Research Publications

1. Ali Shah, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Shaukat Ali1, Aftab Alam, Tauseef Ur Rahman, Unraveling Digital Behavior: A Network Analysis of Personality Traits, Category-wise Smartphone App Usage, and Inferred Sleep Patterns, Journal of Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies (2025).

2. Khan, M.N., Aftab Alam & Lee, YK. λ-CLOVR: looking for a needle in a haystack: a content-based video big data retrieval system in the cloud. J Big Data 12, 257 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-025-01308-1.

3. Tauseef Ur Rahman, Zahoor Jan, Aftab Alam*, Vasilis Katos, Raian Ali. Problematic Internet Usage and Smartphone Use: Their Effects on Sleep Quality across Groups using Mediation Analysis (Journal of Behavior and Information Technology).

4. Garcia, Guillermo Crocker, Muhammad Numan Khan, Aftab Alam, Josue Obregon, Tamer Abuhmed, and Eui-Nam Huh. "FiSC: A novel approach for Fitzpatrick Scale-based Skin Analyzer’s Image Classification." IEEE Access (2025).

5. Rahman, Tauseef Ur, Zahoor Jan, Aftab Alam*, and Raian Ali. "Smartphone use and personality: Their effects on sleep quality across groups using mediation analysis." Digital Health 10 (2024): 20552076241295797.

6. *Alam, A., Al-Shakhsi, S., Al-Thani, D., & Ali, R. (2023). Do near-bedtime usage of smartphones and problematic internet usage really impact sleep? A study based on objectively recorded usage data. Behaviour & Information Technology, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2023.2279648

7. Sultana, T., Hossain, M. D., Umair, M., Khan, M. N., Alam, A., & Lee, Y. K. (2023). Graph pattern detection and structural redundancy reduction to compress named graphs. Information Sciences, 647, 119428.

8. *Alam A.*, Alshakhsi S, Al-Thani D, Ali R. 2023. The role of objectively recorded smartphone usage and personality traits in sleep quality. PeerJ Computer Science 9:e1261. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1261

9. Morshed, Md Golam, Tangina Sultana, Aftab Alam, and Young-Koo Lee. ”Human Action Recognition: A Taxonomy-Based Survey, Updates, and Opportunities.” Sensors 23, no. 4 (2023): 2182. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/s23042182.

10. Van, D. T. T., Khan, M. N., Afridi, T. H., Ullah, I., Alam, A., & Lee, Y. K. (2022). GDLL: A Scalable and Share Nothing Architecture Based Distributed Graph Neural Networks Framework. IEEE Access, 10, 21684-21700.

11. Khan, J., Alam, A., & Lee, Y. (2021). Intelligent Hybrid Feature Selection for Textual Sentiment Classification. IEEE Access, 9, 140590-140608.

12. Khalid, S., Wu, S., Wahid, A., Alam, A., & Ullah, I. (2021). An effective scholarly search by combining inverted indices and structured search with citation networks analysis. IEEE Access, 9, 120210-120226.

13. Aftab Alam, Irfan Ullah, and Young-Koo Lee. "Video Big Data Analytics in the Cloud: A Reference Architecture, Survey, Opportunities, and Open Research Issues." IEEE Access 8 (2020): 152377-152422.

14. Aftab Alam, and Young-Koo Lee. "TORNADO: Intermediate results orchestration based service-oriented data curation framework for intelligent video big data analytics in the cloud." Sensors 20.12 (2020): 3581.

15. Khan, Jawad, Aftab Alam, Jamil Hussain, and Young-Koo Lee. "EnSWF: effective features extraction and selection in conjunction with ensemble learning methods for document sentiment classification." Applied Intelligence 49, no. 8 (2019): 3123-3145.

16. Khalid, S., Wu, S., Aftab Alam, & Ullah, I. (2019). Real-time feedback query expansion technique for supporting scholarly search using citation network analysis. Journal of Information Science, 0165551519863346.

17. Uddin, Md Azher, Aftab Alam, Nguyen Anh Tu, Md Siyamul Islam, and Young-Koo Lee. "SIAT: A distributed video analytics framework for intelligent video surveillance." Symmetry 11, no. 7 (2019): 911.

18. Khan, Kifayat Ullah, Aftab Alam, Batjargal Dolgorsuren, Md Azher Uddin, Muhammad Umair, Uijeong Sang, Van TT Duong, Weihua Xu, and Young-Koo Lee. "LPaMI: A Graph-Based Lifestyle Pattern Mining Application Using Personal Image Collections in Smartphones." Applied Sciences 7, no. 12 (2017): 1200.

19. Uddin, Md Azher, Joolekha Bibi Joolee, Aftab Alam, and Young-Koo Lee. "Human action recognition using adaptive local motion descriptor in spark." IEEE Access 5 (2017): 21157-21167.

20. Aftab Alam, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, and Muhammad Shuaib Karim. "Confluence of social network, social question and answering community, and user reputation model for information seeking and experts generation." Journal of Information Science 43, no. 2 (2017): 260-274.

21. Khusro, Shah, Aftab Alam, and Shah Khalid. "Social question and answer sites: the story so far." Program (2017).

1. Garcia, Guillermo Crocker, Muhammad Numan Khan, Aftab Alam, Shu Li, and Eui-Nam Huh. "Lightweight Fitzpatrick-scale-based skin tone classification on u-health edge device." In Sixteenth International Conference on Digital Image Processing (ICDIP 2024), vol. 13274, pp. 321-329. SPIE, 2024.

2. Khan, Jawad, Niaz Ahmad, Aftab Alam, and Youngmoon Lee. ”Leveraging Semantic and Sentiment Knowledge for User-Generated Text Sentiment Classification.” In Proceedings of the Eighth Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text (W-NUT 2022), pp. 101-105. 2022.

3. Skinner, T., Taylor, J., Alam, A., & Ali, R. (2021, October). Does Learning Method Matter in Cyber Security Behaviour? Spaced Vs. Massed e-Learning. In 2021 8th International Conference on Behavioral and Social Computing (BESC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

4. Shah Khalid, Aftab Alam. BERT-Embedding and Citation Network Analysis based Query Expansion Technique for Scholarly Search, 6th International Conference on Smart City Applications.

5. Aftab Alam, Khali Shah, Muhammad Numan Khan, Tariq Habib Afridi, Irfan Ullah, Young-Koo Lee. "Video Big Data Analytics in the Cloud: Research Issues and Challenges" The Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Smart City Applications. Springer, Cham. Accepted on Sept 1st, 2020.

6. Muhammad Numan Khan, Aftab Alam, Khali Shah, Tariq Habib Afridi, Young-Koo Lee. "Lambda-Ivr: An Indexing Framework For Video Big Data Retrieval Using Distributed In-Memory Computation In The Cloud" The Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Smart City Applications. Springer, Cham. Accepted on Sept 1st, 2020. Link: http://medi-ast.org/SCA20/index.html#session26

7. Tariq Habib Afridi, Aftab Alam, Muhammad Numan Khan, Jawad Khan, Young-Koo Lee. "A Multimodal Memes Classification: A Survey And Open Research Issues" The Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Smart City Applications. Springer, Cham. Accepted on Sept 1st, 2020. Link: http://medi-ast.org/SCA20/index.html#session26

8. Aftab Alam, Muhammad Numan Khan, Jawad Khan, and Young-Koo Lee. "IntelliBVR-Intelligent large-scale video retrieval for objects and events utilizing distributed deep-learning and semantic approaches." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), pp. 28-35. IEEE, 2020.

9. Muhammad Numan Khan, Aftab Alam, and Young-Koo Lee. "FALKON: Large-Scale Content-Based Video Retrieval Utilizing Deep-Features and Distributed In-memory Computing." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing (BigComp), pp. 36-43. IEEE, 2020.

10. Elena En, Aftab Alam, Kifayat Ullah Khan, and Young-Koo Lee. "Parallel compression of weighted graphs." In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Emerging Databases, pp. 68-77. Springer, Singapore, 2018.

11. Jawad Khan, Byeong Soo Jeong, Young-Koo Lee, and Aftab Alam. "Sentiment analysis at sentence level for heterogeneous datasets." In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Emerging Databases: Technologies, Applications, and Theory, pp. 159-163. 2016.

12. Aftab Alam, Muhammad Numan Khan, Tariq Afridi, Tangina Sultana and Young-Koo Lee. "SCBVR: A Hybrid Approach for Large-scale Video Retrieval", Korean Database Conference 2020, Jeju. Link: http://dbsociety.or.kr/kdbc2020/program.html

13. Aftab Alam, Jawad Khan, Muhammad Numan Khan, Shah Khalid, Young-Koo Lee., ""Intermediate Results Orchestration in Service-oriented Video Analytics Cloud Platform"", 2020 년 한국소프트웨어종합학술대회(KSC 2020)"

14. Aftab Alam, Jawad Khan, MD Azher Uddin, Muhammad Numan Khan, Irfan Ullah, and Young-Koo Lee. "Higher-Level Context Inferences based on Ontology For Intelligent Video Surveillance." 한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 (2019): 984-986.

15. Aftab Alam, Mostafijur Rahman Akhond, Mohammed AS Ali, Taeyeon Kim, and Young-Koo Lee. "Distributed Data Model for Managing Large-Scale Video Data in the Cloud Using Hadoop-HBase." 한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 (2017): 79-81. Link: https://www.dbpia.co.kr/journal/ articleDetail? nodeId=NODE07322056

16. Aftab Alam, Muhammad Umair, Batjargal Dolgorsuren, Mostafijur Rahman Akhond, Mohammed AS Ali, Umair Qudus, and Young-Koo Lee. "Distributed In-memory Granularity-based Time-Series Graph Compression." 한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 (2018): 235-237.

17. Aftab Alam, Nguyen Anh Tu, Md Azher Uddin, Taeyeon Kim, and Young-Koo Lee. "Architecture for Intelligent CCTV Cloud Platform." 한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 (2016): 152-154.

18. Jawad Khan, Aftab Alam, Muhammad Numan Khan,  Irfan Ullah,  Muhammad Umair, Umair Qudus, Tariq Habib Afridi,  Sung Soo Park, Young-Koo Lee., "An improved co-training approach for document Sentiment classification", 2020 년 한국소프트웨어종합학술대회(KSC 2020)

19. Muhammad Numan Khan, Aftab Alam, Md. Anwarul Islam,  Jawad Khan, Young-Koo Lee, "DISIVR: Distributed Deep Feature Indexer for Video Big DataRetrieval on Spark", 2020년 한국컴퓨터종합학술대회(KCC 2020)

20. Muhammad Numan Khan, Aftab Alam, Md Azher Uddin, and Young-Koo Lee. "SurVRet: Distributed surveillance video retrieval on large-scale video data using deep learning." 한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 (2019): 892-894.

21. Jawad Khan, Aftab Alam, and Young-Koo Lee. "A lexicon-enhanced method for domain-specific sentiment classification." 한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 (2019): 933-935.

22. Md Siyamul Islam, Aftab Alam, Md Azher Uddin, Md Anwarul Islam, Umair Qudus, and Young-Koo Lee. "Distributed Real-Time Video Stream Analytics on top of Spark." 한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 (2018): 43-45.

23. Mostafijur Rahman Akhond, Aftab Alam, Md Azher Uddin, Kifayat Ullah Khan, and Young-Koo Lee. "Distance-based Community Search in edge weighted Network." 한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 (2018): 173-175.

24. Batjargal Dolgorsuren, Aftab Alam, Kifayat Ullah Khan, and Young-Koo Lee. "Time-Series Graph Data Partitioning in Spark." 한국정보과학회 학술발표논문집 (2017): 212-214.

Aftab Alam. ”Intermediate results orchestration based service-oriented data curation framework for intelligent video big data analytics in the cloud”, Korean Patent

App Num: KR2021017605

Pub Num: KR20220082768A

Pub Date: 2022-06-17