Ahmad Alhindi

• PhD Computing & Electronic Systems
• Professor (Associate) at Umm al-Qura University

Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm based on Decomposition (MOEA/D) decomposes a multiobjective optimisation problem into a number of single-objective problems and optimises them in a collaborative manner. This paper investigates how to use Tabu Search (TS), a well-studied single objective heuristic to enhance MOEA/D performance. In our proposed...

Guided local search (GLS) is a meta-heuristic method proposed to solve combinatorial optimization problems. It is a high-level strategy that applies an efficient penalty-based approach to interact with the local improvement procedure. This interaction creates a process capable of escaping from local optima, which improves the efficiency and robustn...

This paper proposes an idea of using well studied and documented single-objective optimization methods in multiobjective evolutionary algorithms. It develops a hybrid algorithm which combines the multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D) with guided local search (GLS), called MOEA/D-GLS. It needs to optimize multiple sin...

Genetic algorithms (GAs) have recently been used as a search method for training set selection in supervised machine learning. The assumption is made that not all the data are equally useful in training supervised algorithms. In this paper, we empirically study the performance of classical GA for selecting a ‘good’ training set for decision tree cl...

Non-profit organizations mitigate the problem of food insecurity by collecting surplus food from donors and delivering it to underprivileged people. In this paper, we focus on a single non-profit organization located in Makkah city (Saudi Arabia), referred to as Ekram. The current surplus food pickup/delivery and operational routing model of Ekram...

The COVID-19 pandemic significantly increased e-commerce growth, adding more than 218 billion US dollars to the United States e-commerce sales. With this significant growth, various operational challenges have appeared, including logistic difficulties and customer satisfaction. Businesses that strive to take advantage of increased e-commerce growth...

The world’s technological and economic advancements have led to a sharp increase in the demand for electrical energy. Saudi Arabia is experiencing rapid economic and demographic growth, which is resulting in higher energy needs. The limits of fossil fuel reserves and their disruption to the environment have motivated the pursuit of alternative ener...

The distributor management system has long been a challenge for many organizations and companies. Overall, successful distribution involves several moving entities and methods, requiring a resilient distribution management strategy powered by data analysis. For nonprofit organizations, the distribution system requires efficient distribution and man...

Caching at mobile devices and leveraging device-todevice (D2D) communication are two promising approaches to support massive content delivery over wireless networks. Analysis of such D2D caching networks based on a physical interference model is usually carried out by assuming uniformly distributed devices. However, this approach does not capture t...

A central authority, in a conventional centralized energy trading market, superintends energy and financial transactions. The central authority manages and controls transparent energy trading between producer and consumer, imposes a penalty in case of contract violation, and disburses numerous rewards. However, the management and control through th...

The rapid growth of social media content during the current pandemic provides useful tools for disseminating information which has also become a root for misinformation. Therefore, there is an urgent need for fact-checking and effective techniques for detecting misinformation in social media. In this work, we study the misinformation in the Arabic...

In this research, we have suggested a combined strategy to calculate and determine the solutions for problems originating in combustion theory and heat transfer. We know these problems as Bratu differential equations. We aim to suggest and test a soft computing technique using an efficient meta-heuristic the Symbiotic organism search (SOS) algorith...

Huge amounts of educational data are being produced, and a common challenge that many educational organizations confront, is finding an effective method to harness and analyze this data for continuously delivering enhanced education. Nowadays, the educational data is evolving and has become large in volume, wide in variety and high in velocity. Thi...

Real application problems in physics, engineering, economics, and other disciplines are often modeled as differential equations. Classical numerical techniques are computationally expensive when we require solutions to our mathematical problems with no prior information. Hence, researchers are more interested in developing numerical methods that ca...

This paper aims at the analysis of the VdP heartbeat mathematical model. We have analysed the conditionality of a mathematical model which represents the oscillatory behaviour of the heart. A novel neuroevolutionary approach is chosen to analyse the mathematical model. The characteristics of the cardiac pulse of the heart are examined by considerin...

In this research, a soft computing approach based on a Nature-inspired technique, the Fractional-Order Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization (FO-DPSO) algorithm, is hybridized with feed-forward artificial neural network (FF-ANN) to suggest and calculate better solutions for non-linear second-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) representing t...

The 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), emerged late December 2019 in China, is now rapidly spreading across the globe. At the time of writing this paper, the number of global confirmed cases has passed two millions and half with over 180,000 fatalities. Many countries have enforced strict social distancing policies to contain the spread of the vi...

In this research, a soft computing approach based on a Nature-inspired technique, the Fractional-Order Darwinian Particle Swarm Optimization (FO-DPSO) algorithm, is hybridized with feed-forward arti cial neural network (FF-ANN) to suggest and calculate better solutions for non-linear second-order ordinary differential equation (ODE) representing th...

Software product line (SPL) engineering methodology assist to create a range of software products within less time and cost but with high quality by the reuse of core software assets, which has been tested. Thus, testing is crucial for successfully deploying SPL. As the product features increases, testing process can be time-consuming. Testing in S...

In stenography, embedding data within an image has a trade-off between image quality and embedding capacity. Specifically, the more data are concealed within a carrier image, the further distortion the image suffers, causing a decline in the resultant stego image quality. Embedding high capacity of data into an image while preserving the quality of...

Guided local search (GLS) is a meta-heuristic method proposed to solve combinatorial optimization problems. It is a high-level strategy that applies an efficient penalty-based approach to interact with the local improvement procedure. This interaction creates a process capable of escaping from local optima, which improves the efficiency and robustn...

Hybrid multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) and local search methods have received considerable interest in the field of multi-objective optimization. These methods are generally defined as multi-objective memetic algorithms (MOMAs), and a wide variety of these algorithms have been proposed in the literature with successful applications....

Information centric networking (ICN) using architectures such as Publish-Subscribe Internet Routing Paradigm (PSIRP) or Publish-Subscribe Internet Technology (PURSUIT) has been proposed as an important candidate for the Internet of the future. ICN is an emerging research area that proposes a transformation of the current host centric Internet archi...

This paper proposes an idea of using heuristic local search procedures specific for single-objective optimisation in multiobjectie evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs). In this paper, a multiobjective evolutionary algorithm based on decomposition (MOEA/D) hybridised with a multi-start single-objective metaheuristic called greedy randomised adaptive sear...

Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithm based on Decomposition (MOEA/D) decomposes a multiobjective optimisation into a number of single-objective problem and optimises them in a collaborative manner. This paper investigates how to use the Guided Local Search (GLS), a well-studied single objective heuristic to enhance MOEA/D performance. In our propo...