Ahmed Kheiri

According to our database, Ahmed Kheiri authored at least 40 papers between 2011 and 2025.

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2025

Explainable Optimisation through Online and Offline Hyper-heuristics.

William B. Yates, Edward C. Keedwell, Ahmed Kheiri

ACM Trans. Evol. Learn. Optim., June, 2025

Modelling and solving the university course timetabling problem with hybrid teaching considerations.

Matthew Davison, Ahmed Kheiri, Konstantinos G. Zografos

J. Sched., April, 2025

Instance Space Analysis of the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Mixture Discriminant Analysis.

Danielle Notice, Hamed Soleimani, Nicos G. Pavlidis, Ahmed Kheiri, Mario Andrés Muñoz

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2025

2024

A quadrant shrinking heuristic for solving the dynamic multi-objective disaster response personnel routing and scheduling problem.

Istenç Tarhan, Konstantinos G. Zografos, Juliana Sutanto, Ahmed Kheiri

Eur. J. Oper. Res., April, 2024

A generic approach to conference scheduling with integer programming.

Yaroslav Pylyavskyy, Peter Jacko, Ahmed Kheiri

Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2024

Supervised Dimensionality Reduction for the Algorithm Selection Problem.

Danielle Notice, Nicos G. Pavlidis, Ahmed Kheiri

Proceedings of the Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems, 2024

Constructive Heuristics for Commercial Waste Collection with Time-Dependent Travel.

Rebecca Hamm, Ahmed Kheiri, Tim Pigden

Proceedings of the Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems, 2024

Efficient Scheduling of GECCO Conferences using Hyper-heuristic Algorithms.

Ahmed Kheiri, Yaroslav Pylyavskyy, Peter Jacko

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2024

2023

The Algorithm Selection Problem for Solving Sudoku with Metaheuristics.

Danielle Notice, Ahmed Kheiri, Nicos G. Pavlidis

Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2023

2022

Metaheuristics "In the Large".

Jerry Swan, Steven Adriænsen, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Kevin Hammond, Colin G. Johnson, Ahmed Kheiri, Faustyna Krawiec, Juan Julián Merelo, Leandro L. Minku, Ender Özcan, Gisele L. Pappa, Pablo García-Sánchez, Kenneth Sörensen, Stefan Voß, Markus Wagner, David R. White

Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2022

Selection hyper-heuristics.

Ahmed Kheiri, Edward C. Keedwell

Proceedings of the GECCO '22: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Companion Volume, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, July 9, 2022

2021

A hyper-heuristic approach based upon a hidden Markov model for the multi-stage nurse rostering problem.

Ahmed Kheiri, Angeliki Gretsista, Ed Keedwell, Guglielmo Lulli, Michael G. Epitropakis, Edmund K. Burke

Comput. Oper. Res., 2021

A matheuristic approach for finding effective base locations and team configurations for north west air ambulance.

Burak Boyaci, Muhammad Ali Nayeem, Ahmed Kheiri

Proceedings of the GECCO '21: Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2021

2020

Heuristic Sequence Selection for Inventory Routing Problem.

Ahmed Kheiri

Transp. Sci., 2020

Exact and hyper-heuristic solutions for the distribution-installation problem from the VeRoLog 2019 challenge.

Ahmed Kheiri, Leena N. Ahmed, Burak Boyaci, Joaquim A. S. Gromicho, Christine L. Mumford, Ender Özcan, Ali Selim Dirikoç

Networks, 2020

Recent advances in selection hyper-heuristics.

John H. Drake, Ahmed Kheiri, Ender Özcan, Edmund K. Burke

Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2020

Towards Metaheuristics "In the Large".

Jerry Swan, Steven Adriænsen, Alexander E. I. Brownlee, Colin G. Johnson, Ahmed Kheiri, Faustyna Krawiec, Juan Julián Merelo Guervós, Leandro L. Minku, Ender Özcan, Gisele L. Pappa, Pablo García-Sánchez, Kenneth Sörensen, Stefan Voß, Markus Wagner, David Robert White

CoRR, 2020

A Reinforcement Learning Hyper-heuristic for the optimisation of Flight Connections.

Yaroslav Pylyavskyy, Ahmed Kheiri, Leena N. Ahmed

Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, 2020

2019

Solving urban transit route design problem using selection hyper-heuristics.

Leena N. Ahmed, Christine L. Mumford, Ahmed Kheiri

Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2019

Tackling a VRP challenge to redistribute scarce equipment within time windows using metaheuristic algorithms.

Ahmed Kheiri, Alina G. Dragomir, David Mueller, Joaquim A. S. Gromicho, Caroline J. Jagtenberg, Jelke J. van Hoorn

EURO J. Transp. Logist., 2019

Modelling and solving the combined inventory routing problem with risk consideration.

Ahmed Kheiri, Konstantinos G. Zografos

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2019

2018

Summary of evolutionary computation for wind farm layout optimization.

Dennis G. Wilson, Silvio Rodrigues, Carlos Segura, Ilya Loshchilov, Frank Hutter, Guillermo López Buenfil, Ahmed Kheiri, Ed Keedwell, Mario Ocampo-Pineda, Ender Özcan, Sergio Iwan Valdez Pea, Brian Goldman, Salvador Botello Rionda, Arturo Hernández Aguirre, Kalyan Veeramachaneni, Sylvain Cussat-Blanc

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2018

2017

A Hidden Markov Model Approach to the Problem of Heuristic Selection in Hyper-Heuristics with a Case Study in High School Timetabling Problems.

Ahmed Kheiri, Ed Keedwell

Evol. Comput., 2017

2016

Combining Monte-Carlo and hyper-heuristic methods for the multi-mode resource-constrained multi-project scheduling problem.

Shahriar Asta, Daniel Karapetyan, Ahmed Kheiri, Ender Özcan, Andrew J. Parkes

Inf. Sci., 2016

An iterated multi-stage selection hyper-heuristic.

Ahmed Kheiri, Ender Özcan

Eur. J. Oper. Res., 2016

A stochastic local search algorithm with adaptive acceptance for high-school timetabling.

Ahmed Kheiri, Ender Özcan, Andrew J. Parkes

Ann. Oper. Res., 2016

Ensemble Move Acceptance in Selection Hyper-heuristics.

Ahmed Kheiri, Mustafa Misir, Ender Özcan

Proceedings of the Computer and Information Sciences - 31st International Symposium, 2016

Performance of Selection Hyper-heuristics on the Extended HyFlex Domains.

Alhanof Almutairi, Ender Özcan, Ahmed Kheiri, Warren G. Jackson

Proceedings of the Computer and Information Sciences - 31st International Symposium, 2016

2015

Solving high school timetabling problems worldwide using selection hyper-heuristics.

Leena N. Ahmed, Ender Özcan, Ahmed Kheiri

Expert Syst. Appl., 2015

Corrigendum: Constructing Constrained-Version of Magic Squares Using Selection Hyper-heuristics.

Ahmed Kheiri, Ender Özcan

Comput. J., 2015

A Sequence-based Selection Hyper-heuristic Utilising a Hidden Markov Model.

Ahmed Kheiri, Ed Keedwell

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2015

2014

Multi-stage hyper-heuristics for optimisation problems.

Ahmed Kheiri

PhD thesis, 2014

Constructing Constrained-Version of Magic Squares Using Selection Hyper-heuristics.

Ahmed Kheiri, Ender Özcan

Comput. J., 2014

2013

A greedy gradient-simulated annealing selection hyper-heuristic.

Murat Kalender, Ahmed Kheiri, Ender Özcan, Edmund K. Burke

Soft Comput., 2013

Group decision making hyper-heuristics for function optimisation.

Ender Ozcan, Mustafa Misir, Ahmed Kheiri

Proceedings of the 13th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, 2013

A Two Stage Approach for High School Timetabling.

Moh'd Khaled Yousef Shambour, Ahamad Tajudin Khader, Ahmed Kheiri, Ender Özcan

Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing - 20th International Conference, 2013

A Hyper-heuristic with a Round Robin Neighbourhood Selection.

Ahmed Kheiri, Ender Özcan

Proceedings of the Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, 2013

2012

A greedy gradient-simulated annealing hyper-heuristic for a curriculum-based course timetabling problem.

Murat Kalender, Ahmed Kheiri, Ender Ozcan, Edmund K. Burke

Proceedings of the 12th UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence, 2012

2011

A Hyper-Heuristic Based on Random Gradient, Greedy and Dominance.

Ender Özcan, Ahmed Kheiri

Proceedings of the Computer and Information Sciences II, 2011

Social image quality.

Guoping Qiu, Ahmed Kheiri

Proceedings of the Image Quality and System Performance VIII, 2011