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Digital twins in industry 4.0 cyber security (2024)
Conference Proceeding
Lo, C., Win, T. Y., Rezaeifar, Z., Khan, Z., & Legg, P. (2024). Digital twins in industry 4.0 cyber security. In Proceedings of the IEEE Smart World Congress 2023. https://doi.org/10.1109/swc57546.2023.10449147

The increased adoption of sophisticated Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) in critical infrastructure and various aspects of Industry 4.0 has exposed vulnerabilities stemming from legacy CPS and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices. The interconnec... Read More about Digital twins in industry 4.0 cyber security.

Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe (2023)
Journal Article
Chrysoulakis, N., Ludlow, D., Mitraka, Z., Somarakis, G., Khan, Z., Lauwaet, D., …Holt Andersen, B. (2023). Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe. Scientific Reports, 13(1), Article 16251. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43371-9

The urban community faces a significant obstacle in effectively utilising Earth Observation (EO) intelligence, particularly the Copernicus EO program of the European Union, to address the multifaceted aspects of urban sustainability and bolster urban... Read More about Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe.

Towards digital-twin solutions for the 15 minute city (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Ludlow, D., Khan, Z., Chrysoulakis, N., & Mitraka, Z. (2023). Towards digital-twin solutions for the 15 minute city. In 2023 Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE). https://doi.org/10.1109/jurse57346.2023.10144161

The Covid-19 pandemic and the climate emergency have re-emphasised the need to re-evaluate urban governance and planning process in cities. The "new-normal"and digital transformations offer catalysts to drive and deliver climate mitigation in cities.... Read More about Towards digital-twin solutions for the 15 minute city.

Deep learning-based multi-target regression for traffic-related air pollution forecasting (2023)
Journal Article
Akinosho, T. D., Bilal, M., Hayes, E. T., Ajayi, A., Ahmed, A., & Khan, Z. (2023). Deep learning-based multi-target regression for traffic-related air pollution forecasting. Machine Learning with Applications, 12, Article 100474. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mlwa.2023.100474

Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) remains one of the main contributors to urban pollution and its impact on climate change cannot be overemphasised. Experts in developed countries strive to make optimal use of traffic and air qua... Read More about Deep learning-based multi-target regression for traffic-related air pollution forecasting.

Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Chrysoulakis, N., Ludlow, D., Mitraka, Z., Somarakis, G., Khan, Z., Lauwaet, D., …Holt Andersen, B. (2023, April). Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project. Presented at European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria

A major challenge for the urban community is the exploitation of Earth Observation intelligence in managing in the multidimensional nature of urban sustainability towards enhancing urban resilience, particularly in relation to the challenges of clima... Read More about Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: Final results from the CURE project.

SIGNED: Smart cIty diGital twiN vErifiable data framework (2023)
Journal Article
Pervez, Z., Khan, Z., Ghafoor, A., & Soomro, K. (2023). SIGNED: Smart cIty diGital twiN vErifiable data framework. IEEE Access, 11, 29430-29446. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3260621

Smart city digital twins can provide useful insights by making effective use of multidisciplinary urban data from diverse sources. Whilst these insights provide new information that helps cities in decision making, verifying the authenticity, integri... Read More about SIGNED: Smart cIty diGital twiN vErifiable data framework.

A review of learning theories and models underpinning technology-enhanced learning artefacts (2020)
Journal Article
Hammad, R., Khan, Z., Safieddine, F., & Ahmed, A. (2020). A review of learning theories and models underpinning technology-enhanced learning artefacts. World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 17(4), 341-354. https://doi.org/10.1108/WJSTSD-06-2020-0062

Purpose – Various technology-enhanced learning software and tools exist where technology becomes the main driver for these developments at the expense of pedagogy. The literature reveals the missing balance between technology and pedagogy in the cont... Read More about A review of learning theories and models underpinning technology-enhanced learning artefacts.

Blockchain and edge computing–based architecture for participatory smart city applications (2019)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Abbasi, A. G., & Pervez, Z. (2020). Blockchain and edge computing–based architecture for participatory smart city applications. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 32(12), Article e5566. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5566

© 2019 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Smart cities aim to provide smart governance with the emphasis on gaining high transparency and trust in public services and enabling citizen participation in decision making processes. This means on the one hand data... Read More about Blockchain and edge computing–based architecture for participatory smart city applications.

Towards trusted security context exchange protocol for SDN based low latency networks (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Ghafoor, A., Abbasi, A. Q., & Khan, Z. (2019, September). Towards trusted security context exchange protocol for SDN based low latency networks. Paper presented at 38th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, Tuku, Finland

To overcome the latency issue in real-time communication, a number of research based solutions and architectures are being proposed. In all these, security is not considered an important factor since it causes extra delay in the communication and int... Read More about Towards trusted security context exchange protocol for SDN based low latency networks.

Smart city big data analytics: An advanced review (2019)
Journal Article
Soomro, K., Bhutta, M. N. M., Khan, Z., & Tahir, M. A. (2019). Smart city big data analytics: An advanced review. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 9(5), Article e1319. https://doi.org/10.1002/widm.1319

© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. With the increasing role of ICT in enabling and supporting smart cities, the demand for big data analytics solutions is increasing. Various artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning and statistical analysis... Read More about Smart city big data analytics: An advanced review.

NeuroProv: Provenance data visualisation for neuroimaging analyses (2019)
Journal Article
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.

A semantically-enriched quality governance framework for systems of systems applied to cancer care (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Qaddoumi, E., Odeh, M., Khan, Z., Kossmann, M., Tbakhi, A., & Mansour, A. (2019). A semantically-enriched quality governance framework for systems of systems applied to cancer care. In 2018 1st International Conference on Cancer Care Informatics (CCI). , (15-24). https://doi.org/10.1109/CANCERCARE.2018.8618263

Quality Governance of Systems of Systems (SoS) is a very complex challenge, given that participating systems in the arrangement are often not under direct control and they have different life cycles; yet one has to ensure that the required level of q... Read More about A semantically-enriched quality governance framework for systems of systems applied to cancer care.

Opportunistic protocol based on social probability and resources efficiency for the intelligent and connected transportation system (2018)
Journal Article
Wang, T., Tang, M. B., Song, H., Cao, Y., & Khan, Z. (2019). Opportunistic protocol based on social probability and resources efficiency for the intelligent and connected transportation system. Computer Networks, 149, 173-186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2018.11.034

© 2018 Elsevier B.V. In recent years, Intelligent and Connected Transportation Systems (ICTS) have become a practical and valuable alternative for wide variety of novel applications in road traffic safety. It can be utilized to guarantee road safety... Read More about Opportunistic protocol based on social probability and resources efficiency for the intelligent and connected transportation system.

An adaptable system to support provenance management for the public policy-making process in smart cities (2018)
Journal Article
Javed, B., Khan, Z., & McClatchey, R. (2018). An adaptable system to support provenance management for the public policy-making process in smart cities. Informatics, 5(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics5010003

© 2018 by the authors. Government policies aim to address public issues and problems and therefore play a pivotal role in people’s lives. The creation of public policies, however, is complex given the perspective of large and diverse stakeholders’ in... Read More about An adaptable system to support provenance management for the public policy-making process in smart cities.

Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study (2017)
Journal Article
Soomro, K., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2017). Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 419-444. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009859

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. This paper presents some results from an EU FP7 RTD project urbanAPI, in which three ICT applications target different aspects of participatory urban governance. The 3D Scenario Creator allows urban plan... Read More about Participatory governance in smart cities: The urbanAPI case study.

From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products (2017)
Journal Article
Ludlow, D., Khan, Z., Soomro, K., Marconcini, M., José, R. S., Malcorps, P., …Metz, A. (2017). From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products. International Journal of Services Technology and Management, 23(5-6), 465-493. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSTM.2017.10009861

Copyright © 2017 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Intelligence delivered by earth observation (EO) satellites performs a vital role in supporting ICT enabled urban governance, and the creation of decision making tools delivering integrated urban plannin... Read More about From top-down land use planning intelligence to bottom-up stakeholder engagement for smart cities – A case study: DECUMANUS service products.

OntoSoS.QM.Gov: A quality governance framework for systems of systems (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Qaddoumi, E., Odeh, M., Khan, Z., Kossmann, M., Traish, I., & Tbakhi, A. (2017, December). OntoSoS.QM.Gov: A quality governance framework for systems of systems. Paper presented at Complex systems design and management conference, Paris, France

Many organisations develop Systems of systems (SoS) to accomplish their business objectives. SoS deliver new capabilities by enabling cooperation between existing constituent monolithic systems. However, domain and process heterogeneities and varying... Read More about OntoSoS.QM.Gov: A quality governance framework for systems of systems.

VeidBlock: Verifiable identity using blockchain and ledger in a software defined network (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Abbasi, A. G., & Khan, Z. (2017, December). VeidBlock: Verifiable identity using blockchain and ledger in a software defined network. Paper presented at Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications (SCCTSA) co-located with 10th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Austin, Texas

Blockchain and verifiable identities have a lot of potential in future distributed software applications e.g. smart cities. In this paper, we proposed a novel technique, namely VeidBlock, to generate verifiable identities by following a reliable auth... Read More about VeidBlock: Verifiable identity using blockchain and ledger in a software defined network.

Chair’s welcome: SCCTSA workshop (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Khan, Z. (2017). Chair’s welcome: SCCTSA workshop. In UCC '17 Companion: Companion Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. , (163–164). https://doi.org/10.1145/3147234.3148605

Welcome note for the 4th International workshop - Smart City Clouds: Technologies Systems and Applications co-located with 10 IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing Conference, Austin, Texas, USA, 5-8 December 2017.

eLEM: A novel e-Learner Experience Model (2017)
Journal Article
Hammad, R., Odeh, M., & khan, Z. (2017). eLEM: A novel e-Learner Experience Model. International Arab Journal of Information Technology, 14(4A), 586-597

Many e-learning artefacts have been developed and promoted based on their ability to enhance learning and e-learner experience. However, there is a lack of precise definition of what the e-learner experience implies and associated models to inform th... Read More about eLEM: A novel e-Learner Experience Model.

Towards a secure service provisioning framework in a Smart city environment (2017)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Pervaiz, Z., & Abbasi, A. G. (2017). Towards a secure service provisioning framework in a Smart city environment. Future Generation Computer Systems, 77, 112-135. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.06.031

© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Over the past few years the concept of Smart cities has emerged to transform urban areas into connected and well informed spaces. Services that make smart cities “smart” are curated by using data streams of smart cities i.e., inh... Read More about Towards a secure service provisioning framework in a Smart city environment.

A network-based approach to capture provenance of a policy-making process (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Javed, B., Khan, Z., & McClatchey, R. (2017, July). A network-based approach to capture provenance of a policy-making process. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 21st International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium on - IDEAS 2017., UWE, Bristol, UK

A policy-making process entails large sources of data for its creation, the tracking of which can provide a significant insight into a process and data that was being employed for its creation. However, a process employed for creating policies varies... Read More about A network-based approach to capture provenance of a policy-making process.

Using a model-driven approach in building a provenance framework for tracking policy-making processes in Smart Cities (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Javed, B., Khan, Z., & McClatchey, R. (2017, July). Using a model-driven approach in building a provenance framework for tracking policy-making processes in Smart Cities. Paper presented at Proceedings of the 21st International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium on - IDEAS 2017, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

The significance of provenance in various settings has emphasized its potential in the policy-making process for analytics in Smart Cities. At present, there exists no framework that can capture the provenance in a policy-making setting. This researc... Read More about Using a model-driven approach in building a provenance framework for tracking policy-making processes in Smart Cities.

Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study (2017)
Journal Article
Fröhlich, P., Khan, Z., Dambruch, J., Peters-Anders, J., Sackl, A., Strasser, A., …Soomro, K. (2017). Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study. Information, 8(2), 47. https://doi.org/10.3390/info8020047

© 2017 by the authors. Citizen participation for social innovation and co-creating urban regeneration proposals can be greatly facilitated by innovative IT systems. Such systems can use Open Government Data, visualise urban proposals in 3D models and... Read More about Developing knowledge-based citizen participation platform to support smart city decision making: The smarticipate case study.

ELCMM: An e-learning capability maturity model (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Hammad, R., Odeh, M., & Khan, Z. (2017, April). ELCMM: An e-learning capability maturity model. Paper presented at The 15th International Conference on e-Society, Budapest

The widespread applications of e-learning or technology-enhanced learning in academic institutions have led to a huge escalation in the development of e-learning evaluation models. Such models are focused on the assessment of e-learning systems at th... Read More about ELCMM: An e-learning capability maturity model.

Towards a generalised e-learning business process model (2017)
Journal Article
Hammad, R., Odeh, M., & Khan, Z. (2017). Towards a generalised e-learning business process model

Modelling learning scenarios is central for e-learning domain. This has been manifested in the proliferation of the different Educational Modelling Languages, as well as in developed e-learning models. However, the existing modelled scenarios are def... Read More about Towards a generalised e-learning business process model.

Dynamic, interactive and visual analysis of population distribution and mobility dynamics in an urban environment using the mobility explorer framework (2017)
Journal Article
Peters-Anders, J., Khan, Z., Loibl, W., Augustin, H., & Breinbauer, A. (2017). Dynamic, interactive and visual analysis of population distribution and mobility dynamics in an urban environment using the mobility explorer framework. Information, 8(2), 56. https://doi.org/10.3390/info8020056

© 2017 by the authors. This paper investigates the extent to which a mobile data source can be utilised to generate new information intelligence for decision-making in smart city planning processes. In this regard, the Mobility Explorer framework is... Read More about Dynamic, interactive and visual analysis of population distribution and mobility dynamics in an urban environment using the mobility explorer framework.

Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Soomro, K., Khan, Z., & Hasham, K. (2016, December). Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds. Paper presented at 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016), Shanghai, China

ICT is becoming an enabler for smart city applications by making effective use of various data resources generated daily in an urban environment. Mostly this data is utilised by city authorities for city planning purposes and often citi- zens become... Read More about Towards provisioning of real-time smart city services using clouds.

eLearner experience model (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Hammad, R., Odeh, M., & Khan, Z. (2016, December). eLearner experience model. Paper presented at ACIT, Morocco

In literature, there have been many e-learning artefacts developed and promoted based on their ability to enhance learning and e-learner experience. However, there is lack of a precise definition of e-learner experience in literature. This paper disc... Read More about eLearner experience model.

A provenance framework for policy analytics in Smart Cities (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Javed, B., McClatchey, R., Khan, Z., & Shamdasani, J. (2016). A provenance framework for policy analytics in Smart Cities. In M. Ramachandran, G. Wills, R. Walters, V. Méndez Muñoz, & V. Chang (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet of Things and Big Data (429-434). https://doi.org/10.5220/0005931504290434

Copyright © 2016 by SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications, Lda. All rights reserved. Sustainable urban environments require appropriate policy management. However, such policies are established as a result of underlying, potentially comple... Read More about A provenance framework for policy analytics in Smart Cities.

Towards a model-based approach to evaluate the effectiveness of e-learning (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Hammad, R., Odeh, M., & Khan, Z. (2015, September). Towards a model-based approach to evaluate the effectiveness of e-learning. Paper presented at ECIME 2015, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

There is a lack of a standard based approach that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of different e-learning models due to their diversity and complexity. This paper introduces a new evaluation approach to assess the effectiveness of e-learnin... Read More about Towards a model-based approach to evaluate the effectiveness of e-learning.

Towards cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities (2015)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Anjum, A., Soomro, K., & Tahir, M. A. (2015). Towards cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities. Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 4, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-015-0026-8

© 2015, Khan et al.; licensee Springer. A large amount of land-use, environment, socio-economic, energy and transport data is generated in cities. An integrated perspective of managing and analysing such big data can answer a number of science, polic... Read More about Towards cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities.

Towards cloud based smart cities data security and privacy management (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Pervez, Z., & Ghafoor, A. (2014, December). Towards cloud based smart cities data security and privacy management. Paper presented at International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications in conjunction with 7th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), London

Smart cities accumulate and process large amount of data streams which raise security and privacy concerns at individual and community levels. Sizeable attempts have made to ensure security and privacy of inhabitants’ data. However, security and priv... Read More about Towards cloud based smart cities data security and privacy management.

Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Garzon, A., Palacios, M., Pecci, J., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2014, December). Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities. Paper presented at International Workshop on Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications in conjunction with 7th IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), London, UK

Data collected through remote sensing (for instance geo-satellite) provides necessary stimulus for developing smart solutions for climate change & public health, energy efficiency and land monitoring in an urban environment. The velocity, variety, vo... Read More about Using space-based downstream services for urban management in smart cities.

A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities (2014)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Kiani, S. L., & Soomro, K. (2014). A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities. Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 3, Article 14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-014-0014-4

© 2014 Khan et al.; licensee Springer. Background: In the context of smart cities, public participation and citizen science are key ingredients for informed and intelligent planning decisions and policy-making. However, citizens face a practical chal... Read More about A framework for cloud-based context-aware information services for citizens in smart cities.

Exploring population distribution and motion dynamics through mobile phone device data in selected cities – lessons learned from the UrbanAPI project (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Peter-Anders, J., Loibl, W., Züger, J., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2014, May). Exploring population distribution and motion dynamics through mobile phone device data in selected cities – lessons learned from the UrbanAPI project. Paper presented at REAL CORP 2014, Vienna

The paper discusses experiences of development and implementation of public motion explorer (PME) tool as part of the EU FP7 project urbanAPI. This tool has been applied to three EU cities with the objective to investigate population distribution dyn... Read More about Exploring population distribution and motion dynamics through mobile phone device data in selected cities – lessons learned from the UrbanAPI project.

ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project (2014)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., Loibl, W., & Soomro, K. (2014). ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project. Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy, 8(2), 205-229. https://doi.org/10.1108/TG-09-2013-0030

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present the effectiveness of participatory information and communication technology (ICT) tools for urban planning, in particular, supporting bottom-up decision-making in urban management and governance. Design/me... Read More about ICT enabled participatory urban planning and policy development: The UrbanAPI project.

Cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Anjum, A., & Kiani, S. L. (2013, December). Cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities. Paper presented at 6th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Dresden, Germany

ICT is becoming increasingly pervasive to urban environments and providing the necessary basis for sustainability and resilience of the smart future cities. Often ICT tools for a smart city deal with different application domains e.g. land use, trans... Read More about Cloud based big data analytics for smart future cities.

Towards a generic requirements model for hybrid and cloud-based e-learning systems (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Hammad, R., Odeh, M., & Khan, Z. (2013, December). Towards a generic requirements model for hybrid and cloud-based e-learning systems. Paper presented at IEEE CloudCom 2013, Bristol

The e-Learning domain is evolving rapidly due to a number of factors and amongst these are the two key factors: i) availability of new ICT tools and technologies such as cloud computing, ontologies and smart phones, and ii) application of various lea... Read More about Towards a generic requirements model for hybrid and cloud-based e-learning systems.

Applying the CoReS requirements development method for building IT tools for urban management systems: The UrbanAPI project (2013)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., David, L., & Wolfgang, L. (2013). Applying the CoReS requirements development method for building IT tools for urban management systems: The UrbanAPI project

Gathering and managing requirements from stakeholders is an essential task for the successful development of IT tools for any application domain. However, specifying stakeholders’ requirements for a collaborative research and development project in t... Read More about Applying the CoReS requirements development method for building IT tools for urban management systems: The UrbanAPI project.

Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project (2013)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., & Caceres, S. (2013). Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project. Evaluation and Program Planning, 40, 27-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2013.04.004

In common with all projects, evaluating an Information Technology (IT) based research and development project is necessary in order to discover whether or not the outcomes of the project are successful. However, evaluating large-scale collaborative p... Read More about Evaluating a collaborative IT based research and development project.

Domain-specific languages for agile urban policy modelling (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Kramer, M., Khan, Z., & Ludlow, D. (2013, May). Domain-specific languages for agile urban policy modelling. Paper presented at ECMS, 27th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Alesund Norway, 27-30 May 2013, Alesund, Norway

UrbanAPI development progress (2013)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Khan, Z. (2013, March). UrbanAPI development progress. Presented at Transforming Government Workshop, (tGov2013), Brunel University, London, 22-23 March 2013, Brunel University, London

Applying the criteria indicators and metrics evaluation method on ICT research: The HUMBOLDT project (2013)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., & Rix, J. (2013). Applying the criteria indicators and metrics evaluation method on ICT research: The HUMBOLDT project. Research Evaluation, 22(1), 30-40. https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvs037

Evaluating an Information Technology (IT) based research and development project from an end-user's perspective is necessary in order to discover whether or not the outcomes of the project are successful. However, it is not straightforward to design... Read More about Applying the criteria indicators and metrics evaluation method on ICT research: The HUMBOLDT project.

A cloud-based architecture for citizen services for smart cities (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., & Liaquat Kiani, S. (2012, November). A cloud-based architecture for citizen services for smart cities. Paper presented at The 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds (ITAAC) 2012, Chicago, USA

Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Khan, Z. (2012, July). Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities. Paper presented at 26th Annual AESOP Congress, Ankara, Turkey

Citizens’ participation in urban planning and policy-making develops the traditional top-down governance model via promotion of bottom-up approaches to policy development and decision-making. This evolution drives social innovation in support of pl... Read More about Participatory democracy and the governance of smart cities.

An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing (2012)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., McClatchey, R., & Anjum, A. (2012). An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing. Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, 1(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/2192-113X-1-1

With the emergence of new methodologies and technologies it has now become possible to manage large amounts of environmental sensing data and apply new integrated computing models to acquire information intelligence. This paper advocates the applicat... Read More about An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing.

An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Ludlow, D., McClatchey, R., & Anjum, A. (2011, December). An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing. Paper presented at ITAAC 2011: International Workshop on Intelligent Techniques and Architectures for Autonomic Clouds in conjunction with the 4th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011), Melbourne, Australia

With the existence of new methodologies and technologies it has now become possible to manage large amounts of environmental sensing data and apply new integrated computing models to acquire information intelligence. This paper advocates the applicat... Read More about An architecture for integrated intelligence in urban management using cloud computing.

Bridging the gap between business process models and service-oriented architectures with reference to the grid environment (2011)
Journal Article
Khan, Z., Odeh, M., & McClatchey, R. (2011). Bridging the gap between business process models and service-oriented architectures with reference to the grid environment. International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2(4), 253-283. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGUC.2011.042943

In recent years, organisations have been seeking technological solutions for enacting their business process models using ad-hoc and heuristic approaches. However, limited results have been obtained due to the expansion of business processes across g... Read More about Bridging the gap between business process models and service-oriented architectures with reference to the grid environment.

Integrated urban management: “Win-win” solutions (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Khan, Z. (2011, September). Integrated urban management: “Win-win” solutions. Presented at 2011 UK / Ireland Planning Research Conference: Planning Resilient Communities in Challenging Times,, Birmingham, UK

Analysis of urban challenges, from a sustainable development perspective, emphasise the interconnected nature of the challenges, reflecting the ecosystems perspective on the city. Key political concerns with climate change greenhouse gas emissions, e... Read More about Integrated urban management: “Win-win” solutions.

Harmonizing geospaatial data at the local level for global benefit: HUMBOLDT Urban Atlas – a case study (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Giger, C., Althoff, J., & Ludlow, D. (2011, June). Harmonizing geospaatial data at the local level for global benefit: HUMBOLDT Urban Atlas – a case study. Poster presented at INSPIRE Conference 2011, Edinburgh, UK

One of the major requirements for the realization of an integrated environmental monitoring system is the availability of tools and services to harmonize and integrate environmental spatial data, originating from various governmental and other agenci... Read More about Harmonizing geospaatial data at the local level for global benefit: HUMBOLDT Urban Atlas – a case study.

GMES and INSPIRE: Harmonising cross-thematic environmental data for integrated intelligence (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Ludlow, D., & Khan, Z. (2011, March). GMES and INSPIRE: Harmonising cross-thematic environmental data for integrated intelligence. Poster presented at 2nd GMES Operational Workshop, Sofia, Bulgaria

GMES and INSPIRE are mutually beneficial and require close collaboration between communities from both domains to mitigate and adapt to environmental and security challenges. For example, extension of GMES services into the cross-cutting domains of S... Read More about GMES and INSPIRE: Harmonising cross-thematic environmental data for integrated intelligence.

The BPMSOA: Linking utility grid services with executable business processes using the π-ADL based proxy router (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., & Odeh, M. (2008, April). The BPMSOA: Linking utility grid services with executable business processes using the π-ADL based proxy router. Paper presented at 3nd International IEEE Conference on Information & Communication Technologies from Theory to Application (ICTTA’08),, Damascus, Syria

Using BPMSOA, both structural and informational contexts of a business process model can be incorporated in its translated π-ADL script. However, this π-ADL based executable script of business process still lacks the behavioural context for specific... Read More about The BPMSOA: Linking utility grid services with executable business processes using the π-ADL based proxy router.

Business process modelling: Coarse to fine grain mapping using metamodels (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., & Odeh, M. (2008, February). Business process modelling: Coarse to fine grain mapping using metamodels. Paper presented at IASTED Software Engineering Conference (SE2008), Innsbruck, Austria

One of the key objectives of Business Process Modelling is to better understand and visualise business processes in order to improve and/or enact them in some IT infrastructure. This modelling perspective becomes more complicated and challenging... Read More about Business process modelling: Coarse to fine grain mapping using metamodels.

Digital libraries: From process modelling to grid-based service oriented architecture (2006)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Odeh, M., & McClatchey, R. (2006, April). Digital libraries: From process modelling to grid-based service oriented architecture. Paper presented at 2nd Int. IEEE Conference on Information & Communication Technologies from Theory to Application, Damascus, Syria

Graphical Business Process Modelling Languages (BPML) like Role Activity Diagrams (RAD) provide ease and flexibility for modelling business behaviour. However, these languages show limited applicability in terms of enactment over distributed systems... Read More about Digital libraries: From process modelling to grid-based service oriented architecture.

A Semantic Grid-based E-Learning Framework (SELF) (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Umer, M., McClatchey, R., Ali, A., & Ahmed, F. (2005, May). A Semantic Grid-based E-Learning Framework (SELF). Paper presented at IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing, Cardiff, UK

E-learning can be loosely defined as a wide set of applications and processes, which uses available electronic media (and tools) to deliver vocational education and training. With its increasing recognition as an ubiquitous mode of instruction and in... Read More about A Semantic Grid-based E-Learning Framework (SELF).

Decentralized architecture for fault tolerant multi agent system (2005)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Shahid, S., Ahmad, F., Ali, A., & Suguri, H. (2005, April). Decentralized architecture for fault tolerant multi agent system. Paper presented at International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems, Sichuan, China

Multi Agent Systems (MAS) are expected to be involved in futuristic technologies. Agents require some execution environment in which they can publish their service interfaces and can provide services to other agent. Such execution environment is... Read More about Decentralized architecture for fault tolerant multi agent system.

Semantic grid: Future, challenges & impact on society (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Khan, Z., Ali, A., Ahmad, F., Umer, M., & Aziz, S. (2004, December). Semantic grid: Future, challenges & impact on society. Paper presented at High Speed Optical Networks (HONET), Islamabad, Pakistan

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SAGE: Next generation multi-agent system (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Abbasi, A. G., Rehman, M., Khan, Z., Ahmad, F., Ali, A., & Suguri, H. (2004, June). SAGE: Next generation multi-agent system. Paper presented at Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, USA

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Decentralized multi agent system: Basic thoughts (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Ahmad, F., Ali, A., Suguri, H., Khan, Z., & Rehman, M. (2004, June). Decentralized multi agent system: Basic thoughts. Paper presented at 11th Assurance Systems Symposium, Sendai, Japan

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Big data in Smart Cities
Book Chapter
Khan, Z., & Peters-Anders, J. Big data in Smart Cities. In S. Sakr, & A. Y. Zomaya (Eds.), Encylopedia of Big Data Technologies. Springer

City governance is a complex phenomenon and requires new combinations of top-down and bottom-up ICT-enabled governance methodologies to efficiently manage cities. Cities are a major source of urban, socio-economic and environmental data which provide... Read More about Big data in Smart Cities.