Research Publications

Muhammad Asif Khan, Bhuyan Kaibalya Prasad, Guilin Qi, Wei Song, Fanghua Ye, Zafar Ali, Irfan Ullah, and Pavlos Kefalas, "UTMGAT: A Unified Transformer with Memory Encoder and Graph Attention Networks for Multidomain Dialogue State Tracking," Applied Intelligence. Article in Press. JCR/IF

Adamu Garba, Shah Khalid, Aiya Aleryni, Irfan Ullah, Nasser Mansoor Tairan, Habib Shah, and Diywu Mumin, "Using Ant Colony Optimization for Results Merging in Federated Search," Engineering, Technology, and Applied Science Research. Article in Press. JCR/IF

Misha Karim, Shah Khalid, Aliya Aleryani, Jawad Khan, Irfan Ullah, and Zafar Ali, "Human Action Recognition Systems: A Review of the Trends and State-of-the-Art," IEEE Access, 2024. Article in Press. DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3373199. JCR/IF

Adamu Garba, Shah Khalid, and Irfan Ullah, "Understanding the Impact of Query Expansion on Federated Search," Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023, June 21, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-023-15831-x. JCR/IF

Irfan Ullah, Sikandar Alam, Zafar Ali, Mahmood Khan, Fouzia Jabeen, and Shah Khusro, "On the Current State of Query Formulation for Book Search," Artificial Intelligence Review, Springer. April 19, 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s10462-023-10483-7. JCR/IF 

Zafar Ali, Yi Huang, Irfan Ullah, Junlan Feng, Chao Deng, Nimbeshaho Thierry, Asad Khan, Aim Ullah Jan, Xiaoli Shen, Wu Rui, and Guilin Qi, "Deep Learning for Medication Recommendation: A Systematic Survey," Data Intelligence, MIT Press. February 2023. DOI: 10.1162/dint\_a\_00197. WoS

Izaz Khan, Shah Khusro, and Irfan Ullah, "Identifying the Walking Patterns of Visually Impaired People by Extending White Cane with Smartphone," Multimdia Tools and Applications, Springer. February 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-023-14423-z. JCR/IF 

Muhammad Asif Khan, Yi Huang, Junlan Feng, Bhuyan Kaibalya Prasad, Zafar Ali, Irfan Ullah, and Pavlos Kefalas, "A Multi-Attention Approach Using BERT and Stacked Bidirectional LSTM for Improved Dialogue State Tracking," Applied Sciences, vol. 13, no. 3, pp.1775. January 31, 2023. DOI: 10.3390/app13031775. JCR/IF

Irfan Ullah and Shah Khusro. "On the Analysis and Evaluation of Information Retrieval Models for Social Book Search," Multimedia Tools and Applications, July 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-022-13417-7. JCR/IF

 Nabila Amir, Fouzia Jabeen, Zafar Ali, Irfan Ullah, Asim Ullah, and Pavlos Kefalas. "On the Current State of Deep Learning for News Recommendation," Artificial Intelligence Review, May 10, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s10462-022-10191-8. JCR/IF

 Asim Ullah, Shah Khusro, and Irfan Ullah. "Library Management Practices in the Libraries of Pakistan - A Detailed Retrospective," Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 41, issue 3, September 2022. DOI: 10.6017/ital.v41i3.14433. JCR/IF

 Zafar Ali, Guilin Qi, Khan Muhammad, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Irfan Ullah, Waheed Abro,"Citation recommendation employing heterogeneous bibliographic network embedding," Neural Computing and Applications, August 28, 2021. DOI:10.1007/s00521-021-06135-y. JCR/IF

 Zafar Ali, Irfan Ullah, Amin Khan, Asim Khalil, and Khan Muhammad, "An Overview and Evaluation of Citation Recommendation Models," Scientometrics, vol. 126, pp. 4083-4119, March 02, 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-021-03909-y. JCR/IF

 Shah Khalid, Shengli Wu, Abdul Wahid, Aftab Alam, and Irfan Ullah, "An Effective Scholarly Search by Combining Inverted Indices and Structured Search with Citation Networks Analysis," IEEE Access, vol. 9. pp. 120210-120226, August 25, 2021. DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3107939. JCR/IF

 Irfan Ullah, Shah Khusro, and Ibrar Ahmad, "Improving Social Book Search Using Structure Semantics, Bibliographic Descriptions and Social Metadata," Multimedia Tools and Applications, September 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-020-09811-8.  JCR/IF

 Adamu Garba, Shah Khalid, Irfan Ullah, Shah Khusro, and Diyawu Mumin, "Embedding Based Learning for Collection Selection in Federated Search," Data Technologies and Applications, September 2020. DOI: 10.1108/DTA-01-2019-0005.  JCR/IF

 Irfan Ullah and Shah Khusro, "Social Book Search: The Impact of the Social Web on Book Retrieval and Recommendation," Multimedia Tools and Applications, January 03, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-019-08591-0.  JCR/IF

 Irfan Ullah and Shah Khusro, “On the search behaviour of users in the context of interactive social book search,” Behaviour & Information Technology, pp. 1-20, April 2019. DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2019.1599069. JCR/IF

 Shah Khalid, Shengli Wu, Aftab Alam, and Irfan Ullah, “Real-time feedback query expansion technique for supporting scholarly search using citation network analysis,” Journal of Information Science, July 2019. DOI: 10.1177/0165551519863346. JCR/IF

 Shah Khalid, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, and Godfrey Dawson-Amoah, “On the Current State of Scholarly Retrieval Systems,” Engineering, Technology & Applied Science Research, vol. 9, issue 1, pp. 3862-3869, February 2019. DOI: 10.48084/etasr.2448. WoS Master Journal List

 Irfan Ullah, Shah Khusro, Asim Ullah, and Muhammad Naeem, "An Overview of the Current State of Linked and Open Data in Cataloging," Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 37, no. 3, pp-1-27, September 2018.DOI: 10.6017/ital.v37i4.10432. JCR/IF

 Izaz Khan, Shah Khusro, and Irfan Ullah, “Technology-assisted white cane: evaluation and future directions,” PeerJ, pp. 1-27, Dec. 2018. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.6058. JCR/IF

 Nosheen Fayyaz, Irfan Ullah, and Shah Khusro, "On the Current State of Linked Open Data: Issues, Challenges and Future Directions," International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 110-128, March 2018. DOI: 10.4018/IJSWIS.2018100106. JCR/IF

 Shah Khalid, Shah Khusro, and Irfan Ullah, "Crawling Ajax-based Web Applications: Evolution and State-of-the-art," Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 35-45, Jan. 2018. DOI: 10.22452/mjcs.vol31no1.3. JCR/IF

 Asim Ullah, Shah Khusro, and Irfan Ullah, "Bibliographic Classification in the Digital Age: Current Trends & Future Directions," Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 48-77, Sep. 2017. DOI: 10.6017/ital.v36i3.8930. JCR/IF

 Shah Khusro, Shaukat Ali, Iftikhar Alam, and Irfan Ullah, “Performance Evaluation of Desktop Search Engines Using Information Retrieval Systems Approaches,” Journal of Internet Technology, vol. 18, no. 5, pp. 1043-1055, Sep. 2017. DOI: 10.6138/JIT.2017.18.5.20150605. JCR/IF

 Aftab Alam, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, and 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, vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 260-274, Apr. 2017. DOI: 10.1177/0165551516637322. JCR/IF

 Asima Latif, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, and Nasir Ahmad, “A Hybrid Approach for Annotating Book Tables,” International Arab Journal of Information Technology, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 777-783, Apr. 2017. JCR/IF

 Mumtaz Khan, Shah Khusro, and Irfan Ullah, "On Linked Open Data (LOD)-based Semantic Video Annotation Systems", Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences: A. Physical and Computational Sciences, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 1-12, March 2017. HEC Category X

 Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, Akif Khan, and Inayat Khan, "SmartOntoSensor: Ontology for Semantic Interpretation of Smartphone Sensors Data for Context-Aware Applications," Journal of Sensors, vol. 2017, Article ID 8790198, pp. 1-26, February 2017. DOI:10.1155/2017/8790198. JCR/IF

 Irfan Ullah, Shah Khusro, Habib un Nabi, and Rafi Ullah, “StudentPIMS: A Smartphone-Based Personal Information Management System for Students,” International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 366-380, April 2016. WoS Master Journal List

 Mumtaz Khan, Shah Khusro, and Irfan Ullah, “On Annotation of Video Content for Multimedia Retrieval and Sharing,” International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 198-218, March 2016. WoS Master Journal List

 Shah Khusro, Asima Latif, and Irfan Ullah, “On Methods and Tools of Table Detection, Extraction and Annotation in PDF Documents,” Journal of Information Sciences, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 41-57, Oct. 2014. DOI: 10.1177/0165551514551903. JCR/IF

 Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, Azhar Rauf, and Saeed Mahfooz, “Issues and Challenges in Book Information Retrieval,” Information - An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 2055-2078, Jun. 2014. JCR/IF

Zafar Ali, Irfan Ullah, Pavlos Kefalas, Nimbeshaho Thierry, Kalim Ul Haq, and Anupam Sarkar, "Citation Recommendation employing Proximity-based Heterogeneous Network Embeddings," Accepted for Presentation at the Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2023, to be held on 7 & 8 September 2023 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

Asim Ullah, Shah Khusro, and Irfan Ullah, "Towards a Search and Navigation Platform for Making Library Websites Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired People," Accepted for Presentation in 12th Computer Science Online Conference, 2023 (CSOC2023) to be held in April 2023.

Adamu Garba, Shah Khalid, Shah Khusro, and Irfan Ullah, “Search Results Diversification based on Subtopics Attention Network,” in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems (C-CODE’ 19), 6-7 March 2019, Islamabad, Pakistan. IEEE

Imam ud Din, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, and Azhar Rauf, “Semantic History: Ontology-Based Modeling of Users’ Web Browsing Behaviors for Improved Web Page Revisitation,” in Intelligent Systems in Cybernetics and Automation Control Theory: CoMeSySo 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 860, Silhavy R. et al. Eds. Cham-Switzerland: Springer, 2018, pp. 204-215. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-00184-1_19

Izaz Khan, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, and Saeed Mahfooz, “Towards Smartphone-based Navigation for Visually Impaired People”, in Computational and Statistical Methods in Intelligent Systems. CoMeSySo 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 859, Silhavy R. et al. Eds., Cham-Switzerland: Springer, 2018, pp. 366-376. DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-00211-4_32

Syed Khurram Ali Shah, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, and Muhammad Abid Khan, “Semantic Bookmark System for Dynamic Modeling of Users’ Browsing Preferences”, in Artificial Intelligence Perspectives in Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the 7th Computer Science On-line Conference 2018 (CSOC2018) Vol. 1, Silhavy R. et al. Eds. Cham-Switzerland: Springer, 2018, pp. 279-287. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91189-2_27

Tauseef ur Rahman, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, and Zafar Ali, “Exploiting User Expertise and Willingness of Participation in Building Reputation Model for Scholarly Community-based Question & Answering (CQA) Platforms”, in Artificial Intelligence Perspectives in Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the 7th Computer Science On-line Conference 2018 (CSOC2018) Vol. 1, Silhavy R. et al. Eds. Cham-Switzerland: Springer, 2018, pp. 427-436. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91189-2_43

Irfan Ullah and Shah Khusro, “In Search of a Semantic Book Search Engine: Are We There Yet?” in Artificial Intelligence Perspectives in Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of the 5th Computer Science On-line Conference 2016 (CSOC2016) Vol. 1, Silhavy R. et al. Eds. Cham-Switzerland: Springer, 2016, pp. 347-357. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33625-1_31

Shah Khusro, Zafar Ali, and Irfan Ullah, “Recommender Systems: Issues, Challenges and Research Opportunities”, in Information Science and Applications (ICISA) 2016. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, K J Kim and N Joukov, Eds. Singapore: Springer, 2016, pp. 1179-1189. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-0557-2_112.

Fayyaz Ali, Irfan Ullah, and Shah Khusro, “An Empirical Investigation of PageRank and its Variants for Ranking Pages on the Web,” 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT'16), Islamabad, Pakistan. IEEE

Asim Ullah, Irfan Ullah, Shah Khusro, and Shaukat Ali, “BookOnt: A Comprehensive Book Structural Ontology for Book Search and Retrieval,” 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT'16), Islamabad, Pakistan. IEEE

Shah Khusro and Irfan Ullah, “Towards a Semantic Book Search Engine,” 10th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies ICOSST2016, Lahore, Pakistan. IEEE

Shah Khusro, Mumtaz Khan, and Irfan Ullah, “Collaborative Video Annotation Based on Ontological Themes, Temporal Duration and Pointing Regions,” in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS2016), Cairo, Egypt, May 9-11, 2016, pp. 121-126. DOI: 10.1145/2908446.2908471. ACM/ICPS

Zafar Ali, Shah Khusro, and Irfan Ullah, “A Hybrid Book Recommender System Based on Table of Contents (ToC) and Association Rule Mining,” in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS’16), Cairo, Egypt, May 9-11, 2016, pp.68-74. DOI: 10.1145/2908446.2908481. ACM/ICPS