Barry McCollum

Ruibin Bai, Jacek Blazewicz, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall, Barry McCollum: A simulated annealing hyper-heuristic methodology for flexible decision support. 4OR 10(1): 43-66 (2012)

Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan, Andrew J. Parkes, Edmund K. Burke, Rong Qu: A new model for automated examination timetabling. Annals OR 194(1): 291-315 (2012)

Salwani Abdullah, Hamza Turabieh, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan: A hybrid metaheuristic approach to the university course timetabling problem. J. Heuristics 18(1): 1-23 (2012)

Gabriela Ochoa, Matthew R. Hyde, Timothy Curtois, José Antonio Vázquez Rodríguez, James D. Walker, Michel Gendreau, Graham Kendall, Barry McCollum, Andrew J. Parkes, Sanja Petrovic, Edmund K. Burke: HyFlex: A Benchmark Framework for Cross-Domain Heuristic Search. EvoCOP 2012: 136-147

Jacek Blazewicz, Maciej Drozdowski, Graham Kendall, Barry McCollum: Preface. J. Scheduling 14(5): 407 (2011)

Edmund K. Burke, Michel Gendreau, Matthew R. Hyde, Graham Kendall, Barry McCollum, Gabriela Ochoa, Andrew J. Parkes, Sanja Petrovic: The Cross-Domain Heuristic Search Challenge - An International Research Competition. LION 2011: 631-634

Edmund K. Burke, A. J. Eckersley, Barry McCollum, Sanja Petrovic, Rong Qu: Hybrid variable neighbourhood approaches to university exam timetabling. European Journal of Operational Research 206(1): 46-53 (2010)

Barry McCollum, Andrea Schaerf, Ben Paechter, Paul McMullan, Rhydian Lewis, Andrew J. Parkes, Luca Di Gaspero, Rong Qu, Edmund K. Burke: Setting the Research Agenda in Automated Timetabling: The Second International Timetabling Competition. INFORMS Journal on Computing 22(1): 120-130 (2010)

Camille Beyrouthy, Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan, Andrew J. Parkes: University space planning and space-type profiles. J. Scheduling 13(4): 363-374 (2010)

Ruibin Bai, Edmund K. Burke, Graham Kendall, Jingpeng Li, Barry McCollum: A Hybrid Evolutionary Approach to the Nurse Rostering Problem. IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation 14(4): 580-590 (2010)

Salwani Abdullah, Hamza Turabieh, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan: A multi-objective post enrolment course timetabling problems: A new case study. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2010: 1-7

Salwani Abdullah, Khalid Shaker, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan: Dual Sequence Simulated Annealing with Round-Robin Approach for University Course Timetabling. EvoCOP 2010: 1-10

Salwani Abdullah, Nasser R. Sabar, Mohd Zakree Ahmad Nazri, Hamza Turabieh, Barry McCollum: A constructive hyper-heuristics for rough set attribute reduction. ISDA 2010: 1032-1035

Salwani Abdullah, Khalid Shaker, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan: Incorporating Great Deluge with Kempe Chain Neighbourhood Structure for the Enrolment-Based Course Timetabling Problem. RSKT 2010: 70-77

Salwani Abdullah, Hamza Turabieh, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan: A Tabu-Based Memetic Approach for Examination Timetabling Problems. RSKT 2010: 574-581

Hamza Turabieh, Salwani Abdullah, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan: Fish Swarm Intelligent Algorithm for the Course Timetabling Problem. RSKT 2010: 588-595

Hishammuddin Asmuni, Edmund K. Burke, Jonathan M. Garibaldi, Barry McCollum, Andrew J. Parkes: An investigation of fuzzy multiple heuristic orderings in the construction of university examination timetables. Computers & OR 36(4): 981-1001 (2009)

Rong Qu, Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum: Adaptive automated construction of hybrid heuristics for exam timetabling and graph colouring problems. European Journal of Operational Research 198(2): 392-404 (2009)

Camille Beyrouthy, Edmund K. Burke, Dario Landa-Silva, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan, Andrew J. Parkes: Towards improving the utilization of university teaching space. JORS 60(1): 130-143 (2009)

Rong Qu, Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum, Liam T. G. Merlot, S. Y. Lee: A survey of search methodologies and automated system development for examination timetabling. J. Scheduling 12(1): 55-89 (2009)

Barry McCollum: University spin outs: The balance between research and practice. DMO 2009

Salwani Abdullah, Hamza Turabieh, Barry McCollum: A Hybridization of Electromagnetic-Like Mechanism and Great Deluge for Examination Timetabling Problems. Hybrid Metaheuristics 2009: 60-72

Syariza Abdul Rahman, Andrzej Bargiela, Edmund K. Burke, Ender Özcan, Barry McCollum: Construction of examination timetables based on ordering heuristics. ISCIS 2009: 680-685

Hamza Turabieh, Salwani Abdullah, Barry McCollum: Electromagnetism-like Mechanism with Force Decay Rate Great Deluge for the Course Timetabling Problem. RSKT 2009: 497-504

Zhihui Luo, David A. Bell, Barry McCollum: Discover Relevant Environment Feature Using Concurrent Reinforcement Learning. AAAI 2008: 1816-1817

Zhihui Luo, David A. Bell, Barry McCollum, Qingxiang Wu: Learning to select relevant perspective in a dynamic environment. IJCNN 2008: 666-673

Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum, Amnon Meisels, Sanja Petrovic, Rong Qu: A graph-based hyper-heuristic for educational timetabling problems. European Journal of Operational Research 176(1): 177-192 (2007)

Salwani Abdullah, Edmund K. Burke, Barry McCollum: A hybrid evolutionary approach to the university course timetabling problem. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation 2007: 1764-1768

Zhihui Luo, David A. Bell, Barry McCollum: Skill Combination for Reinforcement Learning. IDEAL 2007: 87-96

Paul McMullan, Barry McCollum: Dynamic Job Scheduling on the Grid Environment Using the Great Deluge Algorithm. PaCT 2007: 283-292

Barry McCollum: A Perspective on Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice in University Timetabling. PATAT 2006: 3-23

Camille Beyrouthy, Edmund K. Burke, Dario Landa Silva, Barry McCollum, Paul McMullan, Andrew J. Parkes: The Teaching Space Allocation Problem with Splitting. PATAT 2006: 228-247

Hishammuddin Asmuni, Edmund K. Burke, Jonathan M. Garibaldi, Barry McCollum: A Novel Fuzzy Approach to Evaluate the Quality of Examination Timetabling. PATAT 2006: 327-346

Patrick H. Corr, Barry McCollum, M. A. J. McGreevy, P. J. P. McMullan: A New Neural Network Based Construction Heuristic for the Examination Timetabling Problem. PPSN 2006: 392-401

Hishammuddin Asmuni, Edmund K. Burke, Jonathan M. Garibaldi, Barry McCollum: Fuzzy Multiple Heuristic Orderings for Examination Timetabling. PATAT 2004: 334-353

Barry McCollum, Patrick H. Corr, Peter Milligan: A Meta-heuristic Approach to Parallel Code Generation. VECPAR 2002: 693-702

Peter Middleton, Barry McCollum: Management of process improvement by prescription. Journal of Systems and Software 57(1): 9-19 (2001)

Edmund K. Burke, Peter I. Cowling, J. D. Landa Silva, Barry McCollum: Three Methods to Automate the Space Allocation Process in UK Universities. PATAT 2000: 254-276

Barry McCollum, Peter Milligan, Patrick H. Corr: Knowledge Exploitation for Improved Data Distribution. PaCT 1999: 485-486

Barry McCollum, Vaughan Purnell, Patrick H. Corr, Peter Milligan: The Improvement of a Software Design Methodology by Encapsulating Knowledge from Code. EUROMICRO 1998: 20913-20918

Barry McCollum: The Implementation of a Central Timetabling System in a Large British Civic University. PATAT 1997: 237-253