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the earth’s surface, Volume 1. Cambridge Univer- lems, deep learning, and sports scheduling. She has
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more than 250 journal and conference papers. He is
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an IEEE senior member.
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-008-0384-4 Mezzoudj Saliha is a senior researcher and a doctor
44. Chen P-C, Kendall G, Vanden Berghe G. An at the University of Algiers, Algeria. She earned her
ant-based hyperheuristic for the travelling tour- Magister degree in Data Mining and Multimedia from
nament problem. In: Computational Intelligence the University of Biskra and obtained her Doctorate
in Scheduling, 2007. SCIS’07. IEEE Symposium in Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning from the
on, 2007; 19–26. IEEE. University of Batna 2 in 2021. Her research focuses
https://doi.org/10.1109/SCIS.2007.367665 on multimedia big data analytics, deep learning, ma-
45. Tajbakhsh A, Eshghi K, Shamsi A. A hybrid chine learning, and parallel and distributed computing.
PSO-SA algorithm for the travelling tournament She has published multiple scientific papers on image
problem. Eur J Ind Eng., 2012;6(1):2–25. processing using big data analytics, machine learning,
https://doi.org/10.1504/EJIE.2012.0448080 and deep learning techniques.
https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6230-0220
Mohammed Abdelaziz Hacini holds a Master’s de-
Khelifa Meriem is a Senior Lecturer at the Univer- gree in Computer Science and Information Technolo-
sity of Kasdi Merbah Ouargla, Algeria. She obtained gies from the University of Ouargla. His research in-
her Ph.D. from the University of Science and Technol- terests include combinatorial optimization problems,
ogy Houari Boumediene (USTHB). She holds a Mas- metaheuristics, and exact algorithmic methods.
ter’s degree in Computer Science from Kasdi Merbah https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8289-1351

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