2026 Patrick De Causmaecker: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	33	12547	12180	116	111	255	5581

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Computer Science

12547

12180

116

111

255

5581

Best Publications

The State of the Art of Nurse Rostering

Edmund K. Burke;Patrick De Causmaecker;Greet Vanden Berghe;Hendrik Van Landeghem

1339
Citations
A Memetic Approach to the Nurse Rostering Problem

Edmund Burke;Peter Cowling;Patrick De Causmaecker;Greet Vanden Berghe

336
Citations
A Hybrid Tabu Search Algorithm for the Nurse Rostering Problem

Edmund K. Burke;Patrick De Causmaecker;Greet Vanden Berghe

269
Citations
A guide to web tools to prioritize candidate genes

Léon-Charles Tranchevent;Francisco Bonachela Capdevila;Daniela Nitsch;Bart De Moor

236
Citations
A categorisation of nurse rostering problems

Patrick Causmaecker;Greet Berghe

180
Citations
A multi-objective approach for robust airline scheduling

Edmund K. Burke;Patrick De Causmaecker;Geert De Maere;Jeroen Mulder

177
Citations
Variable neighborhood search for nurse rostering problems

Edmund Burke;Patrick De Causmaecker;Sanja Petrovic;Greet Vanden Berghe

160
Citations
A hybrid tabu search algorithm for automatically assigning patients to beds

Peter Demeester;Wouter Souffriau;Patrick De Causmaecker;Greet Vanden Berghe

155
Citations
The first international nurse rostering competition 2010

Stefaan Haspeslagh;Patrick De Causmaecker;Andrea Schaerf;Martin Stølevik

143
Citations
Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling IV

Edmund Burke;Patrick De Causmaecker

143
Citations
METAHEURISTICS FOR HANDLING TIME INTERVAL COVERAGE CONSTRAINTS IN NURSE SCHEDULING

Edmund K. Burke;Patrick De Causmaecker;Sanja Petrovic;Greet Vanden Berghe

141
Citations
Context and Adaptivity in Pervasive Computing Environments: Links with Software Engineering and Ontological Engineering

Ahmet Soylu;Patrick De Causmaecker;Piet Desmet

126
Citations
Local search neighbourhoods for dealing with a novel nurse rostering model

Burak Bilgin;Patrick De Causmaecker;Benoît Rossie;Greet Vanden Berghe

113
Citations
An unbiased evaluation of gene prioritization tools

Daniela Börnigen;Léon-Charles Tranchevent;Francisco Bonachela-Capdevila;Koenraad Devriendt

109
Citations
A decomposed metaheuristic approach for a real-world university timetabling problem

Patrick De Causmaecker;Peter Demeester;Greet Vanden Berghe

105
Citations
Fitness evaluation for nurse scheduling problems

E.K. Burke;P. De Causmaecker;S. Petrovic;G.V. Berghe

95
Citations
Good Laboratory Practice for optimization research

Graham Kendall;Ruibin Bai;Jacek Blazewicz;Patrick De Causmaecker

87
Citations
An automatic algorithm selection approach for the multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem

Tommy Messelis;Patrick De Causmaecker

85
Citations
An intelligent hyper-heuristic framework for CHeSC 2011

Mustafa Mısır;Katja Verbeeck;Patrick De Causmaecker;Greet Vanden Berghe

82
Citations
A hyperheuristic approach to examination timetabling problems: benchmarks and a new problem from practice

Peter Demeester;Burak Bilgin;Patrick Causmaecker;Greet Berghe

71
Citations
A Combinatorial Benders׳ decomposition for the lock scheduling problem

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70
Citations
A guide to web tools to prioritize candidate genes: How to efficiently choose the tools that match your needs?

Léon-Charles Tranchevent;Francisco Bonachela Capdevila;Daniela Nitsch;Bart De Moor

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Greet Van den Berghe KU Leuven

Edmund K. Burke Bangor University

Frits C. R. Spieksma Eindhoven University of Technology

Andrea Schaerf University of Udine

Ann Nowé Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Bart De Moor KU Leuven

Rong Qu University of Nottingham

Mario Vanhoucke Ghent University

Wim Van Den Noortgate KU Leuven

Yves Moreau KU Leuven

External Links

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