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Optimisation of small-scale aquaponics systems using artificial intelligence and the IoT: Current status, challenges, and opportunities (2024)
Journal Article
Channa, A. A., Munir, K., Hansen, M., & Tariq, M. F. (2024). Optimisation of small-scale aquaponics systems using artificial intelligence and the IoT: Current status, challenges, and opportunities. Encyclopedia, 4(1), 313-336. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia4010023

Environment changes, water scarcity, soil depletion, and urbanisation are making it harder to produce food using traditional methods in various regions and countries. Aquaponics is emerging as a sustainable food production system that produces fish a... Read More about Optimisation of small-scale aquaponics systems using artificial intelligence and the IoT: Current status, challenges, and opportunities.

A framework for the estimation of air quality by applying meteorological images: Colours-of-the-Wind (COLD) (2023)
Journal Article
Chan, K., Matthews, P., & Munir, K. (2023). A framework for the estimation of air quality by applying meteorological images: Colours-of-the-Wind (COLD). Environments, 10(12), Article 218. https://doi.org/10.3390/environments10120218

This paper presents a new framework, “colours-of-the-wind” (COLD), which is designed to estimate air quality based on images from meteorological cameras, data analytics techniques, and the application of deep learning. Existing air quality estimation... Read More about A framework for the estimation of air quality by applying meteorological images: Colours-of-the-Wind (COLD).

SWEL: A domain-specific language for modeling data-intensive workflows (2023)
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Salado-Cid, R., Vallecillo, A., Munir, K., & Romero, J. R. (in press). SWEL: A domain-specific language for modeling data-intensive workflows. Business and Information Systems Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-023-00826-7

Data-intensive applications aim at discovering valuable knowledge from large amounts of data coming from real-world sources. Typically, workflow languages are used to specify these applications, and their associated engines enable the execution of th... Read More about SWEL: A domain-specific language for modeling data-intensive workflows.

Personalised learning through context-based adaptation in the serious games with gating mechanism (2023)
Journal Article
Shum, L. C., Rosunally, Y., Scarle, S., & Munir, K. (2023). Personalised learning through context-based adaptation in the serious games with gating mechanism. Education and Information Technologies, 28(10), 13077-13108. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-11695-8

When the traditional "one size fits all" approach is used in designing educational games, the game context is usually arranged in a fixed sequence. However, the designated content may not effectively support the diversity of players. The player's abi... Read More about Personalised learning through context-based adaptation in the serious games with gating mechanism.

AgroSupportAnalytics: Big data recommender system for agricultural farmer complaints in Egypt (2023)
Journal Article
Rslan, E., Khafagy, M. H., Ali, M., Munir, K., & Badry, R. M. (2023). AgroSupportAnalytics: Big data recommender system for agricultural farmer complaints in Egypt. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 13(1), 746-755. https://doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v13i1.pp746-755

The world's agricultural needs are growing with the pace of increase in its population. Agricultural farmers play a vital role in our society by helping us in fulfilling our basic food needs. So, we need to support farmers to keep up their great work... Read More about AgroSupportAnalytics: Big data recommender system for agricultural farmer complaints in Egypt.

Predictive maintenance analytics and implementation for aircraft: Challenges and opportunities (2022)
Journal Article
Stanton, I., Munir, K., Ikram, A., & El-Bakry, M. (2023). Predictive maintenance analytics and implementation for aircraft: Challenges and opportunities. Systems Engineering, 26(2), 216-237. https://doi.org/10.1002/sys.21651

The increase in available data from sensors embedded in industrial equipment has led to a recent rise in the use of industrial predictive maintenance. In the aircraft industry, predictive maintenance has become an essential tool for optimizing mainte... Read More about Predictive maintenance analytics and implementation for aircraft: Challenges and opportunities.

Application of region-based video surveillance in smart cities using deep learning (2021)
Journal Article
Zahra, A., Ghafoor, M., Munir, K., Ullah, A., & Ul Abideen, Z. (2021). Application of region-based video surveillance in smart cities using deep learning. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-021-11468-w

Smart video surveillance helps to build more robust smart city environment. The varied angle cameras act as smart sensors and collect visual data from smart city environment and transmit it for further visual analysis. The transmitted visual data is... Read More about Application of region-based video surveillance in smart cities using deep learning.

Arabic semantic similarity approach for farmers’ complaints (2021)
Journal Article
Farouk, R. A., Khafagy, M. H., Ali, M., Munir, K., & M.Badry, R. (2021). Arabic semantic similarity approach for farmers’ complaints. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 12(10), 348-358. https://doi.org/10.14569/ijacsa.2021.0121038

Semantic similarity is applied for many areas in Natural Language Processing, such as information retrieval, text classification, plagiarism detection, and others. Many researchers used semantic similarity for English texts, but few used for Arabic d... Read More about Arabic semantic similarity approach for farmers’ complaints.

AgroSupportAnalytics: A cloud-based complaints management and decision support system for sustainable farming in Egypt (2021)
Journal Article
Munir, K., Ghafoor, M., Khafagy, M., & Ihshaish, H. (2022). AgroSupportAnalytics: A cloud-based complaints management and decision support system for sustainable farming in Egypt. Egyptian Informatics Journal, 23(1), 73-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eij.2021.06.002

Sustainable Farming requires up-to-date advice on crop diseases, patterns, and adequate prevention actions to face developing circumstances. Currently, in developing countries like Egypt, farmers’ access to such information is extremely limited due t... Read More about AgroSupportAnalytics: A cloud-based complaints management and decision support system for sustainable farming in Egypt.

An ontology-based compliance audit framework for medical data sharing across Europe (2021)
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Boussi Rahmouni, H., & Munir, K. (2021). An ontology-based compliance audit framework for medical data sharing across Europe. International Arab Journal of Information Technology, 18(2), 158-169

Complying with privacy in multi-jurisdictional health domains is important as well as challenging. The compliance management process will not be efficient unless it manages to show evidences of explicit verification of legal requirements. In order to... Read More about An ontology-based compliance audit framework for medical data sharing across Europe.

IoT technologies for livestock management: A review of present status, opportunities, and future trends (2021)
Journal Article
Akhigbe, B. I., Munir, K., Akinade, O., Akanbi, L., & Oyedele, L. O. (2021). IoT technologies for livestock management: A review of present status, opportunities, and future trends. Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 5(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3390/bdcc5010010

The world population currently stands at about 7 billion amidst an expected increase in 2030 from 9.4 billion to around 10 billion in 2050. This burgeoning population has continued to influence the upward demand for animal food. Moreover, the managem... Read More about IoT technologies for livestock management: A review of present status, opportunities, and future trends.

Uncertainty assisted robust tuberculosis identification with Bayesian convolutional neural networks (2020)
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Ul Abideen, Z., Ghafoor, M., Munir, K., Saqib, M., Ullah, A., Zia, T., …Zahra, A. (2020). Uncertainty assisted robust tuberculosis identification with Bayesian convolutional neural networks. IEEE Access, 8, 22812-22825. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.2970023

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that can lead towards death if left untreated. TB detection involves extraction of complex TB manifestation features such as lung cavity, air space consolidation, endobronchial spread, and pleural effusions... Read More about Uncertainty assisted robust tuberculosis identification with Bayesian convolutional neural networks.

Influence of Big Data in managing cyber assets (2019)
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Mitra, A., & Munir, K. (2019). Influence of Big Data in managing cyber assets. Built Environment Project and Asset Management, 9(4), 503-514. https://doi.org/10.1108/BEPAM-07-2018-0098

© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Today, Big Data plays an imperative role in the creation, maintenance and loss of cyber assets of organisations. Research in connection to Big Data and cyber asset management is embryonic. Using evidence,... Read More about Influence of Big Data in managing cyber assets.

Neuroscience patient identification using big data and fuzzy logic–An Alzheimer’s disease case study (2019)
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Munir, K., de Ramón-Fernández, A., Iqbal, S., & Javaid, N. (2019). Neuroscience patient identification using big data and fuzzy logic–An Alzheimer’s disease case study. Expert Systems with Applications, 136, 410-425. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2019.06.049

Modern neuroscience imaging technologies considerably affect diagnostic and prognostic accuracy and facilitate progress towards the cure of brain diseases. The benefits largely depend on the practicalities by which the large-scale imaging and clinica... Read More about Neuroscience patient identification using big data and fuzzy logic–An Alzheimer’s disease case study.

NeuroProv: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analyses (2019)
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Munir, K., Arshad, B., McClatchey, R., Shamdasani, J., & Khan, Z. (2019). NeuroProv: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analyses. Journal of Computer Languages, 52, 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cola.2019.04.004

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Visualisation underpins the understanding of scientific data both through exploration and explanation of analysed data. Provenance strengthens the understanding of data by showing the process of how a result has been achieved. Wit... Read More about NeuroProv: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analyses.

Reproducibility of scientific workflows execution using cloud-aware provenance (ReCAP) (2018)
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Hasham, K., & Munir, K. (2018). Reproducibility of scientific workflows execution using cloud-aware provenance (ReCAP). Computing, 100(12), 1299-1333. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-018-0617-6

© 2018, Springer-Verlag GmbH Austria, part of Springer Nature. Provenance of scientific workflows has been considered a mean to provide workflow reproducibility. However, the provenance approaches adopted so far are not applicable in the context of C... Read More about Reproducibility of scientific workflows execution using cloud-aware provenance (ReCAP).

Cloud infrastructure provenance collection and management to reproduce scientific workflows execution (2017)
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Hasham, K., Munir, K., & McClatchey, R. (2018). Cloud infrastructure provenance collection and management to reproduce scientific workflows execution. Future Generation Computer Systems, 86, 799-820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.07.015

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. The emergence of Cloud computing provides a new computing paradigm for scientific workflow execution. It provides dynamic, on-demand and scalable resources that enable the processing of complex workflow-based experiments. With th... Read More about Cloud infrastructure provenance collection and management to reproduce scientific workflows execution.

The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics (2017)
Journal Article
Bilal, M., Oyedele, L. O., Munir, K., Ajayi, S. O., Akinade, O. O., Owolabi, H. A., & Alaka, H. A. (2017). The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics. Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 11, 28-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.susmat.2016.12.004

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Predicting and designing out construction waste in real time is complex during building waste analysis (BWA) since it involves a large number of analyses for investigating multiple waste-efficient design strategies. These analyse... Read More about The application of web of data technologies in building materials information modelling for construction waste analytics.

Evaluation criteria for construction waste management tools: Towards a holistic BIM framework (2016)
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Ajayi, S. O., Akinade, O., Oyedele, L., Munir, K., Bilal, M., Owolabi, H. A., …Bello, S. A. (2016). Evaluation criteria for construction waste management tools: Towards a holistic BIM framework. International Journal of Sustainable Building Technology and Urban Development, 7(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/2093761X.2016.1152203

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This study identifies evaluation criteria with the goal of appraising the performance of existing construction waste management tools and employing the results in the development of a ho... Read More about Evaluation criteria for construction waste management tools: Towards a holistic BIM framework.

Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users (2016)
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Javed, B., Bloodsworth, P., Rasool, R. U., Munir, K., & Rana, O. (2016). Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users. Future Generation Computer Systems, 54, 52-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2015.06.004

© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Abstract Cloud providers commonly incur heavy upfront set up costs which remain almost constant whether they serve a single or many customers. In order to generate a return on this investment, a suitable pricing strategy is requi... Read More about Cloud Market Maker: An automated dynamic pricing marketplace for cloud users.