• N.A. Wassan, G. Nagy  and S. Ahmadi , A heuristic method for the vehicle routing problem with mixed deliveries and pickups, Journal of Scheduling, 11 (2), pp 149-161 (2008),
   
• D. Ranson and S. Ahmadi, An Extensible Modelling Framework for Timetabling Problems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science  for Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling VI, Vol. 3867, Burke, Edmund; Rudová, Hana (Eds.), ISBN: 978-3-540-77344-3 (2007)
   

• Abdullah, S., Ahmadi, S., Burke, E.K. and Dror, M., Investigating Ahuja-Orlin's Large Neighbourhood Search Approach for Examination Timetabling (2007), OR Spectrum 29: pp 351-372.
   
• Abdullah, S., Ahmadi, S., Burke, E.K. and Dror, M., Tabu based Large Neighbourhood Search for the Capacitated Examination Timetabling Problem, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of the Operational Research Society, advance online publication (2006), pp 1-9.
   
• I.H. Osman and S. Ahmadi: "Guided construction search meta-heuristics for capacitated clustering problem", Journal of Operational Research Society, Oxford, Vol 58, Issue 1; P. 100, (Jan 2007);
   
• Samad Ahmadi, Ibrahim H. Osman, " Density Based Problem Space Search for the Capacitated Clustering p-Median Problem", Annals of Operations Research, Volume 131, Issue 1-4, October 2004, Pages 21 - 43;
• S. Ahmadi and I.H. Osman: " Greedy random adaptive memory programming search for the capacitated clustering problem", European Journal of Operational Research. Volume 162, Issue 1 , April 2005, Pages 30-44
   
• Cheng, P. C-H., Barone, R., Ahmadi, S., & Cowling, P. I., Integrating human abilities with the power of automated scheduling systems: Representational epistemological interface design. In D. Kortenkamp, M. Freed, M. Cleary, D. Schrechkenghost, R. Simmons & D. Wodds (Eds.), AAAI Spring Symposium on Human Interaction with Autonomous Systems in Complex Environments, Palo Alto, CA: AAAI Press, (2003).
• P.Cheng, R.Barone, P.Cowling and S. Ahmadi: "Opening the information bottleneck in complex scheduling problems with a novel representation: STARK diagrams"; in "Lecture notes in Artificial Intelligence", M. Hegarty, B. Meyer, N. Hari Narayanan (Eds.), volume 2317, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, ISBN 3-540-43561-1, 264 (2002);
• S. Al-ratrout, S. Ahmadi, Learning the Effect of Parameters in Timetabling Process, in Proceedings of Recent advances in soft computing (RASC 2006), Canterbury, UK, 10-12 July 2006
• H. Bhattacharya, S. Ahmadi, Combining Similarity Measures for Improved Web Log Mining, in Proceedings of Recent advances in soft computing (RASC 2006), Canterbury, UK, 10-12 July 2006
• Abdullah, S., Ahmadi, S., Burke, E.K. and Dror, M., Applying Ahuja-Orlin's Large Neighbourhood for Constructing Examination Timetabling Solution , in the Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling (PATAT), pp 413-419, Pittsburgh, PA, August 18-20, 2004.
• S. Ahmadi, R. Barone, E. Burke, P. Cheng, P. Cowling, B. McCollum:"Perturbation based variable neighbourhood search in heuristic space for the examination timetabling problem" in the Proceedings of the  1st Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling : Theory and Applications (MISTA 2003).
   
• R. Barone, P. C-H. Cheng, S. Ahmadi and, P. I. Cowling: "The Strategic Influence of Conceptual Structure in Graphical Interfaces for Scheduling"; IGC2003: Second International Workshop on Interactive Graphical Communication, University of London, (2003)
• Cowling P.I., Ahmadi S., Cheng P. C and Barone R.: "Combining Human and Machine Intelligence to Produce Effective Examination Timetables", in Proceedings of the 4th Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution And Learning (SEAL2002), Lipo Wang, Kay Chen Tan, Takeshi Furuhashi, Jong-Hwan Kim, and Xin Yao (Editors), Singapore, ISBN 981-04-7523-3; 662-666 (2002).
• S. Ahmadi, R. Barone, E. Burke, P. Cheng, P. Cowling, B. McCollum: "Integrating human abilities and automated systems for timetabling: A competition using STARK and HuSSH representations at the PATAT 2002 conference" ", in Proceedings of the 4th international conference on the practice and theory of automated timetabling (PATAT), Edmund Burke and Patrick De Causmaecker (Eds), August 2002, KaHo St.-Lieven, Gent Gent, Department of Industrial Engineering, Belgium, ISBN 90-806096-1-7; 265-273 (2002);
• B. McCollum, S. Ahmadi, E. Burke, R. Barone, P. Cheng, P. Cowling: " A review of existing interfaces of automated examination and lecture scheduling systems", in Proceedings of the 4th international conference on the practice and theory of automated timetabling (PATAT), Edmund Burke and Patrick De Causmaecker (Eds), August 2002, KaHo St.-Lieven, Gent Gent, Department of Industrial Engineering, Belgium, ISBN 90-806096-1-7; 262-264, (2002);

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