sharifullah.khan@fecid.paf-iast.edu.pk

Prof. Dr. Sharifullah Khan

Professor and Dean (FCAAD)

Education

  • PhD (Computer Science), School of Computing, the University of Leeds, Leeds, 2002
  • MSc (Computer Science, Computer Centre, Gomal University, D. I. Khan, Pakistan ,1994
  • BSc (Computer Science) ,Government Degree College No.1, D.I.Khan, Gomal University, D.I.Khan, Pakistan. 1991

Publications

Refereed Research Publications

A – Books/Chapters

  • Humaira Farid, Sharifullah Khan. Exchanging Data from Institutional Repositories to the Semantic Web. LAMBERT Academic Publishing (LAP), ISBN 3659780278, Sep, 2015.
  • Faria Mehak, Rahat Masood, Yumna Ghazi, Awais Shibli, Sharifullah Khan. Security Aspects of Database as a Service (DBaaS) in Cloud Computing. In Cloud Computing: Challenges, Limitations and R&D Solutions, (Mahmood, Z. Editor), ISBN: 978-3-319-10529-1, Springer International Publishing, October 2014, 297-324.
  • Sharifullah Khan. Optimization of Continual Queries, In Encyclopaedia of Database Technologies and Applications (L. C. Rivero, J. H. Doorn and V. E. Ferraggine, Editors), pages: 469-471, Chapter 78, ARGENTINA. ISBN: 1591407958, Idea-Group Inc., DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-560-3, June 2005.
Under-review in Year - 2020

B – Journal Papers

  • Muhammad Zohaib Fazal, Sharifullah Khan, Yasir Nawab, M. Azeem Abbas, Muhammad Shahzad. Prediction of Crimp in Cotton Woven Fabrics by Machine Learning Techniques. Under-review in Textile Research Journal, ISSN: 00405175, Sage Publishing. [IF=1.540 (2017)]
  • Naheeda Parveen, Sharifullah Khan, Saeed Ullah Shah,Muhammad Azeem Abbas, Muhammad Shahzad Younis, Kinza Waqar CVD Risk Prediction Using Life Style Factors, Under-review in African Health Sciences, ISSN: 1680-6905. [IF=0.666 (2017)]
  • Madiha Liaqat Afshan Jamil, Muhammad Majid, Sharifullah Khan, Kashif Rajpoot. Automated Subjective Assessment of Image Retrieval Quality by Regression from Texture Features. Under-review in Journal of Information Science (JIS), SAGE publishing. ISSN: 0165-5515. [IF=1.939 (2017)]
  • Saher Shafait, Sharifullah Khan, Madiha Liaqat, Hamid Mukhtar. Behaviour Classification and Sentiment Analysis of Political Tweets: A Case Study on General Elections of Pakistan. Under-review in Under-review in Journal of Information Science (JIS), SAGE publishing. ISSN: 0165-5515. [IF=1.939 (2017)]
  • Maha Zainab, Asad Ali Shah, Sharifullah Khan, Seemab Latif, Safdar Abbas Khan. Framework for Evaluating Credibility of News Shared on Facebook. Under-review in IEEE ACCESS. IEEE Publishing.
  • Irfan Ullah, Sharifullah Khan, Muhammad Imran. RweetMiner: Automatic Identification and Categorization of Help Requests on Twitter during Disasters. Under-review in Information Processing Management. Elsevier Publishing.
Years: 2020 - 2016
  • Amnah Siddiqa, Jamil Ahmad, Amjad Ali, Sharifullah Khan. Deciphering the expression dynamics of ANGPTL8 associated regulatory network in insulin resistance using formal modelling approaches. IET System Biology, DOI: 10.1049/iet-syb.2019.0032, Online Oct.23, 2019. Print ISSN 1751-8849, Online ISSN 1751-8857. [IF=1.392 (2018)].
  • Iram Fatima, Burhan Ud Din Abbasi, Sharifullah Khan, Majed Al-Saeed, Hafiz Farooq Ahmed, Rafia Mumtaz. Prediction of Postpartum Depression Using Machine Learning Techniques from Social Media Text. Expert Systems, 36(4) e12409, August 2019, Online 26 April 2019 doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12409, Wiley Publishers. ISSN:1468-0394 [IF=1.505 (2018)]
  • Madiha Liaqat; Sharifullah Khan; Muhammad Shahzad; Muhammad Majid; Kashif Rajpoot. Applying Uncertain Frequent Pattern Mining to Improve Ranking of Retrieved Images. Applied Intelligence, 49(8) pp:2982-3001. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-019-01412-9. ISSN: 0924-669X/1573-7497, August 2019, Springer Publishers. [IF=2.882 (2018)]
  • Malik Nabeel Ahmed Awan, Sharifullah Khan, Khalid Latif, Asad Masood Khattak. A New Approach to Information Extraction in User-Centric E-Recruitment Systems. Applied Sciences, 9(14), 2852, July 2019. ISSN: 2076-3417. doi: 10.3390/app9142852 MDPI Publisher. [IF=2.217 (2018)]
  • Rabia Irfan, Sharifullah Khan, Muhammad Azeem Abbas and Asad Ali Shah. Determining influential factors and challenges in automatic taxonomy generation: a systematic literature review of techniques 1999-2016. Information Research – An International Electronic Journal, 24(2) paper 822, June 2019. ISSN: 1368-1613. Published by University of Boras, Sweden. [IF=0.799 (2018)]
  • Mehrosh Khalid, Sharifullah Khan, Jamil Ahmad, Muhammad Shaheryar. Identification of Self Regulatory Network Motifs in Reverse Engineering Gene Regulatory Networks using Microarray Gene Expression Data. IET Systems Biology. Vol. 13, Issue 2, pp:55-68, April 2019, DOI: 10.1049/iet-syb.2018.5001, ISSN: 1751-8849/ 1751-8857, [IF=1.392 (2018)]
  • Tayyeba Rehman, Sharifullah Khan, Gwo-Jen Hwang, Muhammad Azeem Abbas. Automatically solving Two-Variables linear algebraic word problems using text mining. Expert Systems, doi.org/10.1111/exsy.12358. Vol. 36, Issue 2, pp:e12358, April 2019, Wiley Publishers. ISSN:1468-0394 [IF=1.505 (2018)]
  • Sharifullah Khan, Gwo-Jen Hwang, Muhammad. Azeem Abbas, Arshia Rehman. Mitigating the Urban-Rural Educational Gap in Developing Countries through Mobile Technology-Supported Learning. British Journal of Educational Technology, DOI: 10.1111/bjet.12692. Vol. 50, No.2, March 2019, pp:735-749, Wiley publishers. ISSN: 1467-8535. [IF=2.588 (2018)].
  • Ghulam Mustafa, Muhammd. Azeem Abbas, Yaser Hafeez, Sharifullah Khan, Gwo-Jen Hwang. Effectiveness of Ontology-Based Learning Content Generation for Preschool Cognitive Skills Learning. Interactive Learning Environments, Vol 27, Issue 4, pp: 443-457, April 2019. doi.org/10.1080/10494820.2018.1484772. Taylor & Francis Publisher, PISSN: 1049-4820/ EISSN: 1744-5191 [IF=1.929 (2018)]
  • Umara Noor, Zahid Anwar Asad Waqar Malik, Sharifullah Khan, Shahzad Saleem. A machine learning framework for investigating data breaches based on semantic analysis of adversary’s attack patterns in threat intelligence repositories. Future Generation Computer Systems. Elsevier Vol.95, pp: 467-487. June 2019, DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2019.01.022. ISSN: 0167-739X [IF=5.768 (2018)]
  • Rabia Irfan, Sharifullah Khan, Kashif Rajpoot, Ali Mustafa Qamar. TIE algorithm: A layer over clustering-based taxonomy generation for handling an evolving data. Frontiers of Information Technology & Electronic Engineering, June 2018, Volume 19, Issue 6, pp 763–782, Springer Publishing, doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.1700517. PISSN:2095-9184/EISSN: 2095-9230 [IF=1.033 (2018)]
  • Lozina Shoaib, Sharifullah Khan, Muhammad Azeem. Abbas, Ahamd Salman. “Enabling profound hearing impaired children to articulate words using lip-reading through software application”, Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association (JPMA-2017-08-550) Vol. 68(3), March 2018, pp:432-436. ISSN:0030-9982, DOI: https://jpma.org.pk/article-details/8608 [IF=0.642 (2018)]
  • Madiha Liaqat, Sharifullah Khan, Muhammd Majid. Image Retrieval Based on Fuzzy Ontology. Multimedia Tools and Applications – An International Journal, Springer Publishers. November 2017, Vol. 76 (21), pp: 22623-22645, ISSN: 1380-7501/1573-7721 DOI 10.1007/s11042-017-4812-9. [IF=2.101 (2018)]
  • Sara Sultana, Sharifullah Khan, M. Azim Abbas. “Predicting Performance of Electrical Engineering Students using Cognitive and Non-cognitive Features for Identification of Potential Dropouts”. International Journal of Electrical Engineering Education, April 2017, Vol. 54(2), pp:105-118. SAGE publishing ISSN: 00207209, DOI: 10.1177/0020720916688484. [IF=0.941 (2018)]
  • Humaira Farid, Sharifullah Khan, M. Younas. Javed. “DSont: DSpace to Ontology Transformation”. Journal of Information Science (JIS), Vol.42, No.2. pp:179-199, April 2016, SAGE publishing. ISSN: 0165-5515, DOI: 10.1177/0165551515591406. [IF=2.327 (2018)]
  • Naila Karim, Khalid Latif, Zahid Anwar, Sharifullah Khan and Amir Hayat. Storage Schema and Ontology Independent SPARQL to HiveQL Translation. Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 71, Issue 7, July 2015, pp 2694-2719. ISSN: 0920-8542. Springer, DOI: 10.1007/s11227-015-1411-2. [IF=2.760 (2018)]
Years: 2015 – 2010
  • Saman Iftikhar, Sharifullah Khan, Zahid Anwar, Muhammad Kamran. GenInfoGuard - A Robust and Distortion-free Watermarking Technique for Genetic Data. PLOS ONE, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. e0117717, February 2015, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0117717, eISSN: 1932-6203. Public Library of Science (PLOS). [IF=2.776 (2018)]
  • Rabia Irfan, Sharifullah Khan, Ali Mustafa Qamar, Peter Bloodsworth. “Refining Kea++ Automatic Keyphrase Assignment”. Journal of Information Science (JIS). Vol. 40, No. 4: pp. 446-459, August 2014; SAGE publishing. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165551514529054, ISSN: 0165-5515. [IF=2.327 (2018)]
  • Sharifullah Khan, Muhammad Safyan; “Semantic Matching for Informal Hierarchical Ontologies”, Journal of KSU Computer and Information Sciences, Vol. 26, Issue 3: pp. 247-257, September 2014, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2014.03.010, ISSN: 1319-1578, Elsevier Publishing.
  • Sharifullah Khan, Jibran Mustafa. “Effective Semantic Search using Thematic Similarity”. Journal of KSU Computer and Information Sciences, Vol. 26, Issue 2: pp. 161-169, July 2014, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jksuci.2013.10.006, ISSN: 1319-1578, Elsevier Publishing.
  • Anila Saher Butt, Sharifullah Khan. “Scalability and Performance Evaluation of Semantic Web databases”. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE), March 2014, Vol. 39, Issue. 3, pp: 1805–1823. ISSN: 1319-8025. Springer, DOI:10.1007/s13369-013-0753-4. [IF=1.518 (2018)]
  • Sharifullah Khan, Muhammad Bilal. “Bitmap Index in Ontology Mapping for Data Integration”. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE), April 2013, Vol. 38, Issue 4, pp: 859-873, ISSN: 1319-8025. Springer, DOI 10.1007/s13369-012-0373-4. [IF=1.518 (2018)]
  • Sharifullah Khan, Iram Fatima, Rabia Irfan, Khalid Latif. “A Refined Methodology for Automatic Keyphrase Assignment to Digital Libraries”. Journal of Digital Information Management (JDIM), Vol. 9, No. 2, Page: 55–63, April 2011, ISSN 0972-7272.
  • Sharifullah Khan and Kiran Sonia. “R2O: Relation to Ontology Transformation System”. Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM), Vol. 10, No.1, Page: 71–89, March 2011, https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219649211002845. ISSN: 0219-6492, World Scientific

C– Conference Papers

Years: 2020 – 2018
  • Owais Rashid, Ali Mustafa Qamar, Sharifullah Khan and Sadaf Ambreen, "Intelligent decision making and planning for call center," In Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Computer and Information Sciences (ICCIS), Sakaka, Saudi Arabia, 3-4 April 2019, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/ICCISci.2019.8716472.
  • Rubab Hafeez, Sharifullah Khan, Muhammad Azeem Abbas, Fahad Maqbool. Topic based Summarization of Multiple Documents using Semantic Analysis and Clustering. In the proceedings of 15th International Conference on Smart Cities: Improving Quality of Life Using ICT & IoT (HONET-ICT), Islamabad, Pakistan, October 8-10, 2018, pp. 70-74. doi: 10.1109/HONET.2018.8551325
  • Years: 2017-2015
  • Rida Hafeez, Sharifullah Khan, Irfan Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Abbas. Does Preprocessing Really Impact Automatically Generated Taxonomy. In the Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET-2017), pp:1-6, December 26-28, 2017, Islamabad Pakistan. doi: 10.1109/ICET.2017.8281710.
  • Mehrosh Khalid, Sharifullah Khan, Jamil Ahmad and Muhammad Shaheryar. Multivariate Covariance using Principal Component Analysis for Reconstruction of Bidirected Gene Regulatory Networks, In the Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT-2017), pp.229-234, Islamabad, Pakistan. December 18-20. doi: 10.1109/FIT.2017.00048.
  • Zoha Sheikh, Hira Masood, Sharifullah Khan, Muhammad Imran. “User-Assisted Information Extraction from Twitter during Emergencies”. In the proceedings of 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM). Albi, France, May 2017.
  • Rabia Irfan and Sharifullah Khan. “TIE: an algorithm for incrementally evolving taxonomy for text data”. In the Proceedings of IEEE 15th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) 2016. Anaheim, California, USA, pp. 687-692, December 18-20, 2016, doi: 10.1109/ICMLA.2016.0121.
  • Rabia Irfan and Sharifullah Khan. “Evolving the taxonomy based on hierarchical clustering approach”. In the Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT-2016), pp.81-86, Islamabad, Pakistan. December 19-21, doi: 10.1109/FIT.2016.023.
  • Nabeel Ahmed, Sharifullah Khan, Khalid Latif. “Job Description Ontology”. In the Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT-2016), pp.217-222, Islamabad, Pakistan. December 19-21, doi: 10.1109/FIT.2016.047. Madiha Liaqat, Sharifullah Khan, Muhammad Majid. “Fuzzy Ontology Based Model for Image Retrieval”. In the Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems (MobiWis 2016), pp:108-120, August 2016, Austria, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44215-0_9.
  • Years: 2014-2010
  • Irshad Faiz, Hamid Mukhtar, Ali Mustafa Qamar, Sharifullah Khan. “A Semantic Rules & Reasoning based Approach for Diet and Exercise Management for Diabetics”. 10th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), p. 94-99, December 1-2, 2014, Islamabad Pakistan, doi: 10.1109/ICET.2014.7021023.
  • Sadaf Khurshid, Sharifullah Khan, Shariq Bashir. “Text-based Intelligent Content Filtering on Social Platforms”. 12th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), pp.232-237, Dec 17-19, 2014 at Islamabad Pakistan, doi: 10.1109/FIT.2014.51.
  • Humaira Farid, Sharifullah Khan, Muhammad Younas. Javed. “Transformation of DSpace Database into Ontology”. In the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries (ICADL), pp 130-137, Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 2014, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12823-8_14.
  • Rabia Irfan, Sharifullah Khan. “Exploiting Hierarchical Semantics in Automatic Keyphrase Assignment”. In the Proceedings of 5th World Engineering Congress (WEC-2013), Islamabad, Pakistan, September 23-25, 2013.
  • Humaira Farid, Sharifullah Khan, Muhammad Younad Javed. “Publishing Institutional Repositories Metadata into the Semantic Web”.  In the Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2013),  pp. 79-84 Islamabad, Pakistan, September 10-12, 2013, doi: 10.1109/ICDIM.2013.6694008.
  • Rabia Irfan, Sharifullah Khan, Irfan Ali Khan, Muhammad Asif Ali. “KeaKAT – An Online Automatic Keyphrase Assignment Tool”. In the Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2012), pp. 30-34 Islamabad, Pakistan, December 17-19, 2012. doi: 10.1109/FIT.2012.14, IEEE Xplore.
  • Amjad Usman, Sharifullah Khan. “Exploiting semantics in subject-based searching of DSpace”. In the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries (ICADL), pp: 29-38, November 2012, Taipei Taiwan, doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34752-8_4.
  • Iqbal Qasim, J. W. Jeong, Sharifullah Khan, D. H. Lee. “Automatic Acquisition of Domain Concepts for Ontology Learning using Affinity Propagation”. In the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET-2011), September 5-6, 2011, Islamabad Pakistan. IEEE Xplore, doi: 10.1109/ICET.2011.6048471.
  • Sharifullah Khan, Amjad Usman, Rabia Irfan, Amir Hayat. “DSpace@SEECS: Implementing SEECS Institutional Repository System”. In the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET-2011), September 5-6, 2011, Islamabad Pakistan. IEEE Xplore, DOI:10.1109/ICET.2011.6048464.
  • Anila Saher Butt, Sharifullah Khan, Khalid Latif. “Comparative Evaluation of Native RDF Stores”. In the Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2010), pp: 321-326, October18-19, 2010, Islamabad Pakistan. IEEE Xplore.
  • Years: 2009-2008
  • Iram Fatima, Sharifullah Khan and Khalid Latif. “Refinement Methodology for Automatic Document Alignment using Taxonomy in Digital Libraries”. In the proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC2009), pp: 281-286, September 14-16, 2009, Berkeley, CA, USA. IEEE Xplore.
  • Iqbal Qasim, Sharifullah Khan and Khalid Latif. “Semantic Mapping between Global and Source Ontology using WordNet”. In the proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer, Control & Communication (IEEE-IC4 2009), pp:1 – 5, February 2009. Karachi, Pakistan. IEEE Xplore.
  • Muhammad Safyan, Sharifullah Khan; “Bridging Hierarchical Ontologies for Interoperability and Query Reformulation”, In the proceedings of 2008 International Conference on Advanced Computer Theory and Engineering (ICACTE 2008), pp:832 – 836, December 2008, Phuket Island, Thailand. IEEE Xplore.
  • Asad Masood Khattak, Jibran Mustafa, Nabeel Ahmed, Khalid Latif, Sharifullah Khan, “Intelligent Search in Digital Documents”, In the proceedings of 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence (WI), pp: 558 – 561, December 2008, Sydney, Australia. IEEE Xplore.
  • Aisha Latif, Muhammad Younas Javed, Sharifullah Khan, “Semi-Automated Approach for Converting ERD to Semi-Star Schema”, In the proceedings of 4th IEEE international conference on Emerging Technology (ICET 2008), pp: 264-268, October 2008, Rawalpindi Pakistan. IEEE Xplore.
  • Ammara Aslam, Sharifullah Khan, Khalid Latif, “Semantic Based Query Rewriting in Distributed Systems”, In the proceedings of 4th IEEE international conference on Emerging Technology (ICET 2008), pp:292-297, October 2008. Rawalpindi Pakistan. IEEE Xplore. Nabeel Ahmed, Sharifullah Khan, Khalid Latif, Asad Masood Khattak, “Extracting Semantic Annotation and their Correlation with Document”. In the proceedings of 4th IEEE international conference on Emerging Technology (ICET 2008), pp: 32-37, October 2008, Rawalpindi Pakistan. IEEE Xplore.
  • Waris Ali, Sharifullah Khan, “Ontology Driven Query Expansion in Data Integration”, In the proceedings of 4th International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid (SKG), pp:57 – 63, December 2008, Beijing China,. IEEE Xplore
  • Asad Masood Khattak, Khalid Latif, Sharifullah Khan, Nabeel Ahmed, “Managing Change History in Web Ontologies”, In the proceedings of 4th International Conference on Semantic, Knowledge and Grid (SKG), pp:347 – 350, December 2008, Beijing China. IEEE Xplore.
  • Ammara Aslam, Sharifullah Khan, “Semantic Based Query Rewriting in Data Integration”, In the proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT), August 2008, Bannu, Pakistan.
  • Iqbal Qasim, Sharifullah Khan, Khalid Latif, “Semantic Mapping between Global and Source Ontologies for Scalable Data Integration System”, In the proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT), August 2008, Bannu, Pakistan.
  • Asad Masood Khattak, Khalid Latif, Sharifullah Khan, Nabeel Ahmed, “Ontology Recovery and Visualization”, In the proceedings of 4th International Conference on Next Generation Web Services and Practices (NWeSP), pp:90 – 96, October 2008. Seoul, Korea. IEEE Xplore.
  • Kiran Sonia, Sharifullah Khan. R2O Transformation System: Relation to Ontology Transformation for Scalable Data Integration.  In Proceedings of the 12th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS'08), pp: 291-295 September 2008, Coimbra, Portugal. IEEE Xplore.
  • Muhammad Bilal, Sharifullah Khan. Ontology Driven Relevance Reasoning Architecture for Data Integration Techniques.  In Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'08), pp: 22.8 – 22.13, September 2008, Bulgaria. IEEE Xplore.
  • Jibran Mustafa, Sharifullah Khan, Khalid Latif. Ontology Based Semantic Information Retrieval. In Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'08), pp: 22.14 – 22.19, September 2008, Varna, Bulgaria. IEEE Xplore.
  • Kiran Sonia, Sharifullah Khan. Transforming Relational Model to Source Ontology for Data Integration.  In Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'08), pp: 22.2 – 22.7, September 2008, Varna, Bulgaria. IEEE Xplore.
  • Jibran Mustafa, Sharifullah Khan, K. Latif. Intelligent Informational Retrieval.  In Proceedings of 1st National Conference on Security, Computing, & Communication (SCC), pp: 58-62, May 2008, Kohat, NWFP, Pakistan.
  • Years: 2007 - 2006
  • Muhammad Bilal, Sharifullah Khan. Ontology-Driven Relevance Reasoning in Data Integration Techniques. In the proceedings of 5th international workshop on the Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2007), Islamabad, Pakistan, December 17-18, 2007
  • Kiran Sonia, Sharifullah Khan. Building Local Ontology from Database Relations in Data Integration. In the proceedings of IEEE 3rd international conference on Emerging Technology (ICET 2007), pp: 108 – 113, November 2007. Islamabad, Pakistan, IEEE Xplore.
  • Waris Ali, Sharifullah Khan. Global Query Generation over Diverse Data Sources Using Ontology. In the proceedings of First national conference on Information and Communication Technologies (NCICT 2007), Bannu, Pakistan, June 2007.
  • Kamran Munir, Muhammad Odeh, Richard McClatchey, Sharifullah Khan, Irfan Habib, Semantic Information Retrieval from Distributed Heterogeneous Data Sources, In the proceedings of 4th international workshop on the Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2006), Islamabad, Pakistan, December, 2006.
  • Sharifullah Khan. The Role of Ontology in Query Mediation, In the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Semantic Grid (MASSG06) Rawalpindi, Pakistan, December 2006.
  • Sharifullah Khan, Franck Marvon. Identifying Relevant Sources in Query Reformulation. In the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS2006), pp: 357-366, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, December 2006.
  • Sharifullah Khan, Franck Marvon. Integrating Biomedical Sources on the Internet. In the proceedings of ISCA 19th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), pp: 165-170, San Francisco, California, USA, September, 2006.
  • Sharifullah Khan, Franck Marvon. Scalable Integration of Biomedical Sources. In the proceedings of the Workshop on Ontology, Grid and Semantic Integration for Biology (OGSB), July, 2006. Bordeaux, France.
  • Muhammad Asif Iqbal, Sharifullah Khan. Content-based Hierarchical Web Cache. In the Proceedings International Conference on Computing and Informatics (ICOCI). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 6-8, 2006, IEEE CS.
  • Years: 2005-2002
  • Junaid Ahmed, Sharifullah Khan, Atif Kamal. An Integrated Framework for Schema Integration in Object Oriented Data Warehousing. In the proceedings of the 2nd PAK-US International Symposium on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies (HONET), Islamabad, Pakistan, December 19-21, 2005.
  • Marium Sharif Khan, Sharifullah Khan. Distance Education through Weblogs. In the proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Information Technology in OIC Member States, Islamabad, Pakistan. July 26-27, 2005. Sharifullah Khan, Syed Muhammad Nabeel. OPEMS: Online Peer-to-Peer Expertise Matching System. In the proceedings the First International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT 2005), pp: 148-151, Karachi, Pakistan. August 2005, IEEE Xplore.
  • Awais Hamid, Sharifullah Khan. Optimization of Semantic Caches for XML Databases. In the proceedings the First International Conference on Information and Communication Technology (ICICT 2005), pp: 201-205, Karachi, Pakistan. August 2005. IEEE Xplore.
  • Sharifullah Khan, Peter Mott. A Scalable and dynamic Grouping of Continual Queries. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Information Systems (ADVIS), pp: 31-42, Izmir, Turkey, October 2002, Springer.
  • Sharifullah Khan, Peter Mott. LeedsCQ: A Scalable Continual Queries System. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), pp: 607-617, Aix-en Provence, France, September 2002, Springer.

Non-Refereed Publications

A – Invited Talks/Publications

  • S. Khan. “Delving into Tweets for Humanitarian Relief in Disasters”. In International Symposium on Advances in Computer and Information Sciences (ISACIS), International Pakistan Research Summit-2017 (IPRS’17), Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Nilore, Islamabad, October 24-26, 2017.
  • S. Khan. “Evolving the taxonomy based on hierarchical clustering approach”. In 14th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT-2016), Islamabad, Pakistan. December 19-21, 2016.
  • S. Khan. “Automatic Taxonomy Generation Techniques-A Survey” In 6th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT’15), Karachi, Pakistan, December 2015.
  • S. Khan. “Integrating Institutional Repositories Metadata into the Semantic Web” In 5th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT’13), Karachi, Pakistan, December 2013.
  • S. Khan. “Knowledge Sharing with Institutional Repository” In 4th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT’11), Karachi, Pakistan, July 2011.
  • S. Khan. “Data Acquisition from Semantically Heterogeneous Biomedical Data Sources on the Internet”. In 1st National Conference on Biotechnology & Mircobiology, Bara Gali, Pakistan, July 4-7 2010.
  • S. Khan. “Semantic-based Search in Digital Libraries”, In 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT’09), Karachi, Pakistan, August 2009.
  • S. Khan. “Refinement Methodology for Taxonomy Driven Automatic Document Alignment” In 2nd Workshop on Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Islamabad, Pakistan, May 2009.
  • S. Khan. Data Acquisition from Semantically Heterogeneous Data Sources, In 1st Workshop on Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Islamabad, Pakistan, February 2007.

B– Technical Reports

  • S. Khan and F. Marvon. Ontology-based Query Reformulation for Scalable Data Integration. Technical Report IRIT/RR-2006-07-FR. Institute de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), UMR 5505 CNRS, Universite Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France, June 2006.
  • S. Khan and F. Marvon. Query Processing in Biomedical Informatics. Technical Report IRIT/RR-2006-07-FR. Institute de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT), UMR 5505 CNRS, Universite Paul Sabatier (UPS), Toulouse, France, March 2006.
  • S. Khan and P. Mott. LeedsCQ: A Scalable Continual Queries System. Technical Report 2002.03, School of Computing, the University of Leeds, February 2002.
  • S. Khan and P. Mott. A Scalable and dynamic Grouping of Continual Queries. Technical Report 2001.17, School of Computing, the University of Leeds, September 2001.
  • S. Khan and P. Mott. Differential Evaluation of Continual Queries. Technical Report 2001.11, School of Computing, the University of Leeds, May 2001.

Research & Development Projects

  • Exploiting Social Networks through Machine-learning Analysis ,2017- to-date
  • Facilitating School Learning through Innovative Technology in Local Community
  • Extraction and Integration of Bio-informatics data ,2013 – 2019
  • Health Awareness through Innovative Technology in Local Community ,2014 – 2017
  • Automatic Taxonomy Generation System for Information Retrieval ,2013 – 2018
  • Anti-coagulation System for Cardiac Health ,2013 - 2015
  • NUST Knowledge Repository ,2010 – 2014
  • National Digital Repository for Pakistan Science Abstracts ,2009 – 2014
  • Evaluation of Semantic (RDF) Storage Systems ,2009 – 2010
  • Alignment of digital documents with Hierarchical Domain Ontology ,2008 – 2009
  • Bridging Hierarchical Ontologies ,2008 – 2009
  • Semantic Based Mapping and Query Rewriting in Information Integration 2008 – 2009
  • Generation and Storage of Context Aware Metadata for Digital Documents ,2008 -2009
  • Semantic-based Information Retrieval in Digital Documents 2007 -2008
  • Ontology Driven Relevance Reasoning for Source Selection in Data Integration ,2007 -2008
  • Transforming Database Relations to Source Ontology in Data Integration 2007 – 2008
  • Ontology-driven Query Expansion ,2006 – 2007
  • Integrating Biomedical Data Sources on the Internet ,2005 – 2006
  • Optimization of Semantic Caching for XML Databases ,2004 – 2005
  • Expertise Matching System ,2004 – 2005
  • Efficient Data Storage for Dynamically Grouped CQs in XML Databases ,2004 – 2005
  • Optimization of Web Caching ,2004 – 2005
  • Optimization of Continual Queries ,1999 – 2002