Ayad Turky

• PhD in Computer Science
• Assistant Professor at University of Sharjah

Recent research has revealed that using machine learning systems for the analysis of genetic data could reliably detect Alzheimer’s disease. The interpretability of these models, however, has been a challenge, as they frequently provided little insight into the features that contribute to their predictions. Explainable machine learning has been pre...

Almost all signals existing in the universe experience varying degrees of noise interference. Specifically, audio signals necessitate efficient noise cancellation for most hearing devices to comfort the user. Various filtering techniques are employed in order to apply efficient noise cancellation, empowering the system to enhance the signal-to-nois...

Nowadays, robotic applications exist in various fields, including medical, industrial, and educational. The critical aspect of most of these applications is robot movement, where an efficient path-planning algorithm is required in order to guarantee a safe and cost-effective movement. The main goal of the path planning technique is to find the shor...

The inability to perceive visual and other non-verbal cues for individuals with visual impairment can pose a significant challenge for their correct conversational interactions and can be an impediment for various daily life activities. Recent advancements in computational resources, particularly the computer vision capabilities can be utilized to...

Existing parking recommendation solutions mainly focus on finding and suggesting parking spaces based on the unoccupied options only. However, there are other factors associated with parking spaces that can influence someone's choice of parking such as fare, parking rule, walking distance to destination, travel time, likelihood to be unoccupied at...

Local search algorithms have been successfully used for many combinatorial optimisation problems. The choice of the most suitable local search algorithm is, however, a challenging task as their performance is highly dependent on the problem characteristic. In addition, most of these algorithms require users to select appropriate internal neighbourh...

Finding the shortest route between a pair of origin and destination is known to be a crucial and challenging task in intelligent transportation systems. Current methods assume fixed travel time between any pairs, thus the efficiency of these approaches is limited because the travel time in reality can dynamically change due to factors including the...

The heterogeneous fleet vehicle routing problem with two-dimensional loading constraints (2L- HFVRP) is a complex variant of the classical vehicle routing problem. 2L-HFVRP seeks for minimal cost set of routes to serve a set of customers using a fleet of vehicles of different capacities, fixed and variable operating costs, different dimensions, and...

Deep Belief Networks (DBN) have become a powerful tools to deal with a wide range of applications. On complex tasks like image reconstruction, DBN’s performance is highly sensitive to parameter settings. Manually trying out different parameters is tedious and time consuming however often required in practice as there are not many better options. Th...

The Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem (DVRP) is a complex variation of classical Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). The aim of DVRP is to find a set of routes to serve multiple customers at minimal total travelling cost while the travelling time between point to point may vary during the process because of factors like traffic congestion. To effectively...

Project Scheduling Problem (PSP) plays a crucial role in large-scale software development, directly affecting the productivity of the team and on-time delivery of software projects. PSP concerns with the decision of who does what and when during the software project lifetime. PSP is a combinatorial optimisation problem and inherently NP-hard, indic...

Portfolio Selection (PS) is recognized as one of the most important and challenging problems in financial engineering. The aim of PS is to distribute a given amount of investment fund across a set of assets in such a way that the return is maximised and the risk is minimised. To solve PS more effectively and more efficiently, this paper introduces...

Portfolio Selection (PS) is recognized as one of the most important and challenging problems in financial engineering. The aim of PS is to distribute a given amount of investment fund across a set of assets in such a way that the return is maximised and the risk is minimised. To solve PS more effectively and more efficiently, this paper introduces...

This paper investigates the Google machine reassignment problem (GMRP). GMRP is a real world optimisation problem which is to maximise the usage of cloud machines. Since GMRP is computationally challenging problem and exact methods are only advisable for small instances, meta-heuristic algorithms have been used to address medium and large instances...

Dynamic optimization problems (DOPs) have been widely researched in recent years. This is due to its numerous practical applications in real-life conditions. To solve DOPs, the optimizer should be able to track the changes and simultaneously seek for global optima in the search space. This paper proposes a dual population multi operators harmony se...

Google Machine Reassignment Problem (GMRP) is a recent real world problem proposed at ROADEF/EURO challenge 2012. The aim of this problem is to maximise the usage of the available machines by reassigning processes among those machines while a numerous constraints must be not violated. In this work, we propose a great deluge algorithm with multi-nei...

Iterated Local Search (ILS) is a simple yet powerful optimisation method that iteratively invokes a local search procedure with renewed starting points by perturbation. Due to the complexity of search landscape, different ILS strategies may better suit different problem instances or different search stages. To address this issue, this work proposes...

Dynamic optimisation problems (DOPs) have attracted a lot of research attention in recent years due to their practical applications and complexity. DOPs are more challenging than static optimisation problems because the problem information or data is either revealed or changed during the course of an ongoing optimisation process. This requires an o...

An Australian company is faced with the logistics problem of distributing small quantities of fibre boards to hundreds of customers every day. The resulting Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Three-Dimensional Loading Constraints has to be solved within a single hour, hence the use of a heuristic instead of an exact m...

It is known that neighbourhood structures affect search performance. In this study we analyse a series of neighbourhood structures to facilitate the search. The well known steepest descent (SD) local search algorithm is used in this study as it is parameter free. The search problem used is the Google Machine Reassignment Problem (GMRP). GMRP is a r...

Abstract. Google Machine Reassignment Problem (GMRP) is an optimisation problem proposed at ROADEF/EURO challenge 2012. The task of GMRP is to allocate cloud computing resources by reassigning a set of services to a set of machines while not violating any constraints. We propose an evolutionary parallel late acceptance hill-climbing algorithm (P-LA...

Google Machine Reassignment Problem (GMRP) is a real world problem proposed at ROADEF/EURO challenge 2012 competition which must be solved within 5 min. GMRP consists in reassigning a set of services into a set of machines for which the aim is to improve the machine usage while satisfying numerous constraints. This paper proposes an evolutionary si...

This study investigates the dynamic shortest path routing (DSPR) problem in mobile ad-hoc networks. The goal is to find the shortest possible path that connects a source node with the destination node while effectively handling dynamic changes occurring on the ad-hoc networks. The key challenge in DSPR is how to simultaneously keep track changes an...

Recently, interest in solving real-world problems that change over the time, so called dynamic optimisation problems (DOPs), has grown due to their practical applications. A DOP requires an optimisation algorithm that can dynamically adapt to changes and several methodologies have been integrated with population-based algorithms to address these pr...

The Heterogeneous Fleet Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows and Three- Dimensional Loading Constraints (3L-HFCVRPTW) combines the aspects of 3D loading, heterogeneous transport with capacity constraints and time windows for deliveries. It is the first formulation that comprises all these aspects and takes its inspiration from a pr...

Electromagnetic algorithm is a population based meta-heuristic which imitates the attraction and repulsion of sample points. In this paper, we propose an electromagnetic algorithm to simultaneously tune the structure and parameter of the feed forward neural network. Each solution in the electromagnetic algorithm contains both the design structure a...

Many optimisation problems are dynamic in the sense that changes occur during the optimisation process, and therefore are more challenging than the stationary problems. To solve dynamic optimisation problems, the proposed approaches should not only attempt to seek the global optima but be able to also keep track of changes in the track record of la...

This paper is derived from an interest in the development of approaches to tackle dynamic optimisation problems. This is a very challenging research area due to the fact that any approaches utilised should be able to track the changes and simultaneously seek for global optima as the search progresses. In this research work, a multi-population elect...

Dynamic optimization problems present great challenges to the research community because their parameters are either revealed or changed during the course of an ongoing optimization process. These problems are more challenging than static problems in real-world applications because the latter are usually dynamic, with the environment constantly sub...