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Dr. Abdelkader Ouali

University lecturer and researcher
(Maître de conférences)
Computer Science department
University of Caen Normandy
CODAG team, GREYC Laboratory

Office 391, Building Sciences 3, Campus Côte de Nacre, Boulevard du Maréchal Juin, 14032 CAEN cedex 5, France.

Languages

French, English, Arabic.

UNICAEN
GREYC

Research

Research interest:
  • Linear Programming (Modelling and solving)
  • Constraints Programming (Modeling, search, global constraints)
  • Pattern mining (itemset mining, interval pattern mining, pattern set mining)
  • Metaheuristics (Local search, search strategies, hybridization, parallelism)
An overview about my current research:

I am working on new approaches to carry Data Mining (DM) tasks such as clustering under constraints, where a user can use additional knowledge to guide the search process. This field requires the development of hybrid methods ranging from Operation Research (OR), Constraints Programming (CP), and dedicated DM methods.

I am also working on the development of new variants for the Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS) method to solve Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Problems (WCSP). I am interested in the design of parallel hybrid methods which combine local and complete search while maintaining a tradeoff between time and quality.

Selected list of publications:
  • A. Ouali et al, Variable neighborhood search for graphical model energy minimization, Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2020.
  • A. Ouali et al, Integer Linear Programming for Pattern Set Mining; with an Application to Tiling, PAKDD 2017, South Korea.
  • A. Ouali, S. Loudni, Y. Lebbah, P. Boizumault, A. Zimmermann, and L. Loukil. Efficiently Finding Conceptual Clustering Models with Integer Linear Programming. IJCAI 2016, USA.
Participations to International Program Committees:
  • AAAI (Conference on Artificial Intelligence): 2021, 2023, 2024
  • IJCAI (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence): 2020, 2023, 2024.
  • ECAI (European Conference on Artificial Intelligence): 2023, 2024.
  • ECML-PKDD (European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases) 2022, 2023.
Participations to Program Committees of National Conferences:
  • JFPC (Journées Francophones de Programmation par Contraintes): 2021->2023.
  • CSA (Computing Systems and Applications): 2024.
  • RJCIA (Rencontres des Jeunes Chercheurs en Intelligence Artificielle): 2019.
Click here for a detailed list of all my publications.

Teaching

Responsabilities:
  • Coordinator of the track Data Science for Master of Computer Science. University of Caen.
Current classes in french for bachelor's degree:
  • Functional Programming: Haskell
  • Decision making and Artificial intelligence: Constraint Programming
  • Databases: Relational algebra, SQL and Mysql
Current classes in french for master degree:
  • Constraint Programming and Linear Programming: LP Modeling, Simplex, Duality, CSP Modeling, Advanced search methods and filtering algorithms
  • Structuring and control of decision support process: continuous optimization (gradient)
  • Declarative approaches for pattern mining: Constraint Programming and Linear Programming for solving Pattern Mining problems

Student material in French can be found on Moodle (e-campus platform) of the University of Caen.

Click here for more details about my teaching activities.

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last update : 7 july 2024.