Edmund Burke
Recent Refereed Conference Papers (1999-present)

Some of my older papers are downloadable from ASAP publications.

2009:

S.Allen, E.K.Burke, M.Hyde and G.Kendall, Evolving Reusable 3D Packing Heuristics with Genetic Programming, Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal, Canada, July 2009, pp 931-938.

E.K.Burke, R.Qu and A.Soghier, Adaptive Selection of Heuristics within a GRASP for Exam Timetabling Problems, Proceedings of the 4th Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2009), Dublin, 10th-12th August 2009, pp 409-423. pdf

G. Ochoa, R. Qu, E. K. Burke, Analyzing the Landscape of a Graph Based Hyper-heuristic for Timetabling Problems, Proceedings of the ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2009), Montreal, Canada, July 2009, pp. 341-348. pdf

G. Ochoa, J. A. Vazquez-Rodriguez, S. Petrovic, E. K. Burke, Dispatching Rules for Production Scheduling: A Hyper-heuristic Landscape Analysis, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway May 18th-21st, 2009, pp 1873-1880. pdf

E. Özcan, Y. Bykov, M. Birben and E. K. Burke, Examination Timetabling Using Late Acceptance Hyper-heuristics, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2009), Trondheim, Norway May 18th-21st, 2009, pp. 997-1004. pdf

R.Qu, F.He and E.K.Burke, Hybridizing Integer Programming Models within an Adaptive
Decomposition Approach for Exam Timetabling Problems, Proceedings of the 4th Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2009), Dublin, 10th-12th August 2009, pp 435-446.

B.McCollum, P.J.McMullan, A.J.Parkes, E.K.Burke and S.Abdullah, An Extended Great Deluge Approach to the Examination Timetabling Problem, Proceedings of the 4th Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2009), Dublin, 10th-12th August 2009, pp 424-434. pdf

S.A. Rahman, A. Bargiela, E. K. Burke, B. McCollum and E. Özcan, Construction of Examination Timetables Based on Ordering Heuristics, Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Cyprus, 14-16 September 2009. pdf

2008:

J.L. Baxter, E.K. Burke, J.M. Garibaldi and M. Norman, Real-world Evaluation of a Novel Potential Field Sharing Method, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2008), Linz, Austria, 19th-21st June, pp 73-78, 2008. pdf

E.K.Burke, J.Marecek, A.J.Parkes and H.Rudova, A Branch and Cut Procedure for the Udine Course Timetabling Problem, Proceedings of the 7th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2008), Montreal, 19-22 August 2008. See Online Proceedings. pdf

A. Liefooghe, L. Jourdan, M. Basseur, E-G. Talbi and E. K. Burke, Metaheuristics for the Bi-objective Ring Star Problem, accepted for publication in the Proccedings of the Eighth European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimisation (EvoCop), Napoli, Italy, March 2008, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4972, pp 206-217. pdf

E.K. Burke, J. Marecek , A.J. Parkes and H. Rudova, Penalising Patterns in Timetables: Novel Integer Programming Formulations, Operations Research Proceedings 2007 (S. Nickel and J.Kalcsics eds.): Selected Papers of the of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Saarbrucken, 5-7 September 2007, published by Springer in 2008, pp 409-414. pdf

2007:

S. Abdullah, U. Aickelin, E.K. Burke, A. Mohamed Din and R. Qu (2007), Investigating a Hybrid Metaheuristic for Job Shop Rescheduling, Progress in Artificial Life: Proceedings of the third Australian Conference on Artificial Life, Gold Coast, Australia, December 4-6, 2007, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 4828, pp 357-368. pdf

G. Ochoa,  E. Lutton,  E.  Burke (2007), The Cooperative  Royal Road:  Avoiding Hitchhiking, Proceedings of Artificial Evolution (EA 2007), N. Monmarche et al. (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4926, Springer 2008, pp. 184-195. pdf

S. Abdullah, E.K. Burke and B. McCollum, A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach to the University Course Timetabling Problem, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Singapore, September 2007, ISBN: 1-4244-1340-0, pp 1764-1768. pdf

M. Basseur and E.K. Burke, Indicator-Based Multi-Objective Local Search, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Singapore, September 2007, ISBN: 1-4244-1340-0, pp. 3100-3107. pdf

R. Poli, J. Woodward and E.K. Burke, A Histogram-matching Approach to the Evolution of Bin-packing Strategies, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Singapore, September 2007, ISBN: 1-4244-1340-0, pp 3500 - 3507. pdf

E.K. Burke, M. Hyde, G. Kendall and J. Woodward, Scalability of Evolved On Line Bin Packing Heuristics, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2007), Singapore, September 2007, ISBN: 1-4244-1340-0, pp. 2530--2537 pdf

H.Asmuni, E.K.Burke, J.M. Garibaldi and B. McCollum, Determining Rules in Fuzzy Multiple Heuristic Orderings for  Constructing Examination Timetables, Proceedings of the 3rd Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2007), Paris, August 28-31, 2007, pp 59-66. pdf

R.Qu and E. K. Burke. Adaptive Decomposition and Construction for Examination Timetabling Problems, Proceedings of the 3rd Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2007), Paris, August 28-31, 2007, pp 418-425. pdf.

E.K.Burke, M.Hyde, G.Kendall and J. Woodward, Automatic Heuristic Generation with Genetic Programming: Evolving a Jack-of-all-Trades or a master of one, the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), London, UK. July 2007. pp. 1559-1565 pdf.

R. Bai, E.K. Burke, G. Kendall and B. McCollum, Memory Length in Hyper-heuristics: An Empirical Study, Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched2007), Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 1-5 April 2007, pp 173-178 pdf

H.Asmuni, E.K.Burke, J.M.Garibaldi and B.McCollum (2007), A Novel Fuzzy Approach to Evaluate the Quality of Examination Timetabling, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI (Eds. E.K.Burke and H.Rudova): Revised Selected Papers from the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'06), Brno, Czech Republic, August 30th-September 1st, 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series Volume 3867, Springer 2007, pp 327-346. pdf

C.Beyrouthy, E.K.Burke, J.D.Landa-Silva, B.McCollum, P.McMullan and A.J.Parkes (2007), The Teaching Space Allocation Problem with Splitting, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI (Eds. E.K.Burke and H.Rudova): Revised Selected Papers from the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT'06), Brno, Czech Republic, August 30th-September 1st, 2006, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Series Volume 3867, Springer 2007, pp 228-247. pdf

2006:

J.L. Baxter, E.K. Burke, J.M. Garibaldi & M. Norman, The Effect of Potential Field Sharing in Multi-Agent Systems, The 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents (ICARA 2006), Palmerston North, New Zealand, 12th-14th December, ISBN 0-473-11566-2, pp 33-38, 2006. pdf

E.K.Burke, M.Hyde and G.Kendall, Evolving Bin Packing Heuristics with Genetic Programming, Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-13 September 2006, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4193, pp 860-869. pdf

U.Aickelin, E.K.Burke and J.Li, Improved Squeaky Wheel Optimisation for Driver Scheduling, Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN), Reykjavik, Iceland, 9-13 September 2006, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 4193, pp 182-191. pdf

S.Bernaer, E.Burke, P. De Causmaecker, G.Vanden Berghe and T.Vermeulen, A Multi Agent System to Control Complexity in Multi Modal Transport, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conferences on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS) and Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM), Bangkok, Thailand, 7-9 June 2006, ISBN 1-4244-0023-6, pp 127-132. pdf

J.A.D.Atkin, E.K.Burke, J.S.Greenwood, and D.Reeson, The effect of the planning horizon and freezing time on take-off sequencing, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2006), Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro, June 24-28, 2006. pdf

J.A.D.Atkin, E.K.Burke, J.S.Greenwood, and D.Reeson, An examination of take-off scheduling constraints at London Heathrow Airport, Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer-Aided Scheduling of Public Transport (CASPT2006), Leeds, UK, June 21-23, 2006. pdf

S.Abdullah and E.K.Burke, A Multi-start Large Neighbourhood Search Approach with Local Search Methods for Examination Timetabling, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2006), Cumbria, UK, June 6th-June 10th, 2006. pdf

2005:

J.L.Baxter, J.M.Garibaldi, E.K.Burke & M.Norman, Statistical Analysis in MiroSot, Proceedings of the FIRA Roboworld Congress 2005, Singapore, 14th-16th Dece mber, 2005, ISBN 981-05-4674-2. pdf

H.Asmuni, E.K.Burke and J.M.Garibaldi, Fuzzy Multiple Heuristic Ordering for Course Timetabling, in Proceedings of the 5th United Kingdom Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI05), London, UK, 5-7, September 2005, pp. 302-309. pdf

S.Gustafson, E.K.Burke and N.Krasnogor, On Improving Genetic Programming for Symbolic Regression, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Edinburgh, UK, 2nd-5th September 2005, pp 912-919.

E.K.Burke, G.Kendall, J.D. Landa Silva, R.O'Brien and E.Soubeiga, An Ant Algorithm Hyperheuristic for the Project Presentation Scheduling Problem, Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC), Edinburgh, UK, 2nd-5th September 2005, pp 2263-2270. pdf

S.Abdullah, E.K.Burke and B.McCollum, Using a Randomised Iterative Improvement Algorithm with Composite Neigjhbourhood Structures for University Course Timetabling, Proceedings of the Meta-heuristic International Conference 2005 (MIC'05), CD-Rom, Austria, 22-26 Aug, 2005. pdf

R. Qu and E.K.Burke, Hybrid Variable Neighbourhood Hyper-heuristics for Exam Timetabling Problems, Proceedings of the Meta-heuristic International Conference 2005 (MIC'05), CD-Rom, Austria, 22-26 Aug, 2005. pdf

S.Abdullah, E.K.Burke and B.McCollum, An Investigation of Variable Neighbourhood Search for University Course Timetabling, Proceedings of the 2nd Multi-disciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), New York, USA, 18-21 July, 2005, pp 413-427. pdf

P.Brucker, R.Qu, E.K.Burke and G.Post, A Decomposition, Construction and Post-processing Approach for a Specific Nurse Rostering Problem,Proceedings of the 2nd Multi-disciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), New York, USA, 18-21 July, 2005, pp 397-406. pdf

S. Gustafson and E.K. Burke, A Niche for Parallel Islands Models: Outliers and Local Search, Proceedings of the IEEE 1st International Workshop on Parallel BioInspired Algorithms (edited by E.Cantu-Paz and F.F.de Vegas), Oslo, Norway, June 14th-17th, 2005, ISSN 1530-2016, IEEE Press, pp 612-619. pdf

S. Gustafson, E.K. Burke and N. Krasnogor, The Tree-String Problem: An Artificial Domain for Structure and Content Search, Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP), Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2005, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 3447, pp 215-226. pdf

H.Asmuni, E.K.Burke, J.M.Garibaldi and B.McCollum, Fuzzy Multiple Ordering Criteria for Examination Timetabling, Practice and theory of Automated Timetabling V (eds. E.K.Burke and M.Trick), Revised and Selected Papers from the 5th International Conference on the Practice and Thery of Automated Timetabling, Pittsburgh, USA, August 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 3616, Springer 2005, pp 334-353. pdf

2004:

H.Asmuni, E.K.Burke and J.M.Garibaldi, A Comparison of Fuzzy and Non-Fuzzy Ordering Heuristics for Examination Timetabling, in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing (RASC 2004), Nottingham, UK, 16-18 December 2004, pp. 288-293. pdf

E. K. Burke, A. J. Eckersley, B. McCollum, S. Petrovic and R. Qu, Analysing Similarity in Examination Timetabling, Proceedings of the 5th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT), Pittsburgh, USA, August 18th-20th 2004, ISBN 0-88748-413-1, pages 89-106. pdf

S.Gustafson, E.K.Burke and G.Kendall, Sampling of Unique Structures and Behaviours in Genetic Programming, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 3003, pp. 279-288, Coimbra, Portugal, 2004. pdf

2003:

E.K.Burke, S. Gustafson, G. Kendall and N. Krasnogor, Is Increased Diversity Beneficial in Genetic Programming: An Analysis of the Effects on Fitness, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2003), Canberra, Australia, Dec 8 - 12, pp 1398-1405 (Vol. 2), IEEE Catalog Number: 03TH8674, ISBN: 0-7803-7804-0, 2003. pdf

E.K.Burke, A.Eckersley, B.McCollum, S.Petrovic and R.Qu, Using Simulated Annealing to Study Behaviour of Various Exam Timetabling Data Sets, Proceedings of the 5th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2003), Kyoto Japan, August 25-28, 2003, paper MIC03 09. pdf

E.K.Burke, G.Kendall, R.O'Brien, D.Redrup and E.Soubeiga, An Ant Algorithm Hyper-Heuristic, Proceedings of the 5th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2003), Kyoto Japan, August 25-28, 2003, paper MIC03 10.

E.K.Burke, J.D. Landa Silva and E.Soubeiga, Hyperheuristic Approaches for Multiobjective Optimisation, Proceedings of the 5th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2003), Kyoto Japan, August 25-28, 2003, paper MIC03 11. pdf

E.K.Burke, A.Eckersley, B.McCollum, S.Petrovic and R.Qu, Similarity Measures for Exam Timetabling Problems, Proceedings of the 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2003), Volume 1, Nottingham, UK, Aug 2003, pages 120-136, ISBN0-9545821-0-1. pdf

E.K.Burke and E.Soubeiga, Scheduling Nurses Using a Tabu-Search Hyperheuristic, Proceedings of the 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2003), Volume 1, Nottingham, UK, Aug 2003, pages 197-218, ISBN0-9545821-0-1.

E.K.Burke and J.P.Newall, Enhancing Timetable Solutions with Local Search Methods, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV: Selected Revised Papers from the 4th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002), Gent, Belgium, 21-23 August 2002 (edited by E.K.Burke and P.Decausmaecker), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 2740, Springer 2003, pages 195-206 pdf.

E.K.Burke, B.MacCarthy, S.Petrovic and R.Qu, Knowledge Discovery in a Hyper-Heuristic for Course Timetabling Using Case-Based Reasoning, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV: Selected Revised Papers from the 4th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002), Gent, Belgium, 21-23 August 2002 (edited by E.K.Burke and P.Decausmaecker), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 2740, Springer 2003, pages 276-287. pdf

2002:

E.K.Burke,S.Petrovic and R.Qu, Case Based Heuristic Selection for Examination Timetabling, Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL 2002), Singapore, November 18-22, 2002, 277-281. pdf

E.K.Burke and J.D.Landa Silva, Improving the Performance of Trajectory Based Multi-Objective Optimisers by using Relaxed Dominance, Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL 2002), Singapore, November 18-22, 2002, pages 203-207. pdf

N. Krasnogor, B. Blackburne, J.D. Hirst and E.K. Burke, Multimeme Algorithms for Protein Structure Prediction, Proceedings of the of the Seventh Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VII) Conference, September 2002, Granada, Spain, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2439, pages 769-778. pdf

Edmund K. Burke, Steven Gustafson, Graham Kendall and Natalio Krasnogor, Advanced Population Diversity Measures in Genetic Programming, Proceedings of the of the Seventh Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN VII) Conference, September 2002, Granada, Spain, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2439, pages 341-350. pdf

S.Ahmadi, R.Barone, E.K.Burke, P.Cheng, P.Cowling and B.McCollum, Integrating Human Abilities and Automated Systems for Timetabling: A Competition using STARK and HuSSH Representations at the PATAT 2002 Conference, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002), Gent, Belgium, 21-23 August 2002, pages 265-273, ISBN 90-806096-1-7.

Edmund K. Burke, Steven Gustafson and Graham Kendall, A Survey and Analysis of Diversity Measures in Genetic Programming, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2002 (GECCO 2002), New York, USA, 9-13 July 2001, pages 716-723 (Morgan Kaufmann). This paper was among those nominated for a "Best at GECCO Prize". pdf

B.Carr, W.Hart, N.Krasnogor, J.Hirst, E.K.Burke and J.Smith, Alignment of Protein Structures with a Memetic Evolutionary Algorithm, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2002 (GECCO 2002), New York, USA, 9-13 July 2001, pages 1027-1034 (Morgan Kaufmann). pdf

E.K.Burke, P. De Causmaecker, S.Petrovic and G. Vanden Berghe, A Multi-Criteria Meta-heuristic Approach to Nurse Rostering, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC2002), Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 12th-17th 2002, pages 1197-1202. pdf

E.K.Burke and G.Kendall, A New Approach to Packing Non-Convex Polygons using the no Fit Polygon and Meta-heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithms, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Adaptive Computing in Design and Manufacture (ACDM 2002), April 16th-18th 2002, University of Exeter, UK (Springer), pages 193-204. Word

E.K.Burke, S.M.Gustafson and G.Kendall, A Puzzle to Challenge Genetic Programming, Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science volume 2278, Kinsale, Ireland, 3-5 April 2002, pages 238-247. pdf

2001:

E.K.Burke, B.MacCarthy, S.Petrovic and R.Qu, Case Based Reasoning in Course Timetabling: An Attribute Graph Approach, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning (ICCBR-2001), Vancouver, Canada, 30th July - 2nd August 2001, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2080, pages 90-104. pdf

Edmund K. Burke, Peter Cowling, J.D.Landa Silva and Sanja Petrovic, On the Performance of Population-Based Metaheuristics for the Space Allocation Problem, Proceedings of the 4th Metaheuristics International Conference (MIC 2001) Vol 2, Porto, Portugal, July 16-20, 2001, pages 579-583. pdf

E.K. Burke, P. Cowling, J.D. Landa Silva, S. Petrovic, Combining Hybrid Meta heuristics and Populations for the Multiobjective Optimisation of Space Allocation Problems, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2001 (GECCO 2001), San Francisco, USA, 7-11 July 2001, pages 1252-1259 (Morgan Kaufmann). pdf

E.K. Burke, P.I. Cowling, R. Keuthen, The Printed Circuit Board Assembly problem: Heuristic Approaches for Multi-Headed placement Machinery, Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI2000) Volume III, Las Vegas, USA, June 25th-28th 2001, CSREA Press, pages 1456-1462. pdf

E.K. Burke, P. Cowling, J.D. Landa Silva, Hybrid Population-Based Metaheuristic Approaches for the Space Allocation Problem, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2001 (CEC 2001) Vol. 1, Seoul, Korea, 27-30 May 2001, pages 232-239. pdf

E.K.Burke, P. De Causmaecker, S.Petrovic and G. Vanden Berghe, Fitness Evaluation for Nurse Scheduling Problems, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2001 (CEC 2001) Vol. 2, Seoul, Korea, 27-30 May 2001, pages 1139-1146. pdf

E.K. Burke, P. Cowling, R. Keuthen, Effective Local and Guided Variable Neighborhood Search Methods for the Asymmetric Travelling Salesman Problem, Applications of Evolutionary Computing - edited by J.W.Boers et al., presented at the First European Workshop on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization (EvoCop 2001), Lake Como, Milan, Italy, April 18th 2001, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 2037, pages 203-212. pdf

E.K.Burke,Y.Bykov and S.Petrovic, A Multi-Criteria Approach to Examination Timetabling, The Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling III: Selected Papers from the 3rd international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2000), Konstanz, Germany, 16-18 August 2000 (edited by E.K.Burke and W.Erben), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2079, Springer 2001, pp 118-131. pdf

E.K. Burke, P. Cowling, J.D. Landa, B. McCollum, Three Methods to Automate the Space Allocation Process in UK Universities, The Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling III: Selected Papers from the 3rd international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2000), Konstanz, Germany, 16-18 August 2000 (edited by E.K.Burke and W.Erben), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, volume 2079, Springer 2001, pp 254-273. pdf

2000:

E.K. Burke, P.I. Cowling, R. Keuthen, Effective Heuristic and Metaheuristic Approaches to Optimize Component Placement in Printed Circuit Board Assembly, Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computing (CEC2000), San Diego, USA, July 2000, pages 301-308, IEEE Press. pdf

E.K. Burke, P. Cowling, J.D. Landa, B. McCollum, D. Varley, A Computer Based System for Space Allocation Optimisation, Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Beijing, China, 11-13 October 2000, CD ISBN 7-900043-38-1. pdf

1999:

E.K.Burke and G.Kendall, Applying Ant Algorithms and the No Fit Polygon to the Nesting Problem, Proceedings of the 12th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'99), Sydney, Australia, December 6th-10th December 1999, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol 1747, pages 454-464. pdf

E.K.Burke and G.Kendall, Evaluation of the Two Dimensional Bin Packing Problem using the No Fit Polygon, Proceedings of the 26th International conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, 15th-17th December 1999, pages 286-291. pdf

E.K.Burke, P.I.Cowling and R.Keuthen, New Models and Heuristics for Component Placement in Printed Circuit Board Assembly, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Information, Intelligence and Systems (ICIIS), 31 October - 3 November 1999, Rockville, Maryland, pages 133-140, IEEE Press. pdf

E.K. Burke and G. Kendall, "Applying Simulated Annealing and the No Fit Polygon to the Nesting Problem", Proceedings of the World Manufacturing Congress, Durham, UK, 27-30 September, 1999, pages 70-76, ICSC Academic Press. pdf

E.K. Burke and A.J. Smith, "A Multi-Stage Approach for the Thermal Generator Maintenance Scheduling Problem", Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC'99) Volume 2, Washington DC, USA, 6-9 July, 1999, pages 1085-1092 (IEEE Press). pdf

Edmund K. Burke and Graham Kendall, Applying Evolutionary Algorithms and the No Fit Polygon to the Nesting Problem, Proceedings of the 1999 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'99) Volume 1, June 28 - July 1, 1999, Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pages 51-57, CSREA Press. pdf

E.K.Burke and A.J.Smith, A Memetic Algorithm to Schedule Grid Maintenance, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling Control and Automation: Evolutionary Computation and Fuzzy Logic for Intelligent Control, Knowledge Acquisition and Information Retrieval, Vienna, 17-19 February 1999, pages 122 - 127, IOS Press 1999. pdf

E.Burke, P.De Causmaecker and G. Vanden Berghe (1999), A Hybrid Tabu Search Algorithm for the Nurse Rostering Problem, Simulated Evolution and Learning (Eds. B.McKay, X.Yao, C.S.Newton, J.Kim and T.Furuhashi), Selected Papers from the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL 98), Canberra, Australia, November 1998, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 1585, 1999, pp 187-194. pdf

E.K.Burke and D.B.Varley, Automating Space Allocation in Higher Education (1999), Simulated Evolution and Learning (Eds. B.McKay, X.Yao, C.S.Newton, J.Kim and T.Furuhashi), Selected Papers from the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL 98), Canberra, Australia, November 1998, Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 1585, 1999, pp 66-73. pdf

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