| 2020 | PPSN | On Stochastic Fitness Landscapes: Local Optimality and Fitness Landscape Analysis for Stochastic Search Operators. | Brahim Aboutaib, Sbastien Vrel, Cyril Fonlupt, Bilel Derbel, Arnaud Liefooghe, Belad Ahiod |
| 2018 | CEC | On the Performance of Multi-Objective Estimation of Distribution Algorithms for Combinatorial Problems. | Marcella S. R. Martins, Mohamed El Yafrani, Roberto Santana, Myriam Regattieri Delgado, Ricardo Lders, Belad Ahiod |
| 2018 | GECCO | A fitness landscape analysis of the travelling thief problem. | Mohamed El Yafrani, Marcella S. R. Martins, Mehdi El Krari, Markus Wagner, Myriam Regattieri de Biase da Silva Delgado, Belad Ahiod, Ricardo Lders |
| 2017 | GECCO | A novel reduction algorithm for the generalized traveling salesman problem. | Mehdi El Krari, Belad Ahiod, Bouazza El Benani |
| 2017 | GECCO | Multi-objectiveness in the single-objective traveling thief problem. | Mohamed El Yafrani, Shelvin Chand, Aneta Neumann, Belad Ahiod, Markus Wagner |
| 2016 | GECCO | Population-based vs. Single-solution Heuristics for the Travelling Thief Problem. | Mohamed El Yafrani, Belad Ahiod |
| 2016 | HIS | An Empirical Study of the Multi-fragment Tour Construction Algorithm for the Travelling Salesman Problem. | Mehdi El Krari, Belad Ahiod, Bouazza El Benani |
| 2016 | ISDA | Using Cluster Barycenters for the Generalized Traveling Salesman Problem. | Mehdi El Krari, Belad Ahiod, Bouazza El Benani |
| 2015 | AICCSA | Cosolver2B: An efficient local search heuristic for the Travelling Thief Problem. | Mohamed El Yafrani, Belad Ahiod |