I am a "Science and Innovation" Lecturer in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham,
working in the Automated Scheduling, Optimisation and Planning Research Group (ASAP).
News
o Despite this being our first attempt in high school timetabling,
we (The HySST team: Ahmed, myself and Andrew) generated the best new solutions for three given instances in Round 1 and gained the second place in Rounds 2 and 3 at
the 3rd International Timetabling Competition with a fairly standard stochastic search method but significantly enhanced by an easy-to-implement hyper-heuristic.
[NEWS]
[ASAP news]
o Our paper with Andrew J. Parkes
won the best paper award on the GECCO 2011 Self-* Track:
E. Özcan, and A. J. Parkes, Policy Matrix Evolution for Generation of Heuristics, Proc. of the 13th Annual
Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO '11), Natalio Krasnogor (Ed.). ACM, New York, NY, USA,
pp. 2011-2018, 2011. [PDF]
o Hyper-heuristics: Dr Ender Ozcan and Prof Graham Kendall are
presenting a series of invited talks in Turkey.
[NEWS]
o Academic paper produced from third year project under my supervision
accepted for poster presentation and inclusion in the PPSN 2010 proceedings.
[see the news]
o Jonathon Gibbs who has done this work under my supervision also won the IBM Individual Project Prize
[see the news
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If you are a self-funded student, please see my research interests. I have one remaining post.
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