YU -AlKhobar

Dr. Takwa Tlili

Associate Professor of MIS

Biography:

Dr. Takwa Tlili is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at the College of Business, Al Yamamah University. She earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Tunis, Tunisia, in collaboration with the University of Málaga, Spain. With over a decade of academic and research experience, Dr. Tlili has taught and supervised at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels. She previously served as Head of the Master's Program in Decisional and Intelligent Computing Applied to Management at the Higher Institute of Multimedia Arts of Manouba, University of Manouba, Tunisia, where she led curriculum development, student research, and program enhancement initiatives.

Her research focuses on combinatorial optimization, decision support systems, artificial intelligence, metaheuristics, and computational logistics, with real-world applications in intelligent transportation systems, healthcare supply chains, cloud computing, and smart cities. She has developed strong international research collaborations with universities in France and Spain, contributing to joint publications and projects. Dr. Tlili has published extensively in high-impact international journals and conferences and has participated in several international research initiatives across the Middle East and North Africa.

She is also actively engaged in mentoring master’s and doctoral students, supervising final-year projects, and serving on academic and accreditation committees. In addition, she is a member of the Laboratory of Operations Research, Decision, and Process Control (LARODEC), where she contributes to advancing research in optimization and decision sciences.

Publications:

  1. Haddad, A., Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2025). Integrating NSGA-II and Q-learning for solving the multi-objective electric vehicle routing problem with battery swapping stations. International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research.
  2. Tlili, T., Ben Nasser, S., Chicano, F., Krichen, S. (2024). A tabu search-based hyper-heuristic for solving the heterogeneous ambulance routing problem with time windows. International Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research, 22(3), 446–461.
  3. Dahmani, N., Sbai, I., Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2024). On solving the 2L-CVRP using an adaptive chemical reaction algorithm: Postal transportation real case. International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management.
  4. Taieb, C., Tlili, T., Nouaouri, I., Krichen, S., Allaoui, H. (2023). On using metaheuristics for the allocation of electric vehicles to charging stations. Cybernetics and Systems, 1–20.
  5. Tlili, T., Masri, H., Krichen, S. (2022). Towards an efficient collection and transport of COVID-19 diagnostic specimens using genetic-based algorithms. Applied Soft Computing, 116,
  6. Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2021). A simulated annealing-based recommender system for solving the tourist trip design problem. Expert Systems with Applications, 186,
  7. Tlili, T., Abidi, S., Krichen, S. (2018). A mathematical model for an efficient emergency transportation problem in a disaster situation. American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 36(9), 1585–1590.
  8. Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2015). On solving the double loading problem using particle swarm optimization. Theoretical Computer Science, 598, 118–128.
  9. Krichen, S., Faiz, S., Tlili, T., Tej, K. (2014). A tabu-based GIS for solving the vehicle routing problem. Expert Systems with Applications, 41, 6483–6493.
  10. Tlili, T., Krichen, S., Faiz, S. (2013). Towards a decision-making support system for the capacitated vehicle routing problem. International Journal of Decision Support System Technology, 5, 21–33.

Book chapters

  1. Ben Nasser S., Tlili T., Krichen S. (2023). A learnheuristic approach based on reinforcement techniques for optimized healthcare logistics. In Advances in Computational Logistics and Supply Chain Analytics: Theories, Methods, and Applications. Springer.
  2. Tlili T., Harzi M., Krichen S. (2023). A variable neighborhood search for the multi-depot routing problem with time windows. In Advances in Computational Logistics and Supply Chain Analytics: Theories, Methods, and Applications. Springer.

Conferences:

  1. Haddad, A., Tlili, T., Nouaouri, I., Krichen, S. (2025). A hybrid evolutionary and machine learning approach for priority-based ambulance routing. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT’25), July 15–18, Croatia.
  2. Taieb, C., Tlili, T., Nouaouri, I., Krichen, S. (2024). Solving the patient bed assignment problem in a dynamic context. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT’24), July 1–4, Italy.
  3. Haddad, A., Tlili, T., Krichen, S., Nouaouri, I. (2024). Multi-objective evolutionary optimization for the electric ambulance routing problem. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT’24), July 1–4, Italy.
  4. Haddad, A., Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2024). Non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm for the multi-objective team orienteering problem with time windows. Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Intelligent Decision Technologies (KES-IDT’24), June 19–21, Portugal. Springer.
  5. Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2023). Virtual machine placement using a knapsack problem algorithm. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT’23), July 3–6, Italy.
  6. Ben Nasser, S., Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2023). Approximate methods for emergency medical services optimization models: A literature review. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT’23), July 3–6, Italy.
  7. Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2023). Energy-aware metaheuristic for virtual machine placement towards green cloud computing. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO’23), July 15–19, Lisbon, Portugal.
  8. Taieb, C., Tlili, T., Nouaouri, I., Krichen, S. (2022). Optimizing charging station allocation for efficient electric vehicle routing. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT’22), pp. 932–937, May 17–20, Istanbul, Turkey. IEEE.
  9. Ghobber, I., Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2018). Partition crossover EA for the team orienteering problem with time windows. Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE’18), June 25–28, Montreal, Canada. Springer, LNCS.
  10. Tlili, T., Harzi, M., Krichen, S. (2017). Swarm-based approach for solving the ambulance routing problem. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems (KES’17), September 6–8, Marseille, France. Procedia Computer Science.
  11. Tlili, T., Chicano, F., Krichen, S., Alba, E. (2015). Evolutionary algorithm based on partition crossover (EAPX) for the vehicle routing problem. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS’15), September 2–4, Taipei, Taiwan. IEEE.
  12. Yahyaoui, H., Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2015). A randomized multi-start genetic algorithm for the one-commodity pickup-and-delivery traveling salesman problem. Proceedings of the 2nd BRICS Congress on Computational Intelligence (ICSI-CCI’15), June 26–29, Beijing, China. Springer, LNCS.
  13. Tlili, T., Krichen, S., Drira, G., Faiz, S. (2015). On solving the multi-depot vehicle routing problem. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking, and Informatics (ICACNI’15), June 23–25, Odisha, India. Springer, SIST.
  14. Tlili, T., Yahyaoui, H., Krichen, S. (2015). A VNS-based hyper-heuristic for the quadratic multiple knapsack problem. Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD’15), June 1–3, Takamatsu, Japan. Springer, SCI.
  15. Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2015). A decision support system for the multi-depot vehicle routing problem. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences (MCO’15), May 11–13, Metz, France. Springer, AISC.
  16. Tlili, T., Krichen, S. (2014). An iterated local search platform for transportation logistics. Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS’14), October 27–28, Krakow, Poland. Springer, LNEE.
  17. Tlili, T., Krichen, S., Faiz, S. (2014). Simulated annealing-based decision support system for routing problems. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC’14), October 5–8, San Diego, California, USA. IEEE.
  18. Tlili, T., Faiz, S., Krichen, S. (2013). A particle swarm optimization for solving the one-dimensional container loading problem. Proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’13), April 28–30, Hammamet, Tunisia. IEEE.
  19. Tlili, T., Faiz, S., Krichen, S. (2013). A hybrid metaheuristic for the distance-constrained capacitated vehicle routing problem. Proceedings of the World Conference on Business, Economics and Management (WCBEM’13), April 25–28, Antalya, Turkey. Elsevier, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 109, 779–783.

Teaching:

Current teaching:

  • MIS 110: Business Computing
  • MIS 201: Introduction to Management Information Systems

 

Graduate Teaching

  • Combinatorial optimization
  • Metaheuristics
  • Research Seminar
  • Project Management
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • Paradigms of Programming Languages

 

Undergraduate Teaching

  • Web Development
  • Enterprise Architecture
  • Algorithmics
  • Graphs and Optimization
  • Algorithms Complexity
  • Problem Solving
  • Compilation
  • Computer Science Programming
  • Project Management
  • Database Management Systems

Services:

  • The head of the Master's Program in Decisional and Intelligent Computing Applied to Management, ISAMM, Univeristy of Manouba
  • A member of the undergraduate committee
  • A member of engineering cycle accreditation committee
  • A member of research master's committees
  • A member of thesis defense committees
  • Member of conference organizing committees
  • Member of conference program committees
  • Chair of special sessions (CODIT’24, CODIT’25)
  • A reviewer of scientific articles in impacted journals (Expert systems with applications, Applied Soft Computing, Supercomputing…)

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