Conference Program

Day 1 : Monday, December  14, 2015

Plenary Session

Shamadan Hall

09:15 am

Guests to be seated

 

9:30 – 9:35 am

Tilawat

9:35 – 9:45 am

Conference introduction

9:45 – 10:00 am

Opening address

10:00 – 10:50 am

Keynote address, “Beyond Cyber-Physical Era: What's Next?”  by Sajal K. Das, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Aangan

10:50 – 11:30 am

Refreshments

Parallel Sessions 1, 2, 3 and 4

Session 1: Invited Talks

Sheesh Mehal 1

 

 

11:30 – 12:05 pm

Invited Talk: A Hybrid Learning Model-Combining the advantages of Thought Experiments, Physical Laboratory & Computer Simulations by M. Ashraf Iqbal, Namal College Mianwali, Pakistan  

12:05 – 12:40 pm

Invited Talk: Security Engineering for Cloud Systems by Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK     

12:40 – 1:20 pm

Invited Talk: Database For Next Generation Mobile Technologies and Applications by Mudasser Fraz Wyne, National Univeristy, USA

01:20 – 02:15 pm

Lunch & Prayers

Session 2: Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Cryptography

Sheesh Mehal 2

 

 

11:30 – 12:00 pm

Invited Talk: Re-engineering & Designing with Splining by Muhammad Sarfraz, Kuwait University, Kuwait

12:00 – 12:20 pm

A New Symmetric Key Encryption Algorithm using Images as Secret Keys by Mazhar Islam, Mohsin Shah, Zakir Khan, Toqeer Mahmood and Muhammad Jamil Khan

12:20 – 12:40 pm

Automatic Vehicle Detection and Driver Identification Framework for Secure Vehicle Parking by Zahid Mahmood, Tauseef Ali, Shahid Khattak, Samee U. Khan and Laurence T. Yang

12:40 – 01:00 pm

Decision Trees based Classification of Cardiotocograms using Bagging Approach by Syed Ahsin Ali Shah, Wajid Aziz, Muhammad Arif and Malik Sajjad A. Nadeem

01:00 – 01:20 pm

Combining robust statistical and 1D Laplacian operators using genetic programming to detect and remove impulse noise from images by Syed Gibran Javed, Abdul Majid and Nabeela Kausar

01:20 – 02:15 pm

Lunch & Prayers

Session 3: Industrial Electronics and Smart Grids 

Sheesh Mehal 3

 

 

11:30 – 12:00 pm

 

Invited Talk: Analysis of Complex Adaptive Communication Systems and Environments (CACOONS): A Social Networks Approach

Muaz A Niazi, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

12:00 – 12:20 pm

Stability Analysis of Coupled van der Pol’s Oscillator by Usman Ahmad, Qaiser Ijaz and Anees ul Husnain      

12:20 – 12:40 pm

Study of Gamma Irradiation Induced Conductivity in Dielectric Materials of Coaxial Cables by Bilawal Hussain, M. Tayyeb Mirza, Azhar H. Malik and Aman-ur-Rehman

12:40 – 01:00 pm

Automatic generation of a shared hardware design for multiple application circuits by Muhammad Mazher Iqbal and Husain Parvez

01:00 – 01:20 pm

A Road to Wind based PHEVs Smart Charging Station by Syed Zulqadar Hassan, Tariq Kamal, Sidra Mumtaz and Laiq Khan

01:20 – 02:15 pm

Lunch & Prayers

Session 4: PhD Symposium

Kehkashan 3

 

11:30 – 11:55 pm

 

Opponent-specific Strategy Optimization for a team of Autonomous Robots by Asma Larik

11:55 – 12:20 pm

A Study on Channel Polling Mechanisms for Wireless Sensor Networks by Shama Siddiqui and Sayeed Ghani

12:20 – 12:45 pm

Group Anomaly Detection in Academic Social Networks  by Aqeel Feroze and Ali Daud

12:45 – 01:10 pm

Investigating protein semantic similarity measurement and its correlation with sequence similarity by Najmul Ikram Qazi, Muhammad Abdul Qadir and Muhammad Tanvir Afzal

01:10 – 01:20 pm

General guidelines and research tips by evaluators

01:10 – 02:15 pm

Lunch & Prayers

Parallel Sessions 5, 6 ,7 and 8

Session 5: Semantic Web

Sheesh Mehal 1

 

 

02:15 – 02:45 pm

Invited Talk: Multi-view clustering: techniques and applications by Syed Fawad Hussain, GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan

02:45 – 03:05 pm

Querying Semantically Related Items using modified 4-Index Scheme for XML Documents by Imran Ihsan and M. Abdul Qadir

03:05 – 03:25 pm

Comparison between SSTC and LINGO Algorithms in Clustered Based Semantic Search for Browsing Scholarships by Ujala Shabbir, Tayyaba  Kanwal ,Reeha Malik, Sobia Khalid and Aliya Ashraf Khan

03:25 – 03:45 pm

A Framework for Evaluation of OWL Biomedical Ontologies based on Properties Coverage by Samiullah Khan, Usman Qamar and Abdul Wahab Muzaffar

03:45 – 04:00 pm

Refreshments

Session 6: Computer Communication & Networking and  Cloud Computing

Sheesh Mehal 2

 

 

02:15 – 02:45 pm

Invited Talk: Fog Computing: Requirements, Opportunity, and Open Challenges by Abdullah Ghani, University of Malaya, Malaysia

02:45 – 03:05 pm

Energy Efficient Resource Scheduling through VM Consolidation in Cloud Computing by Ahmad Fayyaz, Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan and

Samee Ullah Khan

03:05 – 03:25 pm

Implementing Partitioning Detection and Connectivity Restoration in WSAN Using VDM-SL by Hamra Afzaal, Muhammad Imran and Nazir Ahmad Zafar

03:25 – 03:45 pm

Performance Analysis of Advance Optical Modulation Formats For GPON System by Ali Israr, Muhammad Junaid and Adil Israr

03:45 – 04:00 pm

Refreshments

Session 7:  Signal Processing

Sheesh Mehal 3

 

02:15 – 02:55 pm

Invited Talk: Transmission Power Control in wireless sensor networks by Aly Aamer Syed, NXP Semiconductors, The Netherlands

02:55 – 03:20 pm

Signal degradation for optical interconnects in data center networks by Mohsin Fayyaz, Ghulam Mujtaba and Khurram Aziz

03:20 – 03:45 pm

Simulation and Analysis of Adaptive Signal Processing Techniques for Antenna Arrays by Umar Hamid and Syed Ali Abbas

03:45 – 04:00 pm

Refreshments

 

Session 8: PhD Symposium

Kehkashan 3

 

02:15 – 02:40 pm

Crowd Behaviour Analysis Jointly at Local and Global Levels by Atika Burney

02:40 – 03:05 pm

Research Paper Recommendation by exploiting co-citation occurrences in Generic Sections of Scientific Papers by Riaz Ahmad and Muhammad Tanvir Afzal

03:05 – 03:30pm

Named Entity Recognition and Classification in Urdu using Conditional Random Field (CRF) by Wahab Khan, Ali Daud and Jamal Abdul Nasir

03:30 – 03:45pm

Comments by the evaluators

03:45 – 04:00 pm

Refreshments

Parallel Sessions 9, 10 and 11

                                                                 Session 9: Tutorial Session

Sheesh Mehal 1

 

 

04:00 – 06:00 pm

Cyber Security for Critical Physical Infrastructure in Pakistan by Raziq Yaqub, Niksun Inc., USA

Session 10: Invited Talks

Sheesh Mehal 2

04:00 – 04:30 pm

Invited Talk: Cyber Space: Challenges, Countermeasures and Future directions by Asad Hussain, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan.

04:30 – 05:00 pm

Invited Talk: Internet Governance as one of the Frontiers of IT by Amir Qayyum, Muhammad Ali Jinnah University, Islamabad, Pakistan

 

05:00– 05:30 pm

Invited Talk: What can Informatics tell us about viral evolution? by Arshan Nasir, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan

 

05:30– 06:00 pm

Invited Talk: Research and Development Challenges and Opportunities for Textile Sector in Pakistan by Arshad Ali, National Textile University, Pakistan

Session 11: Tutorial Session

Sheesh Mehal 3

 

04:00 – 06:00 pm

Recent Development in the Breast Cancer Prediction models using Computational Intelligence Approaches by Safdar Ali and Abdul Majid, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan
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