Conference Program
| EVENT PROGRAM | ||
| FIT 2016 Technical Sessions | ||
| Day 1 : Monday, December 19, 2016 | ||
| Plenary Session | ||
| Shamadan Hall | 09:00 am | Guests to be seated |
| 09:15 – 9:20 am | Tilawat | |
| 09:20 – 9:40 am | Conference Introduction | |
| 09:40 – 10:00 am | Opening address | |
| 10:00 – 10:50 am | Keynote Address, “New Technologies have the Potential to Change our Lives Completely” by Hermann Maurer | |
| Aangan | 10:50 – 11:30 am | Refreshments |
| Parallel Sessions 1, 2, 3 and 4 | ||
| Session 1: Modeling, Simulation and Application of Emergent Technologies | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 1 | 11:30 – 12:00 pm | Invited Talk: Building Off-Grid Photovoltaic-Wind Systems with Low Cost Operation in Rural Areas in Developing Countries by Nedim Tutkun, Düzce University, Turkey. |
| 12:00 – 12:20 pm | Beyond Linear Control Approaches - Sliding Mode Control of Flexible Robotic Manipulator, Owais Khan, Ateeq Ur Rehman, and Mahmood Pervaiz | |
| 12:20 – 12:40 pm | Adaptive 3D-Virtual Learning Environments: From Students' Learning Perspective, Aftab Alam and Sehat Ullah | |
| 12:40 – 01:00 pm | Optimal Controller Design for Self-Balancing Two-Wheeled Robot System, Haris Sheh Zad, Abasin Ulasyar, Adil Zohaib, and Syed Shahzad Hussain | |
| 01:00 – 01:20 pm | Grey Box Modeling of Lateral-Directional Dynamics of a UAV through System Identification by Jabran Ahsan, Mansoor Ahsan, Ahsan Ali and Anis Jamil | |
| 01:20 – 02:15 pm | Lunch & Prayers | |
| Session 2: Computer & Communication Networks and Cloud Computing | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 2 | 11:30 – 12:00 pm | Invited Talk: Future of Connectivity: Mobile Ad Hoc Network Enabled Software Defined Radio by Shoab A Khan, Centre for Advanced Studies in Engineering, Pakistan |
| 12:00 – 12:20 pm | Where to Kill the Cyber Kill-Chain: An Ontology-Driven Framework for IoT Security Analytics, Mujahid Mohsin and Zahid Anwar | |
| 12:20 – 12:40 pm | Architectural Enhancement of LEON3 Processor for Real Time and Feedback Applications, Zohaib Najam, Muhammad Najam Dar, Muhammad Yasir Qadri, Shaheryar Najam, and Jameel Ahmed | |
| 12:40 – 01:00 pm | ANN-Based Data Mining for Better Resource Management in the Next Generation Wireless Networks, M. Ahsan Latif and M. Adnan | |
| 01:00 – 01:20 pm | Cloud to Cloudlet - An Intelligent Recommendation System for Efficient Resources Management: Mobile Cache, Muhammad Haseeb, Ahmad Ahsan, and Asad W. Malik | |
| 01:20 – 02:15 pm | Lunch & Prayers | |
| Session 3: Software Engineering | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 3 | 11:30 – 12:00 pm | Invited Talk: Analysis of Educational Acute Syndromes: The Failed Class Room by Ashraf Iqbal, University of Central Punjab, Pakistan |
| 12:00 – 12:20 pm | Modeling E-Business Customization with e3value Modeling, Faiza Allah Bukhsh and Patrício De Alencar Silva | |
| 12:20 – 12:40 pm | Regression Test Suite Optimization Using Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System, Aftab Ali Haider, Aamer Nadeem, and Shamaila Akram | |
| 12:40 – 01:00 pm | On Test Patterns for Cloud Applications, Sidra Siddiqui and Tamim Ahmed Khan | |
| 01:00 – 01:20 pm | Internet Addiction Impacts on Time Management That Results in Poor Academic Performance, Shafaq Siddiqi and Zulfiqar A. Memon | |
| 01:20 – 02:15 pm | Lunch & Prayers | |
| Session 4: PhD Symposium | ||
| Kehkashan 2 | 11:30 – 11:50 am | Robust Image Forgery Detection and Localization Using Texture Information by Muhammad Khurshid Asghar, Muhammad Husssain and Zulfiqar Habib |
| 11:50 – 12:10 pm | Robust Video Forgery Detection and Localization using Artificial Intelligence Techniques by Mubbashar Saddique, Usama Ijaz Bajwa and Zulfiqar Habib | |
| 12:10 – 12:30 pm | Research Paper Recommendation Using Bibliographic Coupling Proximity Analysis by Raja Habib and Muhammad Tanvir Afzal | |
| 12:30 – 12:50 pm | Application of Complex Hadamard Transform by Dur-E-Jabeen, S. M. Ghazanfar Monir and Vali Uddin | |
| 12:50 – 01:10 pm | Fault Detection and Fault Tolerant Control Schemes for Renewable Energy Systems by Zulfiqar Khalid and Tariq Mirza Hamayoun | |
| 01:10 – 01:20 pm | General guidelines and research tips by evaluators | |
| 01:20 – 02:15 pm | Lunch & Prayers | |
| Parallel Sessions 5, 6, 7 and 8 | ||
| Session 5: Web, Application Development & Data Mining | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 1 | 02:15 – 02:45pm | Invited Talk: Big Data Analytics and its Applications for Pakistan’s Government and Industry by Raziq Yaqub,Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL, USA |
| 02:45 – 03:05pm | Admission Criteria in Pakistani Universities: A Case Study, Zafar Iqbal, Junaid Qadir, and Adnan Noor Mian | |
| 03:05 – 03:25 pm | Poshida II, a Multi Group Distributed Peer to Peer Protocol for Private Web Search, Mohib Ullah, Rafiullah Khan, and Muhammad Arshad Islam | |
| 03:25 – 03:45 pm | Evolving the Taxonomy Based on Hierarchical Clustering Approach, Rabia Irfan and Sharifullah Khan | |
| 03:45 – 04:00 pm | Refreshments | |
| Session 6: Image Processing, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 2 | 02:15 – 02:45 pm | Invited Talk: Ensemble Approach Based on Score-Space Classification for Biometric Identification Applications by Imtiaz Ahmed Taj, Capital University of Science and Technology, Pakistan |
| 02:45 – 03:05 pm | Coin Recognition with Reduced Feature Set SIFT Algorithm Using Neural Network, Ghulam Farooque, Allah Bux Sargano, Imran Shafi, and Waqar Ali | |
| 03:05 – 03:25 pm | Computer Aided System for Leukocytes Classification and Segmentation in Blood Smear Images, Muhammad Sajjad, Siraj Khan, Muhammad Shoaib, Hazrat Ali, Zahoor Jan, Khan Muhammad, and Irfan Mehmood | |
| 03:25 – 03:45 pm | Boosting the Accuracy of AdaBoost for Object Detection and Recognition, Zahid Mahmood, Muhammad Nazeer, Muhammad Arif, Imran Shahzad, Fahad Khan, Mazhar Ali, Uzair Khan, and Samee U. Khan | |
| 03:45 – 04:00 pm | Refreshments | |
| Session 7: Signal Processing and Communications | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 3 | 02:15 – 02:45 pm | Invited Talk: Cooperative Classical and Quantum Communications by Ng Soon Xin, University of Southampton, UK |
| 02:45 – 03:05 pm | A Pattern Reconfigurable Dielectric Resonator Antenna for Wireless Fidelity Applications, Sajid Aqeel, Rizwan Khan, Aftab Ahmad Khan, Jawad Saleem, and Owais | |
| 03:05 – 03:25 pm | Effective Classification of EEG Signals Using K-Nearest Neighbor Algorithm, Umer I. Awan, U.H. Rajput, Ghazaal Syed, Rimsha Iqbal, Ifra Sabat, and M. Mansoor | |
| 03:25 – 03:45 pm | Analysis of Carrier Frequency Offset Distribution on Efficiency of Multicarrier Spread Spectrum Techniques, Kashif Iqbal, Junaid Ahmed, and Atifa Rafique | |
| 03:45 – 04:00 pm | Refreshments | |
| Session 8: PhD Symposium | ||
| Kehkashan 2 | 02:15 – 02:35 pm | Formalization of Use Case Model by Qamar Uz Zaman, Aamer Nadeem and Muddassar Sindhu |
| 02:35 – 02:55 pm | OntoDocRel-CBS: Ontology for modelling Content based Document Similarity Measures by Qamar Mahmood, Muhammad Abdul Qadir and Muhammad Tanvir Afzal | |
| 02:55 – 03:15 pm | Development of Meta-Taxonomy and Heuristics for E-Learning at Early Education by Sadia Ashraf and Tamim Khan | |
| 03:15 – 03:35 pm | Global Higher Education Institution’s Data Mining Using the Linked Open Data by Muhammad Sajid Qureshi and Ali Daud | |
| 03:35 – 03:45 pm | General guidelines and research tips by evaluators | |
| 03:45 – 04:00 pm | Refreshments | |
| Parallel Sessions 9, 10,11 and 12 | ||
| Session9: Tutorial Session | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 1 | 04:00 – 06:00 pm | Healthcare Revolution through Wearable Electronics by Hammad Cheema |
| Session 10: Tutorial Session | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 2 | 04:00 – 06:00 pm | How to Complete a PhD – successfully by Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK and Mudasser F. Wyne, National University, San Diego, USA |
| Session 11: Smart Grid and Electronics | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 3 | 04:00 – 04:40 pm | Invited Talk: Big Data: Mining for Information Nuggets by Andrew Ware, University of South Wales, UK |
| 04:40 – 05:00 pm | THD Analysis of Reduced Switch Five Level Inverter Using Multicarrier PWM Schemes, Muhammad Arif, Madiha Sultan, Jawad Saleem, and Abdul Majid | |
| 05:00 – 05:20 pm | Analysis of HV Plasma Corona Reactor Treatment System for Industrial Waste Water, Nayab Pervez, Abdur Rashid, and Adil Habib Alam | |
| 05:20 – 05:40 pm | Impact Quantification of Demand Response Uncertainty on Unit Commitment of Microgrids, Akhtar Hussain, Van-Hai Bui, and Hak-Man Kim | |
| 05:40 – 06:00 pm | Takagi-Sugeno Fuzzy Logic Based Speed Control of Induction Motor, Neelofar Shaukat, Bilal Khan, Chaudhary Arshad Mehmood, and S.M. Ali | |
| Session 12: PhD Symposium | ||
| Kehkashan 2 | 04:00 – 04:20 pm | Sponsored Search Prediction in Online Advertising by Naveed Ahmad, Ali Daud and Tehmina Amjad |
| 04:20 – 04:40 pm | Intercell Interference Management in LTE-Advanced Heterogeneous Networks by Ahmad Mudassir | |
| 04:40 – 05:00 pm | Community Detection In Complex Networks Using Modularity Density Based Multi-Agent Genetic Algorithm by Bisma Khan and Muaz Niazi | |
| 05:00 – 05:20 pm | GRAND: GRaph based Author Name Disambiguation framework by Ijaz Hussain and Dr Sohail Asghar | |
| 05:20 – 05:40 pm | Unsupervised Aspect Extraction from Large-scale data by Muhammad Taimoor Khan, Shehzad Khalid and Furqan Aziz | |
| 05:40 – 06:00 pm | General guidelines and research tips by evaluators | |
| Project exhibition | ||
| Kehkashan Exhibition Hall | 09:00 – 06:00 pm (Break 01:30 to 2:30pm) | Student Project Exhibition Industrial Project Exhibition |
| Day 2: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 | ||
| Parallel Sessions 13, 14, 15 and 16 | ||
| Session 13: Modeling, Simulation, and Applications of Emergent Technologies | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 1 | 09:00 – 09:30 am | Invited Talk: NiHA: Nature-inspired Humanoid Cognitive Computing Platform for Self-aware and Conscious Agents by Wajahat Mahmood Qazi, Intelligent Machines and Robotics Research, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore, PAKISTAN |
| 09:30 – 09:50 am | MPC and H-Infinity Based Feedback Control of Non-Linear Robotic Manipulator, Muhammad Imran Ullah, Syed Ali Ajwad, Muhammad Irfan, and Jamshed Iqbal | |
| 09:50 – 10:10 am | Optimal Path Planning for Mobile Robots Using Memory Efficient A*, Iram Noreen, Amna Khan, and Zulfiqar Habib | |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Towards Formalism of Earthquake Detection and Disaster Reduction Using WSANs, Hamra Afzaal and Nazir Ahmad Zafar | |
| 10:30 – 10:50 am | Analysis of Co-Channel Interference in VANETs under Nakagami-m Fading, Furqan Jameel, Farhana Jabeen, and Zara Hamid | |
| 10:50 – 11:05 am | Refreshments | |
| Session 14: Computer & Communication Networks and Cloud Computing | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 2 | 09:00 – 09:30 am | Invited Talk: Moving Towards Smart Cities: Initiatives and Challenges by Bhawani S. Chowdhry, Mehran University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan |
| 09:30 – 09:50 am | Multi Path Multi Priority (MPMP) Scalable Video Streaming for Mobile Applications, Sajid Nazir and Mohammad Kaleem | |
| 09:50 – 10:10 am | On the Field Level Loss of a VHT PPDU in a MIMO-OFDM System for a WiFi Direct 802.11ac WLAN, Gul Zameen Khan, Ruben Gonzalez, Xin-Wen Wu, and Eun-Chan Park | |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Understanding the Design Space of a Software Defined WiFi Network Testbed, Tausif Zahid, Xiaojun Hei, and Wenqing Cheng | |
| 10:30 – 10:50 am | A Simple, Fast and Near Optimal Approximation Algorithm for Optimization of Un-Weighted Minimum Vertex Cover, Muhammad Fayaz, Shakeel Arshad, Umar Zaman, and Akhlaque Ahmad | |
| 10:50 – 11:05 am | Refreshments | |
| Session 15: Software Engineering | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 3 | 09:00 – 09:30 am | Invited Talk: ICT-Society Interface for Delivering New Agenda 2030 by Shahbaz Khan, UNESCO, Indonesia |
| 09:30 – 09:50 am | Transformation of Activity Diagram into Coloured Petri Nets Using Weighted Directed Graph, Maryam Jamal and Nazir Ahmad Zafar | |
| 09:50 – 10:10 am | Teaching and Learning Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with 3D Game, Irum Inayat, Zubaria Inayat, and Rooh Ul Amin | |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Concurrent Algorithms in SPIN Model Checker, M. Saqib Nawaz, Hussam Ali, and M. Ikram Ullah Lali | |
| 10:30 – 10:50 am | Cross Platform Bug Correlation Using Stack Traces, Maryam Abdul Ghafoor and Junaid Haroon Siddiqui | |
| 10:50 – 11:05 am | Refreshments | |
| Session 16: IT Innovation Awards | ||
| Kehkashan 2 | 09:00 – 10:50 am | Presentations |
| 10:50 – 11:05 am | Refreshments | |
| Parallel Sessions 17, 18, 19 and 20 | ||
| Session 17: Web, Application Development & Data Mining | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 1 | 11:05 – 11:35 am | Invited Talk: Software Testing: What and When to Automate? by Zohaib Iqbal, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (NUCES), Pakistan |
| 11:35 – 11:55 am | Comparative Study of Discretization Methods on the Performance of Associative Classifiers, Zulfiqar Ali and Waseem Shahzad | |
| 11:55 – 12:15 pm | BookOnt: A Comprehensive Book Structural Ontology for Book Search and Retrieval, Asim Ullah, Irfan Ullah, Shah Khusro, and Shaukat Ali | |
| 12:15 – 12:35 pm | Job Description Ontology Nabeel Ahmed, Sharifullah Khan, and Khalid Latif | |
| 12:35 – 12:55 pm | Mobile-Based Intelligent Transportation for Bus Commuters Based on Twitter Analytics, Tariq Mahmood, Ghulam Mujtaba, Liyana Shuib, Nikkishah Zulfiqar Ali, Amir Bawa, and Saima Karim | |
| 12:55 – 02:00 pm | Lunch & Prayers | |
| Session 18: Image Processing, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 2 | 11:05 – 11:35 am | Invited Talk: Why Cubic if Quadratic Splines work for Graphics Design by Muhammad Sarfraz, College of Computing Sciences & Engineering, Kuwait University, Kuwait |
| 11:35 – 11:55 am | p2pHT: A Point to Point Hough Transform, Muhammad Usman Karim Khan and Abdul Bais | |
| 11:55 – 12:15 pm | Ensemble Sparse Classification of Colon Cancer, Saima Rathore, Muhammad Aksam Iftikhar, and Mehdi Hassan | |
| 12:15 – 12:35 pm | Crowd Video Classification Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Atika Burney and Tahir Q. Syed | |
| 12:35 – 12:55 pm | Learning on Probabilistic Modelling Using Grassmann Manifolds, Muhammad Ali and Junbin Gao | |
| 12:55 – 02:00 pm | Lunch & Prayers | |
| Session 19: Invited Talks | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 3 | 11:05 – 11:45 am | Cognitive Cyber Surveillance in an IoT Enabled World by Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK |
| 11:45 – 12:25 pm | IoT (Internet of Things) and Its Applications by Junaid Ahmed Zubairi, State University of New York at Fredonia, USA | |
| 12:25 – 01:05 pm | 5G: A New Paradigm in Wireless Communications by Syed Ali Hassan, NUST, Pakistan | |
| 01:05 – 02:00 pm | Lunch & Prayers | |
| Session 20: IT Innovation Awards | ||
| Kehkashan 2 | 11:05 – 12:55 pm | Presentations |
| 12:55 – 02:00 pm | Lunch & Prayers | |
| Parallel Sessions 21, 22, 23 and 24 | ||
| Session 21: Smart Grid and Electronics | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 1 | 02:00 – 02:50 pm | Invited Talk: Designing a New Geography Server Emphasizing Quality and Areas Often Ignored such as e.g. Cultural Issues by Hermann Maurer, Graz University of Technology, Austria |
| 02:50 – 03:10 pm | Exact Feedback Linearization (EFL) and De-Couple Control of Doubly Fed Induction Generator Based Wind Turbine, B. Azeem, F. Rehman, C.A. Mehmood, S.M. Ali, B. Khan, and S. Saeed | |
| 03:10 – 03:30 pm | Control of Grid Interfaced Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) Using Adaptive SMC Improved with LVRT Enhancement, Faisal Rehman, Babar Azeem, C.A. Mehmood, S.M. Ali, B. Khan, and F. Rehman | |
| 03:30 – 03:45 pm | Refreshments | |
| Session 22: Signal Processing and Communications | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 2 | 02:00 – 02:30 pm | Invited Talk: Dedicated Short Range Communication: What, Why and How? by Imran Hayee, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA |
| 02:30 – 02:50 pm | TUTGNSS - An Approach to Provide Baseband Signal Processing of Galileo E5 AltBOC Signal, Khaled Altuwairgi, Irfan Ali, Subhan Khan, and Noman Naeem | |
| 02:50 – 03:10 pm | FPGA Based Processing of Speckle Affected Self-Mixing Interferometric Signals, Saqib Amin, Tassadaq Hussain, and Usman Zabit | |
| 03:10 – 03:30 pm | Landmark Based Audio Fingerprinting for Naval Vessels, Muhammad Abdur Rehman Hashmi and Rana Hammad Raza | |
| 03:30 – 03:45 pm | Refreshments | |
| Session 23: Tutorial Session | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 3 | 02:00 – 03:30 pm | Configuring Raspberry PI as IoT Device by Syed Misbahuddin |
| 03:30 – 03:45 pm | Refreshments | |
| Session 24: IT Innovation Awards | ||
| Kehkashan 2 | 02:00 – 03:30 pm | Presentations |
| 03:30 – 03:45 pm | Refreshments | |
| Parallel Sessions 25, 26, 27 and 28 | ||
| Session 25: Invited Talks | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 1 | 03:45 – 04:25 pm | Health Informatics developments in Portugal by Ricardo Vardasca, University of Porto, Portugal |
| 04:25 – 05:05 pm | The Pakistan - U.S. Science & Technology Cooperation Program: Impacts of 11 Years of Collaborative Research by Teresa Stoepler, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, USA | |
| 05:05 – 05:45 pm | MRI an Emerging Revolution in Medical Imaging Technology by Hammad Omer, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan | |
| Session 26: Invited Talks | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 2 | 03:45 – 04:25 pm | IoE, Enabling Smart Cities by Abu Bakar Shoaib, CISCO Systems, UAE |
| 04:25 – 05:05 pm | Change in Perspective: Journey from Vehicular Networks to Vehicular Clouds and Vehicular Social Networks by Rasheed Hussain, Innopolis University, Russia | |
| 05:05 – 05:45 pm | Invited Talk: Agility and Requirements by Naveed Ikram, Riphah International University, Pakistan | |
| Session 27: Invited Talk and Workshop | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 3 | 03:45 – 04:45 pm | Invited Talk: Mathematical Modeling of Flow in the Proximal Tubule of the Kidney by Abdul Majeed Siddiqui, Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| 04:45 – 05:45 pm | Workshop: Monomial Transform Method for Solving Homogeneous Differential Equation with Variable Coefficients by Abdul Majeed Siddiqui and Ayesha Sohail, Pennsylvania State University, USA | |
| Session 28: IT Innovation Awards | ||
| Kehkashan 2 | 03:45 – 05:45 pm | Presentations |
| Project exhibition | ||
| Kehkashan Exhibition Hall | 09:00 – 06:00 pm (Break 01:30 to 2:30pm) | Student Project Exhibition Industrial Project Exhibition |
| Day 3: Wednesday, December 21, 2016 | ||
| Parallel Sessions 29, 30, 31 and 32 | ||
| Session 29: Modeling, Simulation and Application of Emergent Technologies | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 1 | 09:00 – 09:35 am | Invited Talk: Towards Cognitively-Inspired Multi-Modal Big Data Informatics: A Case Study in Next-Generation Audio-Visual Hearing Aids by Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK |
| 09:35 – 09:50 am | Classification of Expert-Novice Level of Mobile Game Players Using Electroencephalography, Syed Muhammad Anwar, Sanay Muhammad Umar Saeed, and Muhammad Majid | |
| 09:50 – 10:05 am | Coverage Path Planning of Mobile Robots Using Rational Quadratic Bézier Spline, Amna Khan, Iram Noreen, and Zulfiqar Habib | |
| 10:05 – 10:20 am | Coverage Control Algorithm for Node Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks, Muhammad Uzair Khan, Sarmad Feroze, and Muhammad Zia | |
| 10:20 – 10:35 am | Development of a Low Cost and Light Weight UAV for Photogrammetry and Precision Land Mapping Using Aerial Imagery, Abdullah Tariq, S.M. Osama, and A. Gillani | |
| 10:35 – 10:50 am | Short Term Earthquake Prediction in Hindukush Region Using Tree Based Ensemble Learning, Khawaja Muhammad Asim, Adnan Idris, Francisco Martínez-Álvarez, and Talat Iqbal | |
| 10:50 – 11:05 am | Refreshments | |
| Session 30: Invited Talks | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 2 | 09:00 – 09:55 am | Making Research Relevant to Societal Problems by Arshad Ali, Higher Education Commission (HEC), Pakistan |
| 09:55 – 10:50 am | Analysis of Complex Interaction Data: Exploring Data Science Analytics Using Pajek by Muaz A. Niazi, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan | |
| 10:50 – 11:05 am | Refreshments | |
| Session 31: Invited Talks | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 3 | 09:00 – 09:40 am | Edge Clouds: Architectures and Deployment Models by Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK |
| 09:40 – 10:15 am | Internet of Things (IoT) Reality Check: Devices, Networks and Platforms by Usman Javaid, Vodafone Group, UK | |
| 10:15 – 10:50 am | Enabling Concepts for 5G by Kashif Mahmood, Next Generation Network Technology Group, Telenor Research, Norway | |
| 10:50 – 11:05 am | Refreshments | |
| Session 32: Signal Processing and Simulation | ||
| Kehkashan 2 | 09:00 – 09:30 am | Invited Talk: Using Machine Learning for Governance Reforms by Khalid Latif, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan |
| 09:30 – 09:50 am | A High Performance Real-Time FGPA-Based Interferometry Sensor Architecture, Tassadaq Hussain, Saqib Amin, Usman Zabit, Faysal Kamran, Olivier D. Bernal, and Thierry Bosch | |
| 09:50 – 10:10 am | An Advanced DSP Algorithm for Music-Less Audio Stream Generation, Munaza Razzaq, Mehmoona Gul, Zunaib Ali, Qurat-Ul-Ain, and Yasir Malik | |
| 10:10 – 10:30 am | Analysis of Positioning Uncertainty in Vehicular Environment, Abdul Bais and Yasser Morgan | |
| 10:30 – 10:50 am | Test-Suite Prioritisation by Application Navigation Tree Mining, Muhammad Muzammal | |
| 10:50 – 11:05 am | Refreshments | |
| Parallel Sessions 33, 34 and 35 | ||
| Session 33: Image Processing, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 1 | 11:05 – 11:45 am | Invited Talk: Advances in Brain-Machine Interfaces for Interpreting Neural Signals by Kamran Iqbal, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA |
| 11:45 – 12:25 pm | Invited Talk: Fast JPEG Image Retrieval by Gerald Schaefer, Loughborough University, UK | |
| 12:25 – 12:45 pm | Scene Completion Using Top-1 Similar Image, Romana Talat, Muhammad Muzammal, and Imran Siddiqi | |
| 12:45 – 01:05 pm | Using ANN for Multi-View Activity Recognition in Indoor Environment, Shaheena Noor and Vali Uddin | |
| 01:05 – 02:30 pm | Lunch & Prayers | |
| Session 34: Invited Talks | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 2 | 11:05 – 12:05 pm | Self-Healing in 5G Wireless Networks: The Fault Mitigation Function by Ahmed E. Kamal, Iowa State University, USA |
| 12:05 – 01:05 pm | Internet Governance and Policy for Technology Innovation by Amir Qayyum, Capital University of Science and Technology, Pakistan | |
| 01:05 – 02:30 pm | Lunch & Prayers | |
| Session 35: Web, Application Development & Data Mining | ||
| Sheesh Mehal 3 | 11:05 – 11:35 am | Invited Talk:Testing Cyber-Physical Systems in Uncertainty by Shaukat Ali,Senior Research Scientist Simula Research Laboratory Lysaker Norway |
| 11:35 – 11:55 am | A Rough Set Based Feature Selection Approach Using Random Feature Vectors, Muhammad Summair Raza and Usman Qamar | |
| 11:55 – 12:15 pm | Home Energy Management Using Multi Agent System for Web Based Grids, Danish Mahmood, Nadeem Javaid, and Manzoor Ilahi | |
| 12:15 – 12:35 pm | Using Distributional Semantics for Automatic Taxonomy Induction, Bushra Zafar, Michael Cochez, and Usman Qamar | |
| 12:35 – 12:55 pm | An Empirical Investigation of PageRank and Its Variants in Ranking Pages on the Web, Fayyaz Ali, Irfan Ullah, and Shah Khusro | |
| 01:05 – 02:30 pm | Lunch & Prayers | |
| Project Exhibition | ||
| Kehkashan Exhibition Hall | 09:00 – 01:30 pm | Student Project Exhibition Industrial Project Exhibition |
| Conference Panel Discussion | ||
| Sheesh Mehal | 02:30 – 04:00 pm | Topic: IoT: Challenges, Opportunities, and Prospects |
| Closing | ||
| Sheesh Mehal | 04:00 – 04:20 pm | Conference Report |
| 04:20 – 04:40 pm | Prizes for student Projects Presentation of Shields | |
| 04:40 – 05:00 pm | Closing Address | |
| 05:00 pm | Refreshments | |
