Dr.-Zahid-Halim

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國　立　雲　林　科　技　大　學　資　訊　管　理　所
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology
Department of Information Management
Zahid-Halim　　Professor

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一般資訊

• Education：Ph.D. (Computer Science, Major Computational Intelligence) November, 2010
  From: National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad
  World Ranking: QS->301-350 (world university ranking by subject)
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• Research interests：Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Machine Learning and Data Mining, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Computational Intelligence [Evolutionary Computation, Artificial Neural Networks], Applications of Computational Intelligence in Games [Content generations, Enhancing user experience], Affective Computing
• E-Mail：zahidh@yuntech.edu.tw

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經歷

• Professor, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Computer Sciences and Engineering.

  1stJuly 2022 --- 30th September 2024

• Associate Professor, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Computer Sciences and Engineering.

  1st January 2016 --- 30th June 2022

• Visiting Professor, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris-Nord (LIPN), France.

  2019-2020

• Assistant Professor, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Computer Sciences and Engineering.

  1st August 2011 --- 31st December 2015

• Software Engineer, Techlogix Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited.

  25th September 2006 - 31st July 2007

• Software Engineer, MaxTechnologies Limited.

  2nd September 2002 - 31st August 2006

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研究著作

• Usama Arshad, Zahid Halim, Hisham Alasmary, Muhammad Waqas, “Futuristic Decentralized Vehicular Network Architecture and Repairing Management System on Blockchain", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. --, pp. --, 202-. DOI:10.1109/JIOT.2024.3386600 [ISSN: 2327-4662, Thomson Reuters JCR 2023, Impact factor 10.06, Springer, Q1] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Ehsan Elahi, Sajid Anwar, Babar Shah, Zahid Halim, Abrar Ullah, Imad Rida, Muhammad Waqas, “Knowledge Graph Enhanced Contextualized Attention-Based Network for Responsible User-Specific Recommendation", ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, vol. --, pp. --, 202-. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3641288 [ISSN: 2157-6904, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 10.489, Springer, Q1] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Gold]
• Obaid Ullah, Habib Ullah Khan, Zahid Halim, Sajid Anwar, Muhammad Waqas, “On Neuroevolution of Multi-Input Compositional Pattern Producing Networks: A Case of Entertainment Computing, Edge Devices, and Smart Cities", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. --, pp. --, 202-. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3628430 [ISSN: 1550-4859, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 2.56, Springer, Q1] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Gold]
• Doğan Aydın, Yunus Özcan, Muhammad Sulaiman, Gürcan Yavuz, and Zahid Halim, Muhammad Waqas, “Elitist artificial bee colony with dynamic population size for multimodal optimization problems", Swarm Intelligence, vol. 17, pp. 305-334, 2023. [ISSN: 1935-3812, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 2.6, Springer, Q2] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Honorable Mention]
• Abdur Razaq, Zahid Halim, Atta Ur Rahman, Kholla Sikandar, “Identification of paraphrased text in research articles through improved embeddings and fine‑tuned BERT model", Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. --, pp. --, 202-. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-024-18359-w [ISSN: 1380-7501, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.6, Springer, Q2] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Madiha Tahir, Zahid Halim, Muhammad Waqas, Komal Nain Sukhia, Shanshan Tu, “Emotion detection using convolutional neural network and long short-term memory: a deep multimodal framework", Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. --, pp. --, 202-. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-17653-3 [ISSN: 1380-7501, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.6, Springer, Q2] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• A. Rahman, F. Al-Obeidat, A. Tubaishat, B. Shah, S. Anwar, Z. Halim, "Discovering the Correlation Between Phishing Susceptibility Causing Data Biases and Big Five Personality Traits Using C-GAN ", IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. vol. --, no. --, pp. --, 202-. [ISSN: 2329-924X, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 5, IEEE] [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• M. Tahir, Z. Halim, M. Waqas, and S. Tu, "On the Effect of Emotion Identification from Limited Translated Text Samples Using Computational Intelligence," International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol. 16, No. 107, 2023. [ISSN: 1875-6883, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 2.9, Taylor & Francis, Q3] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• A. Razaq, B. Shah, G. Khan, O. Alfandi, A. Ullah, Z. Halim, and A. Rahman, “Improving Paraphrase Generation Using Supervised Neural-based Statistical Machine Translation Framework,” Neural Computing and Applications, vol. --, pp. --,  202-. [ISSN: 1433-3058, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 6, Springer, Q1] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Silver]
• M.G. Khan, Z. Halim, A.R. Baig, “An Efficient Approach for Faster Matching of Approximate Patterns in Graphs”, Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. --, pp. --, 202-. [ISSN: 0950-7051, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.8, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• N. Ali, A. Tubaishat, F. Al-Obeidat, M. Shabaz, M. Waqas, Z. Halim, I. Rida, S. Anwar, “Towards Enhanced Identification of Emotion from Resource-Constrained Language through a novel Multilingual BERT Approach", ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing, Vol. --, No. --, pp. --, 202-. [ISSN: 2375-4699, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 2, Elsevier]
• S. Tu, H. Yu, A. Badshah, M. Waqas, Z. Halim, I. Ahmad, " Secure Internet of Vehicles (IoV) With Decentralized Consensus Blockchain Mechanism", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. --, No. --, pp. --, 202-. [ISSN: 0018-9545, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 6.8, IEEE, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Z. Halim, G. Khan, B. Shah, R. Naseer, S. Anwar, A. Shah, “On the Utility of Parents' Historical Data to Investigate the Causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Data Mining-Based Framework", Innovation and Research in BioMedical engineering (IRBM), Vol. 44, No. 04, pp. 100780, 2023. [ISSN: 1876-0988, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 4.8, Elsevier]
• S. Ullah, G. Abbas, M. Waqas, Z.H. Abbas, Z. Halim, “Multi-hop emergency message dissemination through optimal cooperative forwarder in grid-based 5G-VANETs", Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Vol. --, pp. --, 202-. [ISSN: 1868-5145, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.662, Springer]
• M. Hanif, A. Tonazzini, S.F. Hussain, U. Habib, E. Salerno, P. Savino, Z. Halim, “Blind bleed-through removal in color ancient manuscripts", Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. --, pp. --, 202-. [ISSN: 1380-7501, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.6, Springer, Q2] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Fareed, A., Hassan, S., Belhaouari, S. B., & Halim, Z. (2023). A collaborative filtering recommendation framework utilizing social networks. Machine Learning with Applications, 14, 100495.
• N. Ali, Z. Halim, S.F. Hussain, “An Artificial Intelligence-Based Framework for Data-Driven Categorization of Computer Scientists: A Case Study of World’s Top 10 Computing Departments,” Scientometrics, vol. 128, pp. 1513–1545, 2023. [ISSN: 0138-9130, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.9, Springer, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Silver/Platinum]
• H. Saadat, B. Shah, Z. Halim, S. Anwar “Knowledge graph-based convolutional network coupled with sentiment analysis towards enhanced drug recommendation,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol. --, No. --, pp. --, 202-. [ISSN: 1557-9964, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 4.5, IEEE, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Silver]
• T. Zhang, Z. Gao, Z. Liu, S.F. Hussain, M. Waqas, Z. Halim, Y. Li, “Infrared Ship Target Segmentation based on Adversarial Domain Adaptation”, Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 265, pp. 110344, 2023. [ISSN: 0950-7051, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.8, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Q. Wang, Z. Liu, T. Zhang, H. Alasmary, M. Waqas, Z. Halim, Y. Li, " Deep Convolutional Cross-Connected Kernel Mapping Support Vector Machine based on SelectDropout," Information Sciences, Vol. 626, pp. 694-709, 2023. [ISSN: 0020-0255, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.1, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• T. Zhang, M. Waqas, Y. Fang, Z. Liu, Z. Halim, Y. L, S. Chen, “Weakly-supervised butterfly detection based on saliency map,” Pattern Recognition, vol. 138, pp. 109313, 2023. [ISSN: 0031-3203, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Uzma, U. Manzoor, Z. Halim, “Protein encoder: An autoencoder-based ensemble feature selection scheme to predict protein secondary structure,” Expert Systems With Applications, vol. 213, pp. 119081, 2023. [ISSN: 0957-4174, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.5, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• A. Rahman and Z. Halim, "Identifying dominant emotional state using handwriting and drawing samples by fusing features," Applied Intelligence, Vol. --, No. --, pp. --, 202-. [ISSN: 0924-669X, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 5.3, Springer]
• Z. Halim, M. Sulaiman, M. Waqas, and D. Aydın, "Deep neural network-based identification of driving risk utilizing driver dependent vehicle driving features: a scheme for critical infrastructure protection," Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, Vol. --, pp. --, 202-. [ISSN: 1868-5145, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.662, Springer]
• E. Elahi and Z Halim, "Graph Attention-based Collaborative filtering for user-specific recommender system using knowledge graph and deep neural networks," Knowledge and Information Systems, Vol. 64, pp. 2457–2480, 2022. [ISSN: 0219-3116, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 2.7, Springer]
• A. Rahman, A. Tubaishat, F. Al-Obeidat, Z. Halim, M. Tahir, and F. Qayum,”Extended ICA and M-CSP with BiLSTM towards improved classification of EEG signals”, Soft Computing, vol. 26, pp. 10687–10698, 2022. [ISSN: 1433-7479, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 4.1, Springer, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• A. Rahman and Z. Halim, “Predicting the big five personality traits from hand-written text features through semi-supervised learning", Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 81, pp. 33671–33687, 2022. [ISSN: 1380-7501, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.6, Springer, Q2] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• M. Waqas, S. Tu, Z. Halim, S. Rehman, G. Abbas, and Z. Abbas , "The role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in wireless networks security: principle, practice and challenges," Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol. 55, pp. 5215–5261, 2022. [ISSN: 0269-2821, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 12, Springer]
• Aadam, A Tubaishat, F. Al-Obeidat, Z Halim, M. Waqas, and F. Qayum,”EmoPercept: EEG-Based Emotion Classification through Perceiver”, Soft Computing, vol. 26, pp. 10563–10570, 2022. [ISSN: 1433-7479, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 4.1, Springer, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• M. Tahir, A. Tubaishat, F. Al-Obeidat, B. Shah, Z. Halim, M. Waqas, “A novel binary chaotic genetic algorithm for feature selection and its utility in affective computing and healthcare,” Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 34, pp. 11453–11474,  2022. [ISSN: 1433-3058, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 6, Springer, Q1] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Silver]
• Uzma, F. Al-Obeidat, A. Tubaishat, B. Shah, Z. Halim, "Gene encoder: a feature selection technique through unsupervised deep learning-based clustering for large gene expression data," Neural Computing and Applications, vol. 34, pp. 8309–8331, 2022. [ISSN: 1433-3058, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 6, Springer, Q1] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Silver]
• M. Tahir, Z. Halim, A. Rahman, M. Waqas, S. Tu, S. Chen, Z. Han, “Non-Acted Text and Keystrokes Database and Learning Methods to Recognize Emotions,” ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, vol. 18, no. 2 pp. 1-24, 2022. [ISSN: 1551-6857, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 5.1, ACM, Q2] - in press [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Z. Halim, A. Khan, M. Sulaiman, S. Anwar, and M. Nawaz, “On finding optimum commuting path in a road network: A computational approach for smart city traveling,” Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, vol. 33, no. 01, 2022. [ISSN: 2161-3915, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.6, Wiely, Q3] -[HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• S. Tu, M. Waqas, S.U. Rehman, T. Mir, Z. Halim, I. Ahmad, "Social Phenomena and Fog Computing Networks: A Novel Perspective for Future Networks", IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. vol. 09, no. 01, pp. 32-44, 2022. [ISSN: 2329-924X, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 5, IEEE] [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Z. Halim, S. Hussain, R.H. Ali, “Identifying content unaware features influencing popularity of videos on YouTube: A study based on seven regions,” Expert Systems With Applications, vol. 206, pp. 117836, 2022. [ISSN: 0957-4174, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.5, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• A. Rahman and Z. Halim, "A graph-based solution for writer identification from handwritten text," Knowledge and Information Systems, Vol. 64, pp. 1501–1523, 2022. [ISSN: 0219-3116, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 2.7, Springer]
• H. Ashraf, B. Shah, A.M. Soomro, Q. Safdar, Z. Halim, S.K. Shah, “Ambient-noise Free Generation of Clean Underwater Ship Engine Audios from Hydrophones using Generative Adversarial Networks,” Computers and Electrical Engineering, vol. 100, pp. 107970, 2022. [ISSN: 0045-7906, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 4.3, Elsevier] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Uzma and Z. Halim, “An ensemble filter-based heuristic approach for cancerous gene expression classification”, Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 234, pp. 107560, 2021. [ISSN: 0950-7051, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.8, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Z. Halim, A. Zouq, “On identification of big-five personality traits through choice of images in a real-world setting”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 80, pp. 33377–33408, 2021. [ISSN: 1380-7501, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.6, Springer, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Z. Halim, M. N. Yousaf, M. Waqas, M. Sulaiman, G. Abbas, M. Hussain, I. Ahmad, and M. Hanif. "An Effective Genetic Algorithm-Based Feature Selection Method for Intrusion Detection Systems." Computers and Security, vol. 110, pp. 102448, 2021. [ISSN: 0167-4048, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 5.6, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Gold]
• S. Iqbal and Z. Halim, “Orienting Conflicted Graph Edges Using Genetic Algorithms to Discover Pathways in Protein-Protein Interaction Networks,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Vol. 18, No. 05, pp. 1970–1985, 2021. [ISSN: 1557-9964, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 4.5, IEEE, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Silver]
• M. Asad, Z. Halim, M. Waqas, S. Tu, "An In-ad contents-based viewability prediction framework using Artificial Intelligence for Web Ads ," Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol. 54, pp. 5095–5125, 2021. [ISSN: 0269-2821, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 12, Springer, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum/Gold]
• T. Zhang, M. Waqas, Z. Liu, S. Tu, Z. Halim, S. Rehman, Y. Li, and Z. Han, "A Fusing Framework of Shortcut Convolutional Neural Networks," Information Sciences, Vol. 579, 2021, pp. 685-699. [ISSN: 0020-0255, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.1, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• M. Sulaiman, Z. Halim, M. Waqas, and D. Aydın, “A Hybrid List-based Task Scheduling Scheme for Heterogeneous Computing,” Journal of Supercomputing, Vol. 77, pp. 10252–10288, 2021. [ISSN: 0920-8542, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.3, Springer, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• H. Yu, Z. Yang, M. Waqas, S. Tu, Z. Han, Z. Halim, R.O. Sinnott, U. Parampalli, "Efficient dynamic multi-replica auditing for the cloud with geographic location," Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 125, pp. 285-298, 2021. [ISSN: 0167-739X, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 7.5, Elsevier, Q1]-[HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• M.A. Islam, M.A. Iqbal, M. Aleem, Z. Halim, G. Srivastava, and J.C. Lin, " Evaluation of Congestion Aware Social Metrics for Centrality-Based Routing", Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 2021, pp. 1-14 2021. [ISSN: 1530-8669, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 2.146, Wiley] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Z. Halim, R.U.A. Khan, M. Waqas, S. Tu, “Utilizing 3D joints data extracted through depth camera to train classifiers for identifying suicide bomber,” Expert Systems With Applications, vol. 179, pp. 115081, 2021. [ISSN: 0957-4174, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.5, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Z. Halim, O. Ali, and G. Khan, “On the Efficient Representation of Datasets as Graphs to Mine Maximal Frequent Itemsets,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 04, pp. 1674–1691, 2021. [ISSN: 1041-4347, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.9, IEEE, Q1] [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• S. Anwar, B. Mehraban, M. Ali, F. Hussain, and Z. Halim, “A Novel Framework For Generating Handwritten Datasets”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 80, pp. 9657–9669, 2021. [ISSN: 1380-7501, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.6, Springer, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• S. Tu. M. Waqas, S. Rehman, T. Mir, G. Abbas, Z. Abbas, Z. Halim, and I Ahmad, "Reinforcement Learning Assisted Impersonation Attack Detection in Device-to-Device Communications", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 70, No. 02, pp. 1474 – 1479, 2021. [ISSN: 0018-9545, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 6.8, IEEE, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• S. Ullah, Z. Halim, “Imagined character recognition through EEG signals using deep convolutional neural network,” Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, vol. 59, pp. 1167–1183, 2021. [ISSN: 1741-0444, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.2, Springer, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Z. Halim, H. M. Sargana, Aadam, Uzma, and M. Waqas, “Clustering of Graphs Using Pseudo-Guided Random Walk,” Journal of Computational Science, Vol. 21, pp. 101281, 2021. [ISSN: 1877-7503, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.3, Elsevier, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• M. Sulaiman, Z. Halim, M. Lebbah, M. Waqas, and S. Tu, “An evolutionary computing-based efficient hybrid task scheduling approach for heterogeneous computing environment,” Journal of Grid Computing, Vol. 19, pp. 1-31, 2021. [ISSN: 1570-7873, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 5.5, Springer, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Z. Halim, M. Waqar, M. Tahir, “A machine learning-based investigation utilizing the in-text features for the identification of dominant emotion in an email,” Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 208, pp. 106443, 2020. [ISSN: 0950-7051, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.8, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Uzma, Z. Halim, "Optimizing the DNA fragment assembly using metaheuristic-based overlap layout consensus approach," Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 92, pp. 106256, 2020. [ISSN: 1568-4946, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.7, Elsevier, Q1]- [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• A. Rashid, M.A. Zeb, A. Rashid, S. Anwar, F. Joaquim, and Z. Halim, “Conceptualization of smartphone usage and feature preferences among various demographics,” Cluster Computing, Vol. 23, pp. 1855–1873, 2020. [ISSN: 1386-7857, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 4.4, Springer, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• S. Tua, M. Waqasa, Y. Meng, S. Rehman, I. Ahmad, A. Koubaa, Z Halim, M. Hanif, C. Changh, C. Shi, "Mobile fog computing security: A user-oriented smart attack defense strategy based on DQL", Computer Communications, vol. 160, pp. 790-798, 2020. [ISSN: 0140-3664, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 6, Elsevier, Q2] [HEC JRS Medallion= Silver]
• S. Tu, S. Rehman, M. Waqas, O. Rehman, Z. Yang, B. Ahmad, Z. Halim, W. Zhao, "Optimisation-based training of evolutionary convolution neural network for visual classification applications," IET Computer Vision, vol. 14, no. 05, pp. 259-267, 2020 [ISSN: 1751-9640, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 1.7, IET, Q3] [HEC JRS Medallion= Honorable Mention]
• Z. Halim, Maria, M. Waqas, C.A. Edwin, A. Shah, “Identifying factors for employee retention using computational techniques: an approach to assist the decision-making process,” SN Applied Sciences, vol. 2, no. 9, pp. 1-20, 2020 [ISSN: 2523-3971, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 0.00, Springer] [HEC JRS Medallion= --]
• M. Waqas, S. Tu, S. Rehman, Z. Halim, S. Anwar, G. Abbas, Z. Abbas, O. Rehman, "Authentication of Vehicles and Road Side Units in Intelligent Transportation System," Computers Materials and Continua, vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 359-371, 2020. [ISSN: 1546-2226, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.1, TSP, Q1] [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• S. Haider, G. Abbas, Z.H. Abbas, S. Boudjit, and Z. Halim, “P-DACCA: A probabilistic direction-aware cooperative collision avoidance scheme for VANETs,” Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 103, pp. 1-17, 2020. [ISSN: 0167-739X, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 7.5, Elsevier, Q1]-[HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Z. Halim and M. Rehan, “On Identification of Driving-Induced Stress Using Electroencephalogram Signals: A Framework Based On Wearable Safety-Critical Scheme and Machine Learning,” Information Fusion, Vol. 53, pp. 66-79, 2020. [ISSN: 1566-2535, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 18.6, Elsevier, Q1]- [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Halim, M. Atif, A. Rashid, and C. A. Edwin, “Profiling Players Using Real-World Datasets: Clustering the Data and Correlating the Results with the Big-Five Personality Traits,” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 586-584, 2019. [ISSN: 1949-3045, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 11.2, IEEE, Q1]- [HEC JRS Medallion= Gold]
• G. Abbas, U. Raza, Z. Halim, and K. Kifayat, “ARCH: A dual-mode fairness-driven AQM for promoting cooperative behaviour in best effort Internet,” IET Networks, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp.372–380, 2019. [ISSN: 2047-4962, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 0.0, IEEE]- [HEC JRS Medallion= Null]
• Z. Halim and J.H. Khattak, “Density-based clustering of big probabilistic graphs,” Evolving Systems, Vol. 10, No. 03, pp. 333-350, 2019. [ISSN: 1570-7873, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.2, Springer] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Clay]
• A. Shah and Z. Halim, “On Efficient Mining of Frequent Itemsets from Big Uncertain Databases,” Journal of Grid Computing, Vol. 17, No. 04, pp.831-850, 2019. [ISSN: 1570-7873, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 5.5, Springer, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Z. Halim and S. Khan, “A data science-based framework to categorize academic journals,” Scientometrics, Vol. 119, No. 01, 2019, pp. 393–423 [ISSN: 0138-9130, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.9, Springer, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Silver/Platinum]
• A. Rashid, M. Kamran, and Z. Halim, “A top down approach to enumerate α-maximal cliques in uncertain graphs,” Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 36, No. 04, 2019. pp. 3129-3141. [ISSN: 1064-1246, Thomson Reuters JCR 2020, Impact factor 2, IOS, Q3] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Z. Halim and Uzma, “Optimizing the minimum spanning tree-based extracted clusters using evolution strategy,” Cluster Computing, Vol. 21, No. 01, 2018, pp. 377-391 [ISSN: 1386-7857, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 4.4 Springer, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Z. Hussain, G. Abbas, and Z. Halim, “A Lightweight Fairness-Driven AQM for Regulating Bandwidth Utilization in Best-Effort Routers,” Journal of Network and Systems Management, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2018, pp. 486-517. [ISSN: 1064-7570, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.6, Springer, Q3] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Honorable mention/ Bronze]
• Z. Halim, M. Waqas, A.R. Baig and Ahmar Rashid, “Efficient Clustering of Large Uncertain Graphs Using Neighborhood Information,” International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, Vol. 90, 2017, pp. 274-291. [ISSN: 0888-613X, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.9, Elsevier, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze/Silver]
• T. Muhammad, Z. Halim, and M. A. Khan, “Visualizing Trace of Java Collection APIs by Dynamic Bytecode Instrumentation,” Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol. 43, 2017, pp. 15-29. [ISSN: 1045-926X, Thomson Reuters JCR 2017, Impact factor 1.171, Elsevier, Q3] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Silver]
• Z. Halim and T. Muhammad, "Quantifying and Optimizing Visualization: An Evolutionary Computing-Based Approach," Information Sciences, Vol. 385, 2017, pp. 284-313. [ISSN: 0020-0255, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.1, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Z. Halim, A. R. Baig, G. Abbas and M. A. Islam, "Computational Intelligence Based Search of Entertaining Rules in the Space of Predator/Prey Games," Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing, Vol. 28, No. 06, 2017, pp. 643-663. [ISSN: 1542-3980, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 1.3, OCP Science, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Null]
• T. Muhammad and Z. Halim, "Employing Artificial Neural Networks for Constructing Metadata-Based Model to Automatically Select an Appropriate Data Visualization Technique," Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 49, 2016, pp. 365-384. [ISSN: 1568-4946, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.7, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS MedallionZ. Halim, R. Kalsoom, S. Bashir, and G. Abbas, "Artificial intelligence techniques for driving safety and vehicle crash prediction," Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol. 46, No. 03, 2016, pp. 351–387. [ISSN: 0269-2821, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 12, Springer, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum/Gold]= Platinum]
• Z. Halim, R. Kalsoom, S. Bashir, and G. Abbas, "Artificial intelligence techniques for driving safety and vehicle crash prediction," Artificial Intelligence Review, Vol. 46, No. 03, 2016, pp. 351–387. [ISSN: 0269-2821, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 12, Springer, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum/Gold]
• Z. Halim, R. Kalsoom, and A. R. Baig, "Profiling drivers based on driver dependent vehicle driving features," Applied Intelligence, Vol. 44, No. 03, 2016, pp. 645-664. [ISSN: 0924-669X, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 5.3, Springer, Q2] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• G. Abbas, Z. Halim, and Z. H. Abbas, “Fairness-Driven Queue Management: A Survey and Taxonomy,” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol. 18, No. 01, 2016. [ISSN: 1553-877X, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 35.6, IEEE, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Z. Halim, A. R. Baig, and G. Abbas, "Computational Intelligence-based Entertaining Level Generation for Platform Games," International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol. 08, No. 06, 2015. [ISSN: 1875-6883, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 2.9, Taylor & Francis, Q3] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• Z. Halim, M. Waqas and S. F. Hussain, “Clustering large probabilistic graphs using multi-population evolutionary algorithm,” Information Sciences, Vol. 317, 2015, pp. 78-95. [ISSN: 0020-0255, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 8.1, Elsevier, Q1] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Platinum]
• Z. Halim and G. Abbas, “A Kinect-Based Sign Language Hand Gesture Recognition System for Hearing- and Speech-Impaired: A Pilot Study of Pakistani Sign Language,” Assistive Technology, Vol. 27, No. 01, 2015, [ISSN: 1040-0435, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 1.834, Taylor & Francis, Q3] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Clay]
• B. Rehmam, Z. Halim, G. Abbas, and T. Muhammad, "Artificial Neural Network-Based Speech Recognition Using DWT Analysis Applied On Isolated Words From Oriental Languages," Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 28, No. 3, 2015. [ISSN: 0127-9084, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 0.6, Q4] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Null]
• M. A. Shah, G. Abbas, A. B. Dogar and Z. Halim, “Scaling hierarchical clustering and energy aware routing for sensor networks,” Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, Vol. 3, No. 5, 2015, pp. 1–23. [ISSN: 2194-3206, ISI-indexed, Springer]​ - [HEC JRS Medallion= Null]
• S. F. Hussain , M. Mushtaq and Z. Halim, "Multi-View Document Clustering via Ensemble Methods," Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Vol. 43, No.1, August 2014. [ISSN: 1573-7675, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 3.4, Springer, Q3] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Bronze]
• B. Rehman, Z. Halim and M. Ahmad, "ASCII Based GUI System for Arabic Scripted Languages: A Case Study of Urdu," International Arab Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 11, No. 4, July 2014.  [ISSN: 1683-3198, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 1.2, Q4] ​ - [HEC JRS Medallion= Clay]
• Z. Halim, A. R. Baig, K. Zafar, "Evolutionary Search in the Space of Rules for Creation of New Two-Player Board Games," International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol. 23, No. 2, April 2014. [ISSN: 0218-2130, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 1.1, World Scientific, Q4] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Null]
• S. Rehman, J. Coughlan and Z. Halim, “Usability based Reliable and Cashless Payment System (RCPS),” International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Vol.8, No.4, April 2012. [ISSN: 1349-4198, Thomson Reuters JCR 2010, Impact factor 1.664]​ - [HEC JRS Medallion= Null]
• Z. Halim, A. R. Baig and H. Mujtaba, "Evolutionary Search for Entertainment in Computer Games," Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 33-47, January 2012. [ISSN: 1079-8587, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 2, Taylor & Francis, Q3] ​ - [HEZ. Halim and A. R. Baig, "Evolutionary Algorithms towards Generating Entertaining Games," Next Generation Data Technologies for Collective Computational Intelligence, Studies in Computational Intelligence Series, Vol. 352, pp 383-413, 2011. (Springer)
• K. Zafar, A. R. Baig, N. Bukhari and Z. Halim, "Route planning and optimization of route using Simulated ant agent system," Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, Vol.20, No.30, pp. 457-478, May 2011. [ISSN: 0218-1266, Thomson Reuters JCR 2022, Impact factor 1.5, World Scientific, Q3] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Honorable mention/Clay]
• H. Mujtaba, A. R. Baig, Z. Halim and A. Iqbal, “Self-Motivated and Task-Oriented, Multi-Dimensional Learning in a Dynamic and Uncertain Environment without Human intervention," International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control, Vol.7, No.4, pp. 1603-1620, April 2011. [ISSN: 1349-4198, Thomson Reuters JCR 2010, Impact factor 1.664] - [HEC JRS Medallion= Null]
• Z. Halim, A. R. Baig and H. Mujtaba, “Measuring Entertainment And Automatic Generation Of Entertaining Games," International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence. Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 92–107, January 2010 [ISSN: 2042-3217, Inderscience]