Zaheer Khan's Outputs (52)

Digital twins in industry 4.0 cyber security (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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.

Towards digital-twin solutions for the 15 minute city (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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)
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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

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

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.

Copernicus for urban resilience in Europe: The CURE project (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Blockchain and edge computing–based architecture for participatory smart city applications (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 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 Contribution

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

© 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

© 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)
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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

© 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

© 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

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

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 Contribution

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 Contribution

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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.