Publications Operational Research Group

2019

Refereed Journal Papers

  • Recent advances in selection hyper-heuristics
    John H. Drake, Ahmed Kheiri, Ender Özcan, and Edmund K. Burke
    European Journal of Operational Research, August 2019.
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  • An Evolutionary Algorithm Based Hyper-heuristic Framework For the Set Packing Problem
    Sachchida N. Chaurasia and Joon H. Kim
    Information Sciences, Elsevier, Volume 505, pp. 1–31, July 2019.
    [bib] [doi
  • A constructive framework for the preventive signalling maintenance crew scheduling problem in the Danish railway system
    Shahrzad M. Pour, Kourosh Marjani Rasmussen, John H. Drake, and Edmund K. Burke
    Journal of the Operational Research Society, May 2019.
    [doi
  • Multiobjective evolutionary algorithms for strategic deployment of resources in operational units
    John H. Drake, Andrew Starkey, Gilbert Owusuand, and Edmund K. Burke
    European Journal of Operational Research, February 2019.
    [doi

Refereed Conferences Proceedings

  • Modelling Player Preferences in AR Mobile Games
    Vivek R. Warriar, John R. Woodward, and Laurissa Tokarchuk
    In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), August 2019
    [doi]
  • PlayMapper: Illuminating Design Spaces of Platform Games
    Vivek R. Warriar, Carmen Ugarte, John R. Woodward, and Laurissa Tokarchuk
    In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), August 2019
    [doi]
  • Quantum Program Synthesis: Swarm Algorithms and Benchmarks
    Timothy Atkinson, Athena Karsa, John H. Drake, Jerry Swan
    In Proceedings of the European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP), April 2019
    [doi]

2018

Refereed Journal Papers

  • A Hybrid Constraint Programming/Mixed Integer Programming Framework for the Preventive Signaling Maintenance Crew Scheduling Problem
    Shahrzad M. Pour, John H. Drake, Lena Secher Ejlertsen, Kourosh Marjani Rasmussen, and Edmund K. Burke
    European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 269, Number 1, pp. 341–352, August 2018.
    [bib] [doi
  • A Fuzzy Approach to Addressing Uncertainty in Airport Ground Movement Optimisation
    Alexander E.I. Brownlee, Michal Weiszer, Jun Chen, Stefan Ravizza, John R. Woodward, and Edmund K. Burke
    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 92, pp. 150–175, Elsevier BV, July 2018.
    [bib] [doi
  • Preference-based Evolutionary Algorithm for Airport Surface Operations
    Michal Weiszer, Jun Chen, Paul Stewart, and Xuejun Zhang
    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 91, pp. 296–316, Elsevier BV, June 2018.
    [bib] [doi
  • A Choice Function Hyper-heuristic Framework for the Allocation of Maintenance Tasks in Danish Railways
    Shahrzad M. Pour, John H. Drake, and Edmund K. Burke
    Computers & Operations Research, Volume 93, pp. 15–26, May 2018.
    [bib] [doi
  • Optimal Risk Transfer: A Numerical Optimization Approach
    Alexandru V. Asimit, Tao Gao, Junlei Hu, and Eun-Seok Kim
    North American Actuarial Journal, pp. 1–24, Informa UK Limited, March 2018.
    [bib] [doi
  • A Hybrid Dynamic Programming and Memetic Algorithm to the Traveling Salesman Problem with Hotel Selection
    Yongliang Lu, Una Benlic, and Qinghua Wu
    Computers & Operations Research, Volume 90, pp. 193–207, February 2018.
    [bib] [doi
  • Heuristic Search for Allocation of Slots at Network Level
    Una Benlic
    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 86, pp. 488–509, January 2018.
    [bib] [doi
  • A Hyper-heuristic Approach to Automated Generation of Mutation Operators for Evolutionary Programming
    Libin Hong, John H. Drake, John R. Woodward, and Ender Özcan
    Applied Soft Computing, Volume 62, pp. 162–175, January 2018.
    [bib] [doi
  • An Online Speed Profile Generation Approach for Efficient Airport Ground Movement
    Tianci Zhang, Meng Ding, Hongfu Zuo, Jun Chen, Michal Weiszer, Xiaoyan Qian, and Edmund K. Burke
    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, 2018.
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Refereed Conferences Proceedings

  • A Rolling Window with Genetic Algorithm Approach to Sorting Aircraft for Automated Taxi Routing
    Alexander E.I. Brownlee, John R. Woodward, Michal Weiszer, and Jun Chen
    In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2018 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018), ACM. Kyoto, Japan, July 2018. [To Appear].
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  • Late Acceptance Hill Climbing for Constrained Covering Arrays
    Mosab Bazargani, John H. Drake, and Edmund K. Burke
    In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on the Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications 2018), Volume 10784 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 778–793, Springer. Parma, Italy, April 2018.
    [bib] [doi

Book Chapters

  • Hyper-heuristics
    Michael G. Epitropakis and Edmund K. Burke
    In Handbook of Heuristics, pages 1–57, Springer International Publishing. 2018.
    [bib] [doi

2017

Refereed Journal Papers

  • Pruning Rules for Optimal Runway Sequencing
    Geert De Maere, Jason A. D. Atkin, and Edmund K. Burke
    Transportation Science, pp. 1–19, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), October 2017.
    [bib] [doi
  • A Methodology for Determining an Effective Subset of Heuristics in Selection Hyper-heuristics
    Jorge A. Soria-Alcaraz, Gabriela Ochoa, Marco A. Sotelo-Figeroa, and Edmund K. Burke
    European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 260, pp. 972–983, Elsevier, August 2017.
    [bib] [doi
  • The Late Acceptance Hill-Climbing Heuristic
    Edmund K Burke and Yuri Bykov
    European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 258, Number 1, pp. 70–78, Elsevier, April 2017.
    [bib] [doi
  • Breakout Local Search for the Multi-objective Gate Allocation Problem
    Una Benlic, Edmund K. Burke, and John R. Woodward
    Computers & Operations Research, Volume 78, pp. 80–93, Elsevier, February 2017.
    [bib] [doi
  • A Hybrid Breakout Local Search and Reinforcement Learning Approach to the Vertex Separator Problem
    Una Benlic, Michael G. Epitropakis, and Edmund K. Burke
    European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 261, Number 3, pp. 803–818, Elsevier, 2017.
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Refereed Conferences Proceedings

  • A Hyper-heuristic for Multi-objective Integration and Test Ordering in Google Guava
    Giovani Guizzo, Mosab Bazargani, Matheus Paixão, and John H. Drake
    In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2017), Volume 10452 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 168–174, Springer. Paderborn, Germany, September 2017.
    [bib] [doi
  • Parameter-less Late Acceptance Hill-Climbing
    Mosab Bazargani and Fernando Lobo
    In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2017 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2017), pages 219–226, ACM. Berlin, Germany, July 2017.
    [bib] [doi
  • Solving the Distributed Two Machine Flow-shop Scheduling Problem Using Differential Evolution
    Paul Dempster, Penghao Li, and John H. Drake
    In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2017), Part I, Volume 10385 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 449–457, Springer. Fukuoka, Japan, July 2017.
    [bib] [doi
  • An Iterated Local Search Framework with Adaptive Operator Selection for Nurse Rostering
    Angeliki Gretsista and Edmund K. Burke
    In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 11th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION 11), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 93–108, Springer. Nizhny, Russia, June 2017.
    [bib] [doi
  • A Modified Indicator-based Evolutionary Algorithm (mIBEA)
    Wenwen Li, Ender Özcan, Robert John, John H. Drake, Aneta Neumann, and Markus Wagner
    In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2017), pages 1047–1054, IEEE Press. San Sebastián, Spain, June 2017.
    [bib] [doi
  • Sparse, Continuous Policy Representations for Uniform Online Bin Packing via Regression of Interpolants
    John H. Drake, Jerry Swan, Geoff Neumann, and Ender Özcan
    In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCOP 2017), Volume 10197 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 189–200, Springer. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 2017.
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2016

Refereed Journal Papers

  • A Self-Adaptive Multimeme Memetic Algorithm Co-evolving Utility Scores to Control Genetic Operators and their Parameter Settings
    Ender Özcan, John H. Drake, Cevriye Altıntaş, and Shahriar Asta
    Applied Soft Computing, Volume 49, pp. 81–93, Elsevier, December 2016.
    [bib] [doi
  • Toward a More Realistic, Cost-effective, and Greener Ground Movement Through Active Routing: A Multiobjective Shortest Path Approach
    Jun Chen, Michal Weiszer, Giorgio Locatelli, Stefan Ravizza, Jason A. Atkin, Paul Stewart, and Edmund K. Burke
    IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Volume 17, Number 12, pp. 3524–3540, IEEE, December 2016.
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  • An Adaptive Flex-Deluge Approach to University Exam Timetabling
    Edmund K. Burke and Yuri Bykov
    INFORMS Journal on Computing, Volume 28, Number 4, pp. 781–794, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), November 2016.
    [bib] [doi
  • Heuristic Search for the Coupled Runway Sequencing and Taxiway Routing Problem
    Una Benlic, Alexander EI Brownlee, and Edmund K. Burke
    Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 71, pp. 333–355, Elsevier, October 2016.
    [bib] [doi
  • A Multi-agent Based Cooperative Approach to Scheduling and Routing
    Simon Martin, Djamila Ouelhadj, Patrick Beullens, Ender Özcan, Angel A. Juan, and Edmund K. Burke
    European Journal of Operational Research, Volume 254, Issue 1, pp. 169–178, Elsevier, October 2016.
    [bib] [doi
  • A Case Study of Controlling Crossover in a Selection Hyper-heuristic Framework Using the Multidimensional Knapsack Problem
    John H. Drake, Ender Özcan, and Edmund K. Burke
    Evolutionary Computation, Volume 24, Number 1, pp. 113–141, MIT Press, March 2016.
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Refereed Conferences Proceedings

  • Clustering of Maintenance Tasks for the Danish Railway System
    Shahrzad M. Pour and Una Benlic
    In Proceedings of the Intelligent Systems Design and Applications: 16th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA 2016), Volume 557 of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC), pages 791–799, Springer. Porto, Portugal, December 2016.
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  • Searching for Configurations in Clone Evaluation – A Replication Study
    Chaiyong Ragkhitwetsagul, Matheus Paixao, Manal Adham, Saheed Busari, Jens Krinke, and John H. Drake
    In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2016), Volume 9962 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 250–256, Springer. Raleigh, NC, USA, October 2016.
    [bib] [doi
  • Multi-objective Regression Test Suite Minimisation for Mockito
    Andrew J. Turner, David R. White, and John H. Drake
    In Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2016), Volume 9962 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), pages 244–249, Springer. Raleigh, NC, USA, October 2016.
    [bib] [doi
  • Automatically Designing More General Mutation Operators of Evolutionary Programming for Groups of Function Classes Using a Hyper-heuristic
    Libin Hong, John H. Drake, John R. Woodward, and Ender Özcan
    In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2016), pages 725–732, ACM. Denver, Colorado, USA, July 2016.
    [bib] [doi
  • Automatic Improvement of Apache Spark Queries using Semantics-preserving Program Reduction
    Zoltan A. Kocsis, John H. Drake, Douglas Carson, and Jerry Swan
    In Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 2016 on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (Companion) (GECCO 2016), pages 1141–1146, ACM. Denver, Colorado, USA, July 2016.
    [bib] [doi

Last update on 12-11-2019