Selected Talks — Mohamed Siala

[September-2025] I gave a talk during ECML PKDD 2025 in Porto, Portugal:
On Trustworthy Rule-Based Models and Explanations. [Slides]

[February-2024] I gave a talk during AAAI 2024 Bridge on Constraint Programming and Machine Learning in Vancouver, Canada:
Learning User Preferences in Interactive Constraint Programming [Slides]

[February-2023] I gave a talk during AAAI 2023 in Washington DC, USA:
Improving Fairness Generalization Through a Sample-Robust Optimization Method [Slides] . A video is available here .

[June-2022] I gave a seminar in UQAM, and Polytechnique Montréal entitled
Declarative Combinatorial Optimisation for Machine Learning [Slides]

[June-2018] I gave a talk during CPAIOR'18 in Delft, Netherlands:
From Backdoor Key to Backdoor Completability: Improving a Known Measure of Hardness for the Satisfiable CSP [Slides]

[August-2017] I gave a talk during IJCAI'17 in Melbourne, Australia:
Finding Robust Solutions to Stable Marriage [Slides]

[August-2017] I gave 2 talks during CP'17 in Melbourne, Australia:
Rotation-Based Formulation for Stable Matching [Slides]
Three Generalizations of the Focus Constraint [Slides]

[August-2017] I gave a talk during CPAIOR'17 in Padova, Italy:
Explanation-Based Weighted Degree [Slides] . A similar talk was also given at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, UCC, Cork

[September-2016] I gave a talk during ECAI'16 for the Distinguished Dissertation Award.
Search, propagation, and learning in sequencing and scheduling problems [Slides] .

[May-2016] I gave a seminar in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, UCC in Cork Ireland :
Revisiting Two-Sided Stability Constraints [Slides] . The paper was presented during the CPAIOR'16 conference in Banff Canada

[September-2015] I gave a talk during CP'15 in Cork Ireland : Two Clause Learning Approaches for Disjunctive Scheduling

[May-2015] I successfully defended my PhD.
Search, propagation, and learning in sequencing and scheduling problems [Slides] . I also gave a similar talk as a seminar in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics, UCC, Cork

[May-2014] I gave a talk during CP-AI-OR'14 in Cork Ireland : SAT and Hybrid models of the Car-Sequencing problem

[February-2014] I was selected as a Finalist for the ROADEF Young Researcher Award in Bordeaux, France. The paper is titled "Solving hard sequencing problems via the AtMostSeqCard constraint" [Slides] .

[September-2013] I gave 2 talks during CP'13 (Uppsala Sweden):
[CSPSAT Workshop] SAT and Hybrid models of the Car-Sequencing problem
[CP Doctoral Program] Explaining the AtMostSeqCard constraint

[January-2013] I gave two talks during my research travel to Australia in January 2013:
*The first one during the 1st International Optimisation Student Symposium in Kioloa, NSW, Australia.
*The second one as a seminar in the Optimisation Research Group of NICTA, Sydney.

[October-2012] Slides of my talk : An Optimal Arc Consistency Algorithm for a Chain of Atmost Constraints with Cardinality, presented during the 18th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming ( CP'12), Quebec, Canada.