Dr. Shah Khusro
  • Professor

Dr. Shah Khusro

Ph.D , Vienna University of Technology, Austria in Information & Web Semantics
Research Interest:  Information Retrieval, Search Engines, Recommendation Systems, Information Filtering, Web 2.0/3.0

Semantic Web, Ontology Engineering, Information Semantics, Web Engineering, Folksonomies, Annotations

Information Overload, Cognitive Overload, Information Semantics, Lifelogging

Document Processing, Document Semantics, Visual Semantics, Document Search & Navigation

Accessibility, Blind & Visually Impaired People, Assistive Technologies

Smart TV, User Interaction, Recommendations, Clustering, Ranking, User Experience

STEM Education, Digital Inclusion, Document Accessibility, Accessible Libraries, Digital Talking Books

Cyberbullying, Social Media, Content in Urdu & Other Regional Languages.
Telephone: +92-91-9216732

EDUCATION

EZA Research Fellow (Summer 2016 & 2023)

Awarded twice by the Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education & Research (OeAD-GmbH) and financed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW).

PhD (2003-2007)

Institute of Software Technology & Interactive Systems
Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Supervisor: Professor Emeritus Dr. A Min Tjoa

M.Sc. (1995-1997) with University Gold Medal

Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar, Pakistan

TEACHING

Faculty member at the Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar since May 1998. Currently working as Full Professor since October 2015 and Chairman of the department since October 2016.

Courses Taught at BS, MS and PhD Levels

Object-Oriented Programming (C++/Java), Computer Networks, Theory of Computation, Compiler Construction, Data Communication, Systems Programming, Database Systems, Data Structures, Analysis of Algorithms, Web Mining, Ontology Engineering, Information Retrieval, Web Engineering, Semantic Web, Information Architecture, Research Methodology, Social Web, Mobile Application Development, etc.

Membership of Professional Societies

IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)........................Member ID: 93741654

ACM (The Association for Computing Machinery)......................................Member ID: 1100116

IEICE  (The Institute of Electronics, Information & Communication Engineers-Japan). ID: 1680170
 IEEE Computer Society

RESEARCH

Research Labs

Web Engineering Lab
Established by the KP Directorate of IT in 2016 at the cost of Rs. 3.6 million.

ICT Accessibility Lab
Established by the KP Directorate of IT in 2018 at the cost of Rs. 7.2 million.

Approved PhD Supervisor

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

IRTC Approved Supervisor with DG S&T, Govt. of KP.

Scholar Profiles/IDs

   ORCiD Profile

   Web of Science Profile

   Google Scholar Profile

   ResearchGate Profile

Patents Filed (submitted to IPO Pakistan):

  1. Shah Khusro, Iftikhar Alam. Methods and system for the design of a media player for advanced tagging and playing media files with video effects – Application ID: 39/2019, IPO Journal Code:190215.
     
  2. Shah Khusro, Iftikhar Alam. Methods and system for creating a comprehensive e-tutor of a textbook with multimedia content of varying levels of details to reduce teaching effort in all instruction environments – Application ID: 783/2019, IPO Journal Code:191227.
     
  3. Shah Khusro, Mumtaz Khan. Methods, system, and design of a smartphone-based social assistant for helping blind users in academic environment – Application ID: 785/2019, IPO Journal Code:191227.
     
  4. Shah Khusro, Iftikhar Alam. Methods and system for real-time group profile generation and recommendations on Smart TV – Application ID: 779/2019, IPO Journal Code:191227.
     
  5. Shaukat Ali, Corina Sas, Shah Khusro, Mumtaz Khan. Smart TV-based Lifelogging System: Design and methods for capturing, processing storing, searching and retrieving lifelogging information of smart TV users. Application ID: 591/2021, IPO Journal Code:210914.

PhD Students Supervised

  1. Fouzia Jabeen (Session 2010-2011)
    Exploiting Contexts for Finding Refined Relevant Set of Tags: Towards Maintaining a Quality Folksonomy. Completed 2017.
     
  2. Shaukat Ali (Session 2009-2010)
    Exploiting Sensor Data Semantics for Smartphone-based Lifelogging: Towards the Development of Digital Prosthetic Memory on Smartphones. Completed 2017.
     
  3. Akif Khan (Session 2010-2011)
    Blind-Friendly Universal User Interfaces: Towards the Design of Adaptive User Interfaces for Blind People. Completed 2018.
     
  4. Syed Rahman Mashwani (Session 2011-2012)
    Augmented Directory Navigation for Non-Hierarchical Retrieval of Files—360? Semantic File System. Completed 2018.
     
  5. Irfan Ullah (Session 2014-2015)
    Improving Social Book Search using Structure Semantics, Bibliographic Descriptions and Social Metadata. Completed 2020.
     
  6. Iftikhar Alam (Session 2014-2015)
    Tailoring Recommendations to Groups of Viewers on Smart TV: A Real-Time Profile Generation Approach. Completed. Completed 2020.
     
  7. Inayat Khan (Session 2014-2015)
    Towards the Design of Context-aware Adaptive User Interfaces to Minimize the Driver Distractions. Completed 2020.
     
  8. Nosheen Fayyaz (Session 2016-2017)
    Summarizing and Querying PDF Tables to Make Them Accessible for Blind and Visually Impaired People.
     
  9. Mumtaz Khan (Session 2017-18)
    Towards the Design of Personalized Adaptive User Interfaces for Smart TV Viewers.
     
  10. Amjad Ali (In Progress)
    Towards More Inclusive STEM Education: Making Mathematics More Accessible for School Students with Visual Disabilities.
     
  11. Salah ud Din (In Progress)
    Cyberbullying on Social Media.

MS Students Supervised

  1. Wajid Shaukat
    Making Printed Books Accessible for Visually Impaired School Students
     
  2. Farhan Ali Safdar
    Towards Accessible Classroom Environment by Realtime Detection of Whiteboard, Slides and Instructor using Smartphone
     
  3. Mohsin Ali
    Realtime Handwritten Text Detection and Recognition from Whiteboard for Visually Impaired Learners
     
  4. Taimoor Khan
    Exploring the Content and Context of Urdu News Articles using AI Techniques
     
  5. Abdullah
    Using Document Layout and Content Semantics for Information Extraction from Technical Magazines
     
  6. Asma Ali
    Ontology-Based Modeling of Information Extracted from Technical Magazines
     
  7. Syed Qasim Shah
    Personalized Real-Time Program Recommendation on Smart TV using Federated Electronic Program Guide
     
  8. Qamar Zaman
    Improved Detection and Interpretation of Signboards in Natural Scene for Visually Impaired Persons
     
  9. Abdul Haq
    Towards Better Recognition of Face, Age, Gender and Number of Viewers in a Smart TV Environment
     
  10. Ibrar Ahmad
    How Do I Teach? Towards a More Engaging Teaching Experience Using Off-The-Shelf Devices
     
  11. Muhib Ullah
    Smartphone Based Cognitive Assistance of Blind People in Room Recognition and Awareness
     
  12. Azhar ud Din
    Age-Based Ranking of YouTube Videos for Improved Parental Controls in SmartTV Environment
     
  13. Malang Jan
    User Interaction Based Content Clustering on SMart TV
     
  14. Waheed Murad
    Recommending Expert Freelancers to Buyers in Online Marketplaces
     
  15. Waseem Khan
    Recommending Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to Developers Based on Technical Specifications
     
  16. Sonam Yar
    Client-side Revisitation Support with Contextual and Dynamic Suggestions for the Speed Dial’s Thumbnail
     
  17. Muhammad Asim
    Content Based Call for Papers Recommendation to Researchers
     
  18. Hidayat Ullah
    Assisting Blind Persons in Joining Congregational Prayers using Smartphone
     
  19. Sumayya Khan
    Haptic Feedback to Assist Blind People in Indoor Environment using Vibration Patterns
     
  20. Summan Zaib
    Smartphone Based Indoor Navigation for Blind Persons using User Profile and Simplified Building Information Model
     
  21. Durre Shehwar
    Towards Development of Indoor Obstacles Ontology for Context Provision to Visually Impaired Persons
     
  22. Fayyaz Ali
    Ratio-Based Weighted PageRank: A Novel Approach to Ranking Web Pages with Fast Convergence and Rank Preservation
     
  23. Aizaz Khan
    Smart White Cane for Identifying Walking Patterns of a Visually Impaired Person Through Smartphone Sensor Data Fusion
     
  24. Nabeela
    A Rich Tag Cloud Interface to a Book Collection
     
  25. Sehrish Rafiq
    Discovering Semantic Relationships Among PDF Book Figures Using Contextual Similarity
     
  26. Syed Khurram Ali Shah
    A Semantic Bookmark System for Dynamic Modeling of Users Browsing Preferences
     
  27. Imam ud Din
    Semantic History: Ontology-based Modeling of Users’ Web Browsing Behaviors for Improved Web Page Revisitation
     
  28. Tauseef ur Rahman
    An Integrated Approach to Expert Recommendation in Social Information Seeking Platforms
     
  29. Bahadar Ali
    Searching Tabular Information in PDF Book Collection using Schema Matching Techniques
     
  30. Zafar Ali
    A Hybrid Approach to Book Recommendation using Table of Contents and Association Rule Mining
     
  31. Asim Ullah
    The Design and Development of a Comprehensive Book Structure Ontology
     
  32. Badam Niazi
    Designing a User Interface for Blind People to Perform Common Activities on Smartphones
     
  33. Mumtaz Khan
    Collaborative Video Annotation based on Ontological Themes, Temporal Duration and Pointing Regions
     
  34. Aisha Khan
    FolksoMap - A Map-like Zoomable Interface to a Tag Space
     
  35. Asima Lateef
    Extracting and Annotating Book Tables using DBpedia and Search Engine Snippets
     
  36. Jehangir Khan
    Integrating Short Message Service (SMS) in Open Source Digital Signage System for Academic Environments
     
  37. Amna Majid
    Discovering and Utilizing Tag Semantics for Mapping in Folksonomies and Vocabularies
     
  38. Aftab Alam
    Confluence of Online Social Network, Social Question and Answering Community, and User Reputation Model for Information Seeking and Expert Generation
     
  39. Iftikhar Alam
    Short Message Service (SMS) based Survey Questionnaire and Form Processing
     
  40. Inayat Khan
    An Investigation of Smartphone Sensors in Daily Life Activities and Their Effect on Battery Life
     
  41. Irfan Ullah
    The Design of a Scalable and Flexible Book Search Engine
     
  42. Shah Khalid
    Crawling AJAX-Based Web Applications
     
  43. Nisar Muhammad
    Towards Search Results Ranking in Social Bookmarking Environments
     
  44. Syed Rahman
    E-mail address privacy via Proxy E-Mails Accounts
     
  45. Inayat Ullah
    Impact of Network Scalability on the Performance of RIP and IGRP for Email Services
     

List of Publications

Journal Articles

  1. Amjad Ali, Shah Khusro*, “SA-MEAS: Sympy-based automated mathematical equations analysis and solver,” SoftwareX, Vol. 25, Issue 2024, pp. 101596, December 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.softx.2023.101596. JCR/IF
     
  2. Mumtaz Khan, Shah Khusro*, “Towards the Design of Personalized Adaptive User Interfaces for Smart TV Viewers,” Journal of King Saud University – Computer and Information Sciences, Vol. 35, Issue 9, pp. 101777, July 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.jksuci.2023.101777. JCR/IF
     
  3. Mumtaz Khan, Shah Khusro*, “SmartLog: A Smart TV-based Lifelogging System for Capturing, Storing, and Visualizing Watching Behavior,” International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 35, Issue 9, pp. 101777, Aug 2023. DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2023.2250054. JCR/IF
     
  4. Nosheen Fayyaz, Shah Khusro*, Imranuddin, “Enhancing Accessibility for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Presenting Semantic Information in PDF Tables,” Journal of King Saud University – Computer and Information Sciences, Vol. 35, Issue 7, pp. 1-13, June 2023. DOI: 10.1016/j.jksuci.2023.101617. JCR/IF
     
  5. Irfan Ullah, Sikandar Alam, Zafar Ali, Mahmood Khan, Shah Khusro, “On the Current Sate of Query Formulation for Book Search,” Artificial Intelligence Review, pp. 1-46, Apr. 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s10462-023-10483-7. JCR/IF
     
  6. Fouzia Jabeen, Shah Khusro, and Nasreen Anjum, “Research in Collaborative Tagging Applications: Choosing the Right Dataset,” VAWKUM Transactions on Computer Science, pp. 1-25, Mar. 2023. DOI: 10.21015/vtcs.v11i1.1305. HEC Category Y
     
  7. Izaz Khan, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, “Identifying the Walking Patterns of Visually Impaired People by Extending White Cane with Smartphone Sensors,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. 1-21, Jan. 2023. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-023-14423-z. JCR/IF
     
  8. Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro, Akif Khan, Inayat Khan, Iftikhar Alam, and Salman Faiz Solehria “SLOG: Smartphone-based semantic lifelogging framework for digital prosthetic memory development,” Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 1-32, Dec. 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s00779-022-01701-0. JCR/IF
     
  9. Asim Ullah, Shah Khusro, Irfan Ullah, “Library Management Practices in the Libraries of Pakistan – A Detailed Retrospective,” Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 41, issue 3, pp. 1-47, Sept. 2022. DOI: 10.6017/ital.v41i3.14433. JCR/IF
     
  10. Irfan Ullah, Shah Khusro, “On the analysis and evaluation of information retrieval models for social book search,” Multimedia Tools & Applications, Vol. 2022, pp. 1-48, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-022-13417-7. JCR/IF
     
  11. Zafar Ali, Guilin Qi, Pavlos Kefalas, Shah Khusro, Inayat Khan, Khan Muhammad, "SPR-SMN: scientific paper recommendation employing SPECTER with memory network," Scientometrics, vol. 2022, pp. 1-23, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/s11192-022-04425-3. JCR/IF
     
  12. Ibrar Ahmad, Shah Khusro, Iftikhar Alam, Inayat Khan, and Badam Niazi, “Towards a Low-cost Teacher Orchestration using Ubiquitous Computing Devices for Detecting Students’ Engagement,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2022, Article ID 7979766, pp. 1-21, 2022. DOI: 10.1155/2022/7979766. JCR/IF
     
  13. Muhib Ullah, Shah Khusro, Mumtaz Khan, Iftikhar Alam, Inayat Khan, and Badam Niazi, “Smartphone based Cognitive Assistance of Blind People in Room Recognition and Awareness,” Mobile Information Systems, vol. 2022, Article ID 6068584, pp. 1-14, 2022. DOI: 10.1155/2022/6068584. JCR/IF
     
  14. Malang Jan, Shah Khusro, Iftikhar Alam, Inayat Khan, and Badam Niazi, “Interest-Based Content Clustering for Enhancing Searching and Recommendations on Smart TV,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2022, Article ID 3896840, pp. 1-14, 2022. DOI: 10.1155/2022/3896840. JCR/IF
     
  15. Mumtaz Khan, Shah Khusro, Iftikhar Alam, Shaukat Ali, and Inayat Khan, “Perspectives on the Design, Challenges, and Evaluation of Smart TV User Interfaces,” Scientific Programming, vol. 2022, Article ID 2775959, pp. 1-14, 2022. DOI: 10.1155/2022/2775959. JCR/IF
     
  16. Shah Khusro, Babar Shah*, Inayat Khan, and Sumayya Rehman, “Haptic Feedback to Assist Blind People in Indoor Environment Using Vibration Patterns,” Sensors, vol. 22, issue 1, pp. 1-20, Jan 2022. DOI: 10.3390/s22010361. JCR/IF
     
  17. Inayat Khan, and Shah Khusro, “ConTEXT: context-aware adaptive SMS client for drivers to reduce risky driving behaviors,” Soft Computing, vol. 26, issue 5, pp. 1-18, Jan 2022. DOI: 10.1155/2021/5802658. JCR/IF
     
  18. Inayat Khan, Sanam Rizvi, Shah Khusro, Shaukat Ali, and Tae-Sun Chung, “Analyzing Drivers’ Distractions due to Smartphone Usage: Evidence from AutoLog Dataset,” Mobile Information Systems, vol. 2021, pp. 1-14, September 2021. DOI: 10.1155/2021/5802658. JCR/IF
     
  19. Nosheen Fayyaz, Shah Khusro*, Shakir Ullah, “Accessibility of Tables in PDF Documents: Issues, Challenges and Future Directions,” Information Technology and Libraries, vol. 40, issue 3, pp. 1-20, Sept. 2021. JCR/IF
     
  20. Akif Khan, Shah Khusro “A mechanism for blind-friendly user interface adaptation of mobile apps – a case study for improving the user experience of the blind people,” Springer Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, pp. 1-31, July 2021. DOI: 10.1007/s12652-021-03393-5. JCR/IF
     
  21. Zafar Ali, Guilin Qi, Khan Muhammad, Pavlos Kefalas, Shah Khusro, “Global Citation Recommendation employing Generative Adversarial Network,” Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 180, Issue August 2021, pp. 1-11, Mar. 2021. JCR/IF
     
  22. Iftikhar Alam, Shah Khusro*, Mumtaz Khan, “Personalized Content Recommendations on Smart TV: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Research Directions,” Elsevier Entertainment Computing, Vol. 38, Issue May 2021, pp. 1-13, Feb. 2021. JCR/IF
     
  23. Fayyaz Ali, Shah Khusro* “Content and Link-Structure Perspective of Ranking Webpages: A Review,” Elsevier Computer Science Review, Vol. 40, Issue May 2021, pp. 1-31, Mar. 2021. JCR/IF
     
  24. Adamu Garba, Shah Khalid, Irfan Ullah, Shah Khusro, Mumin Diyawu, “Embedding Based Learning for Collection Selection in Federated Search,” Data Technologies and Applications, vol. 54, Issue 5, pp. 703-717, Oct. 2020. DOI: 10.1108/DTA-01-2019-0005. JCR/IF
     
  25. Irfan Ullah, Shah Khusro*, Ibrar Ahmad, "Improving Social Book Search Using Structure Semantics, Bibliographic Descriptions and Social Metadata," Multimedia Tools and Applications, Sept. 2020. DOI:10.1007/s11042-020-09811-8.  JCR/IF
     
  26. Inayat Khan, Shah Khusro*, Niamat Ullah, and Shaukat Ali, "AutoLog: Towards the Design of a Vehicular Lifelogging Framework for Capturing, Storing, and Visualizing LifeBits," IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 1-15, July 2020. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3011660. JCR/IF
     
  27. Akif Khan and Shah Khusro, “An insight into smartphone-based assistive solutions for visually impaired and blind people – issues, challenges and opportunities,” Universal Access in Information Society, pp. 1-34, July 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s10209-020-00733-8/. JCR/IF
     

  28. Inayat Khan and Shah Khusro*, "Towards the Design of Context-Aware Adaptive User Interfaces to Minimize Drivers’ Distractions," Mobile Information Systems, pp.1-23, July 2020 (Article ID 8858886), DOI: 10.1155/2020/8858886. JCR/IF

  29. Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro, Akif Khan, Inayat Khan, and Salman Faiz Solheria, "An Insight into Smartphone-Based Lifelogging Research: Issues, Challenges, and Research Opportunities," Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences: A. Physical and Computational Sciences, Vol. 56, Issue 3, pp. 69-84, March 2020. HEC Category X.
     
  30. Iftikhar Alam and Shah Khusro*, “Tailoring Recommendations to Groups of Viewers on Smart TV: A Real-time Profile Generation Approach,” IEEE Access, Vol. 8, pp. 50814-50827, March 2020. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2980206. JCR/IF
     
  31. Irfan Ullah and Shah Khusro*, "Social Book Search: The Impact of the Social Web on Book Retrieval and Recommendation," Multimedia Tools and Applications, Jan. 2020. DOI:10.1007/s11042-019-08591-0.  JCR/IF
     
  32. Madeeha Aman, Saeed Mahfooz, Muhammad Zubair, Neelam Mukhtar, Kanwal Imran, and Shah Khusro, "Tunnel-Free Distributed Mobility Management (DMM) Support Protocol for Future Mobile Networks," Electronics, Vol. 8, Issue 12, pp. 1519, Dec. 2019. DOI: 10.3390/electronics8121519. JCR/IF
     
  33. 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.2019.15 JCR/IF
     
  34. Iftikhar Alam, Shah Khusro*, and Mumtaz Khan “Factors Affecting the Performance of Recommender Systems in a Smart TV Environment,” Technologies, vol. 7, issue 2, pp. 1-19, May 2019. DOI: 10.3390/technologies7020041 WoS Master Journal List
     
  35. Ahmad Alkhodre, Toqeer Ali Syed, Salman Jan, Yazed Alsaawy, Shah Khusro, and Muhammad Yasar Khan, “A Blockchain-based Value Added Tax (VAT) System: Saudi Arabia as a Use-Case,” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vol. 10, issue 5, pp. 708-716, May 2019. DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2019.0100588 WoS Master Journal List
     
  36. 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, Feb. 2019. WoS Master Journal List
     
  37. Syed Rahman Mashwani and Shah Khusro*, "360° Semantic File System: Augmented directory navigation for nonhierarchical retrieval of files," IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 1-13, Jan. 2019. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2890165 JCR/IF
     
  38. Akif Khan and Shah Khusro*, "Blind-friendly user interfaces – a pilot study on improving the accessibility of touchscreen interfaces," Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp-1-15, Jan. 2019. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-018-7094-y. JCR/IF
     
  39. Fouzia Jabeen and Shah Khusro, “Core Architecture and Design Issues of Collaborative Tagging Applications,” extended version in Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol. 12, issue 43, pp. 1-16, Nov. 2019. DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2019/v12i43/146432. WoS Master Journal List
     
  40. Shah Khusro, Fouzia Jabeen, and Aisha Khan, “Tag Clouds: Past, Present and Future,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, India Section A: Physical Sciences, pp. 1-15, Dec. 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s40010-018-0571-. JCR/IF
     
  41. 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
     
  42. Irfan Ullah, Shah Khusro*, Asim Ullah, and Muhammad Naeem, " An Overview of the Current State of Linked and Open Data in Cataloging," Information Technologies and Libraries, vol. 37, no. 3, pp-1-27, Sep. 2018. JCR/IF
     
  43. Akif Khan, Shah Khusro*, Badam Niazi, Jamil Ahmad, Iftikhar Alam, and Inayat Khan, "TetraMail: a usable email client for blind people," Universal Access in Information Society, pp-1-20, Sep. 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s10209-018-0633-5. JCR/IF
     
  44. Akif Khan and Shah Khusro*, "BlindSense: An Accessibility-inclusive Universal User Interface for Blind People," Engineering Technology & Applied Science Research, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 2775-2784, Apr. 2018. WoS Master Journal List
     
  45. Syed Rahman Mashwani and Shah Khusro*, "The Design and Development of a Semantic File System Ontology," Engineering Technology & Applied Science Research, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 2827-2833, Apr. 2018. WoS Master Journal List
     
  46. 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, Mar. 2018. JCR/IF
     
  47. 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. JCR/IF
     
  48. Inayat Khan, Muhammad Abid Khan, Shah Khusro*, and Muhammad Naeem, “Vehicular Lifelogging: Issues, Challenges and Research Opportunities,” Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Robotic Applications, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 30-37, Dec. 2017. HEC Category Y
     
  49. 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. JCR/IF
     
  50. 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. JCR/IF
     
  51. Danish Wadood, Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, and Shaukat Ali, "Identifying key influential parameters of high profile criminals through statistical correlation," Cluster Computing, vol. , no. , pp. , Jul. 2017. DOI: doi.org/10.1007/s1058. JCR/IF
     
  52. Iftikhar Alam, Muhammad Abid Khan, Muhammad Naeem, and Shah Khusro*, “There is no such thing as free lunch: An investigation of Bloatware effects on smart devices,” Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Robotic Applications, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 1-10, Jun. 2017. HEC Category Y
     
  53. Shah Khusro, Aftab Alam, and Shah Khalid, “Social Question and Answer Sites: The Story So Far,” Emerald’s Program, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 170-190, Jun 2017. JCR/IF
     
  54. 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
     
  55. 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
     
  56. Fakhre Alam, Sami Ur Rahman, Adnan Khalil, Sehat Ullah, and Shah Khusro, "Quantitative Evaluation of Intrinsic Registration Methods for Medical Images," Sindh University Research Journal, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 43-48, Mar. 2017. HEC Category X
     
  57. 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, Mar. 2017. HEC Category X
     
  58. 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, Feb. 2017. doi:10.1155/2017/8790198. JCR/IF
     
  59. Inayat Khan, Shah Khusro*, Shaukat Ali, and Jamil Ahmed, “Sensors are Power Hungry: An Investigation of Smartphone Sensors Impact on Battery Power from Lifelogging Perspective,” Bahria University Journal of ICT, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 7-19, Dec. 2016. HEC Category Y
     
  60. Zurah Bibi, Jamil Ahmad, Amjad Ali, Amnah Siddiqa, Samar Hayat Khan Tareen, Shaheen Shahzad, Hussnain Ahmed Janjua, and Shah Khusro, “On the Modeling and Analysis of the Biological Regulatory Network of NF-kB Activation in HIV-1 Infection,” Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, vol. 4, no. 1, Dec. 2016. DOI:10.1186/s40294-015-0013-4. WoS Master Journal List
     
  61. Sadia, Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, Saeed Mahfooz, and Rashid Ahmad, "A Robust System Detector for Clone Attacks on Facebook Platform," NED University Journal of Research, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 71-80, Sep. 2016. HEC Category X
     
  62. Fakhre Alam, Sami Ur Rahman, Adnan Khalil, Shah Khusro, and Muhammad Sajjad, "Deformable Registration Methods for Medical Images: A Review Based on Performance Comparison," Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences: A. Physical and Computational Sciences, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 111-130, Jun. 2016. HEC Category X
     
  63. Fakhre Alam, Sami ur Rahman, and Shah Khusro, “Evaluation of Medical Image Registration Techniques Based on Nature and Domain of the Transformation”, Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, vol 47, no. 2, pp. 178-193, Jun. 2016. DOI: 10.1016/j.jmir.2015.12.081. Elsevier Indexed
     
  64. Shaukat Ali and Shah Khusro*, “POEM: Practical Ontology Engineering Model for Semantic Web Ontologies,” Cogent Engineering, vol. 3 2016, no. 1, pp. 1-39, May 2016. DOI: 10.1080/23311916.2016.1193959. Scopus Indexed
     
  65. Shaukat Ali and Shah Khusro*, “Mobile Phone Sensing: A New Application Paradigm,” Indian Journal of Science & Technology, vol. 9, no. 19, pp. 1-42, May 2016. DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2016/v9i19/53088. WoS Master Journal List
     
  66. 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, Apr. 2016. WoS Master Journal List
     
  67. Inayat Khan, Shah Khusro*, Shaukat Ali, and Aziz Uddin, “Daily Life Activities on Smartphones and Their Effect on Battery Life for Better Personal Information Management,” Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences: A. Physical and Computational Sciences, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 61-74, Mar. 2016. HEC Category X
     
  68. 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, Mar. 2016. WoS Master Journal List
     
  69. Fouzia Jabeen, Shah Khusro*, Amna Majid, and Azhar Rauf, "Semantic Discovery in Social Tagging Systems: A Review," Multimedia Tools and Application, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 573-605, Jan. 2016. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-014-2309-3. JCR/IF
     
  70. Fouzia Jabeen and Shah Khusro*, “Quality-protected folksonomy maintenance approaches: a brief survey,” The Knowledge Engineering Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 521-544, Oct. 2015. DOI: 10.1017/S0269888915000120. JCR/IF
     
  71. Akif Khan and Shah Khusro*, “The Rise of Augmented Reality Browsers – Trends, Challenges and Opportunities,” Pakistan Journal of Science, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 288-300, Sep. 2015. HEC Category Y
     
  72. B. Aslam, J. Ahmad, A. Ali, R.Z. Paracha, S.H.K. Tareen, S. Khusro, T. Ahmad, S.A. Muhammad, U. Niazi, and V. Azevedo, “Structural modeling and analysis of dengue-mediated inhibition of interferon signaling pathway,” Genetics and Molecular Research, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 4215-4237, Apr. 2015. DOI: 10.4238/2015.April.28.4. JCR/IF
     
  73. Akif Khan, Shah Khusro*, Azhar Rauf, and Saeed Mahfooz, “Rebirth of Augmented Reality – Enhancing Reality via Smartphones,” Bahria University Journal of ICT, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 110-121, Apr. 2015. HEC Category Y
     
  74. Fakhre Alam, Samiur Rahman, Shah Khusro, and Shaukat Ali, “Towards a Semantic Web Stack Applicable for Both RDF and Topic Maps: A Survey,” Technical Journal, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 114-124, Apr. 2015. HEC Category Y
     
  75. Fakhre Alam, Mohammad Abid, Sami Ur Rahman, Shah Khusro, and Shaukat Ali, “Resource Description Framework and Topic Maps: Complementary or Competitive? A Survey,” Proceedings of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 1-14, March 2015. HEC Category X
     
  76. Fakhre Alam, Sami Ur Rahman, Shah Khusro, and Shaukat Ali, “A Roadmap for Killer Applications Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Topic Maps,” Science International, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 185-190, Feb. 2015. WoS Master Journal List/HEC Category Z
     
  77. Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro*, Laiq Hassan, and Asif Ali, “A Survey of Mobile Phones Context-Awareness using Sensing Computing Research,” Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 75-93, Dec. 2014. HEC Category X
     
  78. Mohammad Abrar, Alex Tze Hiang Sim, Dilawar Shah, Shah Khusro, and Abdusalam, “Weather Prediction using Classification,” Science International, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 2217-2223, Dec. 2014. WoS Master Journal List/HEC Category Z
     
  79. Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro*, Azhar Rauf, and Saeed Mahfooz, “Sensors and Mobile Phones: Evolution and State-of-the-Art,” Pakistan Journal of Science, vol. 66, no. 4, pp. 386-400, Dec. 2014. HEC Category Y
     
  80. Fakhre Alam, Shaukat Ali, Muhammad Abid, Shah Khusro, and Azhar Rauf, “A Comparative Study of RDF and Topic Maps Development Tools and APIs,” Bahria University Journal of ICT, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 1-12, Dec. 2014. HEC Category Y
     
  81. 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
     
  82. Shah Khusro, Fouzia Jabeen, Syed Rahman, and Iftikhar Alam, “Linked Open Data: Towards the Realization of Semantic Web- A Review,” Indian Journal of Science & Technology, vol.7, no. 6, pp. 745-764, Jun. 2014. WoS Master Journal List
     
  83. Shah Khusro, Irfanullah, Azhar Rauf, and Saeed Mahfooz, “Issues and Challenges in Book IR,” Information - An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 2055-2078, Jun. 2014. JCR/IF
     
  84. Shaukat Ali, Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, Muhammad Zubair, Haleem Farman, and Sajid Ullah, “An Authorization Model to Access Summarized Data of a Data Warehouse,” Life Science Journal, vol. 11, no. 6s, pp. 608-610, Jun. 2014. ISSN 1097-8135. http:// www.lifesciencesite.com. 125. JCR/IF
     
  85. Fakhre Alam, Abid Khan, Shaukat Ali, and Shah Khusro, “Jigsaw of Serialization Formats,” Proceedings of Pakistan Academy of Sciences, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 101-114, June 2014. HEC Category X
     
  86. Iftikhar Alam, Shah Khusro, Azhar Rauf, and Qamruz Zaman, “Conducting Surveys and Data Collection: From Traditional to Mobile and SMS-based Surveys,” Pakistan Journal of Statistics & Operations Research, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 169-187, June 2014. HEC Category Y
     
  87. Kanwal Imran, Saeed Mahfooz, Azhar Rauf, and Shah Khusro, “Enhanced Authentication Scheme for Proxy Mobile IPv6,” Life Science Journal, vol. 11, no. 3s, pp. 12-18, Mar. 2014. ISSN:1097-8135. http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 3. JCR/IF
     
  88. Fatima Liaqat, Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, and Saeed Mahfooz, “Variable K-Anonymity: An Approach for Minizing Data Loss and Maintaining Usefulness of Data,” NED University Journal of Research, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 27-36, Mar. 2014. HEC Category Y
     
  89. Fouzia Jabeen, Shah Khusro, Saeed Mahfooz, Azhar Rauf, and Jehangir Khan, “Relevance of Tags to Images: A Brief Survey of Major Parameters and Evaluation Measures,” Life Science Journal, vol. 10, no. 12s, pp. 321-325, Dec. 2013. ISSN:1097-8135. http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 55. JCR/IF
     
  90. Shah Khusro, Akif Khan, Saeed Mahfooz, Azhar Rauf, and Shaukat Ali, “Navigating and Browsing Linked Open Data: State-of-the-Art,” Life Science Journal, vol. 10, no. 11s, pp. 349-358, Nov. 2013. ISSN:1097-8135. http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 64. JCR/IF
     
  91. Shah Khusro, Syed Rahman Mashwani, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, and Shaukat Ali, “A Study of File System Objects’ Metadata,” Life Science Journal, vol. 10, no. 11s, pp. 343-348, Nov. 2013. ISSN:1097-8135. http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 63. JCR/IF
     
  92. Inayat Ullah, Shah Khusro*, Azhar Rauf, and Saeed Mahfooz, “Impact of Network Scalability on the performance of RIP and IGRP for Email Services,” Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 115-130, Jun. 2013. HEC Category X
     
  93. Azhar Rauf, Adnan Amin, Saeed Mahfooz, and Shah Khusro, “The Performance of MapReduce Over the Varying Nature of Data,” Life Science Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1263-1266, Apr. 2013. ISSN:1097-8135. http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 166. JCR/IF
     
  94. Shah Khusro, Shaukat Ali, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, Syed Rehman, Akif Khan, and Fouzia Jabeen, “Unleashing Sensor Data on Linked Open Data-The Story So Far,” Life Science Journal, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 1766-1786, Apr. 2013. ISSN:1097-8135. http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 232. JCR/IF
     
  95. Nisar Muhammad, Shah Khusro, Saeed Mahfooz, and Azhar Rauf, “A Literature Survey on Ranking Tagged Web Documents in Social Bookmarking Systems,” IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 56-69, Jan. 2013. DOI: 10.9790/0661-1155669
     
  96. Shaukat Ali, Huma Javed, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz and Shah Khusro, “Natural Language Interface for Sensor Networks,” World Applied Sciences Journal, vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 1563-1567, Nov. 2012. WoS Master Journal List
     
  97. Sajid Iqbal, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, Shah Khusro, and Sajid H. Shah, “Self-Constructing Fragile Watermark Algorithm for Relational Database Integrity Proof,” World Applied Sciences Journal, vol. 19, no. 9, pp.1273-1277, Sep. 2012. WoS Master Journal List
     
  98. Azhar Rauf, Sheeba, Saeed Mahfooz, Shah Khusro, and Huma Javed, “Enhanced K-Mean Clustering Algorithm to Reduce Number of Iterations and Time Complexity,” Middle-East Journal of Scientific Research, vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 959-963, Jul. 2012
     
  99. Bilal Khan, Azhar Rauf, Sajid H. Shah, and Shah Khusro, “Identification and Removal of Duplicated Records,” World Applied Sciences Journal, vol. 13, no. 5, pp.1178-1184, May 2011. WoS Master Journal List
     
  100. Shah Khusro, Jamil Ahmad, and Azhar Rauf, “User Modeling: From Early Shell Systems to the Desktop and Smartphones,” PUTAJ Sciences, vol. 18, pp. 293-304, Jan. 2011.
     
  101. Azhar Rauf, Tariq Sadad, Shah Khusro, and Imran Saeed, “Measuring Data Loss with K-Anonymity,” PUTAJ Sciences, vol. 18, pp. 279-292, Jan. 2011.
     
  102. Atif Khan, Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, and Saeed Mahfooz, “A Framework for Measuring and Improving Data Quality,” PUTAJ Sciences, vol. 18, pp. 251-278, Jan. 2011.
     
  103. Haider Ali, Saeed Mahfooz, Azhar Rauf, and Shah Khusro, “Using Mobile Phones for Quizzes in M-Learning Environments,” PUTAJ Sciences, vol. 17, pp. 93-101, Nov. 2010.
     
  104. Shah Khusro, Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, and A Min Tjoa, “PIM and Semantic Desktop – Past, Present, and the Future,” Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 67-76, Jul. 2010. HEC Category Z
     
  105. Azhar Rauf, Saeed Mahfooz, Shah Khusro, and Shabir Ahmad, “Achieving K-Anonymity without Generalization and Suppression,” Journal of Science and Technology, vol. 34, no 2, pp. 59-66, Jul. 2010. HEC Category Z
     
  106. Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, Sharafat Ali, and Sareer Bacha, “Joining Tables on Secret Primary Keys,” Journal of Science & Technology, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 73-80, Jan. 2010. HEC Category Z
     
  107. Shah Khusro, Azhar Rauf, and Saeed Mahfooz, ‘Towards Better Ranking in Social Bookmarking Environments,” PUTAJ Sciences, vol. 17, pp. 73-82, Jan. 2010
     
  108. Azhar Rauf, Sareer Badshah, Shah Khusro, Saeed Mahfooz, and Huma Javed, “Mathematical Models for Cell-plus-Innocent Security Techniques,” PUTAJ Sciences, vol. 17, pp. 39-44, Jan. 2010.
     
  109. Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, and Sareer Bacha, “Estimated Models for Fine-grained Security Techniques,” Journal of Science & Technology, vol. 33, no. 1&2, pp. 35-39, Jul. 2009. HEC Category Z
     
  110. Azhar Rauf, Sareer Bacha, and Shah Khusro, “A Comparative Study of Fine-grained Security Techniques based on Data Accessibility and Inference,” World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Journal, vol. 31, pp. 302-310, Jul. 2009.

Conference Papers & Book Chapters

  1. Qamar Zaman, Shah Khusro, and A Min Tjoa, "Improved Detection and Interpretation of Multilingual Signboards in Natural Scene for Visually Impaired People," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Data and Software Engineering (ICoDSE 2023), 7-8 September 2023, Toba, Sumatera Utara, Indonesia. DOI: 10.1109/ICoDSE59534.2023.10291385. IEEE
  1. Asim Ullah, Shah Khusro and Irfan Ullah, “Towards a Search and Navigation Platform for Making Library Websites Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired People?” in Software Engineering Research in System Science: Proceedings of the 12th Computer Science On-line Conference 2023 (CSOC2023) Vol. 1, Silhavy R. et al. Eds. Cham-Switzerland: Springer, 2023, pp. 595-607. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35311-6_57
     
  2. Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro, and Mumtaz Khan, “Desktop Search Engines: A Review from User Perspectives,” in Protecting User Privacy in Web Search Utilization, pp. 63-96, IGI Global Hershey PA, 2023. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-6914-9.ch004
  1. Iftikhar Alam, Azhar Uddin, and Shah Khusro, "Age-Based Ranking of YouTube Videos for Improved Parental Controls in Smart TV Environment," in Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Electronics, Computing and Communication (ICETECC 2022), 7-9 December 2022, Jamshoro, Pakistan. IEEE
  2. Abdul Haq, Shah Khusro*, and Iftikhar Alam, “Towards Better Recognition of Age, Gender, and Number of Viewers in a Smart TV Environment” in Proceedings of the: MAJU Conference on Informatics and Computing 2021 (MAJICC'21), July 15-17, 2021, Karachi, Pakistan. DOI: 10.1109/MAJICC53071.2021.9526269 IEEE
     
  3. Mumtaz Khan, Shah Khusro*, and Iftikhar Alam, “Smart TV-based Lifelogging Systems: Current Trends, Challenges, and the Road Ahead,” in Information and Knowledge in Internet of Things. CFC IKIT 2021. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Series, pp. 31-58, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75123-4_2
     
  4. Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro, Akif Khan and Hayat Khan, “Smartphone-Based Lifelogging: Towards Realization of Personal Big Data,” in Information and Knowledge in Internet of Things. CFC IKIT 2021. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Series, pp. 249-309, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-75123-4_12
     
  5. Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro, Sajid Anwar and Abrar Ullah, “OntoCOVID: Ontology for Semantic Modeling of COVID19 Statistical Data,” in Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2021), Nov. 13-14, 2021, Dubai, UAE. IEEE
     
  6. Sehrish Rafiq, Shah Khusro*, and Nosheen Fayyaz, "Discovering Semantic Relationships among PDF Book Figures using Contextual and Visual Similarity" in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT'19), December 16-18, 2019, Islamabad, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  7. Shah Khusro, Badam Niazi, Akif Khan, and Iftikhar Alam, "Evaluating Smartphone Screen Divisions for Designing Blind-Friendly Touch-Based Interfaces," in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT'19), December 16-18, 2019, Islamabad, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  8. Iftikhar Alam, Shah Khusro*, and Mumtaz Khan, "Usability Barriers in Smart TV User Interfaces: A Review and Recommendations," in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT'19), December 16-18, 2019, Islamabad, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  9. Inayat Khan, Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro*, “Smartphone-Based Lifelogging: An Investigation of Data Volume Generation Strength of Smartphone Sensors,” in Simulation Tools and Techniques. SIMUtools 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, Vol; 295, pp. 63-73, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32216-8_6
     
  10. Waheed Murad, Shah Khusro*, Iftikhar Alam and Shaukat Ali, “Recommending Expert Freelancers To Buyers In Online Marketplaces,” in Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE-2019), 24-25 July, Swat, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  11. Summan Zeb, Shah Khusro*, Shaukat Ali and Fakhre Alam, “Smartphone based indoor navigation for blind persons using user profile and simplified building information model,” in Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE-2019), 24-25 July, Swat, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  12. Sonam Yar, Shah Khusro*, Iftikhar Alam, and Muhammad Taimoor Khan, “Client-Side Revisitation Support with Contextual and Dynamic Suggestions for the Speed Dial’s Thumbnail,” in Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE-2019), 24-25 July, Swat, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  13. Inayat Khan, Shah Khusro*, and Iftikhar Alam, “Driver Smartphone Distractions and its Effect on Driving Performance using Vehicular Lifelog Dataset,” in Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Electrical, Communication and Computer Engineering (ICECCE-2019), 24-25 July, Swat, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  14. 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
     
  15. Muhammad Asim and Shah Khusro*, “Content-based Call for Papers Recommendations to Researchers,” in Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST-2018), 19-21 December 2018, Lahore, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  16. Fayyaz Ali and Shah Khusro*, “Player Ranking: A Solution to the Duckworth/Lewis Method Problems,” in Proceedings of The 14th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), 21-22 November 2018, Islamabad, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  17. Akif Khan and Shah Khusro*, “Smart Assist: Smartphone-Based Drug Compliance for Elderly Peopleand People with Special Needs”, in Applications of Intelligent Technologies in Healthcare, F. Khan et al. Eds., Springer International Publishing, pp. pp. 1-10.
     
  18. 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
     
  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
     
  20. 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 5th 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
     
  21. 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 5th 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
     
  22. Badam Niazi, Shah Khusro*, Akif Khan, and Iftikhar Alam, “A Touch Sensitive Keypad Layout for Improved Usability of Smartphones for the Blind and Visually Impaired Persons”, 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. 427-436. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33625-1_38
     
  23. 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
     
  24. 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.
     
  25. Shah Khusro, Amin Andjomshoaa, and A Min Tjoa, “Browsing and Visualization of Semantic Web Content – From Web to the Desktop”, in Knowledge Management: Innovation, Technology and Cultures, Vol. 7, C. Stary, F. Barachini, S. Hawamdeh, Eds. Singapore: World Scientific, 2007, pp. 27-36.
     
  26. Shah Khusro and A Min Tjoa, “Fulfilling the Needs of a Metadata Creator and Analyst - An Investigation of RDF Browsing and Visualization Tools” in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Vol. 214, The past and future of Information Systems: 1976-2006 and Beyond, D. Avison, S. Elliot, J. Krogstie, Eds. Boston: Springer, 2006, pp. 177-188. DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-34732-5_17.
     
  27. Iftikhar Alam, Shah Khusro*, and Muhammad Naeem, “A Review of Smart TV – Past, Present and Future,” in Proceedings of The 11th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST-2017), 18-20 December 2017, Lahore, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  28. 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
     
  29. 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
     
  30. Shah Khusro and Irfan Ullah, “Towards a Semantic Book Search Engine,” 10th International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies ICOSST2016, Lahore, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  31. Syed Rahman Mashwani, Shah Khusro*, Azhar Rauf, and Saeed Mahfooz, "Linked File System: Towards Exploiting Linked Data Technology in File Systems," in Proceedings of The 10th IEEE International Conference on Open Source Systems & Technologies (ICOSST-2016), 15-17 December, Lahore, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  32. 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
     
  33. Bahadar Ali and Shah Khusro*, “A Divide-and-Merge Approach for Deep Segmentation of Document Tables,” in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS2016), Cairo, Egypt, May 9-11, 2016, pp. 43-49. DOI: 10.1145/2908446.2908473. ACM/ICPS
     
  34. 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
     
  35. Aref A. Saeed, Azhar Rauf, Shah Khusro, and Saeed Mahfoo, "Compressed Bitmaps Based Frequent Itemsets Mining on Hadoop," in Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS '16), Cairo, Egypt, May 9-11, 2016, pp.159-165. DOI: 10.1145/2908446.2908457. ACM/ICPS
     
  36. Shah Khusro and Syed Rahman Mashwani, “The Life of a File: From Cradle to Grave or Eternity,” in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Informatics and Systems (INFOS2016), Cairo, Egypt, May 9-11, 2016, pp.332-333. DOI: 10.1145/2908446.2908509. ACM/ICPS
     
  37. Azhar Rauf, Waqas Ali, Maher Ahmed, Shah Khusro, and Shaukat Ali, “Efficient XQuery over Encrypted XML Documents,” The 10th International Conference on Computer Science & Education ICCSE 2015, July 22-24, 2015. Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, UK. IEEE
     
  38. Fouzia Jabeen and Shah Khusro*, “Core Architecture and Design Issues of Collaborative Tagging Applications,” in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computer Science & Computational Mathematics (ICCSCM 2015), May 7-8, Langkawi, Malaysia.
     
  39. Jehangir Khan, Shah Khusro*, and Fouzia Jabeen, “Digital Signage Systems: Past, Present and Future,” in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science & Computational Mathematics (ICCSCM 2014), May 8-9, Langkawi, Malaysia, pp. 209-216.
     
  40. Amna Majid, Shah Khusro*, and Azhar Rauf, "Semantics in Social Tagging Systems: A Review", in Proceedings of The International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology, ICCNIT 2011, Bara Gali Summer Campus, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  41. Shaukat Ali, Shah Khusro*, and Azhar Rauf, "A Cryptography-Based Approach to Web Mashup Security," in Proceedings of The International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology, ICCNIT 2011, Bara Gali Summer Campus, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. IEEE
     
  42. Sara Mumtaz, Azhar Rauf, and Shah Khusro, "A Distortion Based Technique for Preserving Privacy in OLAP Data Cube," in Proceedings of The International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology, ICCNIT 2011, Bara Gali Summer Campus, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. IEEE
     
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