I'm Dr Saad Attieh

Founder, AI Researcher and Software Developer

I work in the field of Constraint Programming, Optimisation and Operations Research. Having recently completed a PhD in Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, at the University of St Andrews, I am now focused on bringing the benefits of Constraint Optimisation and AI into industry, (FIELDER, ASOMAS).

To date, my research has focused on improving the performance and scalability of general purpose local search constraint solvers, so that they may be used to solve larger real world problems.

I am the developer and maintainer of the constraint local search solver ATHANOR

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Leadership

Fielder Work Limited

Founder

AI-powered staffing agency

Asomas Tech Limited

Founder

Building constraint optimisation APIs

Nomu Ventures

Chairman and chief AI officer

Building tech-enabled ventures that have the potential to scale in the MENA region and abroad

View my publications

athanor: High-Level Local Search Over Abstract Constraint Specifications in essence

This paper presents ATHANOR, a novel local search solver that operates on abstract constraint specifications of combinatorial problems in the ESSENCE language.

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-19)

Towards Solving Essence With Local Search: a Proof of Concept Using Sets and Multisets

We propose a local search solver that operates directly on the high level structures found in the essence abstract constraint specification language.

Modeling and Reformulation 2018

A Framework for Constraint Based Local Search using ESSENCE

Structured Neighbourhood Search (SNS) is a framework for constraint-based local search for problems expressed in the ESSENCE abstract constraint specification language.

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-18)