Mathematics

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Dr Djamila Ouelhadj
Senior Lecturer in Operational Research

My main research interest lies at the interface of Operational Research and Computer Science. In particular, I am interested in the exploration and development of innovative Operational Research, Artificial Intelligence, and Distributed Artificial Intelligence models and methodologies for automatically producing high quality solutions to a wide range of real world combinatorial optimisation and scheduling problems. My research interests are summarised below:

• Operational Research.
• Combinatorial optimisation and scheduling.
• Linear programming, integer programming, goal programming, and non linear programming.
• Heuristics and meta-heuristics for solving combinatorial optimisation and scheduling problems: Exploration and development of heuristics, meta-heuristics, hyper-heuristics, evolutionary algorithms, and multi-objective methods to solve complex real world optimisation and scheduling problems. Examples of applications: Manufacturing, Timetabling, Grid Computing, Robotics, etc.
• Cooperative and parallel optimisation: cooperative and parallel meta-heuristics and hyper-heuristics.
• Intelligent decision support systems.
• Artificial Intelligence.
• Machine learning and reinforcement learning.
• Multi-agent based scheduling.
• Scheduling in manufacturing systems: job shop scheduling, flow shop scheduling, open shop scheduling, steel production scheduling.
• Scheduling and rescheduling in the presence of uncertainties.