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Sampled (Authored) Books

• Next-Gen Solutions for Sustainable Agronomy: Application, Technologies, and Management

Shafik, W., Physical Sciences, Cambridge Scholars, 2025: ISBN 1-0364-4965-3.

• Factoring Technology in Global Sustainability: A Focus on the Sustainable Development Goals 

Shafik, W., Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance, Springer, 2025: ISBN  978-981-96-7301-8

• Global Sustainable Transition with Inclusion: A Focus on the People with Disabilities and the Marginalized 

Shafik, W., Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance, Springer, 2025: ISBN 978-981-96-6556-3

Selected (Edited) Books

• Blockchain Technologies for Smart Circular Economy and Organisational Sustainability, 

Singh, R., Shafik, W., Kumar, V., Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance, Springer, 2025: ISBN 978-3-031-89182-3

• Transforming Healthcare Sector Through Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Sustainability, 

Singh, R., Shafik, W., Crowther, D., Kumar, V., Approaches to Global Sustainability, Markets, and Governance, Springer, 2024: ISBN 978-981-97-9554-3 

• Sustainable Healthcare Systems in Africa: Technologies, Practices, and Management

Wasswa Shafik, Adel Ben Youssef, CHITHIRAI PON Selvan, Pushan Kumar Dutta, Sustainable Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025: ISBN 9781032870205

Sampled Book Sections

• Blockchain-Based Internet of Things (B-IoT): Challenges, Solutions, Opportunities, Open Research Questions, and Future Trends

Shafik, W, Blockchain-based Internet of Things: Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions, vol. 1, 2024. Taylor & Francis.  

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Cyber Ethics for the Future World

Shafik, W, Future Communication Systems Using Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and Data Science, vol. 1, 2024. Taylor & Francis. 

• Data-Driven Future Trends and Innovation in Telemedicine

Shafik, W. Improving Security, Privacy, and Connectivity Among Telemedicine Platforms, 93-118, 2024. IGI-Global.  

• Toward a More Ethical Future of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

Shafik, W, The Ethical Frontier of AI and Data Analysis, vol. 1, pp. 362-388, 2024. IGI-Global

• Navigating Emerging Challenges in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Africa

Shafik, W, Examining the Rapid Advance of Digital Technology in Africa, vol. 1, pp. 124-144, 2024. IGI Global 

• Introduction to ChatGPT

Shafik, W, Advanced Applications of Generative AI and Natural Language Processing Models, vol. 1, pp. 1-25, 2024. IGI Global 

• Perspectives, Applications, Challenges, and Future Trends of IoT-Based Logistics

Kassim, K, Shafik, W., Sarah, N, Sumaya, N, Navigating Cyber Threats and Cybersecurity in the Logistics Industry, vol. 1, pp. 148-171, 2024. IGI Global 

• Medical Robotics and AI-Assisted Diagnostics Challenges for Smart Sustainable Healthcare

Shafik, W., T. Ali, D.L. Chandratilak, R. A. H. M. Apong, AI-Driven Innovations in Digital Healthcare: Emerging Trends, Challenges, and Applications, vol. 1, pp. 304-323, 2024. IGI Global 

• Internet of Forestry Things (IoFT) Technologies and Applications in Forest Management

Rufai, Y.Z, Shafik, W, Kalinaki, K, Iheaturu, C.J, Advanced IoT Technologies and Applications in the Industry 4.0 Digital Economy, 2024. Taylor & Francis

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)-Assisted Computer Vision (CV) in Healthcare Systems

Shafik, W., Hidayatullah, A. F., Kassim K., Aslam, M. M, Computer Vision and AI-Integrated IoT Technologies in the Medical Ecosystem, vol. 1, 2024. Taylor & Francis

• Artificial intelligence and Blockchain technology enabling cybersecurity in telehealth systems

Shafik, W, Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain Technology in Modern Telehealth Systems, vol. 1, pp. 285-326, 2023. IET

• Shafik, W. Cyber Security Perspectives in Public Spaces: Drone Case Study. In Handbook of Research on Cybersecurity Risk in Contemporary Business Systems 2023 (pp. 79-97). IGI Global. 

Sampled (Journal publication) Articles

• A Systematic Literature Review on Plant Disease Detection: Techniques, Dataset Availability, Challenges, Future Trends, and Motivations

Shafik, W., Tufail, A., Namoun, A., De Silva, L. C., & Apong, R. A. A. H. M, IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 59174-59203, (2023).

• Service delay and optimization of the energy efficiency of a system in fog-enabled smart cities

Wang, Y., Shafik, W., Seong, J., Al Mutairi A., Mustafa M.S, Alexandria Engineering Journal, vol. 84, no. pp. 112-125, (2023)

• Efficient white blood cell identification with hybrid inception-xception network

Saleh, R.A.A., Ghaleb, M., Shafik, W. et al., Journal Super Computing (2024)

Green internet of things and big data application in smart cities development

Z. Yang, L. Jianjun, H. Faqiri, W. Shafik, A. T. Abdulrahman, Complexity, (2021)

• On the identifiability and statistical features of a new distributional approach with reliability applications

Badr, A., Ahmad, Z., Jean-Claude, M., Jin-Taek, S., Shafik, W, AIP Advances, vol. 13, 125211, (2023) 

• Using a Novel Convolutional Neural Network for Plant Pests Detection and Disease Classification

Shafik, W., Tufail, A., Liyanage, C. D. S., & Apong, R. A. A. H. M., Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, pp.-5849-5861, (2023)

• Clustering of COVID-19 Multi-Time Series-Based K-Means and PCA With Forecasting

Alaziz S. N, Albayati B, El-Bagoury A. A, Shafik W, International Journal of Data Warehousing and Mining (IJDWM), 19(3):1-25, (2023)