Context awareness & behavior mining

Context-aware computing is a style of computing in which situational and environmental information about people, places and things is used to anticipate immediate needs and proactively offer enriched, situation-aware and usable content, functions and experiences. We at KDDM research group have been actively doing research in this area and have published our findings at prestigious venues. Listed below are our selected publications from the "Context Awareness & Behavior Mining" area only. Please click here for complete list of KDDM research group's publications.

Funded Project

1. Principal Investigator (PI): Dr. Hamid Turab Mirza, "Activity Pooler: A System for Proactive Desktop Assistance". (2016 - 2017) , Budget: PKR 0.39 Million, Funded By: Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan.

Journal Publications

1. D. K. Sah, X. Wu, M. Lv, H.T. Mirza (2018), "Activity-based linkage and ranking methods for personal dataspace", International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC). Inderscience Publishers, pp: 266-285, Vol: 16, Issue: 3, ISSN: 1470-949X, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMC.2018.091381, Impact Factor: 1.74 (External URL)

2. H.T. Mirza, L. Chen, I. Hussain, A. Majid, G. Chen (2015), "A Study on Automatic Classification of Users’ Desktop Interactions", Cybernetics and Systems, Taylor & Francis, pp: 320-341, Vol: 46, Issue: 5, Standard: 0196-9722, Impact Factor: 1.434 (External URL)

3. H. T. Mirza, L. Chen, A. Majid and G. Chen (2011), "Building User Task Space by Mining Temporally Proximate Desktop Actions", Cybernetics and Systems, Taylor & Francis, pp: 585-604, Vol: 42, Issue: 8, Standard: 0196-9722 (Print), 1087-6553 (Online), Impact Factor: 1.434 (External URL)

4. H. T. Mirza, L. Chen and G. Chen (2010), "Practicability of Dataspace Systems", International Journal of Digital Content Technology and its Applications (JDCTA), pp: 233-243, Vol: 4, Issue: 3, Standard: 1975-9339 (External URL)

Conference Publications

1. H. T. Mirza, L. Chen, G. Chen, I. Hussain and X. He (2011) "Switch Detector: An Activity Spotting System for Desktop", in Proc. of the 20th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), ACM, pp: 2285-2288, Standard: 978-1-4503-0717-8 (External URL)

Thesis

1. PhD Thesis (2012) – Hamid Turab Mirza – “Research on Desktop Activity based on User Interaction Log Data Mining”

2. PhD Thesis (In-Progress) – Zeeshan Ali – “Mining Behavior of Digital Users for Intelligent Task Assistance”

3. MS Thesis (SP19) – Zeeshan Ali – “Periodic Mining of Users Routine Desktop Behavior for Task Assistance”

Final Year Projects

1. FYP BSCS (Muhammad Shaharyar Zafar, Muhammad Sajid Ali, Waqas Zulfiqar) "Activity Based Desktop Search". Completed FA15

2. FYP BSCS (Nabeel Anjum, Hassam Ali Niaz, Muhammad Kamran) "Desktop Activity Rhythmic Modelling ~ DARM". Completed FA15

3. FYP BSCS (Haseeb Ahmed, Mansoora Mubashra, Muhammad Irfan) "Interruption Handling on Computers in Workplace Environments". Completed SP15

4. FYP BSCS (Syed Kamran Ahmed, Hamza Ilyas Malik, Muhammad Abdullah) "Task Management System for Desktop Users". Completed FA14

5. FYP BSCS (Misbah Kiran, Mehreen Arif, Bushra Shabbir) "Prototyping Tool & Task Management System". Completed FA13