| A graph-based hyper-heuristic for educational timetabling problems EK Burke, B McCollum, A Meisels, S Petrovic, R Qu European Journal of Operational Research 176 (1), 177-192, 2007 | 777 | 2007 |
| A survey of search methodologies and automated system development for examination timetabling R Qu, EK Burke, B McCollum, LTG Merlot, SY Lee Journal of scheduling 12 (1), 55-89, 2009 | 600 | 2009 |
| Setting the research agenda in automated timetabling: The second international timetabling competition B McCollum, A Schaerf, B Paechter, P McMullan, R Lewis, AJ Parkes, ... Informs Journal on computing 22 (1), 120-130, 2010 | 326 | 2010 |
| Hyflex: A benchmark framework for cross-domain heuristic search G Ochoa, M Hyde, T Curtois, JA Vazquez-Rodriguez, J Walker, ... European conference on evolutionary computation in combinatorial …, 2012 | 238 | 2012 |
| Hybrid variable neighbourhood approaches to university exam timetabling EK Burke, AJ Eckersley, B McCollum, S Petrovic, R Qu European Journal of Operational Research 206 (1), 46-53, 2010 | 226 | 2010 |
| The second international timetabling competition (ITC-2007): Curriculum-based course timetabling (track 3) L Di Gaspero, B McCollum, A Schaerf Technical Report QUB/IEEE/Tech/ITC2007/CurriculumCTT/v1. 0, Queen’s …, 2007 | 220 | 2007 |
| A perspective on bridging the gap between theory and practice in university timetabling B McCollum International conference on the practice and theory of automated timetabling …, 2006 | 173 | 2006 |
| A hybrid evolutionary approach to the university course timetabling problem S Abdullah, EK Burke, B McCollum 2007 IEEE congress on evolutionary computation, 1764-1768, 2007 | 167 | 2007 |
| Fuzzy multiple heuristic orderings for examination timetabling H Asmuni, EK Burke, JM Garibaldi, B McCollum International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling …, 2004 | 159 | 2004 |
| An investigation of variable neighbourhood search for university course timetabling S Abdullah, EK Burke, B McCollum The 2nd multidisciplinary international conference on scheduling: theory and …, 2005 | 153 | 2005 |
| A hybrid evolutionary approach to the nurse rostering problem R Bai, EK Burke, G Kendall, J Li, B McCollum IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 14 (4), 580-590, 2010 | 136 | 2010 |
| University timetabling: Bridging the gap between research and practice B McCollum, N Ireland E Burke, HR, ed.: PATAT, 15-35, 2006 | 136 | 2006 |
| Adaptive automated construction of hybrid heuristics for exam timetabling and graph colouring problems R Qu, EK Burke, B McCollum European Journal of Operational Research 198 (2), 392-404, 2009 | 135 | 2009 |
| A new model for automated examination timetabling B McCollum, P McMullan, AJ Parkes, EK Burke, R Qu Annals of Operations Research 194 (1), 291-315, 2012 | 127 | 2012 |
| Using a randomised iterative improvement algorithm with composite neighbourhood structures for the university course timetabling problem S Abdullah, EK Burke, B McCollum Metaheuristics: Progress in complex systems optimization, 153-169, 2007 | 127 | 2007 |
| A hybrid metaheuristic approach to the university course timetabling problem S Abdullah, H Turabieh, B McCollum, P McMullan Journal of Heuristics 18 (1), 1-23, 2012 | 118 | 2012 |
| The third international timetabling competition G Post, L Di Gaspero, JH Kingston, B McCollum, A Schaerf Annals of Operations Research 239 (1), 69-75, 2016 | 112 | 2016 |
| Serious games: Quality characteristics evaluation framework and case study AJ Abdellatif, B McCollum, P McMullan 2018 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 112-119, 2018 | 98 | 2018 |
| Good laboratory practice for optimization research G Kendall, R Bai, J Błazewicz, P De Causmaecker, M Gendreau, R John, ... Journal of the Operational Research Society 67 (4), 676-689, 2016 | 95 | 2016 |
| Post enrolment based course timetabling: A description of the problem model used for track two of the second international timetabling competition R Lewis, B Paechter, B McCollum Cardiff University, 2007 | 94 | 2007 |