Ahcene Bendjoudi
Ing, PhD,

Full-time researcher at CERIST Research Center, Algiers, Algeria.

    Journal papers

      • Y. Djenoui, A. Bendjoudi, Z. Habbas, D. Djenouri, Reducing Thread Divergence in GPU-based Bees Swarm Optimization applied to Association Rule Mining, Accepted In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - John Wiley & Sons (To appear).

      • A. Dabah, A. Bendjoudi, A. Aitzai, Solving the blocking job shop scheduling problem with an improved tabu search neighbourhood, Accepted in International Journal of Production Research (To appear)

      • Y. Djenouri, A. Bendjoudi, M. Mehdi, N. Nouali-Taboudjemat, Z. Habbas, "GPU-based Bees Swarm Optimization for Association Rules Mining". In The Journal of Supercomputing 71(4): 1318-1344 (2015).

      • A. Bendjoudi, N. Melab, E-G. Talbi, "FTH-B&B: a Fault-Tolerant Hierarchical Branch and Bound for Large Scale Unreliable Environment. In IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 99, doi: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TC.2013.40, 2014.

      • Y. Djenouri, H. Derias, A. Bendjoudi, "Pruning Association Rules Using Meta Rules Extraction". International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining (IJBIDM) 9(2): 112-144, 2014.

      • N. Melab, I. Chakroun, A. Bendjoudi, "GPU-accelerated Bounding for Branch-and-Bound applied to a Permutation Problem using Data Access Optimization ". In Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience - John Wiley & Sons, Oct. 2014.

      • I. Chakroun, M-S. Mezmaz, N. Melab, A. Bendjoudi: Reducing thread divergence in a GPU-accelerated branch-and-bound algorithm. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 25(8): 1121-1136 (2013).

      • A. Bendjoudi, N. Melab, E-G. Talbi, " Hierarchical Branch and Bound Algorithm for Computational Grids", Future Generation Computer System (FGCS), 28(8): 1168-1176 (2012)

      • A. Bendjoudi, N. Melab, and E-G. Talbi, "An adaptive hierarchical master-worker (AHMW) framework for grids - Application to B&B algorithms", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), doi:10.1016/j.jpdc.2011.10.002, February 2012.

      • F. Benbouzid-Sitayeb, A. Bendjoudi, S. Benkhallat, C. Varnier, and N. Zerhouni. "Study of Maintenance Contribution to Joint Production and Preventive maintenance Scheduling in the Robustness Framework". International Journal of Product Development, Vol. 10, No.1/2/3 pages. 144 - 164, 2010. [www]

      • A. Bendjoudi, N. Melab, and E-G Talbi. "P2P design and implementation of a parallel branch and bound algorithm for grids". International Journal of Grid Utility and Computing, Vol. 1, No 2, issn 1741-847X, pages 159-168, 2009. [www]

    Book chapters

      • L. Loukil, M. Mehdi, A. Bendjoudi , and N. Melab. "Parallel GPU-Accelerated Metaheuristics". Book chapter in Designing scientific applications on GPUs, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Nov. 2013.

      • A. Bendjoudi, S. Guerdah, M. Mansoura, N. Melab, and E-G. Talbi. "P2P B&B and GA for the Flow-Shop Scheduling Problem". Book chapter in Metaheuristics for Scheduling: Distributed Computing Environments, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 978-3-540-69260-7, pages 301-321, September 2008.

    Conferences and workshops

      • Y. Djenouri, A. Bendjoudi, D. Djenouri, M. Comuzzi, GPU-based Bio-inspired Model for Solving Association Rules Mining Problem, 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, St Petersburg, Russia, 06-08 March, 2017: 262-269.

      • A. Dabah, A. Bendjoudi, A. AitZai, D. El-Baz, N. Nouali-Taboudjemat: Multi and many-core parallel B&B approaches for the Blocking Job Shop Scheduling problem. HPCS 2016: 705-712

      • A. Dabah, A. Bendjoudi, A. AitZai: Efficient parallel B&B method for the blocking job shop scheduling problem. HPCS 2016: 784-791

      • A. Dabah, A. Bendjoudi, D. El Baz, A. AitZai: GPU-Based Two Level Parallel B&B for the Blocking Job Shop Scheduling Problem. IPDPS Workshops 2016: 747-755

      • H. Saadi, N. Nouali, A. Bendjoudi, Y. Djenouri, Malika Mehdi, A. Rahmoun, Bees swarm optimization for molecular docking, META'2016.

      • Y. Djenouri, A. Bendjoudi, M. Mehdi, Z. Habbas, N. Nouali-Taboudjemat: Data Reordering for Minimizing Threads Divergence in GPU-Based Evaluating Association Rules. DCAI 2015: 47-54

      • Y. Djenouri, A. Bendjoudi, D. Djenouri, Z. Habbas: Parallel BSO Algorithm for Association Rules Mining Using Master/Worker Paradigm. PPAM (1) 2015: 258-268

      • Y. Djenouri, A. Bendjoudi, N. Nouali-Taboudjemat, Z. Habbas. An Improved Evolutionary Approach for Association Rules Mining. The 9th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications BIC-TA 2014: 93-97, Wuhan, China, October 16-19, 2014.

      • Y. Djenouri, Y. Gheraibia, M. Mehdi and A. Bendjoudi and N. Nouali-Taboudjemat.New Measure for Evaluating Association Rules. In the 6th IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Soft Computing, Tunis, Tunisia, August, 11-14, 2014.

      • Y. Djenouri, A. Bendjoudi, M. Mehdi, N. Nouali-Taboudjemat, Z. Habbas.Parallel Association Rules Mining Using GPUs and Bees Behaviors. In the 6th IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Soft Computing, Tunis, Tunisia, August, 11-14, 2014.

      • A. Benssam, A. Bendjoudi, S. Yahiaoui ; N. Nouali-Taboudjemat, O. Nouali. "Towards a Dynamic Evacuation System for Disaster Situations". IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM'2014), Algiers, Algeria, March 24-25, 2014.

      • A. Bendjoudi, M. Chekini, M. Gharbi, M. Mehdi, K. Benatchba, F. Sitayeb-Benbouzid, N. Melab. "Parallel B&B Algorithm on Hybrid Multicore/GPU Architecture". In IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, Zhangjiajie, China, November 13-15, 2013.

      • T-T Vu, B. Derbel, A. Ali, A. Bendjoudi, N. Melab. "Overlay-Centric Load Balancing: Applications to UTS and B&B". IEEE Cluster'12, Beijin, China, September 24-28, 2012.

      • A. Bendjoudi, M. Mehdi, and N. Melab. "CPU/GPU Communication optimization in a GPU-based GA-B&B algorithm". 4th International Conference on Metaheuristics and Nature Inspired Computing META'12, Tunisia, October 27-31, 2012.

      • I. Chakroun, A. Bendjoudi, and N.Melab. "Reducing Thread Divergence in GPU-based B&B Applied to the Flow-shop problem". 9th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics PPAM'11, Poland, Torun, September 11-14, 2011.

      • A. Bendjoudi, N.Melab, and E-G Talbi. "H-B&B: A Hierarchical B&B for large scale environments". The Fourth IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge IEEE/ACM CCGRID/SCALE'2011, Newport Beach, USA, May 23-26, 2011.

      • A. Bendjoudi, N.Melab, and E-G Talbi. "Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Hierarchical Branch and Bound Algorithm". In Proc. of IEEE IPDPS'2011, Woks. on Large-Scale Parallel Processing (LSPP), May 16-20, Anchorage (Alaska), 2011. [ppt].

      • N. Nouali, N. Bouchama, A. Bendjoudi, A. Babakhouya, S. Yahiaoui, Y. Belhoul, H. Zeghilet, and N. Guellati. " Using Information Technology for Enhancing Disaster Management.". In Congrès National des Télécommunications et leurs Applications (CNTA' 09). Bejaia, Algeria. May 23-24, 2009. [pdf]

      • A. Bendjoudi, N.Melab, and E-G Talbi. "A Parallel P2P Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Computational Grids". Seventh International Workshop on Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid 2007 IEEE/ACM CCGRID 2007. Rio de Janeiro - Brasil / May 14-17, 2007. [pdf]

      • E-G Talbi, A. Bendjoudi, and N.Melab. "Parallel Branch and Bound on P2P Systems.". International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems, IEEE/CISIS-2007, Vienna, Austria, 10-12 April 2007.

    Ph.D. dissertation

      Scalable and Fault Tolerant Hierarchical B&B Algorithms for Computational Grids. [Slides] [PDF]


    Talks and Unpublished Works

      • A. Bendjoudi, and A. Babakhouya. " Infrastructures de communication pour la gestion des situations d'urgences et de catastrophes". CEntre de Recherche sur l'Information Scientifique et Technique CERIST, Juillet 2009. [ppt]

      • A. Bendjoudi, and N. Benalia. "Gestion des catastrophes : Infrastructures de communication". CEntre de Recherche sur l'Information Scientifique et Technique CERIST, Mai 2008. [ppt]

      • A. Bendjoudi. "Calcul parallèle à grande échelle". CEntre de Recherche sur l'Information Scientifique et Technique CERIST, Novembre 2006. [ppt]

      • A. Bendjoudi. " Optimisation Combinatoire sur Systèmes Distributés Pair à Pair". Mémoire de Magistère, Université de Béjaïa, 2006.

      • A. Bendjoudi, and S. Benkhellat. " Etude de l'Impact de la Maintenance sur la Robustesse des Ordonnancements en Présense de Perturbations". Mémoire d'Ingénieur, Ecole Supérieure d'Informatique ESI (ex INI) 2003.