@article{6655,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa and Jaster, Bjarne and Schenck, Wolfram and Kohlhase, Martin},
  issn         = {09521976},
  journal      = {Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence},
  publisher    = {Elsevier BV},
  title        = {{Active learning evaluation metrics for classification and regression frameworks}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.engappai.2026.114295},
  volume       = {171},
  year         = {2026},
}

@article{5853,
  author       = {Eid, Mahmoud M. and ElDahshan, Kamal and Abouali, Abdelatif H. and Tharwat, Alaa},
  issn         = {1999-4893},
  journal      = {Algorithms},
  number       = {3},
  publisher    = {MDPI AG},
  title        = {{Using Optimization Algorithms for Effective Missing-Data Imputation: A Case Study of Tabular Data Derived from Video Surveillance}},
  doi          = {10.3390/a18030119},
  volume       = {18},
  year         = {2025},
}

@book{5854,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa},
  isbn         = {979-8-8688-1066-4},
  publisher    = {Apress},
  title        = {{Python Adventures for Young Coders. Explore the World of Programming}},
  doi          = {10.1007/979-8-8688-1067-1},
  year         = {2025},
}

@article{5495,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa and Schenck, Wolfram},
  issn         = {1558-2191},
  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
  number       = {8},
  pages        = {4317--4330},
  publisher    = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
  title        = {{Using Methods From Dimensionality Reduction for Active Learning With Low Query Budget}},
  doi          = {10.1109/TKDE.2024.3365189},
  volume       = {36},
  year         = {2024},
}

@article{5566,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa and Schenck, Wolfram},
  issn         = {1558-2191},
  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering},
  number       = {8},
  pages        = {4317--4330},
  publisher    = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
  title        = {{Using Methods From Dimensionality Reduction for Active Learning With Low Query Budget}},
  doi          = {10.1109/TKDE.2024.3365189},
  volume       = {36},
  year         = {2024},
}

@article{5568,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa and Schenck, Wolfram},
  issn         = {2162-2388},
  journal      = {IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {3273--3287},
  publisher    = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)},
  title        = {{Active Learning for Handling Missing Data}},
  doi          = {10.1109/TNNLS.2024.3352279},
  volume       = {36},
  year         = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{5570,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa and Herde, Marek  and Pham, Minh Tuan and Sick, Bernhard },
  location     = {Vilnius, Lithuania},
  title        = {{Tutorial: Interactive Adaptive Learning}},
  year         = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{5569,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa and Bunse, Mirko  and Hammer, Barbara  and Krempl, Georg  and Lemaire, Vincent  and Amal,  Saadallah},
  location     = {Torino, Italy},
  title        = {{Tutorial: Interactive Adaptive Learning.}},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{2774,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa and Schenck, Wolfram},
  issn         = {2227-7390},
  journal      = {Mathematics},
  number       = {4},
  publisher    = {MDPI AG},
  title        = {{A Survey on Active Learning: State-of-the-Art, Practical Challenges and Research Directions}},
  doi          = {10.3390/math11040820},
  volume       = {11},
  year         = {2023},
}

@article{2775,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa and Schenck, Wolfram},
  issn         = {2227-7390},
  journal      = {Mathematics},
  number       = {7},
  publisher    = {MDPI AG},
  title        = {{A Novel Low-Query-Budget Active Learner with Pseudo-Labels for Imbalanced Data}},
  doi          = {10.3390/math10071068},
  volume       = {10},
  year         = {2022},
}

@article{2777,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa and Schenck, Wolfram},
  issn         = {22106502},
  journal      = {Swarm and Evolutionary Computation},
  publisher    = {Elsevier BV},
  title        = {{Population initialization techniques for evolutionary algorithms for single-objective constrained optimization problems: Deterministic vs. stochastic techniques}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.swevo.2021.100952},
  volume       = {67},
  year         = {2021},
}

@article{1202,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa and Schenck, Wolfram},
  issn         = {0957-4174},
  journal      = {Expert Systems with Applications},
  publisher    = {Elsevier BV},
  title        = {{A conceptual and practical comparison of PSO-style optimization algorithms}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.eswa.2020.114430},
  volume       = {167},
  year         = {2021},
}

@article{1204,
  author       = {Tharwat, Alaa and Schenck, Wolfram},
  issn         = {0950-7051},
  journal      = {Knowledge-Based Systems},
  publisher    = {Elsevier BV},
  title        = {{Balancing Exploration and Exploitation: A novel active learner for imbalanced data}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.knosys.2020.106500},
  volume       = {210},
  year         = {2020},
}

@inproceedings{1206,
  author       = {Pelkmann, David and Tharwat, Alaa and Schenck, Wolfram},
  booktitle    = {2020 7th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS)},
  location     = {Luzern, Switzerland},
  pages        = {61--62},
  publisher    = {IEEE},
  title        = {{How to Label? Combining Experts’ Knowledge for German Text Classification}},
  doi          = {10.1109/SDS49233.2020.00023},
  year         = {2020},
}