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Dr Takfarinas Saber

PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer
IT Building
University of Galway
Co. Galway
E: takfarinas.saber@universityofgalway.ie

Biography

I am currently a Lecturer/Assistant Professor at the School of Computer Science, University of Galway,.

I have a strong background in Operations Research, Nature-Inspired Computing and Machine Learning, and their application to Cloud Computing, Software Engineering and Testing, and Communication Network Systems.

Previously, I have held the position of Lecturer/Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin (UCD) and in the School of Computing at Dublin City University (DCU). I have also held the position of Post-doctoral Researcher in the Natural Computing Research & Applications Group at Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD, under the supervision of Prof. Michael O¿Neill. My Post-doctoral position was in close collaboration with Bell Labs, Nokia and aimed at applying Evolutionary Design to optimise Future Networks & Communications such as 5G networks.

I obtained both my B.Sc. in Computer Science and my M.Sc. in Computer Science, track: Optimisation In Operations Research in 2013 from the University of Nantes, France.

Research Interests

My research interests are in the optimisation of Complex Software Systems such as Cloud Computing, Smart Cities, Distributed Systems, and Wireless Communication Networks. I design and apply novel Artificial Intelligence techniques from Operations Research, Machine Learning, and Evolutionary Computation/Learning to advance the Engineering and Testing of such systems and enhance their Performance and Trustworthiness.

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2023)	'Measuring node decentralisation in blockchain peer to peer networks' Andrew Howell and Takfarinas Saber and Malika Bendechache (2023) 'Measuring node decentralisation in blockchain peer to peer networks'. Blockchain: Research and Applications, 4 (1) [DOI] [Details]
	(2022)	'On the Optimal Size and Composition of Customs Unions: An Evolutionary Approach' Takfarinas Saber and Dominik Naeher and Philippe De Lombaerde (2022) 'On the Optimal Size and Composition of Customs Unions: An Evolutionary Approach'. Computational Economics, [DOI] [Details]
	(2021)	'A sequential ensemble model for photovoltaic power forecasting' Nonita Sharma and Monika Mangla and Sourabh Yadav and Nitin Goyal and Aman Singh and Sahil Verma and Takfarinas Saber (2021) 'A sequential ensemble model for photovoltaic power forecasting'. Computers \& Electrical Engineering, 96 [DOI] [Details]
	(2021)	'Regional Integration Clusters and Optimum Customs Unions: A Machine-Learning Approach' Philippe De Lombaerde and Dominik Naeher and Takfarinas Saber (2021) 'Regional Integration Clusters and Optimum Customs Unions: A Machine-Learning Approach'. Journal of Economic Integration, 36 (2):262-281 [DOI] [Details]
	(2021)	'Reparation in Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-objective Feature Selection in Large Software Product Lines' Takfarinas Saber and David Brevet and Goetz Botterweck and Anthony Ventresque (2021) 'Reparation in Evolutionary Algorithms for Multi-objective Feature Selection in Large Software Product Lines'. SN Computer Science, 2 (3) [DOI] [Details]
	(2019)	'A comparative study of multi-objective machine reassignment algorithms for data centres' Saber, Takfarinas and Gandibleux, Xavier and Oâ€™Neill, Michael and Murphy, Liam and Ventresque, Anthony (2019) 'A comparative study of multi-objective machine reassignment algorithms for data centres'. Journal of Heuristics, :1-32 [Details]
	(2019)	'A multi-level grammar approach to grammar-guided genetic programming: the case of scheduling in heterogeneous networks' Saber, Takfarinas and Fagan, David and Lynch, David and Kucera, Stepan and Claussen, Holger and Oâ€™Neill, Michael (2019) 'A multi-level grammar approach to grammar-guided genetic programming: the case of scheduling in heterogeneous networks'. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, 20 (2):245-283 [Details]
	(2017)	'Exact and hybrid solutions for the multi-objective vm reassignment problem' Saber, Takfarinas and Marques-Silva, Joao and Thorburn, James and Ventresque, Anthony (2017) 'Exact and hybrid solutions for the multi-objective vm reassignment problem'. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 26 (01) [Details]