Publications

Alaa Khamis. Agentic Ontology-guided Synthetic Image Generation for Rare-Event Data Augmentation: Wildlife--Traffic as a Case Study. Submitted to Machine Learning With Applications, 2026.
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Alaa Khamis. Design and Evaluation of an Agentic AI Framework for Personalized Umrah Trip Planning. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2026.

Alaa Khamis. Agentic AI Systems: Architecture and Evaluation using a Frictionless Parking Scenario. IEEE Access, 2025.
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Alaa Khamis. Smart Mobility Education and Capacity Building for Sustainable Development: A Review and Case Study. Sustainability, 17, 7999,2025.

Alaa Khamis and Partha Goswami. Rethinking Vehicle Architecture Through Softwarization and Servitization. IEEE Access, 2025.
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Ahmed Elgazwy, Khalid Elgazzar, Alaa Khamis. Predicting Pedestrian Crossing Intentions in Adverse Weather with Self-Attention Models. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2025.
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Mohammed Alromema, Osamah H. Hussein, Ahmed AlHanbli, Ahmed Azab, Alaa Khamis. Hybrid Optimization Framework for Crowdsourced Last-Mile Delivery. Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility, 2026.
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Ahmed Senan, Zead Saleh, Ahmad Al Hanbali, Alaa Khamis. Adaptive Metaheuristic Optimization for 3PL Vehicle Routing. Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility, 2026.
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Rahaf M. Alzahrani, Zead Saleh and Alaa Khamis. Hybrid Clustering and Adaptive Metaheuristics for Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problems: A Case Study in Beverage Distribution Logistics. Submitted to IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility, 2026.
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Mahmoud Masoud, Amera Mohamed, Alaa Khamis, Mohammed Elhenawy and Karim Asif Sattar. Vision-based Camel Detection and VMS Alert System for Enhanced Road Safety in KSA. International Conference on Smart Mobility and Logistics Ecosystems (SMiLE), KFUPM, 2026.

Md. Aqib Aman, Ashiqur Rahman Ashiq, Alaa Khamis, Ahmad Al-Hanbali and Ahmed Ghaithan, "Deadheading minimization in the last-mile delivery. International Conference on Smart Mobility and Logistics Ecosystems (SMiLE), KFUPM, 2026.

Alaa Khamis. Agentic AI for Personalized Trip Planning. 2025 IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (GCAIoT), Marrakech, Morocco, 2025.

Ousman Khan and Alaa Khamis. Heuristics-based Resource Allocation in Software-defined Vehicles. 2025 IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (GCAIoT), Marrakech, Morocco, 2025.
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Ziqi Zhou, Jingyue Zhang, Jingyuan Zhang, Boyue Wang, Tianyu Shi, Alaa Khamis. Human-centric Reward Optimization for Reinforcement Learning-based Automated Driving using Large Language Models. ITRB Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. 2026, arXiv:2405.04135, 2024.
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Haowei Li, Mufeng Wang, Jiarui Zhang, Tianyu Shi, Alaa Khamis. A Contextual Multi-armed Bandit Approach to Personalized Trip Itinerary Planning. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility (SM), 2024.

Tamas Haidegger, Vincent Mai, Carl Mörch, Dominik BO Boesl, An Jacobs, Alaa Khamis, Luca Lach, Bram Vanderborght. Sustainable Robotics-Translating the UN Sustainable Development Goals to our Domain. 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024.

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