1. Name of Research Group: Data and Knowledge Engineering
  1. Introduction of Research Group: (please provide brief introduction of Research Group, maximum 150 words).

This group works in Data Mining and Knowledge engineering techniques and also human aspects in software engineering.

 
  1. Group Members:
Name of Group Member / Researcher Details
Dr. Muhammad Muzammal  

Qualification: PhD(CS)

 

Specialized Area(s) of Research: Data Mining

 

Email Address: muzammal@bui.edu.pk
Dr. Imran Siddiqi  

Qualification: PhD(CS)

 

Specialized Area(s) of Research: Image Processing

 

Email Address: Imran.siddiqi@gmail.com
Dr. Tamim A. Khan  

Qualification: PhD(CS)

 

Specialized Area(s) of Research: Software Modelling and Testing

 

Email Address: tamim@bui.edu.pk
Dr. Shariq Bashir  

Qualification: PhD(CS)

 

Specialized Area(s) of Research: Text Mining

 

Email Address:
 

Mr. Ghulam Ali Mirza

 

 

  

Qualification: MS(CS)

 

Specialized Area(s) of Research: Database Integration

 

Email Address: ghulamali84@hotmail.com

 
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  1. Areas of Research: (please provide at least two or three research areas in which research group has expertise, working or intend to be doing research in future. Research areas must be specified or sub areas of major field of research like econometrics or consumer economics instead of Economics).
  2. Data Mining
  3. Software Modelling and Testing
  4. Database Integration
  5. Image Processing

 
  1. Research Publications (please provide the list of research papers and books published collectively by this particular research group on any of its group member).
  1. No.
 Author(s)

Please provide the list of all authors, write full name(s) of author(s) instead if initials

 Title of Research Paper/Book Name of Journal

 

Name of Publisher (in case of book publication)

 Date of Publication

(please mention both month and year)
  Muhammad Muzammal, Rajeev Raman Mining Sequential Patterns from Probabilistic Databases. KAIS July, 2014
  Muhammad Muzammal, Ajab Khan Modelling of VOIP using graph Transformation EuroSiS 2013
  Arif Mushtaq, Saadia Riaz, Muhammad Muzammal Modelling user behavior using Airline Ticketing System ICUET 2013
  Muhammad Muzammal Mining Sequential Pattern from Probabilistic Databases LRA 2012
  Muhammad Muzammal Mining Sequential Patterns from Probabilistic Databases by Pattern-Growth. BNCOD 2011: 118-127 2011
  Muhammad Muzammal, Rajeev Raman Mining Sequential Patterns from Probabilistic Databases. PAKDD (2) 2011: 210-221 2011
  Muhammad Muzammal, Rajeev Raman On Probabilistic Models for Uncertain Sequential Pattern Mining ADMA (1) 2010: 60-72 2010
  Muhammad Muzammal, Rajeev Raman Uncertainty in Sequential Pattern Mining. BNCOD 2010
  Abdullah M. Alshanqiti, Reiko Heckel, Tamim Ahmed Khan Learning Minimal and Maximal Rules from Observations of Graph Transformations ECEAST 2014
  Olga Runge, Tamim Ahmed Khan, Reiko Heckel Test Case Generation Using Visual Contracts ECEAST 2013
  Tamim Ahmed Khan, Olga Runge, Reiko Heckel Visual Contracts as Test Oracle in AGG 2.0. ECEAST 2012
  Tamim Ahmed Khan, Olga Runge, Reiko Heckel Testing against Visual Contracts: Model-Based Coverage. ICGT: 279-293 2012
  Reiko Heckel, Tamim Ahmed Khan, Rodrigo Machado Towards Test Coverage Criteria for Visual Contracts. ECEAST 2011
  Tamim Ahmed Khan, Reiko Heckel On Model-Based Regression Testing of Web-Services Using Dependency Analysis of Visual Contracts. FASE: 341-355 2011
  Shariq Bashir Combining pre-retrieval query quality predictors using genetic programming. Appl. Intell. 40(3): 525-535 (2014) 2014
  Shariq Bashir Estimating retrievability ranks of documents using document features. Neurocomputing 123: 216-232 (2014) 2014
  Shariq Bashir, Akmal Saeed Khattak Producing efficient retrievability ranks of documents using normalized retrievability scoring function.
  1. Intell. Inf. Syst. 42(3): 457-484 (2014)
 2014
  Shariq Bashir, Andreas Rauber: Automatic ranking of retrieval models using retrievability measure. Knowl. Inf. Syst. 41(1): 189-221 (2014) 2014
  Shariq Bashir Improving retrievability with improved cluster-based pseudo-relevance feedback selection. Expert Syst. Appl. 39(8): 7495-7502 (2012) 2012
  Shariq Bashir Evaluating retrieval models using retrievability measurement. SIGIR Forum 46(1): 81 (2012) 2012
  Shariq Bashir, Andreas Rauber On the relationship between query characteristics and IR functions retrieval bias. JASIST 62(8): 1515-1532 (2011) 2011
  Shariq Bashir, Andreas Rauber Improving Retrievability and Recall by Automatic Corpus Partitioning.
  1. Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems 2: 122-140 (2010)
 2010
  1. Siddiqi, C. Djeddi, A. Raza and L. Souici-Meslati
 Automatic Analysis of Handwriting for Gender Classification Pattern Analysis and Applications, 2014. {IF:0.8}. 2014
  1. Jehanzeb, G.B. Sulong and I. Siddiqi
 Improving Codebook based Writer Recognition Int’l Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific, 27 (06), 2013. {IF: 0.56}. 2013
  1. Djeddi, I. Siddiqi, L. Souici-Meslati, A. Ennaji
 Text-Independent Writer Recognition Using Multi-script Handwritten Texts Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, 2013. {IF : 1.7} 2013
  1. Cloppet, H. Daher, V. Eglin, H. Emptoz, M. Exbrayat, G. Joutel, F. Lebourgeois, L. Martin, I. Moalla, I. Siddiqi, N. Vincent
 New Tools for Exploring, Analyzing and Categorizing Medieval Scripts. In Digital Medievalist, ISSN: 1715-0736 (7): 243-254, 2011 2011
  1. Siddiqi, F. Cloppet, N.Vincent
 Writing property descriptors, a proposal for typological groupings. In Gazette du livre médiéval (56-57): 42-57, 2011 2011
  1. Siddiqi and N. Vincent
 Text independent writer recognition using redundant writing patterns with contour-based orientation and curvature features Pattern Recognition {43} Issue 11, 3853-3865, 2010. {IF:3.17} 2010
Abdullah M. Alshanqiti, Reiko Heckel, Tamim Ahmed Khan Learning Minimal and Maximal Rules from Observations of Graph Transformations ECEAST 2014
Olga Runge, Tamim Ahmed Khan, Reiko Heckel Test Case Generation Using Visual Contracts
 

Ghulam Ali Mirza

 

 

 

 Value Name Conflict while Integrating Data in

Database Integration

 11th IEEE ICCWAMTIP December, 2014
Zamir, Farah, Arshad Hasan, and Ghulam Ali Mirza Trend of

Corporate Environmental Reporting in Pakistan

 International

Proceedings of Economics Development & Research 57

 January, 2013
Ghulam Ali Mirza, N. Masood, S. Asghar

 

 Formal Representation and

Resolution of Null Value Conflict in Database Integration

 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer and Management

(CAMAN 2012), Wuhan, China

 March, 2012
Ghulam Ali Mirza, N. Masood, S. Asghar A Survey of Data Level

Conflicts in Database Integration

 4th SKIMA Conference, Paro,

Bhutan

 July, 2010
Ghulam Ali Mirza, H. Khan. S. Fazal DNA and Protein Bioinformatics

Toolkit

 9th Biennial Conference Advances in Biochemistry and

Molecular Biology organized by Arid University of agriculture.

 June, 2008
Ghulam Ali Mirza, H. Khan. S. Fazal DNA and Protein Toolkit 1st International Symposium Biotechnology; Current Trends by

University of Malakand, Pakistan

 December, 2008

 

 
  1. Research Group Achievements:
6.1 Research (please prove the list of all the research projects by this particular group or any group member)

 

  1. No.
 Project Title Full Name of Principal Investigator and other member(s) Nature/Description of Project Status:

Completed/

In-progress/

Submitted

 

  • Research Funding: (please provide the list of all the research projects which have acquired research funding from different organizations or project proposals submitted for funding, or to be submitted in near future by this particular group or group member).

 

  1. No.
 Project Title Full Name of Principal Investigator and other member(s) Nature/Description of Project Project duration

(start and end date

 Amount of Funding  

Funding Agency

 Status:

Completed/

In-progress/

Submitted

6.3 Student Supervision: (please provide the list of student(s) who are currently under supervision of any group member of this particular research group).

 

  1. No.
 Name of Student Name of Supervisor Degree/Program Title of Thesis Thesis start date
Anas Ijaz

 

 

 Muhammad Muzammal/ Tamim Khan MS(SE) Effectiveness of Fault Seeding using Data Mining Fall 2013
Hasan Faraz Tamim Khan MS(SE) e-Learning Spring 2014
Zakir Hussain Imran Siddiqi MS(SE) Cluster based word spotting for indexing and retrieval Spring 2014
Safia Shabbir Imran Siddiqi MS(SE) Optical Character Recognition of Printed Urdu Documents Spring 2014
Zumra Malik Imran Siddiqi MS(SE) Road Sign Detection and Recognition Fall 2013
Azra Batool Imran Siddiqi MS(SE) Multilingual Artificial Text Detection and Script Identification from still Video Images, Fall 2013
Muhammad Jameel

 

 Imran Siddiqi PhD(CS) Textual Content based indexing and retrieval of videos, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Fall 2013
Momina Moetesum Imran Siddiqi PhD(CS) Study of Correlation between neurological disorders and handwriting, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Fall 2014
Israr-ud-din Imran Siddiqi PhD(CS) Optical Character Recognition System for Urdu Text, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan. Fall 2012

(In Progress)
Saeeda Naz Imran Siddiqi PhD(CS) Implicit Segmentation based Optical Character Recognition of Urdu Text, Hazara University, Pakistan. Fall 2013

(Co-supervision, In Progress)
Chawki Djeddi Imran Siddiqi PhD(CS) Writer Identification and Verification from offline handwritten Document Images, University of Tebassa, Algeria (Co-Supervised, Completed in 2014)
Muhammad Jehanzeb Imran Siddiqi PhD(CS) Codebook based Writer Characterization, UTM, Malaysia. (Co-Supervised, Completed in Nov. 2013)
  1. Awards & Activities: (please provide the list of awards or any other activities of the group or group member like member of an editorial board, awarded any research award i.e. best faculty researcher award/best teacher award, etc.).