, Electrical, and Electronics Engineering 2019, ICCCEEE 2019 :. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer, Control, Electrical, and Electronics Engineering 2019, ICCCEEE 2019 . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., SDN. ISBN 9781728110073

Wilson, Dennis G. and Rodrigues, Silvio and Segura, Carlos and Loshchilov, Ilya and Huer, Frank and Buenl, Guillermo López and Kheiri, Ahmed and Keedwell, Ed and Ocampo-Pineda, Mario and Özcan, Ender and Pea, Sergio Ivvan Valdez and Goldman, Brian and Rionda, Salvador Botello and Hernndez-Aguirre, Arturo and Veeramachaneni, Kalyan and Cussat-Blanc, Sylvain (2018) Summary of evolutionary computation for wind farm layout optimization. In: GECCO 2018 Companion - Proceedings of the 2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion :. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, JPN, pp. 31-32. ISBN 9781450357647

Kheiri, Ahmed and Mısır, Mustafa and Özcan, Ender (2016) Ensemble move acceptance in selection hyper-heuristics. In: Computer and Information Sciences - 31st International Symposium, ISCIS 2016, Proceedings :. Communications in Computer and Information Science . Springer Verlag, POL, pp. 21-29. ISBN 9783319472164

Almutairi, Alhanof and Özcan, Ender and Kheiri, Ahmed and Jackson, Warren G. (2016) Performance of selection hyper-heuristics on the extended hyflex domains. In: Computer and Information Sciences - 31st International Symposium, ISCIS 2016, Proceedings :. Communications in Computer and Information Science . Springer Verlag, POL, pp. 154-162. ISBN 9783319472164

Kheiri, Ahmed and Özcan, Ender and Lewis, Rhyd and Thompson, Jonathan (2016) A Sequence-based selection hyper-heuristic : A case study in nurse rostering. In: PATAT 2016 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling :. PATAT 2016 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling . PATAT, ITA, pp. 503-505. ISBN 9780992998417

Kheiri, Ahmed and Keedwell, Ed (2015) A sequence-based selection hyper-heuristic utilising a hidden markov model. In: GECCO 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference :. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, ESP, pp. 417-424. ISBN 9781450334723

Ozcan, Ender and Misir, Mustafa and Kheiri, Ahmed (2013) Group decision making hyper-heuristics for function optimisation. In: 2013 13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI 2013 :. IEEE, GBR, pp. 327-333. ISBN 9781479915682

Shambour, Mo H.d.Khaled Yousef and Khader, Ahamad Tajudin and Kheiri, Ahmed and Özcan, Ender (2013) A two stage approach for high school timetabling. In: Neural Information Processing : International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) . UNSPECIFIED, KOR, pp. 66-73. ISBN 9783642420535

Kheiri, Ahmed and Özcan, Ender (2013) A hyper-heuristic with a round robin neighbourhood selection. In: Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization : 13th European Conference, EvoCOP 2013, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) . Springer, AUT, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9783642371974

Kalender, Murat and Kheiri, Ahmed and Özcan, Ender and Burke, Edmund K. (2012) A greedy gradient-simulated annealing hyper-heuristic for a curriculum-based course timetabling problem. In: 2012 12th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, UKCI 2012 :. IEEE, GBR, pp. 1-8. ISBN 9781467343916

Özcan, Ender and Kheiri, Ahmed (2012) A hyper-heuristic based on random gradient, greedy and dominance. In: Computer and Information Sciences II : 26th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences. Springer, GBR, pp. 557-563. ISBN 9781447121541

Kheiri, Ahmed and Özcan, Ender and Parkes, Andrew J. (2012) HYSST : Hyper-heuristic search strategies and timetabling. In: PATAT 2012 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling :. SINTEF, NOR, pp. 497-499. ISBN 9788214052985

Qiu, Guoping and Kheiri, Ahmed (2011) Social image quality. In: Proceedings of SPIE-IS and T Electronic Imaging - Image Quality and System Performance VIII :. UNSPECIFIED, USA. ISBN 9780819484048

Monograph

Tarhan, Istenc and Zografos, K. G. and Sutanto, Juliana and Kheiri, Ahmed and Suhartanto, Heru (2022) RESPOND-OR : Multi-objective rolling horizon personnel routing and scheduling approach for natural disasters. Working Paper. UNSPECIFIED.

Contribution to Conference

Ahmed, Leena and Ehrgott, Matthias and Kheiri, Ahmed and Wang, Judith Y.T. (2024) A Multi-Objective Approach to Walking School Bus Route Design : Integrating Optimisation and Instance Generation. In: Multi Criteria Desicion Modelling (MCDM 2024), 2024-06-01 - 2024-06-08, Hammamet, Tunisia.

Notice, Danielle and Kheiri, Ahmed and Pavlidis, Nicos (2023) The algorithm selection problem for solving Sudoku with metaheuristics. In: 2023 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2023-07-01 - 2023-07-05, Swissôtel Chicago.

Tarhan, Istenc and Zografos, K. G. and Sutanto, Juliana and Kheiri, Ahmed (2022) A quadrant shrinking heuristic for generating efficient solutions for routing and scheduling disaster relief teams. In: EURO HOpe Mini-Conference, 2022-10-05 - 2022-10-07.

Kheiri, Ahmed and Zografos, K. G. (2019) Modelling and solving the combined inventory routing problem with risk consideration. In: UNSPECIFIED.

Thesis

Randall, Matt and Letchford, Adam and Kheiri, Ahmed (2024) Putting the ping into online shopping: Dynamic Heuristics for Vehicle Routing and Slot Offering. PhD thesis, Lancaster University.

Bond, Matthew and Stowell, Alison and Boyaci, Burak and Kheiri, Ahmed and Liu, Lingxuan and Downes, Sarah (2022) The Carbon Footprint of WEEE (Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment) in the UK – a case study based on the UK’s largest WEEE producer compliance scheme. Masters thesis, Lancaster University.