Conference Publications
2011
Edmund K. Burke, Michel Gendreau, Matthew Hyde, Graham Kendall, Barry McCollum, Gabriela Ochoa, Andrew J. Parkes, Sanja Petrovic, e cross-domain heuristic search challenge – an international research competition. LION'05: Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, Publisher: Springer-Verlag
2010
Syariza Abdul Rahman, Edmund Burke, Andrzej Bargiela, Barry McCollum and Ender Ozcan, A Construction Approach for Examination Timetabling based on Adaptive Decomposition and Ordering. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Automated Timetabling (PATAT10), Queen's University Belfast, 10-13th August 2010, pp 353-372, ISBN 08-538-9973-3
Graham Kendall, Barry McCollum, Frederico Cruz and Paul McMullan Scheduling English Football Fixtures: Consideration of Two Conflicting Objectives. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Automated Timetabling (PATAT10), Queen's University Belfast, 10-13th August 2010, pp 1-15, ISBN 08-538-9973-3
Abdullah, S., Turabieh, H., McCollum, B. and McMullan, P. 2010. A Multi-objective Post Enrolment Course Timetabling Problems: A New Case Study. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (IEEE CEC 2010), Barcelona, Spain
Salissou Moutari and Barry McCollum, Local ramp metering control based on a coupling of continuum traffic flow models with reinforcement learning, 24th European Conference on Operational Research, Lisbon, Portugal, 2010, p. 188.
2009
Barry McCollum. 2009. University Spin Out: Balancing Research and Practice. Second Seminar on Data Mining & Optimization (DMO 09), 3rd & 4th December 2008 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi Selangor.
Salwani Abdullah, Hamza Turabieh, Barry McCollum. 2009. A Tabu-based Memetic Approach for Examination Timetabling Problems. AI-2009 Twenty-ninth SGAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence., December 15-17, Cambridge, England. Springer.pdf
Salwani Abdullah, Hamza Turabeih, Barry McCollum, A hybridization of electromagnetic-like mechanism and great deluge for examination timetabling problems, Accepted to HM2009: 6th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, Udine, October 16-17, 2009. pdf
Syariza Abdul Rahman, Andrzej Bargiela, Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum and Ender Özcan, Construction of Examination Timetables Based on Ordering Heuristics, Accepted to ISCIS2009: 24th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, Cyprus, 14-16 September 2009. IEEE. pdf
Salwani Abdullah, Khalid Shaker, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan, Construction of Course Timetables Based on Great Deluge and Tabu Search, Proceedings of MIC 2009, VIII Meteheuristic International Conference, Hamburg, July 13-16. pdf
Salwani Abdullah, Hamza Turabeih, Barry McCollum, Electromagnetism-like mechanism with force decay rate great deluge for CTP, Accepted to RSKT2009, The Fourth International Conference on Rough Set and Knowledge Technology, July 14-16 2009, Gold Coast, Australia. pdf
B. McCollum, P.J. McMullan, A. J. Parkes, E.K. Burke, S Abdullah, An Extended Great Deluge Approach to the Examination Timetabling Problem, Accepted to MISTA09, The 4th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications, Dublin, August 2009, pp 424-434. pdf
2008
Zhihui Luo, David Bell, Barry McCollum, Discover Relevant Environment Feature Using Concurrent Reinforcement Learning, Accepted to AAAI-08, Twenty-Third Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chicago, July 13-17 2008. pdf
Zhihui Luo, David Bell, Barry McCollum, and Qingxiang Wu, Learning to Select Relevant Perspective in a Dynamic Environment, Accepted to IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (www.WCCI2008.org), Hong Kong, June 1-6, 2008. pdf
2007
S, Abdullah, S, Burke, McCollum, B, Abdullah, S., Burke, E. K. and McCollum, B., A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach to the University Course Timetabling Problem. IEEE Congres on Evolutionary, Computation, ISBN: 1-4244-1340-0. Singapore, 25-28 September, pp 1764-1768, 2007. pdf
H.Asmuni, E.Burke, J.Garibaldi, B.McCollum, Determining Rules in Fuzzy Multiple Heuristic Orderings for Constructing Examination Timetables. 3rd Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications, 28-31 August 2007, Paris. pdf
L. Di Gaspero, B. McCollum, and A. Schaerf, The Second International Timetabling Competition (ITC-2007):Curriculum-based Course Timetabling (Track 3), International Workshop on Scheduling a Scheduling Competition, 17th International Conference on Automated Planning & Scheduling September 22nd-26th 2007, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. pdf
L. Di Gaspero, B. McCollum, and A. Schaerf, The Second International Timetabling Competition (ITC-2007): Curriculum-based Course Timetabling Track, the 14th RCRA workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, Rome 5-6 July 2007. pdf
Ruibin Bai, Edmund Burke, Graham Kendall and Barry McCollum, Memory Length in Hyper-heuristics: An Empirical Study, A Combined Constructive Improvement Heuristic for Examination Timetabling. IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched), Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007. pdf
2006
B.McCollum, (PLENARY) University Timetabling: Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice, PATAT '06, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Brno, August 2006, ISBN 80-210-3726-1, pp 15-35. pdf
C. Beyrouthy, E.K. Burke, J.D Landa-Silva, B.McCollum, P.McMullan, A.Parkes, The Teaching Space Allocation Problem with splitting, PATAT '06, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Brno, August 2006, ISBN 80-210-3726-1, pp103-122 . pdf
H.Asmuni, E.Burke, J.Garibaldi, B.McCollum, A Novel Fuzzy Approach to Evaluate the Quality of Examination Timetabling. PATAT '06, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Brno, August 2006, ISBN 80-210-3726-1, pp 82-102. pdf
Kieran Greer, John Stewart and Barry McCollum, The PEGS Scheduling System: A Case Study With Environmental Optimisation, The 36th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (ICCIE2006), June 20-23, 2006, Taiwan, R.O.C. pp. 1185-1196. pdf
2005
Salwani Abdullah, Burke, E. K., McCollum, B., An Investigation of variable neighbourhood search for the course timetabling problem, The 2nd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), pp 413-427, New York, July 18-21 2005. pdf
Salwani Abdullah, Burke, E. K., McCollum, B., Using a Randomised Iterative Improvement Algorithm with Composite Neighbourhood Structures for Course Timetabling. In Proceedings of MIC 05: The 6 th Meta-Heuristic International Conference, Vienna, Austria, 22-26 Aug 2005. pdf
2004
Burke, E. K., Eckersley, A. J., McCollum, B., Petrovic, S., Qu, R., Analysing Similarity in Exam Timetabling, in the Proceedings of the 5th international conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT), pp. 89-106, Pittsburgh, USA, August 18th-20th 2004. ISBN 0-88748-413-1. pdf
2003
S.Ahmadi, R. Barone, P. Cheng, P. Cowling, B. McCollum , Perturbation based Hyper-heuristic for examination timetabling problems, The 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), Nottingham, August 2003 pages 155-171, [ISBN 0-954-5831-2-8]. pdf
Burke, E. K., Eckersley, A., McCollum, B., Petrovic, S., Qu, R., Similarity Measures for Exam Timetabling Problems, 1st Multidisciplinary Intl. Conf. on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA 2003), Vol. 1, pp. 120-136, ISBN0-9545821-0-1, Nottingham, UK, Aug 13-16, 2003. pdf
E. K. Burke, A. J. Eckersley, B. McCollum, S. Petrovic and R. Qu, Using Simulated Annealing to Study Behaviour of Various Exam Timetabling Data Sets, 5th Meta-heuristics International Conference MIC03, August 25 - 28 2003, Kyoto International Conference Hall, Kyoto, Japan. pdf
P. Milligan, B. McCollum, P.J.P. McMullan and P.H. Corr, The Utilisation of Heuristic Techniques in Parallel Code Generation, 5th Meta-heuristics International Conference MIC03, August 25 - 28 2003, Kyoto International Conference Hall, Kyoto, Japan. pdf
2002
S.Ahmadi, R. Barone, E.K.Burke, P. Cheng, P. Cowling, B. McCollum, Integrating human abilities and automated systems for timetabling: a competition using STARK and HuSSH Representations.(PATAT 2002). Proceedings of the Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002), Gent, Belgium, 21-23 August 2002, ISBN 90-806096-1-7, pages265-273.
McMullan PJP, McCollum BGC, An Evolutionary Algorithm to Improve Knowledge-Based Decision-Making for Automatic Parallelisation, proc. 3 rd International AI conference, Switzerland 2002, pages 186-191, ISBN:960-8052-49-1.
2000
E.K. Burke, P. Cowling, J.D. Landa, B. McCollum, D. Varley, A Computer Based System for Space Allocation Optimisation, in Proceedings of the ICC&IE 2000, The 27th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Beijing, China, 11-13 October 2000, CD ISBN 7-900043-38-1.
1999
McCollum B.G.C., Milligan P. and Corr P.H., The Structure and Exploitation of Available Knowledge for Enhanced Data Distribution in a Parallel Environment” ,IMACS/IEEE CSCC'99, Athens,1999, pp3301-3307, ISBN 960-8052-00-9.
McCollum B.G.C., Milligan P. and Corr P.H., The Structure and Exploitation of Available Knowledge for Enhanced Data Distribution in a Parallel Environment ,Software and Hardware Engineering for the 21 st Century, Ed. N. E. Mastorakis, World Scientific and Engineering Society Press, 1999, pp139-145, ISBN 960-8052-06-8.
1998
McCollum B.G.C., Milligan P. and Corr P.H., The Improvement of a Software Design Methodology by the Elicitation of Knowledge from Code, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1998. Pages 913-918, ISBN 0-8186-8646-4.
Abstracts / Other Publications
2009
Barry McCollum, Graham Kendall, Paul McMullan, Joe McGoldrick, Decision Support Systems for Tankering within the Aitline Industry, Proceedings of MISTA09, The 4th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications, Dublin, August 2009, pp 837-838. pdf
Salwani Abdullah, Hamza Turabieh, Barry McCollum, Edmund.K. Burke, An Investigation of a Genetic Algorithm and Sequential Local Search Approach for Curriculm-based Course Timetabling Problems, Proceedings of MISTA09, The 4th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications, Dublin, August 2009, pp 427-431. pdf
Andrew J. Parkes, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan Edmund.K. Burke, Recent Work on Planning and Management of University Teaching Space, Proceedings of MISTA09, The 4th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications, Dublin, August 2009, pp 737-740. pdf
B McCollum, R.S.K Kwan, P McMullan , Real World Optimisation through Spin Out Activity, Proceedings of MISTA09, The 4th Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications, Dublin, August 2009, pp 737-740. pdf
2008
P.McMullan, G.Kendall, B.McCollum, Scheduling TV Commercials: Models and Solution Methodologies, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2008), Montreal, 19-22 August 2008. pdf
G.Kendall, L.While, B.McCollum, F.Criz, A Multiobjective Approach for UK Football Scheduling, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2008), Montreal, 19-22 August 2008. pdf
E.K.Burke, B.McCollum, P.McMullan, J.Yellen, Heuristic Strategies to Modify Existing Timetables, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2008), Montreal, 19-22 August 2008. pdf
B.McCollum, P.McMullan, E.Burke, G.Kendall, A.Gough, A.Jones, Academic Timetabling: Linking Research and Practice, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2008), Montreal, 19-22 August 2008. pdf
E.K.Burke, B.McCollum, P.McMullan, A.J.Parkes, Multi-objective aspects of the examination timetabling examination track, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2008), Montreal, 19-22 August 2008. pdf
C. Beyrouthy, E.K.Burke, B.McCollum, P.McMullan, A.J.Parkes, Enrollment generators, clustering and chromatic numbers, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2008), Montreal, 19-22 August 2008. pdf
C. Beyrouthy, E.K.Burke, B.McCollum, P.McMullan, A.J.Parkes, Evaluating the space planning benefits of partitionable rooms, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2008), Montreal, 19-22 August 2008. pdf
C. Beyrouthy, E.K.Burke, B.McCollum, P.McMullan, A.J.Parkes, Conflict inheritance in sectioning and space planning, Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2008), Montreal, 19-22 August 2008. pdf
2007
B.McCollum, T.Roche, P.McMullan, Optimising Space Through Macro and Micro Planning and Scheduling, SCUP–42 , Society of College and University Planners International Conference, July 7–11, 2007, Chicago. pdf
E.K.Burke, A.Eckersley, B.McCollum, S.Petrovic and R.Qu, Hybrid Variable Neighbourhood Approaches to Exam Timetabling, Metaheuristic International Conference, 25-29 June 2007, Montreal. pdf
C. Beyrouthy, E.K Burke, J.D. Landa, B.McCollum, P.McMullan, A.Parkes, Clustring within Timetabling Conflict Graphs , 3rd Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications, 28-31 August 2007, Paris. pdf
E. K. Burke, G. Kendal, B. McCollum, P.McMullan, Constructive versus Improvement Heuristics: An Investigation of Examination Timetabling, 3rd Multidisciplinary International Scheduling Conference: Theory and Applications, 28-31 August 2007, Paris. pdf
2006
E. Burke, B. McCollum, P. McMullan, Examination Timetabling: A New Formulation, (Abstract) PATAT '06, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Brno, August 2006, ISBN 80-210-3726-1, pp373-375. pdf
E. Burke, G.Kendall, B.McCollum, P.McMullan, Optime: Integrating Research Expertise with Institutional Requirements. (Software Demonstration) PATAT '06, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Brno, August 2006, ISBN 80-210-3726-1, pp510-515. pdf
C. Beyrouthy, E.K Burke, J.D. Landa, B.McCollum, P.McMullan, A.Parkes, Understanding the Role of UFO's within Space Allocation. (Abstract) PATAT '06, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Brno, August 2006, ISBN 80-210-3726-1, pp359-64. pdf
Ruibin Bai, E. Burke, G. Kendall, B. McCollum, A Simulated annealing Hyper-Heuristic for University Course Timetabling Problem, (Abstract) PATAT '06, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Brno, August 2006, ISBN 80-210-3726-1, pp345-350. pdf
M.A.G McGreevy, B.G.C McCollum, P.H Corr, P. P. McMullan, A Neural New Network Based Construction Heuristic for the Examination Timetabling Problem, EURO XXI in Iceland July 2-5, 2006 21st European Conference on Operational Research.
Hishammuddin Asmuni, Edmund K Burke, Jonathan M Garibaldi, Barry McCollum, Evaluating the Quality of Automatically Generated Examination Timetables, Abstract CORS06/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, May 16-19, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada, Published in proceedings.
B. McCollum, The link between University Research and Industrial Needs, International conference on Information Society, Miami, Florida, USA, 7–10 August 2006, Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Society (i-Society 2006), published by the e-Centre for Infonomics in a book (CD) with ISBN 0-9546628-1-4. (Abstract and lead into special session).
2005
McCollum, B. , Bridging the gap between research and practice: University timetabling in the real world – KEYNOTE, Proceedings of the 47 th Annual Operational Society Conference (OR47), September 2005, Chester, UK. pdf
Burke, E. K., Beyrouthy C., Landa Silva J.D., McCollum B., McMullan P ., An Adaptive Multi-threaded Meta-heuristic for the Teaching Space Allocation Problem , Proceedings of the 47 th Annual Operational Society Conference (OR47), September 2005, Chester, UK.
Salwani Abdullah, Burke, E. K., McCollum, B ., A Memetic Approach to the Course Timetabling Problem, Proceedings of the 47 th Annual Operational Society Conference (OR47), September 2005, Chester, UK.
2004
Burke, E. K., Beyrouthy C., Landa Silva J.D., McCollum B., McMullan P., SpaceMAP – Applying Meta-Heuristics to Real World Space Allocation Problems in Academic Institutions, Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2004), Pittsburgh USA, pp. 451-456, 2004. pdf
M A G McGreevy, B G C McCollum, P H Corr, P. P. McMullan, A Neural Network based Construction Heuristic, PATAT '04 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, Pittsburgh, August 2004 (Abstract) pdf
2003
B.McCollum, P. McMullan, J. Newall, JP Lane, A workable scheduling algorithm, The 1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), Nottingham, August 2003, pages 570-572. (Abstract). pdf
B. McCollum, P.J.P. McMullan, P. Milligan and P.H. Corr, A Hyper-heuristic Approach to Parallel Code Generation, The 7 th Multiconference on systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, SCI 2003, July, Orlando, USA. pdf
B. McCollum, P.J.P. McMullan, P. Milligan and P.H. Corr, The Utilisation of Hyper-Heuristics in Parallel Code Generation, proceedings os the 12 th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks, Canakkale, Turkey, July 2003, pp123-134. pdf
B. McCollum, P.J.P. McMullan, P. Milligan and P.H. Corr, A Hyper-heuristic Approach to Parallel Code Generation, Seventh World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, Florida, USA, July 2003.(Abstract)
2003
E .K. Burke, A. Eckersley, B. McCollum, S. Petrovic, R. Qu, Case Based Heuristic Selection investigation of Hill Climbing, Simulated Annealing and Tabu Search for Exam Timetabling Problems. Proceedings of the Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002), Gent, Belgium, 21-23 August 2002, ISBN 90-806096-1-7, pages 408-412 (Abstract)
2002
B. McCollum, S. Ahmadi, E.K. Burke, R. Barone, P. Cheng, P. Cowling, A Review of Existing Interfaces of Automated Examination and Lecture Scheduling Systems. (PATAT 2002). Proceedings of the Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT 2002), Gent, Belgium, 21-23 August 2002, ISBN 90-806096-1-7, pages262-264. (Abstract)
McMullan P.J.P., McCollum B ., An Evolutionary Algorithm to Improve Knowledge-Based Decision-making for Automatic Parallelisation, Proceedings of 3 rd WSES (World Scientific and Engineering Society), Interlaken, February 2002.
2000
E.K. Burke, P. Cowling, J.D. Landa Silva, B. McCollum, D. Varley, A Computer Based System for Space Allocation Optimisation, in Proceedings of the ICC&IE 2000, The 27th International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering, Beijing, China, CD ISBN 7-900043-38-1, October 11-13, 2000. pdf
McMullan P.J.P, McCollum B.G.C, Roach T, Applying IT to Integrate Space Planning and Management in the UK, Proceedings of the Society for College and University Planning-SCUP-35 2000.