Publications

SCI/ WoSimpact factor journal publications

1. Roohan Aziz, Asim Imdad Wagan, Noman Islam, “Block Based Learned Image Compression”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, accepted for publication, (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=2.57)

2. Hani Alshahrani, Noman Islam, Darakhshan Syed,Adel Sulaiman, Mana Saleh Al Reshan, Khairan Rajab,Asadullah Shaikh, Jaweed Shuja-Uddin and Aadar Soomro. 2023 “Sustainability in blockchain: A systematic literature review on scalability and power consumption issues”, Energies (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=3.252)

3. Mana Saleh Al Reshan, Darakhshan Syed, Noman Islam, Asadullah Shaikh, Mohammed Hamdi, Ghulam Muhammad, Kashif Hussain Talpur, M. A. Elmagzoub. 2023. “A Fast Converging and Globally Optimized Approach for Load Balancing in Cloud Computing”, IEEE Access (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=4.6)

4. Asadullah Shaikh, Syed Rizwan, Abdullah Alghamdi, Noman Islam, M.A. Elmagzoub and Darakhshan Syed, “A Learning-Based Fault Localization Approach Using Subset of Likely and Dynamic Invariants”, Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 2022 (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=1.647)

5. Elmagzoub Abdalla, Darakhshan Syed, Asadullah Sahaikh, Noman Islam, Abdullah Alghamdi and Syed Rizwan, “A Survey of Swarm Intelligence based Load Balancing Techniques in Cloud Computing Environment”, Electronics, 2021 (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=2.421)

6. Noman Islam, Shaikh, A., Qaiser, A., Asiri, Y., Almakdi, S., Sulaiman, A. and Babar, S. A. (2021). “Ternion: An Autonomous Model for Fake News Detection”. Applied Sciences, 11(19), 9292. (IF=2.679)

7. Muhammad AsimShahid, Noman Islam, Muhammad MansoorAlam, M.S Mazliham, Shahrulniza Musa, , “Towards Resilient Method: An Exhaustive Survey of Fault Tolerance Methods in the Cloud Computing Environment”, Computer Science Review, Elsevier , 20201 (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF = 7.7)

8. Abdullah Alghamdi, ToobaMehtab, Rizwan Iqbal, Mona Leza, Noaman Islam, Mohammed Hamdi, and Asadullah Shaikh, “Automatic Classification of Monosyllabic and Multisyllabic Birds using PDHF”, March 2021, Electronics, MDPI, (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF = 2.1)

9. Muhammad AsimShahid, Noman Islam, Muhammad MansoorAlam, M.S Mazliham, Shahrulniza Musa, “A comprehensive study of load balancing approaches in the cloud computing environment and a novel fault tolerance approach”, IEEE Access (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF = 4.6)

10. Fahad Hussain, Umair Saeed, Ghulam Muhammad, Noman Islam, Ghazala Shafi Sheikh.2019. “Classifying cancer patients based on DNA sequences using machine learning”, Journal of Medical Imaging and Health Informatics, vol. 9(3), pp. 436-443 (SCI/ WoS indexed, IF=0.549)

11. Aqeel-ur-Rehman, Abu Z. Abbasi, Noman Islam and Zubair A. Shaikh. 2014. “A Review of Wireless Sensors and Networks’ Applications in Agriculture”, Computer Standards & Interfaces, ISSN: 0920-5489, Elsevier (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=0.978)

12. Noman Islam, Zubair A. Shaikh, Aqeel-ur-Rehman and Muhammad Shahab Siddiqui.  2013. “HANDY: A Hybrid Association Rules Mining Approach for Network Layer Discovery of Services”, Wireless Networks, Springer, ISSN: 1022-0038, Springer (SCI/ WoS Indexed, IF=0.736)

Other Scopus / ESCI/ HEC indexed journal publications

13. H Farman, N Islam, N Hasany, “Harnessing AI for Enhanced Weather Prediction: A Focus on Rainfall”, Journal of Independent Studies and Research Computing, 2024,  22 (2), 124-15 (HEC Indexed)

14. H Farman, N Islam, SA Ali, D Khan, HA Khan, M Ahmed, A Farman, “Advancing Rainfall Prediction in Pakistan: A Fusion of Machine Learning and Time Series Forecasting Models”, 2024, International Journal of Emerging Engineering and Technology 3 (1), 17-24 (HEC Indexed)

15. U Hani, O Sohaib, K Khan, A Aleidi, N Islam, “Psychological profiling of hackers via machine learning toward sustainable cybersecurity”, Frontiers in Computer Science 2024, 6, 1381351

16. N Islam, MU Raees, D Syed, “A Study on the Effectiveness and Efficiency of Public or Private Hospitals within Pakistan”, Sir Syed University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology 13 (2), 97-103

17. Kanwal Jabeen, Noman Islam, Khairan Rajab, Hani Alshahrani, M.A. Elmagzoub, Asadullah Shaikh, 2023. “Machine Learning Models to Detect Online Fake News: A Systematic Literature Review”,  Telematique (ESCI Indexed)

18. N Islam, SK Khan, A Rehman, U Aftab, D Syed, “Stock Prediction for ARGAAM Companies Dataset”, 2023, KIET Journal of Computing and Information Sciences 6 (2), 1-13 (HEC Indexed)

19. Noman Islam, Misbah Afzal, Muhammad Arsal Wali, Hamza Shakeel. 2022. “Data Analysis, Visualization and Prediction of Stock Market Prices of K-Electric”, Pakistan Journal of Engineering and Technology (HEC Indexed)

20. Noman Islam, Abdul Rafay Khan, Umair Ahmed, Ahmed Jaffer, Shamim Akhtar. 2022. “Course Recommendation, Exploratory Data Analysis And Visualizations of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS)”, Journal of Independent Studies and Research Computing  (HEC Indexed)

21. M Mehdi, N Islam, A Irfan, S Habib. 2022. “Sentiment Analysis of Public Reaction towards Pakistan Democratic Movement”, Pakistan Journal of Engineering and Technology (HEC Indexed)

22. Muhammad, Ghulam, Umair Saeed, Noman Islam, Kamlesh Kumar, Fahad Hussain, Mansoor Ahmed Khurro, Aftab Ahmed Shaikh, and Iqra Ali. 2022. “GVDeepNet: Unsupervised Deep Learning Techniques for Effective Genetic Variant Classification.” Pakistan Journal of Engineering and Technology 5, no. 1 2022: 16-22. (Proceedings of 5th Asia Pacific International Conference on Emerging Engineering 2021) (HEC Indexed)

23. Noman Islam, GhazalaShafi Sheikh, Zubair A. Shaikh.2021. “Using association rules mining, multi-level data representation and cross-layer operations for data management in mobile ad hoc network”, International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (ACM/ ESCI Indexed)

24. UmairSaeed, Kamlesh Kumar, Asif Laghari, MansoorKhuhro, Noman Islam, Ghulam Muhammad Shaikh, Fahad Hussain, and A. Shaikh, 2021. “A comparative analysis of classification techniques for human activity recognition using wearable sensors and smart-phones”. EAI Endorsed Transactions on Pervasive Health and Technology, (Scopus/ DBLP Indexed)

25. Noman Islam, Ammara Yaseen, Aqsa Ghaffar. 2021. “Context-Aware Music Recommendations System in a Car.”, Asian Journal of Engineering, Sciences & Technology, vol. 11 (1) (Indexed by EBSCO)

26. Ruqiya, Noman Islam, Athaul Rai, Noman Khan, “Usability analysis of android and iOS operating systems”, International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT), vol. 68(10), 2020 (Scopus Indexed)

27. Kamlesh Kumar,UmairSaeed,Athaul Rai,Noman Islam, GM Shaikh, Abdul Qayyum, “IDC Breast Cancer Detection Using Deep Learning Scheme”, Advances in Data Science and Adaptive Analysis, vol. 12(2), 2020 (ESCI Indexed)

28. Muhammad Talha Qureshi, Athual Rai, Noman Islam, Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, “A Four-Pronged Low Cost and Optimized Traffic Routing Solution”, International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), June, 2020(Scopus Indexed)

29. Noman Islam, KashifLaeeq. 2019. “Salaat Ontology: A domain ontology for modeling information related to prayers in Islam”, Indian Journal of Science and Technology, 12(1), pp. 1-12, 2019 (ESCI Indexed)

30. Noman Islam, Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, Rida Fatima and FarrukhAlvi, 2019. “A study of difficulties of students in learning programming”, Journal Education and Social Sciences (JESS), vol. 7(2), pp. 38-46 (Proceedings of National Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Pakistan, 28-29th April, 2019) (HEC indexed)

31. Soobia Saeed, FoziaHanif Khan, Sadiq Ali Khan, Noman Islam, 2018. “Conceptions of Software Testing as a Service”, Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences (Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Green Computing and Engineering Technologies, Denmark, 2018) (ESCI Indexed)

32. Noman Islam. 2018. “A Novel Framework Using Machine Learning to Effectively Analyze the Faculty Evaluations”, Journal of Education and Social Sciences, vol. 6(2), pp. 40-52 (Proceedings of International Conference on Innovation and Emerging Trends in Business Management, Education and Social Sciences, 9-10 January,2018, Karachi) (HEC indexed)

33. Noman Islam, Ghazala Shafi Sheikh and Zeeshan Islam, “A cognitive radio ad hoc network’s based disaster management scheme with efficient spectrum management, collaboration and interoperability”, Journal of Information and Communication Technology, vol. 10(1), 2017 (HEC indexed)

34. Noman Islam and Zeeshan Islam, “An economic perspective on major cloud computing providers”, Journal of Information and Communication Technology, vol. 10(1), 2017 (HEC indexed)

35. Noman Islam, Zeeshan Islam and Nazia Noor, “A survey on optical character recognition system”, Journal of Information and Communication Technology, vol. 10(2), pp. 1-4, 2017 (HEC indexed)

36. Ghazala Shafi Sheikh and Noman Islam, “A qualitative study of major programming languages: teaching programming languages to computer science students”, Journal of Information and Communication Technology, vol. 10(1), pp. 24-34, 2016  (HEC indexed)

37. Noman Islam and Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, “A review of techniques for ontology editor evaluation”, Journal of Information and Communication Technology, vol. 9(2), 2016 (HEC indexed)

38. KashifLaeeq, Noman Islam and Jalal Bhayo.2016. “Performance analysis of TCP and UDP over mobile ad hoc network”, Journal of Independent Studies and Research, SZABIST University, vol. 14(1), pp. 12-15 (Proceedings of SZABIST Multidisciplinary International Conference (SMIC-2016), UAE, January 2016) (HEC indexed)

39. Ghazala Shafi Sheikh and Noman Islam. 2015. “Towards a context-aware smart library management system”, International Journal of Conceptions on Computing and Information Technology, vol. 3 (2), August 2015 (Proceedings of International Conference on Mathematics and Information Technology, Srilanka, August 2015) (DOAJ Indexed)

40. Noman Islam and Zubair A. Shaikh. 2012. "Towards a Robust and Scalable Semantic Service Discovery Scheme for Mobile Ad hoc Network." Pakistan Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences. 10: 68-88. (ISSN: 1995-1302).  (HEC indexed)

41. Noman Islam, Zubair A. Shaikh, and Ghulam A. Mallah. 2012. "A Prognostic Solution for Transport Management based on Mobile Ad hoc Network.” Sindh University Research Journal. vol. 49 (2AB): 87-91. (ISSN: 1813-1743) (Proceedings of 2ndInternational Conference on Computers & Emerging Technologies(ICCET 2012), Pakistan) (HEC indexed)

42. Noman Islam, Zubair A. Shaikh, and Aqeel-ur-Rehman. 2011. "COINS: Towards a Correlation Based Intrusion Detection System for Mobile Ad hoc Network.” Sindh University Research Journal. 43 (1A): 91-96. (ISSN: 1813-1743). (Proceedings of International Conference on Computers and Emerging Technologies (ICCET 2011), Pakistan) (HEC indexed)

43. Noman Islam, Noor A. Shaikh, Ghulam A. Mallah, Zubair A. Shaikh, and Aqeel-ur-Rehman. 2010. "A Network Layer Service Discovery Approach for Mobile Ad hoc Network Using Association Rules Mining." Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences. 4(6): 1305-1315. (ISSN: 1991-8178) (ESCI / Scopus Indexed)

44. Aqeel-ur-Rehman, Zubair A. Shaikh, Noor A. Shaikh and Noman Islam. 2010. "An Integrated Framework to Develop Context-Aware Sensor Grid for Agriculture", Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, vol. 4, issue 5, pp. 922-931, May 2010, (ISSN: 1991-8178)(ESCI/ Scopus Indexed)

SENSE recognized book chapters

45. Noman Islam, Darakhshan Syed, Zubair A. Shaikh, “Semantic web: An overview and a .net based tool for knowledge, extraction and ontology development” accepted for publication in Semantic Technologies for Intelligent Industry 4.0 Applications, indexed by IEEE

46. Mumtaz Hussain, Samrina Siddiqui, Noman Islam “Social Engineering and Data Privacy”, accepted for publication in Fraud Prevention, Confidentiality, and Data Security for Modern Businesses, IGI Globals

47. Noman Islam, Enayat Raza, Sheraz Mohsin, Ahsar Ansari, Razeen Shuja, Darakhshan Syed, “Forecasting on Covid-19 Data Using ARIMAX Model”, accepted for publication in Data Science with Semantic Technologies: A New Trend and Future Development

48. Noman Islam, Muntaha Mehboob, and Rimsha Javed. 2023. "Analytics of User Behaviors on Twitter Using Machine Learning." In Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence Applications in Literary Works and Social Media, pp. 302-337. IGI Global

49. Darakhshan Syed, Noman Islam, M. Hammad Shabbir , Syed Babar Manzar. 2022. “Application of Big Data in Smart Health Solutions”, In Handbook of Research on Mathematical Modeling for Smart Healthcare Systems, IGI Globals

50. Noman Islam, Darakhshan Syed, Mariz Zafar, Asif Raza. 2022. “Visualizing chat-bot knowledge graph using RDF”, In Research and Applications of Semantic Web Technologies, CRC Press

51. Noman Islam and Ain-ud-din Wahab, 2021. “5G Networks: A Holistic View of Enabling Technologies and Research Challenges”, in book: Research Anthology on Developing and Optimizing 5G Networks and the Impact on Society, IGI Globals (Scopus indexed)

52. Noman Islam and Ain-ud-din Wahab, 2019. “5G Networks: A Holistic View of Enabling Technologies and Research Challenges”, in book: Enabling Technologies and Architectures for Next-Generation Networking Capabilities, IGI Globals (Scopus Indexed)

53. Noman Islam and  Zubair A. Shaikh. 2014. "A Study of Research Trends and Issues in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks", In Handbook of Research on Progressive Trends in Wireless Communications and Networking, edited by M.A. Matin, 208-248, IGI Globals (EISBN13: 9781466651715)

54. Noman Islam and Zubair A. Shaikh.  2013. “Security Issues in Mobile Ad hoc Network.” In Wireless Networks and Security, Signals and Communication Technology, edited by Shafiullah Khan and Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, 49-80. Springer. (ISBN: 978-3-642-36168-5)

Other book chapters

55. Aqeel-ur-Rehman and Noman Islam. 2015. “Agricultural Ontologies” In Smart Agriculture: A better approach towards Agricultural Management, OMICS Group

CORE ranked conferences

56. Noman Islam, Syed Saqib Abbas Rizvi, “Analyzing the trends of software development in under-developed countries based on stack overflow responses”,4th International Conference on Computing & Information SciencesNovember 29-30, 2021, Karachi, Pakistan

57. Noman Islam, “A secure service discovery scheme for mobile ad hoc network using artificial deep neural network”, Frontiers in Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan, 16-18 December, 2019

58. Noman Islam and Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, “Towards cloud based mobile ad hoc network simulation”, In Proceedings of Sixth International Conference on Computing, Communications and Networking Technologies (ICCCNT)”, Taxas, USA, 2015

59. Noman Islam and Zubair A. Shaikh. 2009. "Service Discovery in Mobile Ad hoc Networks Using Association Rules Mining." In Proceedings of 13th IEEE International Multitopic Conference 2009 (INMIC-2009), Islamabad, Pakistan, December 14-15, 2009.

60. Noman Islam, Abu Z. Abbasi, and Zubair A. Shaikh. 2010. "Semantic Web: Choosing the Right Methodologies, Tools and Standards." In Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information and Emerging Technologies (ICIET 2010), National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan, June 14-16, 2010

61. Noman Islam. "A Data Management Framework for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET)." Poster Presented at Doctoral Symposium, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information and Emerging Technologies (ICIET 2010), National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan, June 14-16, 2010

Scopus indexed conferences

62. Noman Islam, Umair Saeed, RubinaNaz, JaweriaTanveer, Kamlesh Kumar, “DeepDR: An image guided diabetic retinopathy detection technique using attention-based deep learning scheme”, In Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on new Trends in Computing Sciences, 9-11 Oct, 2019, Amman, Jordan

63. Syed Rizwan, Syed Hasan and Noman Islam, “Detecting duplicates in real-time dataware house using bloom filter based approach”, In Proceedings of International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications, 6-8 November 2019, Pakistan

64. Noman Islam, “An image processing based approach to analyse ski-jump’s length, height and velocity of an athlete “, in proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Information Science & Communication Technology, Feb 8-9, 2020, Karachi

65. Noman Islam, Zubair A. Shaikh, “Towards ontology editing, querying and visualization in. net environment”, 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT), 2019, Pakistan

66. Noman Islam, “A novel context-aware caching scheme for 5G networks”, in Proceedings of 13th International Conference - Mathematics, Actuarial, Computer Science & Statistics (MACS 13), IoBM, Karachi, 14-15 December, 2019

67. Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Faisal and Noman Islam, “Problems and Vulnerabilities of Ethical Hacking in Pakistan”, In Proceedings of International Conference on Latest trends in Electrical Engineering & Computing Technologies, 13-14 November, Karachi, Pakistan

68. Noman Islam and Zubair A. Shaikh. 2011. “A Survey of Data Management Issues & Frameworks for Mobile Ad hoc Networks.” In Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT 2011), Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. July 23-24, 2011

69. Noman Islam, Muhammad S. Siddiqui, and Zubair A. Shaikh. 2010. "TODE: A Dot Net Based Tool for Ontology Development and Editing." In Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology (ICCET 2010), Chengdu, China, April 14-16, 2010.

70. Noman Islam and Zubair A. Shaikh. 2008. "A Novel Approach to Service Discovery in Mobile Adhoc Network." In Proceedings of International Networking and Communications Conference (INCC-2008), Lahore University of Management and Science, Lahore, Pakistan, May 1-3, 2008

Other conferences

71. Hira Farman, Noman Islam, Noman Hasany, “A Data Mining Approach to Weather Prediction in Pakistan Using Machine Learning Models”, 2nd International Conference on Technology Driven Climate Action (CLIMATECH- 2025), Pakistan

72. Hamdah Hamid, Noman Islam, “Exploration of Age Bias in Social Media Data for Mental Health Screening”, 2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Computing, AI, and Data Science (CAIDS 2024)

73. Muneeb, M., Islam, N., Al Reshan, M.S., Hamdi, M., Alshahrani, H. and Soomro, S., 2023, September. Bitcoin Prediction Analysis Using Deep Learning Techniques. In International Conference on Innovation of Emerging Information and Communication Technology (pp. 499-509). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

74. Shan Ahmed Usmani, Syed Khurram Kamran, Muhammad Zeeshan, Noman Islam, Zamin Ali Khan ,“A Comparative Analysis of Aprioriand Fp-Growth Algorithms for Frequent Pattern Mining Using Apache Spark”, International Scientific Research Conference, Azerbaijan, April, 2021

75. Mirza HammadBaig , Danish Karim , Noman Islam, “Analysis of public sentiments about COVID-19 based on twitter’s tweets”, Euro Asia International Conference, Uzbekistan, March 2021

76. Soobia Saeed, FoziaHanif Khan, Sadiq Ali Khan, Noman Islam.2018. “Challenge and Eventual Applications for under waterSensor Networking and Intelligent Water Quality Monitoring”, Presented at Global Conference on Wireless & Optical Communications, Spain

77. Zeeshan Islam and Noman Islam, “A conceptual approach to library management system based on optical character recognition”, Presented at International Conference on Research in Education and Technologies, March 2-4, 2017, Khairpur, Pakistan

78. Murad Ali, Mirza Hassan Baig, Zubair Shaikh, Noman Islam and Muhammad Hussain, “Secure Distance Learning Based on Context Aware Ontology of the User’s Behavior”, In Proceedings of 8th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning, January 30 2015, Dallas, Texas, USA

79. Noman Islam and Ghazala Shafi Sheikh, “Towards a Disaster Response System based on Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks”, In Proceedings of Second International, Conference on Next Generation Computing and Communication Technologies (ICNGCCT 2015), UAE, 2015

80. Hafiz Muhammad SohaibAzhar, Mumtaz Hussain Soomro, Rohail Ali Khan, SohailSarang and Noman Islam. 2015. “Mobile Alert System for Abnormal EEG Activity”, Presented at 30th IEEEP International Multi-Topic Symposium, Karachi, Pakistan

81. Noman Islam and Aqeel-ur-Rehman. 2013. “A comparative study of major service providers for cloud computing”, In Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Trends (ICICTT), Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science and Technology, Karachi, Pakistan, September 2-5, 2013.

82. Noman Islam and Zubair A. Shaikh, 2010. “FIPA and MASIF Standards: A Comparative Study and Strategies for Integration”, In Proceedings of National Software Engineering Conference (NSEC 2010)

83. Noman Islam and Zubair A. Shaikh. 2010. "Exploiting Correlation among Data Items for Cache Replacement in Ad-hoc Networks." In Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Information Management and Engineering (IEEE ICIME 2010), Chengdu, China, April 14-16, 2010.

84. Noman Islam, Zubair A. Shaikh, and ShahnawazTalpur. 2008. "Towards a Grid-based approach to Traffic Routing in VANET." In Proceedings of E-Indus (E-Indus 2008), Institute of Industrial and Electronics Engineering, Karachi, Pakistan, April 29th, 2008.

85. Noman Islam. 2008. "A Data Management Framework for Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET)." Presented at Doctoral Symposium on Research in Computer Science (DSRCS), University of Central Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, August 9-10, 2008.

86. Noman Islam, Ghulam Ali Mallah and Zubair A. Shaikh, “On the Need of a New Standard for Multi-Agent Systems A Comprehensive Survey and Recommendations”, In Proceedings of International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems, Jabalpur, India, December 27, 2007