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Journal Publications (published/accepted)
F. Batool, A. Rehman, D. Kim, A. Abbas, R. Nawaz, T. M. Madni, “A query-based greedy approach for authentic influencer discovery in SIoT,” Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 74, no.3, pp. 6535–6553, 2023.
A. I. Jajja, A. Abbas, H. A. Khattak, G. Niedbała, A. Khalid, H. T. Rauf, S.Kujawa, "Compact Convolutional Transformer (CCT)-Based Approach for Whitefly Attack Detection in Cotton Crops," Agriculture, 2022.
S. A. Jan, N.-U. Amin, J. Shuja, A. Abbas, M. Maray, M. Ali, “SELWAK: A Secure and Efficient Lightweight and Anonymous Authentication and Key Establishment Scheme for IoT Based Vehicular Ad hoc Networks,” Sensors, 2022.
K.S. Awaisi, A. Abbas, H. A. Khattak, A. Ahmad, M. Ali, A. Khalid, “Deep Reinforcement Learning approach Towards a Smart Parking Architecture,” Cluster Computing (Accepted and to appear).
A. Khan, A. Abbas, H. A. Khattak, F. Rehman, I. U. Din, S. Ali, “Effective Task Scheduling in Critical Fog Applications,” Scientific Programming, 2022 (Accepted and to appear).
F. Shams, A. Abbas, W. Khan, U. S. Khan, and R. Nawaz, "A death, infection, and recovery (DIR) model to forecast the COVID-19 spread," Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine Update (Accepted and to appear).
K. S. Awaisi, A. Abbas, H. A. Khattak, A. Khalid, H. T. Rauf, and S. Kadry, "A Dynamic Load Balancing Mechanism for Fog Computing Environment," International Journal of Web and Grid Services (Accepted and to appear).
A. Asghar, A. Abbas, H. A. Khattak, and S. U. Khan, "Fog based Architecture and Load Balancing Methodology for Health Monitoring Systems," IEEE Access. (Accepted and to appear).
M. U. S. Khan, A. Abbas, A. Rehman, R. Nawaz, "HateClassify: Service Framework for Hate Speech Identification on Social Media," IEEE Internet Computing (Accepted and to appear).
M. Aazam, S. U. Islam, S. T. Lone, and A. Abbas, "Cloud of Things (CoT): Cloud-Fog-IoT Task Offloading for Sustainable Internet of Things," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (Accepted and to appear).
S. Sajid, M. Jawad, K. Hamid, M. U. S. Khan, S. M. Ali, A. Abbas, and S. U. Khan, "Blockchain-based Decentralized Workload and Energy Management of Geo-distributed Data Centers," Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (Accepted and to appear).
M. Shafiq , I. A. Taj , M. Ghafoor , S. A. Tariq, A. Abbas , and A. Y. Zomaya, "Accelerating Fingerprint Identification using FPGA for Large-scale Applications," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (accepted and to appear).
Z. A. -Odat, M. Ali, A. Abbas, S. U. Khan, “Secure Hash Algorithms and the Corresponding FPGA Optimization Techniques,” ACM Computing Surveys (Accepted and to appear).
A. Khalid, B. Adebisi, A. Din, E. Khan, A. Abbas, and B. Honary, "Deterministic Multipath Model for the Power-Line Channel,"National Academy Science Letters (Accepted and to appear).
T. Zia, A. Abbas, U. Habib, M. S. Khan, "Learning Deep Hierarchical and Temporal Recurrent Neural Networks with Residual Learning," International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (Accepted and to appear).
M. Ghafoor, S. A. Tariq, T. Zia, I. A. Taj, A. Abbas, A. Hassan, A. Y. Zomaya, "Fingerprint Identification with Shallow Multifeature View Classifier," IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (accepted and to appear).
D. Iqbal, A. Abbas, M. Ali, M. U. S. Khan, R. Nawaz, "Requirement Validation for Embedded Systems in Automotive Industry through Modeling," IEEE Access (Accepted and to appear).
K. S. Awaisi, A. Abbas, M. Zareei, H. A. Khattak, M. U. S. Khan, M. Ali, I. U. Din, and S. Shah, “Towards a Fog enabled Efficient Car Parking Architecture,” IEEE Access, Vol. 7, pp. 159100 - 159111, 2019.
M. H. Waseem, M. S. A. Nadeem, A. Abbas, A. Shaheen, W. Aziz, A. Anjum, U. Manzoor, M. A. Balubaid, and S.-O. Shim, "On the Feature Selection Methods and Reject Option Classifiers for Robust Cancer Prediction," IEEE Access (accepted and to appear).
F. Masood, G. Ammad, A. Almogren, A. Abbas, H. A. Khattak, I. U. Din, M. Guizani, and M. Zuair, “Spammer Detection and Fake User Identification on Social Networks,” IEEE Access (accepted and to appear).
H. Arshad, H. A. Khattak, A. Abbas, and S. U. Khan, “Estimation of Fog Utility Pricing: A Bio-Inspired Optimization Techniques' Perspective,” International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems (Accepted and to appear).
M. A. Sarwar, T. Bashir, O. Shahzad, A. Abbas, "Cloud Based Architecture to Implement Electronic Health Record (EHR) System in Pakistan," IEEE IT Professional (Accepted and to appear).
S. Mughal, A. Abbas, N. Ahmad, S. U. Khan, “A Social Network Based Process to Minimize In-group Biasedness during Requirement Engineering,” IEEE Access (Accepted and to appear).
H. Arshad, H. A. Khattak, M. A. Shah, A. Abbas, Z. Ameer, “Evaluation and Analysis of Bio-Inspired Optimization Techniques for Bill Estimation in Fog Computing,” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol. 9, No. 7, 2018.
M. Ali, A. Abbas, M. U. S. Khan, S. U. Khan,"SeSPHR: A Methodology for Secure Sharing of Personal Health Records in the Cloud,"IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (Accepted and to appear).
M. U. S. Khan, M. Ali, A. Abbas, S. U. Khan, A. Zomaya, “Segregating Spammers and Unsolicited Bloggers from Genuine Experts on Twitter,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (Accepted and to appear).
M. U. S. Khan, A. Abbas, M. Ali, M. Jawad, S. U. Khan, K. Li, and A. Zomaya, “On the Correlation of Sensor Location and Human Activity Recognition in Body Area Networks (BANs),” IEEE Systems Journal (Accepted and to appear).
M. H. U. Rehman, C. S. Liew, I. H. A. Targio, A. Abbas, T. Y. Wah, P. P. Jayaraman, M. M. Gaber, Samee U. Khan, “Big Data Reduction Methods: A Survey ,” Data Science and Engineering (Accepted and to appear).
A. Abbas, M. Ali, M. U. S. Khan, and S. U. Khan, “Personalized Healthcare Cloud Services for Disease Risk Assessment and Wellness Management using Social Media” Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 28, pp. 81-90, 2016.
A. Abbas, L. Zhang, and S. U. Khan, "A Survey on Context-aware Recommender Systems Based on Computational Intelligence Techniques," Computing, vol. 97, no. 7, pp. 667-690, 2015.
A. Abbas, K. Bilal L. Zhang, and S. U. Khan, "A Cloud Based Health Insurance Plan Recommendation System: A User Centered Approach,"Future Generation Computer Systems , vol. 43-44, pp. 99-109, 2015.
A. Abbas, M. Ali, A. Fayyaz, A. Ghosh, A. Kalra, S. U. Khan, M. U. S. Khan, T. D. Menezes, S. Pattanayak, A. Sanyal, and S. Usman, "A Survey on Energy-Efficient Methodologies and Architectures of Network-on-Chip,"Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 333-347, 2014.
A. Abbas and S. U. Khan, "A Review on the State-of-the-Art Privacy Preserving Approaches in E-Health Clouds,"IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 1431-1441, 2014.
A. Abbas, L. Zhang, and S. U. Khan, "A Literature Review on the State-of-the-Art in Patent Analysis," World Patent Information, vol. 37, pp. 3-13, 2014.
K. Bilal, S. U. R. Malik, O. Khalid, A. Hameed, E. Alvarez, V. Wijaysekara, R. Irfan, S. Shrestha, D. Dwivedy, M. Ali, U. S. Khan, A. Abbas, N. Jalil, and S. U. Khan, "A Taxonomy and Survey on Green Data Center Networks," Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 36, pp. 189-208, 2014.
Books/Book Chapters
A. Abbas, S. U. Khan, and A. Y. Zomaya, Fog Computing: Theory and Practice, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2020.
S. U. Khan, A. Y. Zomaya, and A. Abbas, Handbook of Large-scale Distributed Computing in Smart Healthcare, Springer-Verlag, New York, USA, 2018.
A. Jan, N. Ahmed, A. Abbas, "Monitoring and Controlling Software Project Scope Using Agile EVM," Evolving Software Processes: Trends and Future Directions, Wiley-Scrivener; 1st edition, 2022. (Accepted and to appear).
K. S. Awaisi, A. Abbas, S. U. Khan, and R. Buyya, "Simulating Fog Computing Applications using iFogSim Toolkit," in Mobile Edge Computing, Springer-Verlage, New York, USA. (Accepted and to appear.)
S. Mughal, K. S. Awaisi, A. Abbas, M. U. S. Khan, I. U. Rehman, and M. Ali, “A Reliable and Efficient Fog-based Architecture for Autonomous Vehicular Networks,” in Fog Computing: Theory and Practice, A. Y. Zomaya, A. Abbas, and S. U. Khan, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, New Jersey, USA. (Accepted and to appear.)
O. Khalid, I. A. Khan, and A. Abbas, “Insights into Software-Defined Networking and Applications in Fog Computing,” in Fog Computing: Theory and Practice, A. Y. Zomaya, A. Abbas, and S. U. Khan, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, New Jersey, USA. (Accepted and to appear.)
O. Khalid, I. A. Khan, R. N. B. Rais, and A. Abbas, “Caching, Security, and Mobility in Content-centric Networking,” in Fog Computing: Theory and Practice, A. Y. Zomaya, A. Abbas, and S. U. Khan, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press, New Jersey, USA. (Accepted and to appear.)
A. Abbas, S. U. Khan, A. Y. Zomaya, “Introduction to Large-Scale Distributed Computing in Smart Healthcare," in Handbook of Large-scale Distributed Computing in Smart Healthcare, S. U. Khan, A. Y. Zomaya, and A. Abbas, Eds., Springer-Verlag, New York, USA. (Accepted and to appear.)
A. Yusoff, N. B. M. Din, S. Yussof, A. Abbas, and S. U. Khan, Predictive Analytics for Network Big Data usingKnowledge Based Reasoning for Smart Retrieval of Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom (DIKW), in Big Dataand Computational Intelligence in Networking, Y. Wu, F. Hu, G. Min, A. Y. Zomaya, Eds., Taylor & Francis LLC, CRCPress, Boca Raton, FL, USA, 2017.
A. Abbas, S. U. Khan, “E-health Cloud: Privacy Concerns and Mitigation Strategies,” in Medical Data Privacy Handbook, A. G. ‐Divanis and G. Loukides, Eds., Springer-Verlag, New York, USA, ISBN: 978-3-319-23633-9, Chapter 15.
M. Ali, M. U. S. Khan, A. Abbas, and S. U. Khan, "Software Piracy Control Framework in Mobile Cloud Computing Systems," in Advances in Mobile Cloud Computing Systems, R. Yu and V. C. M. Leung, Eds., CRC Press, New York, USA, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-498-71509-6, Chapter 7.
Conference Publications (published/accepted)
N. Khan, D. Baig, M. U. S. Khan, A. Abbas, M. Ali, “Malware Detection in Android via Neural Network using Entropy Features,” 18th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, December 13-14, 2021.
D. Baig, M. U. S. Khan, D. Dancey, A. Abbas, M. Ali and R. Nawaz, "Malware Detection and Classification along with Trade-off Analysis for Number of Features, Feature Types, and Speed," 18th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, December 13-14, 2021.
Z. Al-Odat, A. Abbas and S. U. Khan, "Randomness Analyses of the Secure Hash Algorithms, SHA-1, SHA-2 and Modified SHA," in 17th IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Islamabad, Pakistan, December 2019
K. Minhas, M. Tabassam, R. Rasheed, A. Abbas, and S. U. Khan “A Framework for Dengue Surveillance and Data Collection in Pakistan,” The 43rd Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Software and Applications, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. July 15-19, 2019.
H. A. Khattak, M. Imran, A. Abbas, and S. U. Khan, “Maintaining Fog Trust through Continuous Assessment,” IEEE World Congress on Services, Milan, Italy, July 8-13, 2019.
S. M. Shuja, R. F. M. Khan, H. A. Khattak, M. A. Shah, A. Abbas, and S. U. Khan, “On Efficiency of Scrambled Image Forensics Service using Support Vector Machine,” IEEE World Congress on Services, Milan, Italy, July 8-13, 2019.
N. Ayub, N. Javaid, A. Abbas, A. Ishaq, A. Yousaf, and M. A. Ishtiaq, “Demand Side Management scheduling of appliances using Meta heuristic algorithms,” The 13-th International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications, October 27—29, 2018, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan.
M. U. S. Khan , A. Abbas, M. Jawad, M. Ali, and S. U. Khan, “Convolutional Neural Networks as Means to Identify Apposite Sensor Combination for Human Activity Recognition,”3rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, Washington D.C., 2018 (Accepted and to appear).
H. Arshad, H. A. Khattak, M. A. Shah, Z. Ameer, A. Abbas, S. U. Khan, “Evaluating Bio-Inspired Optimization Techniques for Utility Price Estimation in Fog Computing,” The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Smart Cloud (SmartCloud 2018), September 21—23, 2018, New York, USA (Accepted and to appear).
A. Abbas, M. U. S. Khan, M. Ali, S. U. Khan, and L. T. Yang, "A Cloud Based Framework for Identification of Influential Health Experts from Twitter," in 15th International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications (ScalCom), Beijing, China, Aug. 2015, pp. 831-838.
Y. Sadikaj, A. Abbas, U. S. Khan, A. Yusoff, J. Ashley, and S. U. Khan, “Personalized Health Insurance Services using Big Data,” in ND EPSCoR State Conference, sponsor: North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR), Grand Forks, ND, USA, Apr. 2016.
A. Abbas, M. Nohlberg, "Design issues related to the knowledge bases of medical decision support systems", in IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Information Technology, Lahore, Pakistan, October 28-30, 2010.