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Quan Z. Sheng, Yongrui Qin, Lina Yao, and Boualem Benatallah (Eds.), Managing the Web of Things: Linking the Real World to the Web, Morgan Kaufmann, Elsevier, February 2017. Publisher's web page, Amazon US, Amazon Japan, Amazon UK

Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, Schahram Dustdar (Eds.), Enabling Context-Aware Web Services: Methods, Architectures, and Technologies, CRC Press, February 2010. Publisher's web page, at Amazon US, at Amazon Japan, at Amazon UK

Athman Bouguettaya, Quan Z. Sheng, and Florian Daniel (Eds.), Web Services Foundations, Springer, June 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-7517-0. Publisher's web page, at Amazon US, at Amazon Japan, at Amazon UK Athman Bouguettaya, Quan Z. Sheng, and Florian Daniel (Eds.), Advanced Web Services, Springer, June 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-7534-7. Publisher's web page, at Amazon US, at Amazon Japan, at Amazon UK

Selected Refereed Journal Articles

1. Rethinking Unsupervised Graph Anomaly Detection with Deep Learning: Residuals and Objectives. Xiaoxiao Ma, Fanzhen Liu, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Shan Xue, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (TKDE), accepted in 2024.

2. LGL-BCI: A Motor Imagery-based Brain-Computer Interface with Geometric Learning. Jianchao Lu, Yuzhe Tian, Yang Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Xi Zheng. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitious Technologies (IMWUT), Vol 8, No 3, 2024.

3. Fast-Convergent Wireless Federated Learning: A Voting based TopK Model Compression Approach. Xiaoxin Su, Yipeng Zhou, Laizhong Cui, Quan Z. Sheng, Yinggui Wang, and Song Guo. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (IEEE-JSAC), accepted in 2024.

4. A Survey on Truth Discovery: Conceptions, Methods, Applications, and Opportunities. Shuang Wang, He Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Xiaoping Li, Zhu Sun, Taotao Cai, Wei Emma Zhang, Jian Yang, and Qing Gao. IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), accepted in 2024.

5. State of the Art and Potentialities of Graph-level Learning. Zhenyu Yang, Ge Zhang, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Quan Z. Sheng, Shan Xue, Chuan Zhou, Charu Aggarwal, Hao Peng, Wenbin Hu, Edwin Hancock, and Pietro Lio. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), accepted in 2024.

6. Graph and Sequential Neural Networks in Session-based Recommendation: A Survey. Zihao Li, Chao Yang, Yakun Chen, Xianzhi Wang, Hongxu Chen, Lina Yao, Guandong Xu, and Quan Z. Sheng. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), accepted in 2024.

7. Guided Image-to-Image Translation by Discriminator-Generator Communication. Yuanjiang Cao, Lina Yao, Le Pan, Quan Z. Sheng, Xiaojun Chang. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), Vol 26, pp 1528-1538, 2024.

8. Improving Faithfulness and Factuality with Contrastive Learning in Explainable Recommendation. Haojie Zhuang, Wei Emma Zhang, Weitong Chen, Jian Yang, and Quan Z. Sheng. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), accepted in 2024.

9. A Comprehensive Survey on Collaborative Data-Access Enablers in the IIoT. Danfeng Sun, Junjie Hu, Huifeng Wu, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Schahram Dustdar. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol 56, No 2, Article No 50, pp 1-37, 2024.

10. A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Summarization with Graph Neural Networks. Nasrin Shabani, Jia Wu, Amin Beheshti, Quan Z. Sheng, Jin Foo, Venus Haghighi, Ambreen Hanif, and Maryam Shahabikargar. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI), accepted in 2024. [PDF]

11. A Novel Blockchain-based Responsible Recommendation System for Service Process Creation and Recommendation. Tieliang Gao, Li Duan, Lufeng Feng, Wei Ni, and Quan Z. Sheng. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), accepted in 2023.

12. QoSGNN: Boosting QoS Prediction Performance with Graph Neural Networks. Mingyi Liu, Hanchuan Xu, Quan Z. Sheng, and Zhongjie Wang. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 17, No 2, pp 645-658, 2024.

13. Proactive Recommendation of Composite Services in Multi-Access Edge Computing. Zhizhong Liu, Quan Z. Sheng, Dianhui Chu, Xiaofei Xu, Hedan Zheng, and Kai Feng. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 17, No 2, pp 631-644, 2024.

14. Reconnecting the Estranged Relationships: Optimizing the Infuence Propagation in Evolving Networks. Taotao Cai, Qi Lei, Quan Z. Sheng, Ningning Cui, Shuiqiao Yang, Jian Yang, Wei Emma Zhang, and Adnan Mahmood. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (TKDE), Vol 36, No 5, pp 2151-2165, 2024.

15. TEAM: A Layered-Cooperation Topology Evolution Algorithm for Multi-Sink Internet of Things. Songwei Zhang, Tie Qiu, Weisheng Si, Quan Z. Sheng, and Dapeng Oliver Wu. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol 23, No 5, pp 3754-3768, 2024

16. A Comprehensive Survey on Community Detection with Deep Learning. Xing Su, Shan Xue, Fanzhen Liu, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Chuan Zhou, Wenbin Hu, Cecile Paris, Surya Nepal, Di Jin, Quan Z. Sheng, and Philip S. Yu. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), Vol 35, No 4, pp 4682-4702, 2024. [PDF]

17. Trust in Vehicles: Towards Context-Aware Trust and Attack Resistance for the Internet of Vehicles. Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Hajime Suzuki, and Wei Ni. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), accepted in 2023.

18. Partition-Aware Graph Pattern based Node Matching. Guohao Sun, Guanfeng Liu, Yan Wang, Mehmet A. Orgun, Quan Z. Sheng, and Xiaofang Zhou. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (TKDE), Vol 35, No 2, pp 1922-1937, 2023.

19. Incremental Graph Computation: Anchored Vertex Tracking in Dynamic Social Networks. Taotao Cai, Shuiqiao Yang, Jianxin Li, Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yang, Xin Wang, Wei Emma Zhang, and Longxiang Gao. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (TKDE), Vol 35, No 7, pp 7030-7044, 2023.

20. Tracking the Evolution of Clusters in Social Media Streams. Tarique Anwar, Surya Nepal, Cecile Paris, Jian Yang, Jia Wu, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), Vol 9, No 2, pp 701-715, 2023.

21. Gradient Boosted Neural Decision Forest. Manqing Dong, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Boualem Benatallah, Shuai Zhang, and Quan Z. Sheng, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 16, No 1, pp 330-342, 2023.

22. Accurate and Reliable Service Recommendation based on Bilateral Perception in Multi-Access Edge Computing. Zhizhong Liu, Quan Z. Sheng, Zhenxing Zhang, Xiaofei Xu, Dianhui Chu, Jian Yu, and Shuang Wang, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 16, No 2, pp 886-899, 2023.

23. IQSrec: An Efficient and Diverse Skyline Service Recommendation on Incomplete QoS. Yanjun Shu, Jianhang Zhang, Wei Emma Zhang, Decheng Zuo, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 16, No 3, pp 1934-1948, 2023.

24. Towards a Distributed Trust Management System for Misbehavior Detection in the Internet of Vehicles. Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Yan Wang, and Subhash Sagar. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS), Vol 7, No 3, Article No 16, pp 1-25, 2023.

25. Spatio-Temporal Graph Learning for Epidemic Prediction. Shuo Yu, Feng Xia, Shihao Li, Mingliang Hou, and Quan Z. Sheng. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Vol 14, No 2, Article No 36, pp 1-25, 2023.

26. Multi-document Summarization via Deep Learning Techniques: A Survey. Congbo Ma, Wei Emma Zhang, Mingyu Guo, Hu Wang, and Quan Z. Sheng. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol 55, No 5, Article No: 102, pp 1-37, 2023. [PDF]

27. Edge Computing and Sensor-Cloud: Overview, Solutions, and Directions. Tian Wang, Yuzhu Liang, Xuewei Shen, Xi Zheng, Adnan Mahmood, and Quan Z. Sheng. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol 55, Issue 13s, Article No 281, p 1-37, 2023. [PDF]

28. Trust-SIoT: Toward Trustworthy Object Classification in Social Internet of Things. Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Kai Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Jitander Kumar Pabani, and Wei Emma Zhang, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol 20, Issue 2, pp 1210-1223, 2023.

29. Beyond CNNs: Exploiting Further Inherent Symmetries in Medical Image Segmentation. Shuchao Pang, Anan Du, Mehmet Orgun, Yan Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Shoujin Wang, Xiaoshui Huang, and Zhenmei Yu. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), Vol 53, No 11, pp 6776-6787, 2023.

30. Generative Adversarial Reward Learning for Generalized Behavior Tendency Inference. Xiaocong Chen, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Aixin Sun, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (TKDE), Vol 35, No 10, pp 9878-9889, 2023.

31. Modeling User Demand Evolution for Next-Basket Prediction. Shoujin Wang, Yan Wang, Liang Hu, Xiuzhen Zhang, Qi Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Mehmet Orgun, Longbing Cao, and Defu Lian. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (TKDE), Vol 35, No 11, pp 11585-11598, 2023.

32. A Comprehensive Survey on Graph Anomaly Detection with Deep Learning. Xiaoxiao Ma, Jia Wu, Shan Xue, Jian Yang, Chuan Zhou, Quan Z. Sheng, Hui Xiong, and Leman Akoglu. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (TKDE), Vol 35, No 12, pp11585-11598, 2023. [PDF]

33. A Survey on Session-based Recommender Systems. Shoujin Wang, Longbing Cao, Yan Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Mehmet A. Orgun, and Defu Lian. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol 54, No 7, Article No: 154, pp 1-38, 2022. [PDF]

34. Perturb and Optimize Users' Location Privacy Using Geo-Indistintuishability and Location Semantics. Yan Yan, Fei Xu, Adnan Mahmood, Zhuoyue Dong, and Quan Z. Sheng. Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, Vol 12, p20445, 2022.

35. Deep Graph-Level Anomaly Detection with Graph Contrastive Learning. Xuexiong Luo, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Shan Xue, Hao Peng, Chuan Zhou, Hongyang Chen, Zhao Li, and Quan Z. Sheng. Scientific Reports, Nature Publishing Group, Vol 12, p19867, 2022.

36. Intent-Aware Interactive Internet of Things for Enhanced Collaborative Ambient Intelligence. Chaoran Huang, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Schahram Dustdar, Zhongjie Wang, and Xiaofei Xu. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 26, No 5, pp 68-75, 2022. [PDF]

37. An IoT Edge Computing Framework Using Cordova Accessor Host. Anne H.H. Ngu, Jesuloluwa Eyitayor, Guowei Yang, Colin Campbell, Quan Z. Sheng, and Jianyuan Ni. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol 9, No 1, pp 671-683, 2022.

38. Communication-Efficient Semi-Hierarchical Federated Analytics in IoT Networks. Liang Zhao, Maria Valero, Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Lei Li, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol 9, No 14, pp 12614-12627, 2022.

39. Context-Aware and Adaptive QoS Prediction for Mobile Edge Computing Services. Zhizhong Liu, Quan Z. Sheng, Xiaofei Xu, Dianhui Chu, and Wei Emma Zhang, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 15, No 1, pp 400-413, 2022. [PDF]

40. Non-Invasive Techniques for Monitoring Different Aspects of Sleep: A Comprehensive Review. Zawar Hussain, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Jorge Ortiz, and Seyedamin Pouriyeh. ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare (HEALTH), Vol 3, No 2, Article No: 24, pp 1-26, 2022.

41. The Role of Communication Time in the Convergence of Federated Edge Learning. Yipeng Zhou, Yao Fu, Miao Hu, Di Wu, Quan Z. Sheng, Chao Li, and Shui Yu. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Vol 71, No 3, pp 3241-3254, 2022.

42. Deep Conversational Recommender Systems: Challenges and Opportunities. Dai Hoang Tran, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Salma Abdalla Hamad, Nguyen Lu Dang Khoa, and Nguyen H. Tran. IEEE Computer, Vol 55, No 4, pp 30-39, 2022. [PDF]
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43. Deep CNN-LSTM Network for Indoor Location Estimation Using Analog Signals of Passive Infrared Sensors. Kan Ngamakeur, Sira Yongchareon, Jian Yu, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol 9, No 22, pp 22582-22594, 2022.

44. Transformer with Bidirectional GRU for Non-intrusive, Sensor-based Activity Recognition in a Multi-Resident Environment. Dong Chen, Sira Yongchareon, Edmund M-K Lai, Jian Yu, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol 9, No 3, pp 23716-23727, 2022.

45. Performance Analysis and Optimization on Scheduling Stochastic Cloud Service Requests: A Survey. Xiaoping Li, Shuang Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Amin Beheshti, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol 19, No 3, pp 3587-3602, 2022.

46. Deep Multi-Attributed-View Graph Representation Learning. Xiaoxiao Ma, Shan Xue, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Cecile Paris, Surya Nepal, and Quan Z. Sheng, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), Vol 9, No 5, pp 3762-3774, 2022.

47. Accelerating Federated Learning via Parallel Servers: A Theoretically Guaranteed Approach. Xuezheng Liu, Zhicong Zhong, Yipeng Zhou, Di Wu, Xu Chen, Min Chen, and Quan Z. Sheng, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol 30, No 5, pp 2202-2215, 2022.

48. eRiskCom: An e-Commerce Risky Community Detection Platform, Fanzhen Liu, Zhao Li, Baokun Wang, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Jiaming Huang, Yiqing Zhang, Weiqiang Wang, Shan Xue, Surya Nepal, and Quan Z. Sheng.  VLDB Journal, Vol 31, No 5, pp 1085-1101, 2022.

49. CompactNet: A Light-Weight Deep Learning Framework for Smart Intrusive Load Monitoring. Minh H. Phan, Queen Nguyen, Song L. Phung, Wei Emma Zhang, Trung D. Vo, and Quan Z. Sheng, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol 21, No 2, pp 25181-25189, 2021.

50. Locally-weighted Ensemble Detection-based Adaptive Random Forest Classifier for Sensor-based Online Activity Recognition for Multiple Residents. Dong Chen, Sira Yongchareon, Edmund M-K Lai, Quan Z. Sheng, and Veronica Liesaputra. IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol 9, No 15, pp 13077-13085, 2022.

51. An Internet of Things Service Roadmap. Athman Bouguettaya, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Azadeh Ghar-Neiat, Sajib Mistry, Aditya Ghose, Surya Nepal, and Lina Yao. Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol 64, No 9, pp 86-95, 2021. [PDF]
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52. Multi-Queue Request Scheduling for Profit Maximization in IaaS Clouds. Shuang Wang, Xiaoping Li, Quan Z. Sheng, Ruben Ruiz, Jinquan Zhang, and Amin Beheshti. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 32, No 11, pp 2838-2851, 2021. [PDF]

53. Can Steering Wheel Detect Your Driving Fatigue?. Jianchao Lu, Xi Zheng, Lihong Tang, Tianyi Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Chen Wang, Jiong Jin, Shui Yu, and Wanlei Zhou. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Vol 70, Issue 6, pp 5537-5550, 2021.

54. Hybrid Fuzzy C-means CPD-based Segmentation for Improving Sensors-based Multi-resident Activity Recognition. Dong Chen, Sira Yongchareon, Edmund Lai, Jian Yu, and Quan Z. Sheng, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol 8, No 14, pp 1193-1207, 2021.

55. A User-Oriented Taxi Ridesharing System with Large-Scale Urban GPS Sensor Data. Wei Emma Zhang, Ali Shemshadi, Quan Z. Sheng, Yongrui Qin, Xiujuan Xu, and Jian Yang. IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD), Vol 7, No 2, pp 327-340, 2021. [PDF]

56. Mashup Recommendation by Regularizing Matrix Factorization with API Co-Invocations. Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, and Chaoran Huang, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 14, No 2, pp 502-515, 2021. [PDF]

57. RICA-MD: A Refined ICA Algorithm for Motion Detection. Chao Zhang, Xiaopei Wu, Jianchao Lu, Xi Zheng, Alireza Jolfaei, Quan Z. Sheng, and Dongjin Yu. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), Vol 17, No 1s, p17, 2021.

58. Incremental Graph Pattern based Node Matching with Multiple Updates. Guohao Sun, Guanfeng Liu, Yan Wang, Mehmet A. Orgun, Quan Z. Sheng, and Xiaofang Zhou. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (TKDE), Vol 33, No 4, pp 1585-1600, 2021.

59. From Appearance to Essence: Comparing Truth Discovery Methods without Using Ground Truth. Xiu Susie Fang, Quan Z. Sheng, Xianzhi Wang, Wei Emma Zhang, Anne H.H. Ngu, and Jian Yang. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Vol 11, No 6, p74, 2020. [PDF]

60. Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Models in Natural Language Processing: A Survey. Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Ahoud Alhazmi, and Chenliang Li. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Vol 11, No 3, p24, 2020. [PDF]

61. Realizing an Internet of Secure Things: A Survey on Issues and Enabling Technologies. Salma Abdalla Hamad, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, and Surya Nepal. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (COMST), Vol 22, No 2, pp 1372-1391, 2020. [PDF]

62. User Interface Derivation for Business Processes. Lei Han, Jian Yang, Weiliang Zhao, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (TKDE), Vol 32, No 3, pp 560-573, 2020.

63. SSL-SVD: Semi-Supervised Learning based Sparse Trust Recommendation. Zhengdi Hu, Guangquan Xu, Xi Zheng, Jiang Liu, Zhangbing Li, Quan Z. Sheng, Wenjuan Lian, and Hequn Xian. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 20, No 1, p4, 2020.

64. Efficient Human Activity Recognition Using a Single Wearable Sensor. Jianchao Lu, Xi Zheng, Quan Z. Sheng, Jiong Jin, and Shui Yu, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol 7, No 11, pp 11137-11146, 2020.

65. Dynamic Edge Access System in IoT Environment. Huifeng Wu, Danfeng Sun, Lan Peng, Yuan Yao, Jia Wu, Quan Z. Sheng, and Yi Yan, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol 7, No 4, pp 2509-2520, 2020.

66. MGNN: Mutualistic Graph Neural Network for Joint Friend and Item Recommendation. Yang Xiao, Lina Yao, Qingqi Pei, Xianzhi Wang, Jian Yang, and Quan Z. Sheng, IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol 35, No 5, pp 7-17, 2020.

67. Internet of Things Search Engine. Nguyen Khoi Tran, Quan Z. Sheng, M. Ali Babar, Lina Yao, Wei Emma Zhang, and Schahram Dustdar. Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol 62, No 7, pp 66-73, 2019. [PDF] [Video]
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68. Source-aware Crisis-relevant Tweet Identification and Key Information Summarization. Xiaodong Ning, Lina Yao, Boualem Benatallah, Yihong Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Salil S. Kanhere. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 19, No 3, p37, 2019.

69. Internet of Things Meets Brain-Computer Interface: A Unified Deep Learning Framework for Enabling Human-Thing Cognitive Interactivity. Xiang Zhang, Lina Yao, Shuai Zhang, Salil Kanhere, Quan Z. Sheng, and Yunhao Liu, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol 6, No 2, pp 2084-2092, 2019.

70. Rcommendations on the Internet of Things: Requirements, Challenges, and Directions. Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Schahram Dustdar, and Shuai Zhang. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 23, No 3, pp 46-54, 2019. [PDF]

71. Transactional Behavior Verification in Business Process as a Service Configuration. Scott Bourne, Claudia Szabo, and Quan Z. Sheng, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 12, No 2, pp 290-303, 2019. [PDF]

72. Novel Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms for QoS-Aware Service Selection. Xianzhi Wang, Xiaofei Xu, Quan Z. Sheng, Zhongjie Wang, and Lina Yao, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 12, No 2, pp 247-261, 2019. [PDF]

73. Nonrigid Point Set Registration with Robust Transformation Learning under Manifold Regularization. Jiayi Ma, Jia Wu, Ji Zhao, Junjun Jiang, Huabing Zhou, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), Vol 30, No 12, pp 3584-3597, 2019. [PDF]

74. ITS-Frame: A Framework for Multi-Aspect Analysis of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Xiujuan Xu, Yu Liu, Wei Wang, Xiaowei Zhao, Quan Z. Sheng, Zhe Wang, and Bowen Shi. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (TITS), Vol 20, No 8, pp 2893-2902, 2019. [PDF]

75. Making Sense of Doppler Effect for Multi-Modal Hand Motion Detection. Wenjie Ruan, Quan Z. Sheng, Peipei Xu, Lei Yang, Tao Gu, and Longfei Shangguan, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol 17, No 9, pp 2087-2100, 2018. [PDF]

76. Compressive Representation for Device-Free Activity Recognition with Passive RFID Signal Strength. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Xue Li, Tao Gu, Mingkui Tan, Xianzhi Wang, Sen Wang, and Wenjie Ruan, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol 17, No 2, pp 293-306, 2018. [PDF]

77. Duplicate Detection in Programming Question Answering Communities. Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Jey Han Lau, Ermyas Abebe, and Wenjie Ruan. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 18, No 3, p37, 2018. [PDF]

78. A Learning Based Framework for Improving Querying on Web Interfaces of Curated Knowledge Bases. Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Kerry Taylor, Ali Shemshadi, and Yongrui Qin. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 18, No 3, p35, 2018. [PDF]

79. Collaborative Location Recommendation by Integrating Multi-Dimensional Contextual Information. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Xianzhi Wang, Wei Emma Zhang, and Yongrui Qin. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 18, No 3, p32, 2018.

80. Searching the Web of Things: State of the Art, Challenges and Solutions. Nguyen Khoi Tran, Quan Z. Sheng, M. Ali Babar, and Lina Yao. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol 50, No 4, p55, 2017. [PDF]

81. A Taxonomy and Survey of Cloud Resource Orchestration Techniques. Denis Weerasiri, Boualem Benatallah, Moshe Chai Barukh, Quan Z. Sheng, and Rajiv Ranjan. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol 50, No 2, p26, 2017.

82. A Service Computing Manifesto: The Next 10 Years. Athman Bouguettaya, Munindar Singh, Michael Huhns, Quan Z. Sheng, Hai Dong, Qi Yu, Azadeh Ghari-Neiat, Sajib Mistry, Boualem Benatallah, Brahim Medjahed, Mourad Ouzzani, Fabio Casati, Xumin Liu, Hongbing Wang, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Liang Chen, Surya Nepal, Zaki Malik, Abdelkarim Erradi, Yan Wang, Brian Blake, Schahram Dustdar, Frank Leymann, and Mike Papazoglou. Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol 60, No 4, pp 64-72, 2017. [PDF]

83. Unveiling Underlying Connections via Mining Human-Thing Interactions in the Web of Things. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu, Xue Li, and Boualem Benatallah. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST), Vol 8, No 5, p62, 2017.

84. IoT Middleware: A Survey on Issues and Enabling Technologies. Anne H. H. Ngu, Mario Gutierrez, Vangelis Metsis, Surya Nepal, and Quan Z. Sheng, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol 4, No 1, pp 1-20, 2017.

85. Learning Multiple Diagnosis Codes for ICU Patients with Local Disease Correlation Mining. Sen Wang, Xue Li, Xiaojun Chang, Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, and Guodong Long. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), Vol 11, No 3, 2017.

86. Things of Interest Recommendation by Leveraging Heterogeneous Relations in the Internet of Things. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu, and Xue Li. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 16, No 2, p9, 2016. [PDF]

87. CloudArmor: Supporting Reputation-based Trust Management for Cloud Services. Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Schahram Dustdar, and Anne H.H. Ngu. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 27, No 2, pp 367-380, 2016. [PDF]

88. Mining Health Examination Records: A Graph-Based Approach. Ling Chen, Xue Li, Quan Z. Sheng, Wen-Chih Peng, John Bennett, Hsiao-Yun Hu, and Nicole Huang, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (TKDE), Vol 28, No 9, pp2423-2437, 2016. [PDF]

89. Diagnosis Code Assignment Using Sparsity-based Disease Correlation Embedding. Sen Wang, Xiaojun Chang, Xue Li, Guodong Long, Lina Yao, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge Discovery and Engineering (TKDE), Vol 28, No 12, pp 3191-3202, 2016.

90. Managing Trust in the Cloud: State-of-the-Art and Research Challenges. Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, and Sherali Zeadally. IEEE Computer, Vol 49, No 2, pp 32-43, 2016. [PDF].

91. The Uncertain Web: Concepts, Challenges, and Current Solutions. Djamal Benslimane, Quan Z. Sheng, Mahmoud Barhamgi, and Henri Prade. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 16, No 1, p1, 2016.

92. From Big Data to Big Service. Xiaofei Xu, Quan Z. Sheng, Liang-Jie Zhang, Yushun Fan, and Schahram Dustdar. IEEE Computer, Vol 48, No 7, pp 80-83, July 2015. [PDF]

93. Web-based Management of the Internet of Things. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, and Schahram Dustdar. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 19, No 4, pp 60-67, July/August, 2015. [PDF]

94. Matching over Linked Data Streams in the Internet of Things. Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, and Edward Curry. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 19 No 3, pp 21-27, May/June 2015. [PDF]

95. A Cloud-Friendly RFID Trajectory Clustering Algorithm in Uncertain Environments. Yanbo Wu, Hong Shen, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 26, No 8, pp 2075-2088, 2015. [PDF]

96. Unified Collaborative and Content-Based Web Service Recommendation. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu, Jian Yu, and Aviv Segev. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 8, No 3, pp 453-466, 2015. [PDF]

97. Structured Streaming Skeleton: A New Feature for Online Human Gesture Recognition. Xin Zhao, Xue Li, Chaoyi Pang, Quan Z. Sheng, Sen Wang, and Mao Ye. ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), Vol 11, No 1s, p22, 2014. [PDF]

98. Web Service Compositions with Fuzzy Preferences: A Graded Dominance Relationship Based Approach. Karim Benouaret, Djamal Benslimane, Allel Hadjali, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 13, No 4, p 12, July 2014. [PDF]

99. Analysis of Web-Scale Cloud Services. Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu, and Schahram Dustdar. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 18, No 4, pp 55-61, 2014. [PDF]

100. The Network-based Business Process. Ejub Kajan, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Alfred Loo, Aldina Pljaskovic, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 18, No 2, pp 63-69, 2014. [PDF]

101. Commitments to Regulate Social Web Services Operation. Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Khouloud Boukadi, Quan Z. Sheng, and Lina Yao. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 7, No 2, pp 154-167, 2014. [PDF]

102. Modeling Object Flows from Distributed and Federated RFID Data Streams for Efficient Tracking and Tracing. Yanbo Wu, Quan Z. Sheng, Hong Shen, and Sherali Zeadally. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 24, No 10, pp 2036-2045, 2013. [PDF, Sup]

103. Trust Management of Services in Cloud Environments: Obstacles and Solutions. Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, Sherali Zeadally, Jian Yu. ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol 46, No 1, p 12, 2013. [PDF]

104. Bootstrapping Ontologies for Web Services. Aviv Segev and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 5, No 1, pp 33-44, 2012 [PDF].

105. A Petri-Net Approach to Analyzing Behavioral Compatibility and Similarity of Web Services. Xitong Li, Yushun Fan, Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, and Hongwei Zhu. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, Cybernetics: Systems, Vol 41, No 3, pp 510-521, 2011 [PDF].

106. Separating Operational and Control Behaviors: A New Approach to Web Services Modeling. Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Jamal Bentahar, and Khouloud Boukadi. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 14, No 3, pp 68-76, 2010 [PDF].

107. Semantic-based Mashup of Composite Applications. Anne H.H. Ngu, Michael P. Carlson, Quan Z. Sheng, and Hye-young Paik. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 3, No 1, pp 2-15, 2010 [PDF].

108. RFID Infrastructure Design: A Case Study of Two Australian RFID Projects. John P.T. Mo, Quan Z. Sheng, Xue Li, Sherali Zeadally. IEEE Internet Computing, Vol 13 No 1. pp 14-21. Jan/Feb 2009. [PDF]

109. Configurable Composition and Adaptive Provisioning of Web Services. Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar, Anne H.H. Ngu. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 2 No 1. pp 34-49. January-March, 2009 [PDF].

110. Enabling Next-Generation RFID Applications: Solutions and Challenges. Quan Z. Sheng, Xue Li, Sherali Zeadally. IEEE Computer, Vol 41 No 9, pp 21-28, September 2008. [PDF]

111. User-Centric Services Provisioning in Wireless Environments. Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, and Zakaria Maamar. Communications of the ACM (CACM), Vol 51 No 11, pp 130-135. November 2008. [PDF]

112. The Self-Serv Environment for Web Services Composition, Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng, Marlon Dumas, IEEE Internet Computing. Vol 7 No 1, pp 40-48, Jan/Feb 2003. [PDF]

113. CupMar: A Deep Learning Model for Personalized News Recommendation based on Contextual User-Profile and Multi-Aspect Representation. Dai Hoang Tran, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Nguyen H. Tran, and Nguyen Lu Dang Khoa. World Wide Web Journal, Springer, Vol 26, No 2, pp 713-732, 2023.

114. Conversational Question Answering: A Survey. Munaza Zaib, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, and Yang Zhang. Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS), Springer, Vol 64, No 12, pp 3151-3195, 2022. [PDF]

115. Exploiting Intra- and Inter-Session Dependencies for Session-based Recommendations. Nan Wang, Shoujin Wang, Yan Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Mehmet Orgun. World Wide Web Journal, Springer, Vol 25, No 1, pp 425-443, 2022.

116. Trust on Wheels: Towards Secure and Resource Efficient IoV Networks. Adnan Mahmood, Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Hajime Suzuki, and Wei Ni. Computing, Springer, Vol 104, No 6, pp 1337-1358, 2022.

117. Towards Employing Native Information in Citation Function Classification. Yang Zhang, Ruoying Zhao, Yufei Wang, Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, and Quan Z. Sheng. Scientometrics, Springer, Vol 127, No 11, 6579, 2022.

118. A Survey on Recommender Systems for Internet of Things: Techniques, Applications, and Future Directions. May Altulyan, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Chaoran Huang, Salil S Kanhere, and Quan Z. Sheng. The Computer Journal, Oxford (CompJ), Vol 68, No 8, pp 2098-2132, 2022.

119. Data Correction and Evolution Analysis of the ProgammableWeb Service Ecosystem. Mingyi Liu, Zhiying Tu, Yeqi Zhu, Xiaofei Xu, Zhongjie Wang, and Quan Z. Sheng. Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier, Vol 182, 111066, 2021.

120. Machine Learning Research for Combating COVID-19: Virus Detection, Spread Prevention, and Medical Assistance. Osama Shahid, Mohammad Nasajpour, Seyedamin Pouriyeh, Reza M. Parizi, Meng Han, Maria Valero, Fangyu Li, Mohammed Aledhari, and Quan Z. Sheng. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Elsevier, Volume 117, 103751, 2021.

121. HeteGraph: Graph Learning in Recommender Systems via Graph Convolutional Networks. Dai Hoang Tran, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Abdulwahab Aljubairy, Munazza Zaib, Salma Abdalla Hamad, Nguyen H. Tran, and Nguyen Lu Dang Khoa. Neural Computing and Applications, Springer, 2021 (to appear).

122. Integrating Context to Preferences and Goals for Goal-Oriented Adaptability of Software Systems. Khavee Agustus Botangen, Jian Yu, Wai Kiang Yeap, and Quan Z. Sheng. The Computer Journal, Oxford (CompJ), Vol 64, No 5, pp 675-706, 2021.

123. Enhancing Knowledge Graph Embedding by Composite Neighbors for Link Prediction. Kai Wang, Yu Liu, Xiujuan Xu, and Quan Z. Sheng. Computing, Springer, Vol 102, No 12, pp 2587-2606, 2020.

124. Let's CoRank: Trust of Users and Tweets on Social Networks. Peiyao Li, Weiliang Zhao, Jian Yang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Jia Wu. World Wide Web Journal, Springer, Vol 23, No 5, pp 2877-2901, 2020.

125. A Review and Categorization of Techniques on Device-Free Human Activity Recognition. Zawar Hussain, Quan Z. Sheng, and Wei Emma Zhang. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Elsevier, Vol 167, Article 102738, 2020. [PDF]

126. Design Architectures for Energy Harvesting in the Internet of Things. Sherali Zeadally, Faisal Karim Shaikh, Anum Talpur, and Quan Z. Sheng. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, Vol 128, Article 109901, 2020. [PDF]

127. Understanding the Hierarchical Structural Evolution in a Scientific Discipline: A Case Study of Artificial Intelligence. Yue Qian, Yu Liu, and Quan Z. Sheng. Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, Vol 14, Issue 3, Article 101047, 2020. [PDF]

128. A System for Effectively Predicting Flight Delays based on IoT Data. Abdulwahab Aljubairy, Wei Emma Zhang, Ali Shemshadi, Adnan Mahmood, and Quan Z. Sheng. Computing, Springer, Vol 102, No 9, pp 2025-2048, 2020.

129. Leveraging Citation Influences for Modeling Scientific Documents. Yue Qian, Yu Liu, Xiujuan Xu, and Quan Z. Sheng. World Wide Web Journal, Springer, Vol 23, No 4, pp 2281-2302, 2020.

130. Geographic-Aware Collaborative Filtering for Web Service Recommendation. Khavee Agustus Botangen, Jian Yu, Quan Z. Sheng, Yanbo Han, and Sira Yongchareon. Expert Systems with Applications (ESA), Elsevier, Vol 151, 113347, 2020.

131. Quantifying the Adaptability of Workflow-based Service Compositions. Khavee Agustus Botangen, Jian Yu, Yanbo Han, Quan Z. Sheng, and Jun Han. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier, Vol 102, pp 95-111, 2020. [PDF]

132. AMRNN: Attended Multi-Task Recurrent Neural Networks for Dynamic Illness Severity Prediction. Weitong Chen, Guodong Long, Lina Yao, and Quan Z. Sheng. World Wide Web Journal, Springer, Vol 23, No 5, pp 2753-2770, 2020.

133. Detecting the Evolving Community Structure in Dynamic Social Networks. Fanzhen Liu, Jia Wu, Shan Xue, Chuan Zhou, Jian Yang, Quan Z. Sheng. World Wide Web Journal, Springer, Vol 23, No 2, pp 715-733, 2020.

134. Dynamic Release of Big Location Data based on Adaptive Sampling and Differential Privacy. Yan Yan, Lianxiu Zhang, and Quan Z. Sheng, Bingqian Wang, Xin Gao, and Yiming Cong. IEEE Access, Vol 7, No 1, pp 164962-164974, 2019.

135. Software-defined Heterogeneous Vehicular Networking: The Architectural Design and Open Challenges. Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, and Quan Z. Sheng. Future Internet, MDPI, Vol 11, No 3, p70, 2019 (Invited paper, 10th Anniversary Feature Papers).

136. SmartVote: A Full-Fledged Graph-based Model for Multi-Valued Truth Discovery. Xiu Susie Fang, Quan Z. Sheng, Xianzhi Wang, Dianhui Chu, and Anne H.H. Ngu. World Wide Web Journal, Springer, Vol 22, No 4, pp 1855-1885, 2019.

137. On Personalized Cloud Service Provisioning for Mobile Users Using Adaptive and Context-Aware Service Composition. Elarbi Badidi, Yacine Atif, Quan Z. Sheng, and Muthucumaru Maheswaran. Computing, Springer, Vol 101, No 4, pp 291-318, 2019.

138. Mobile Cloud Computing: Challenges and Future Research Directions. Talal H. Noor, Sherali Zeadally, Abdullah Alfazi, and Quan Z. Sheng. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Elsevier, Vol 115, pp 70-85, August 2018. [PDF]

139. Service Solution Planning Considering Priori Knowledge and Fast Retrieval. Ruilin Liu, Xiaofei Xu, Zhongjie Wang, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE Access, Vol 6, No 1, pp 68263-68276, 2018. [PDF]

140. Multi-Views on Nature Index of Chinese Academic Institutions. Yu Liu, Dan Lin, Xiujuan Xu, Shimin Shan, and Quan Z. Sheng. Scientometrics, Springer, Vol 114, No 3, pp 823-837, 2018.

141. Organizing XML Data in a Wireless Broadcast System by Exploiting Structural Similarity. Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, Hua Wang, and Nickolas J.G. Falkner. Wireless Personal Communications (WPC), Springer, Vol 28, No 1, pp 1299-1329, 2018.

142. Learning-based SPARQL Query Performance Modeling and Prediction. Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Yongrui Qin, Kerry Taylor, and Lina Yao. World Wide Web Journal, Springer, Vol 21, No 4, pp 1015-1035, 2018.

143. WITS: An IoT-endowed Computational Framework for Activity Recognition in Personalized Smart Homes. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Schahram Dustdar, Xianzhi Wang, Ali Shemshadi, and Salil S. Kanhere. Computing, Springer, Vol 100, No 4, pp 369-385, 2018.

144. Collaborative Text Categorization via Exploiting Sparse Coefficients. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Xianzhi Wang, Shengrui Wang, Xue Li, and Sen Wang. World Wide Web Journal, Vol 21, No 2, pp 373-394, 2018.

145. SNAF: An Effective Location Inference and Event Monitoring System for Twitter. Yihong Zhang, Claudia Szabo, Quan Z. Sheng, and Xiu Susie Fang. World Wide Web Journal, Vol 21, No 2, pp 311-343, 2018.

146. Multi-Label Classification via Learning a Unified Object-Label Graph with Sparse Representation. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu, Byron Gao, Xue Li, and Sen Wang. World Wide Web Journal, Vol 19, No 6, pp 1125-1149, 2016.

147. Efficient Computation of Distance Labeling for Decremental Updates in Large Dynamic Graphs. Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, Lina Yao, and Simon Parkinson. World Wide Web Journal, Vol 20, No 5, pp 915-937, 2017.

148. Searching for the Internet of Things on the Web: Where It Is and What It Looks Like. Ali Shemshadi, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Aixin Sun, Yongrui Qin, and Lina Yao. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC), Vol 21, No 6, pp 1097-1112, 2017.

149. A Reference Architecture for Provisioning of Tools as a Service: Meta-Models, Ontologies and Design Elements. Muhammad Aufeef Chauhan, Muhammad Ali Babar, and Quan Z. Sheng, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier, Vol 69, pp 41-65, 2017.

150. Multi-Task Support Vector Machines for Feature Selection with Shared Knowledge Discovery. Sen Wang, Xiaojun Chang, Xue Li, Quan Z. Sheng,and Weitong Chen. Signal Processing, Elsevier, Vol 120, pp 746-753, 2016.

151. Personal Health Indexing based on Medical Examinations: A Data Mining Approach. Ling Chen, Xue Li, Yi Yang, Hanna Kurniawati, Quan Z. Sheng, Hsiao-Yun Hu, and Nicole Huang. Decision Support Systems (DSS), Elservier, Vol 81, pp 54-65, 2016.

152. GrandBase: Generating Actionable Knowledge from Big Data. Xiu Susie Fang, Quan Z. Sheng, Xianzhi Wang, Anne H.H. Ngu, and Yihong Zhang. International Journal on PSU Research Review, Emerald, Vol 1, No 2, pp 105-126, 2017 (invited paper)

153. Compact Representation for Large-Scale Unconstrained Video Analysis. Sen Wang, Pingbo Pan, Guodong Long, Weitong Chen, Xue Li, and Quan Z. Sheng. World Wide Web Journal, Vol 19, No 2, pp 231-246, 2016.

154. Device-Free Human Localization and Tracking with UHF Passive RFID Tags: A Data-Driven Approach. Wenjie Ruan, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Xue Li, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, and Lei Yang. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Elsevier, Vol 104, pp 78-96, 2018.

155. When Things Matter: A Survey on Data-Centric Internet of Things. Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, Nickolas J. Falkner, Schahram Dustdar, Hua Wang, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Elsevier, Vol 64, pp 137-153, 2016. [PDF]

156. Reduce or Remove: Individual Sensor Reliability Profiling and Data Cleaning. Yihong Zhang, Claudia Szabo, and Quan Z. Sheng. Intelligent Data Analysis, Vol 20, No 5, pp 979-995, 2016.

157. S-ABC: A Paradigm of Service Domain-Oriented Artificial Bee Colony Algorithms for Service Selection and Composition. Xiaofei Xu, Zhizhong Liu, Zhongjie Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, and Xianzhi Wang, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier, Vol 68, pp 304-319, 2017.

158. Efficient Pattern Matching for Large Graphs with Multi-Label Nodes. Ali Shemshadi, Quan Z. Sheng. and Yongrui Qin, Knowledge-Based Systems, Elsevier, Vol 109, pp 256-265, 2016.

159. Efficiently Managing Uncertain Data in RFID Sensor Networks. Jiangang Ma, Quan Z. Sheng, Dong Xie, Jen Min Chuah, and Yongrui Qin. World Wide Web Journal, Vol 18, No 4, pp 819-844, 2015.

160. Model-Driven Development of Adaptive Web Service Processes with Aspects and Rules. Jian Yu, Quan Z. Sheng, Joshua K.Y. Swee, Jun Han, Chengfei Liu, and Talal H. Noor. Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), Elservier, Vol 81, No 3, pp 533-552, 2015.

161. A Simulation Method for Effective Social Network Analysis. Rui Zeng, Quan Z. Sheng, and Lina Yao. Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM), Springer, Vol 5, No 1, 2015.

162. Building Sustainable Parking Lots with the Web of Things. Sujith S. Matthew, Yacine Atif, Quan Z. Sheng, and Zakaria Maamar. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing (PUC), Vol 18, No 4, pp 895-907, 2014. [PDF]

163. A Block-Aware Hybrid Data Dissemination with Hotspot Elimination in Wireless Sensor Networks. Wenjia Niu, Gang Li, Endong Tong, Quan Z. Sheng, Qian Li, Yue Hu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, and Li Guo. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Elsevier, Vol 44, pp 120-133, September 2014.

164. Science in the Cloud: Allocation and Execution of Data-Intensive Scientific Workflows. Claudia Szabo, Quan Z. Sheng, Trent Kroeger, Yihong Zhang, and Jian Yu. Journal of Grid Computing (JGC), Springer, Vol 12, No 2, pp 245-264, 2014.

165. Web Services Composition: A Decade's Overview. Quan Z. Sheng, Xiaoqiang Qiao, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Claudia Szabo, Scott Bourne, and Xiaofei Xu. Information Sciences, Vol 280, pp 218-238, October 2014. [PDF]

166. The Ethical and Social Implications of Personalization Technologies for e-Learning. Helen Ashman, Tim Brailsford, Alexandra Cristea, Quan Z. Sheng, Craig Stewart, Elaine Toms, and Vincent Wade. Information & Management (IM), Elservier, Vol 51, No 6, pp 819-832, 2014. [PDF]

167. Behavior Modeling and Automated Verification of Web Services. Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, Lina Yao, Claudia Szabo, and Scott Bourne. Information Sciences, Vol 258, pp 416-433, 2014 [PDF].

168. When Clouds Start Socializing: The Sky Model. Said Elnaffar, Zakaria Maamar, and Quan Z. Sheng. International Journal of E-Business Research (IJEBR), Vol 9 No 2, pp1-7, 2013.

169. A Semantically Enhanced Service Repository for User-Centric Service Discovery and Management. Jian Yu, Quan Z. Sheng, Jun Han, Yanbo Wu, and Chengfei Liu. Data & Knowledge Engineering (DKE), Vol 72, No 1, pp 202-218, 2012. [PDF]

170. Achieving High Availability of Web Services Based on a Particle Filtering Approach. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, and Zakaria Maamar. International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, Vol 3, No 2, 2012. [PDF]

171. A Synergy Between Context-Aware Policies and AOP to Achieve Highly Adaptable Web Services. H. Yahyaoui, A. Mourad, M. Almullah, Lina Yao, and Quan Z. Sheng. Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA), Springer, Vol 6, No 4, pp 379-392, 2012.

172. Towards an Approach for Weaving Preferences into Web Services Operation. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Yacine Atif, Sujith S. Mathew, and Khouloud Boukadi. Journal of Software, Vol 7, No 7, pp 1429-1439, 2012.

173. Facilitating Efficient Object Tracking in Large-Scale Traceability Networks. Yanbo Wu, Quan Z. Sheng, Damith Ranasinghe. The Computer Journal, Oxford (CompJ), Vol 54, No 12, pp 2053-2071, 2011. [PDF].

174. RFID Enabled Traceability Networks: A Survey. Yanbo Wu, Damith Ranasinghe, Quan Z. Sheng, Sherali Zeadally, and Jian Yu. Distributed and Parallel Databases, Springer (DAPD), Vol 29, No 5-6, pp 397-443, 2011. [PDF].

175. TMS-RFID: Temporal Management of Large-Scale RFID Applications. Xue Li, Jing Liu, Quan Z. Sheng, Sherali Zeadally, and Weicai Zhong. Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Springer, Vol 13, No 4, pp 481-500, 2011. [PDF].

176. Ambient Things on the Web. Sujith S. Mathew, Yacine Atif, Quan Z. Sheng, and Zakaria Maamar. Journal of Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, Vol 1, No 1, pp 1-8, 2010.

177. Techniques on Developing Context-Aware Web Services. Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, Aviv Segev, and Kewen Liao. International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS), Vol 6, No 3, pp 185-202, 2010.

178. Ubiquitous RFID: Where Are We? Quan Z. Sheng, Sherali Zeadally, Zongwei Luo, Jen-Yao Chung, and Zakaria Maamar. Information Systems Frontiers (ISF), Springer, Vol 12, No 5, pp 485-490, 2010.

179. A Pattern-based Approach to Protocol Mediation for Web Services Composition. Xitong Li, Yushun Fan, Stuart Madnick, and Quan Z. Sheng. Information and Software Technology (IST), Elsevier, Vol 52, No 3, pp 304-323, March 2010 [PDF].

180. Towards An Approach to Sustain Web Services High-Availability Using Communities of Web Services. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Samir Tata, Djamal Benslimane, and Mohamed Sellami. International Journal of Web Information Systems (IJWIS), Vol 5, No 1, pp 32-55. March 2009.

181. Web Services Interactions: Analysis, Modeling, and Management. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Djamal Benslimane, and Hamdi Yahyaoui. International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), World Scientific Publishing Co., Vol 18 No 2, pp 179-198, March 2008.

182. A Three-Level Enterprise-Architecture Based on Web Services. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, and Leon Joloian. Enterprise Architecture Special Issue, Cutter IT Journal, Vol. 10, No. 10, 2007.

183. Facilitating the Rapid Development and Scalable Orchestration of Composite Web Services,Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Quan Z. Sheng  Distributed and Parallel Databases, An International Journal (DAPD), Springer, Vol 17 No 1, pp 5-37, January 2005.  

184. On Composite Web Services Provisioning in an Environment of Fixed and Mobile Computing Resources, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Information Technology and Management, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 251-270. Vol 5, No 3-4, 2004.

185. A Three-Level Specification Approach for an Environment of Software Agents and Web Services,Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Ghazi Alkhatib, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, Elsevier Science Publisher, pp 214-231, Vol 3, No 3, 2004. [PDF]

186. Towards a Conversation-driven Composition of Web Services, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (WIAS), IOS Press, ISSN 1570-1263, Vol 2(2), 2004.

187. Study on Image Processing for Video-Based Traffic Measurement and Vehicle Classification., Yan Q. Zhu and Quan Z. Sheng. Road & Transport Research, Vol 11, No 2,pp 42-49, June 2002. ARRB TR.

188. Overview of some Patterns for Building and Managing Composite Web Services, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Fethi Rabhi, Marie Fauvet, Quan Z. Sheng, ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 3(3) 9-18, August 2002, ACM Press.

189. Combining Multi-Visual Features for Efficient Indexing in A Large Image Database, Anne H.H. Ngu, Quan Z. Sheng, Du Huynh, Ron Lei.  VLDB Journal, Vol 9, No 4, pp 279-293, March 2001. [PDF, the system was also demonstrated at SIGMOD2003.]

Selected Refereed Conference Papers

1. ExClique: An Express Consensus Algorithm for High-Speed Transaction Process in Blockchains. Chonghe Zhao, Yipeng Zhou, Shengli Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Yang Zhang, and Shiting Wen. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2025). London, United Kingdom, 19-22 May 2025.

2. FLM-TopK: Expediting Federated Large Language Model Tuning by Sparsifying Intervalized Gradients. Wenqi Qiu, Yipeng Zhou, Jinzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Laizhong Cui. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2025). London, United Kingdom, 19-22 May 2025.

3. TROPICAL: Transformer-based Hypergraph Learning for Camouflaged Fraudster Detection. Venus Haghighi, Behnaz Soltani, Nasrin Shabani, Jia Wu, Yang Zhang, Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, and Jian Yang. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2024), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 9-12 December 2024.

4. FGLBA: Enabling Highly-Effective and Stealthy Backdoor Attack on Federated Graph Learning. Qing Lu, Miao Hu, Di Wu, Yipeng Zhou, Mohsen Guizani, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2024), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 9-12 December 2024.

5. Distractor Generation in Multiple-Choice Tasks: A Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Evaluation. Elaf Alhazmi, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Munazza Zaib, and Ahoud Alhazmi. The 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024). Miami, Florida, USA, 12-16 Novemeber 2024. [PDF]

6. DFLStar: A Decentralized Federated Learning Framework with Self-Knowledge Distillation and Participant Selection. Behnaz Soltani, Venus Haghighi, Yipeng Zhou, Quan Z. Sheng, and Lina Yao. The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024), Boise, Idaho, USA, 21-25 October 2024.

7. Not All Negatives are Equally Negative: Soft Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Sentence Representation. Haojie Zhuang, Wei Emma Zhang, Jian Yang, Weitong Chen, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2024), Boise, Idaho, USA, 21-25 October 2024.

8. Graph Neural Networks for Brain Graph Learning: A Survey. Xuexiong Luo, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Shan Xue, Amin Beheshti, Quan Z. Sheng, David McAlpine, Paul Sowman, Alexis Giral, and Philip S. Yu. The 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2024), Jeju, South Korea, 03-08 August 2024.

9. FedLMT: Computationally-Efficient Federated Learning through Low-Rank Model Training with Theorectical Guarantees. Jiahao Liu, Yipeng Zhou, Di Wu, Mohsen Guizani, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 41st International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024), Vienna, Austria, 21-27 July 2024.

10. Adaptive Global-local Fusion Network based Deep Unsupervised Hashing for Remote Sensing Image Retrieval. Zekun Xu, Yipeng Zhou, Quan Z. Sheng, Chao Li, Tongtong Lou, and Weipeng Jing. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2024). Niagra Falls, Canada, 15-19 July 2024.

11. Automatic, Meta and Human Evaluation for Multimodal Summarization with Multimodal Output. Haojie Zhuang, Wei Emma Zhang, Leon Xie, Weitong Chen, Jian Yang, and Quan Z. Sheng. 2024 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024). Mexico City, Mexico, 16-21 June 2024.

12. DEthna: Accurate Ethereum Network Topology Discovery with Marked Transactions. Chonghe Zhao, Yipeng Zhou, Shengli Zhang, Taotao Wang, Song Guo, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2024). Vancouver, Canada, 20-23 May 2024.

13. Trainable Hard Negative Examples in Contrastive Learning for Unsupervised Abstractive Summarization. Haojie Zhuang, Wei Emma Zhang, Change George Dong, Jian Yang, and Quan Z. Sheng. The Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: the 18th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2024). St. Julians, Malta, 17-22 March 2024.

14. Learning to Select the Relevant History Turns in Conversational Question Answering. Munazza Zaib, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Yang Zhang, Subhash Sagar, and Adnan Mahmood. The 24th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Engineering (WISE 2023). Melbourne, Australia, 25-27 October 2023.

15. Towards Graph-Level Anomaly Detection via Deep Evolutionary Mapping. Xiaoxiao Ma, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD 2023), Long Beach, CA, USA, 6-10 August 2023.

16. BARA: Efficient Incentive Mechanism with Online Reward Budget Allocation in Cross-Silo Federated Learning. Yunchao Yang, Yipeng Zhou, Miao Hu, Di Wu, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 32nd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2023), Macao, China, 19-25 August 2023.

17. Causal Disentangled Variational Auto-Encoder for Preference Understanding in Recommendation. Siyu Wang, Xiaocong Chen, Quan Z. Sheng, Yihong Zhang, and Lina Yao. In Proc. of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2023). Taipei, Taiwan, 23-27 July 2023.

18. Metaverse Services: The Way of Services Towards the Future. Xiaofei Xu, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zhong Chen, Robert Gazda, Abdulmotabled Ei Saddik, and Munindar P. Singh. The 20th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2023). Chicago, USA, 2-8 July 2023 (Invited Paper). [PDF]

19. Keeping the Questions Conversational: Using Structured Representations to Resolve Dependency in Conversational Question Answering. Munazza Zaib, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, and Adnan Mahmood. The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2023). Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 18-23 June 2023.

20. Multi-Truth Discovery while Being Aware of Unbalanced Data Distribution. Xiu Susie Fang, Quan Z. Sheng, Guohao Sun, Chang Shan, Hongya Wang, and Jian Yang. The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2023). Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 18-23 June 2023.

21. Hybrid Data Augumentation for Citation Function Classification. Yang Zhang, Yufei Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, and Ruoying Zhao. The International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2023). Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, 18-23 June 2023.

22. Minimum Entropy Principle Guided Graph Neural Networks. Zhenyu Yang, Ge Zhang, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Quan Z. Sheng, Hao Peng, Angsheng Li, Shan Xue, and Jianlin Su. The 16th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2023). Singapore, 27 February-3 March 2023.

23. Learning from the Source Document: Unsupervised Abstractive Summarization. Haojie Zhuang, Wei Emma Zhang, Jian Yang, Congbo Ma, Yutong Qu, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2022). Abu Dhabi, UAE, 7-11 December 2022.

24. A Multi-task Learning Approach for Predicting Intentions Using Smart Home IoT Services. Bing Huang, Boyu Zhang, Kwok Yan Lam, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 20th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2022). Sevilla, Spain, 29 November-2 December 2022.

25. Dual-discriminative Graph Neural Network for Imbalanced Graph-level Anomaly Detection. Ge Zhang, Zhenyu Yang, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Shan Xue, Hao Peng, Jianlin Su, Chuan Zhou, Quan Z. Sheng, Leman Akoglu, and Charu C. Aggarwal. The 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2022). New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 28 November-8 December 2022.

26. DAGAD: Data Augmentation for Graph Anomaly Detection. Fanzhen Liu, Xiaoxiao Ma, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Shan Xue, Amin Beheshti, Chuan Zhou, Hao Peng, Quan Z. Sheng, and Charu Aggarwal. The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2022). Orlando, FL, USA, 28 November-1 December 2022.

27. Interval-valued Skyline Web Service Selection on Incomplete QoS. Yanjun Shu, Jianhang Zhang, Decheng Zuo, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2022). Barcelona, Spain, 11-16 July 2022.

28. Swift and Sure: Hardness-aware Contrastive Learning for Low-dimensional Knowledge Graph Embeddings. Kai Wang, Yu Liu, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 31st Web Conference 2022 (TheWebConf 2022). Lyon, France, 25-29 April 2022. [PDF]

29. When Trust Meets the Internet of Vehicles: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Prospects. Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Subhash Sagar, Wei Emma Zhang, Hajime Suzuki, and Wei Ni. The 7th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC 2021). Virtual Conference, December 13-15, 2021. (Invited Paper). [PDF]

30. FRAUDRE: Fraud Detection Dual-Resistant to Graph Inconsistency and Imbalance. Ge Zhang, Jia Wu, Jian Yang, Amin Beheshti, Shan Xue, Chuan Zhou, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 21st IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2021). December 7-10, 2021, Auckland, New Zealand. (Best Student Paper Award)

31. Hyperbolic Geometry is Not Necessary: Lightweight Eulidean-based Models for Low-Dimensional Knowledge Graph Embeddings. Kai Wang, Yu Liu, Dan Lin, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2021). November 7-11, 2021, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.

32. Towards a Deep Learning based Service Discovery Framework for the Social Internet of Things: A Context-Aware Approach. Abdulwahab Aljubairy, Ahoud Alhazmi, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Dai Hoang Tran. The 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Engineering (WISE 2021). October 26-29, 2021, Melbourne, Australia.

33. TDM-CFC: Towards Document-Level Multi-label Citation Function Classification. Yang Zhang, Yufei Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, and Rongying Zhao. The 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Engineering (WISE 2021). October 26-29, 2021, Melbourne, Australia.

34. Deep News Recommendation with Contextual User Profiling and Multifaceted Article Representation. Dai Hoang Tran, Salma Hamad, Munazza Zaib, Abdulwahab Aljubairy, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Nguyen H. Tran, and Lu Dang Khoa Nguyen. The 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Engineering (WISE 2021). October 26-29, 2021, Melbourne, Australia. (Best Paper Runner Up Award)

35. Do You Brush Your Teeth Properly: An Off-Body Sensor based Approach for Toothbrushing Monitoring. Zawar Hussain, David Waterworth, Murtadha Aldeer, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Jorge Ortiz. The IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH 2021). September 5-10, 2021, Virtual.

36. Neighborhood Intervention Consistency: Measuring Confidence for Knowledge Graph Link Prediction. Kai Wang, Yu Liu, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021). August 21-26, 2021, Montreal, Canada. [PDF]

37. Graph Learning based Recommender Systems: A Review. Shoujin Wang, Liang Hu, Yan Wang, Xiangnan He, Quan Z. Sheng, Mehmet Orgun, Longbing Cao, Francesco Ricci, and Philip S. Yu. The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021). August 21-26, 2021, Montreal, Canada.

38. A Unified Framework for Improving Misclassification in Modern Deep Neural Networks for Sentiment Analysis. Ahoud Alhazmi, Abdulwahab Aljubairy, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Elaf Alhazmi. The 2021 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2021). July 18-22, 2021, Virtual Conference.

39. P-FedAvg: Parallelizing Federated Learning with Theorectical Guarantees. Zhicong Zhong, Yipeng Zhou, Di Wu, Xu Chen, Min Chen, Chao Li, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2021). Virtual Conference, May 10-13, 2021.

40. MulDE: Multi-Teacher Knowledge Distillation for Low-Dimensional Knowledge Graph Embeddings. Kai Wang, Yu Liu, Qian Ma, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 30th Web Conference 2021 (TheWebConf 2021). Ljubljana, Slovenia, April 19-23, 2021. [PDF]

41. The 10 Research Topics in the Internet of Things. Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Adnan Mahmood, Dai Hoang Tran, Munazza Zaib, Salma Abdalla Hamad, Abdulwahab Aljubairy, Ahoud Alhazmi, Subhash Sagar, and Congbo Ma. The 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (IEEE CIC 2020). Virtual Conference, December 1-3, 2020. (Invited Paper). [PDF]

42. A Time-aware Similarity-based Trust Computational Model for Social Internet of Things. Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Jitander Kumar, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2020). Taipei, Taiwan, December 7-11, 2020.

43. Energy Minimization for Cloud Services with Stochastic Requests. Shuang Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Xiaoping Li, Adnan Mahmood, and Yang Zhang. The 18th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2020). Dubai, UAE, November 9-12, 2020.

44. Modelling Local and Global Dependencies for Next-Item Recommendations. Nan Wang, Shoujin Wang, Yan Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Mehmet Orgun. In Proc. of the 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems and Engineering (WISE 2020). Amsterdam and Leiden, the Netherlands, 20-24 October, 2020.

45. A Hybrid Approach for Intrusive Applicance Load Monitoring in Smart Home. Vanh Khuyen Nguyen, Minh-Hieu Phan, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Trung Duc Vo. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (IEEE SmartIoT 2020). Beijing, China, 14-16 August 2020. (Best Paper Award)

46. HeteGraph: A Convolutional Framework for Graph Learning in Recommender Systems. Dai Hoang Tran, Abdulwahab Aljubairy, Munazza Zaib, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Nguyen H. Tran, and Khoa L.D. Nguyen. In Proc. of the 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020). Glasgow, UK, July 19-24, 2020.

47. Are Modern Deep Learning Models for Sentiment Analysis Brittle? An Examination on Part-of-Speech. Ahoud Alhazmi, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Abdulwahad Aljubairy. In Proc. of the 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020). Glasgow, UK, July 19-24, 2020.

48. Analyzing the Sensitivty of Deep Neural Network for Sentiment Analysis: A Scoring Approach. Ahoud Alhazmi, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Abdulwahad Aljubairy. In Proc. of the 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020). Glasgow, UK, July 19-24, 2020.

49. Intention2Basket: Generating Next-basket from User Purchase Intentions. Shoujin Wang, Liang Hu, Yan Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Mehmet Orgun, and Longbing Cao. In Proc. of the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020). Yokohama, Japan, 11-17 July 2020.

50. SIoTPredict: A Framework for Predicting Relationships in the Social Internet of Things. Abdulwahad Aljubairy, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Ahoud Alhazmi. In Proc. of the 32nd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2020). Grenoble, France, June 8-12, 2020. [PDF]

51. Trust Computational Heuristic for Social Internet of Things: A Machine Learning-based Approach. Subhash Sagar, Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, and Wei Emma Zhang. In Proc. of the 54th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2020). Dublin, Ireland, June 7-11, 2020.

52. Intention Nets: A Psychology-Inspired User Choice Behavior Modeling Approach for Next-Basket Prediction. Shoujin Wang, Liang Hu, Yan Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Mehmet Orgun, and Longbing Cao. The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020). New York, USA, February 7-12, 2020.

53. Machine Learning based Trust Model for Misbehaviour Detection in Internet of Vehicles. Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Adnan Mahmood, Wei Emma Zhang, and Quan Z. Sheng. In Proc. of the 26th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2019). Sydney, Australia, December 12-15, 2019.

54. A Hybrid Trust Management Model for Secure and Resource Efficient Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks. Adnan Mahmood, Sarah Ali Siddiqui, Wei Emma Zhang, and Quan Z. Sheng. In Proc. of the 20th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2019). Gold Coast, Australia, December 5-7, 2019. (Best Student Paper Award)

55. A Framework for Internet of Things Search Engines Engineering. Nguyen Khoi Tran, M. Ali Babar, Quan Z. Sheng, and John Grundy. In Proc. of the 26th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2019). Putrajaya, Malaysia, December 2-5, 2019.

56. DAMTRNN: A Delta Attention-based Multi-Task RNN for Intention Recognition. Weitong Chen, Lin Yue, Bohan Li, Can Wang, and Quan Z. Sheng. In Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2019). Dalian, China, November 21-23, 2019. (Best Student Paper Award)

57. A Cost-effective and Non-invasive System for Sleep and Vital Signs Monitoring Using Passive RFID Tags. Zawar Hussain, Subhash Sagar, Wei Emma Zhang, and Quan Z. Sheng. In Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2019). Houston, USA, November 12-14, 2019.

58. Integrating Geographical and Functional Relevance to Implicit Data for Web Service Recommendation. Khavee Agustus Botangen, Jian Yu, Sira Yongchareon, Lianghuai Yang, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 17th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2019). Toulouse, France, 28-31 October, 2019.

59. N2TM: A New Node to Trust Matrix Method for Spam Worker Defense in Crowdsourcing Environments. Bin Ye, Yan Wang, Mehmet Orgun, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 17th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2019). Toulouse, France, 28-31 October, 2019.

60. Multi-Purpose Session Detection and Modeling with Mixture-Channel Network. Shoujin Wang, Liang Hu, Yan Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Mehmet Orgun, and Longbing Cao. The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019). Macao, China, 10-16 August 2019.

61. STG2S: Spatial-Temporal Graph to Sequence Model for Multi-Step Passenger Demand Forecasting. Lei Bai, Lina Yao, Salil Kanhere, Xianzhi Wang, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019). Macao, China, 10-16 August 2019.

62. Sequential Recommender Systems: Challenges, Progress, and Prospects. Shoujin Wang, Liang Hu, Yan Wang, Longbing Cao, Quan Z. Sheng, and Mehmet Orgun. The 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019). Macao, China, 10-16 August 2019.

63. Context-aware Multi-QoS Prediction for Services in Mobile Edge Computing. Zhizhong Liu, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Dianhui Chu, and Xiaofei Xu. The IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2019). Milan, Italy, 8-13 July 2019.

64. IoT Device Identification via Network-Flow based Fingreprinting and Learning. Salma Abdalla Hamad, Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Surya Nepal. The 18th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2019). Rotorua, New Zealand, 5-8 August, 2019.

65. Distantly Supervised Relation Extraction through a Trade-Off Mechanism. Jun Ni, Yu Liu, Kai Wang, Zhehuan Zhao, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2019). Budapest, Hungary, 14-19 July 2019.

66. Dual-Stream Self-Attentive Random Forest for False Information Detection. Manqing Dong, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Boualem Benatallah, Xiang Zhang, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 2019 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2019). Budapest, Hungary, 14-19 July 2019.

67. An End-to-End Real-Time Efficient System for Smart Energy Monitoring. Vanh Khuyen Nguyen, Wei Emma Zhang, Khoa Le, Adnan Mahmood, and Quan Z. Sheng. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2019). Demo paper, Paris, France, 29 April to 2 May 2019.

68. Dynamic Illness Severity Prediction via Multi-Task RNNs for Intensive Care Unit. Weitong Chen, Sen Wang, Guodong Long, Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, and Xue Li. The 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2018). Singapore, November 17-20, 2018.

69. Related or Duplicate: Distinguishing Similar CQA Questions via Convolutional Neural Networks. Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Zhejun Tang, and Wenjie Ruan. In Proc. of the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2018). Ann Arbor Michigan, USA, 8-12 July, 2018.

70. Converting Your Thoughts to Texts: Enabling Brain Typing via Deep Feature Learning of EEG Signals. Xiang Zhang, Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Salil S. Kanhere, Tao Gu, and Dalin Zhang. In Proc. of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2018). Athens, Greece, 19-23, March, 2018.

71. App Update Patterns: How Developers Act on User Reviews in Mobile App Stores. Shance Wang, Zhongjie Wang, Xiaofei Xu, and Quan Z. Sheng. In Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2017). Malaga, Spain, 13-16 November, 2017.

72. A Tree-based Reliability Analysis for Fault-Tolerant Web Services Composition. Yanjun Shu, Decheng Zuo, Hongwei Liu, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang. In Proc. of the 15th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2017). Short Paper, Malaga, Spain, 13-16 November, 2017.

73. Intent Recognition in Smart Living through Deep Recurrent Neural Networks. Xiang Zhang, Lina Yao, Chaoran Huang, and Quan Z. Sheng, and Xianzhi Wang. In Proc. of the 24th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2017). Guangzhou, China, 14-18 November, 2017.

74. Interpolating the Missing Values for Multi-Dimensional Spatio-Temporal Sensory Data: A Tensor SVD Approach. Peipei Xu, Wenjie Ruan, Quan Z. Sheng, Tao Gu, and Lina Yao. In Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2017). Melbourne, Australia, November 7-10, 2017.

75. Multi-Person Brain Activity Recognition via Comprehensive EEG Signal Analysis. Xiang Zhang, Lina Yao, Dalin Zhang, Xianzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Tao Gu. In Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2017). Melbourne, Australia, November 7-10, 2017.

76. AndroCon: An Android-based Context-Aware Middleware Framework for Data Provisioning. Jian Yu, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Qi Yan, Chris Wang, and Olayinka Adeleye. In Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2017). Melbourne, Australia, November 7-10, 2017.

77. SourceVote: Fusing Multi-Valued Data via Inter-Source Agreements. Xiu Susie Fang, Quan Z. Sheng, Xianzhi Wang, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Lina Yao, and Anne H.H. Ngu. In Proc. of the 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2017). Valencia, Spain, November 6-9, 2017.

78. A Kernel-based Approach to Developing Adaptable and Reusable Sensor Retrieval Systems for the Web of Things. Nguyen Khoi Tran, Quan Z. Sheng, M. Ali Babar, and Lina Yao. The 18th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2017). Moscow, Russia, October 7-11, 2017.

79. Probability Matrix of Request-Solution Mapping for Efficient Service Selection. Ruilin Liu, Xiaofei Xu, Zhongjie Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Hanchuan Xu. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2017). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 25-30, 2017.

80. Software Expert Recommendation via Knowledge Domain Embeddings in Stack Overflow. Chaoran Huang, Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Boualem Benatallah, and Quan Z. Sheng. In Proc. of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2017). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 25-30, 2017.

81. Identifying Domains and Concepts in Short Texts via Partial Taxonomy and Unlabeled Data. Yihong Zhang, Claudia Szabo, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, and Yongrui Qin. In Proc. of the 29th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2017), Essen, Germany, June 12-16, 2017.

82. Detecting Duplicate Posts in Programming QA Communities via Latent Semantics and Association Rules. Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Ermyas Abebe, and Jey Han Lau. In Proc. of the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017.

83. Value Veracity Estimation for Multi-Truth Ojbects via a Graph-Based Approach. Xiu Susie Fang, Quan Z. Sheng, Xianzhi Wang, and Anne H.H. Ngu. In Proc. of the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2017), Companion Volume, Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017.

84. Recovering Missing Values from Corrupted Spatio-Temporal Sensory Data via Robust Low-Rank Tensor Completion. Wenjie Ruan, Peipei Xu, Quan Z. Sheng, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, Xue Li, and Wei Emma Zhang. In Proc. of the 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2017), Suzhou, China, March 27-30, 2017.

85. Edge Influence Computation in Dynamic Graphs. Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, Simon Parkinson, and Nickolas J.G. Falkner. In Proc. of the 22nd International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2017), Suzhou, China, March 27-30, 2017.

86. Improved Object and Event Monitoring on Twitter Through Lexical Analysis and User Profiling. Yihong Zhang, Claudia Szabo, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 17th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2016). Shanghai, China, November 7-10, 2016.

87. Learning-based SPARQL Query Performance Modeling and Predication. Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Kerry L. Taylor, Yongrui Qin, and Lina Yao. The 17th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2016). Shanghai, China, November 7-10, 2016.

88. Truth Discovery via Exploiting Implications from Multi-Source Data. Xianzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Xue Li, Xiu Susie Fang, Xiaofei Xu, and Boualem Benatallah. The 25th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016). Indianapolis, USA, October 24-28, 2016.

89. Empowering Truth Discovery with Multi-Truth Prediction. Xianzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Xue Li, Xiu Susie Fang, Xiaofei Xu, and Boualem Benatallah. The 25th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016). Indianapolis, USA, October 24-28, 2016.

90. Efficient Orthogonal Non-negative Matrix Factorization over Stiefel Manifold. Wei Emma Zhang, Mingkui Tan, Quan Z. Sheng, Qinfeng Shi, and Lina Yao. The 25th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016). Indianapolis, USA, October 24-28, 2016.

91. Forecasting Seasonal and Trending Time Series Using Weighted Gradient RBF Network based an Autoregressive Model. Wenjie Ruan, Quan Z. Sheng, Peipei Xu, Nguyen Khoi Tran, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, Xue Li, and Wei Emma Zhang. The 25th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016). Indianapolis, USA, October 24-28, 2016 (short paper).

92. Recovering Missing Values in Noisy Sensory Data Using Robust Tensor Completion. Wenjie Ruan, Peipei Xu, Quan Z. Sheng, Nguyen Khoi Tran, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, Xue Li, and Wei Emma Zhang. The 25th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2016). Indianapolis, USA, October 24-28, 2016 (short paper).

93. Uncovering Locally Discriminative Structure for Feature Analysis. Sen Wang, Feiping Nie, Xiaojun Chang, Xue Li, Quan Z. Sheng, and Lina Yao. The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2016). Riva del Garda, Italy, September 19-23, 2016.

94. AudioGest: Enabling Fine-Grained Hand Gesture Detection by Decoding Echo Signals. Wenjie Ruan, Quan Z. Sheng, Lei Yang, Tao Gu, Peipei Xu, and Longfei Shangguan. The 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016). Heidelberg, Germany, 12-16 September, 2016.

95. Learning from Less for Better: Semi-Supervised Activity Recognition via Shared Structures Discovery. Lina Yao, Feiping Nie, Quan Z. Sheng, Tao Gu, Xue Li, and Sen Wang. The 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2016). Heidelberg, Germany, 12-16 September, 2016.

96. Approximate Semantic Matching Over Linked Data Streams. Yongrui Qin, Lina Yao, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 27th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2016). Porto, Portugal, 5-8 September, 2016.

97. ThingSeek: A Crawler and Search Engine for the Internet of Things. Ali Shemshadi, Quan Z. Sheng, and Yongrui Qin. The 39th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2016). System Demo, Pisa, Italy, July 17-21, 2016

98. PLMwsp: A Probabilistic Latent Model for Web Service QoS Prediction. Bobaker M. A. Madi, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Yongrui Qin, and Xianzhi Wang. The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2016). San Francisco, USA, June 27-July 2, 2016.

99. Identification as a Service: Large-Scale Cloud Service Discovery Over the World Wide Web. Abdullah Alfazi, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, Lina Yao, and Talal H. Noor. The 5th IEEE International Congress on Big Data. San Francisco, USA, June 27-July 2, 2016.

100. Device-Free Indoor Localization and Tracking through Human-Object Interactions. Wenjie Ruan, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Tao Gu, Michele Ruta, and Longfei Shangguan. The 17th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2016), Coimbra, Portugal, June 21-24, 2016.

101. SECF: Improving SPAQL Querying Performance with Proactive Fetching and Caching. Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Kerry Taylor, Yongrui Qin, Lina Yao, Ali Shemshadi. The 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2016), Pisa, Italy, April 4-8, 2016.

102. HOI-Loc: Towards Unobstructive Human Localization with Probabilistic Multi-Sensor Fusion. Wenjie Ruan, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Lei Yang, and Tao Gu. The 14th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2016), Work-in-Progress Track, Sydney, Australia, March 14-18, 2016.

103. PreventDark: Automatically Detecting and Preventing Problematic Use of Smartphones in Darkness. Wenjie Ruan, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Khoi Nguyen Tran, and Yu Chieh Yang. The 14th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2016), Demo Track, Sydney, Australia, March 14-18, 2016.

104. Unobtrusive Posture Recognition via Online Learning of Multi-Dimensional RFID Received Signal Strength. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Wenjie Ruan, Xue Li, Sen Wang, and Zhi Yang. The 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2015), Melbourne, Australia, December 14-17, 2015.

105. An Estimation Maximization based Approach for Finding Reliable Sensors in Environmental Sensing Data. Yihong Zhang, Claudia Szabo, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2015), Melbourne, Australia, December 14-17, 2015.

106. Efficient Algorithms for Scheduling XML Data in Wireless Broadcast Environments. Yongrui Qin, Hua Wang, Ji Zhang, Xiaohui Tao, Wei Emma Zhang, Kerry Taylor, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2015), Melbourne, Australia, December 14-17, 2015.

107. Freedom: Online Activity Recognition via Dictionary-based Sparse Representation of RFID Sensing Data. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Xue Li, Sen Wang, Tao Gu, Wenjie Ruan, and Wan Zou. The 15th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2015). Atlantic, NJ, USA, November 14-17, 2015.

108. ECS: A Framework for Diversified and Relevant Searching for the Internet of Things. Ali Shemshadi, Lina Yao, Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, and Yihong Zhang. The 16th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2015). Miami, Florida, November 1-3, 2015.

109. Classifying Perspectives on Twitter: Immediate Observation, Affection, and Speculation. Yihong Zhang, Claudia Szabo, Quan Z. Sheng, and Xiu Susie Fang. The 16th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2015). Miami, Florida, November 1-3, 2015.

110. Sense and Focus: Towards Effective Location Inference and Event Monitoring on Twitter. Yihong Zhang, Claudia Szabo, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 16th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2015). Miami, Florida, November 1-3, 2015.

111. An Integrated Bayesian Approach for Effective Multi-Truth Discovery. Xianzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Xiu Susie Fang, Lina Yao, Xiaofei Xu, and Xue Li. The 24th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015). Melbourne, Australia, October 19-23, 2015.

112. Approximate Truth Discovery via Problem Scale Reduction. Xianzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Xiu Susie Fang, Xue Li, Xiaofei Xu, and Lina Yao. The 24th ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2015). Melbourne, Australia, October 19-23, 2015.

113. Unsupervised Feature Analysis with Class Margin Optimization. Sen Wang, Feiping Nie, Xiaojun Chang, Lina Yao, Xue Li, Quan Z. Sheng. The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD 2015). Porto, Portugal, September 7-11, 2015

114. Context-aware Point-of-Interest Recommendation Using Tensor Factorization with Social Regularization. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Yongrui Qin, Xianzhi Wang, and Ali Shemshadi. The 38th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2015). Santiago, Chile, August 9-13, 2015.

115. Ontology-based Automatic Cloud Service Categorization for Enhancing Cloud Service Discovery. Abdullah Alfazi, Quan Z. Sheng, Yongrui Qin, and Talal H. Noor. The 19th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2015). Adelaide, Australia, September 21-25, 2015.

116. Synthesis of Artifact Lifecycles from Activity-Centric Process Models. Naga Jyothi Kunchala, Jian Yu, Quan Z. Sheng, Yanbo Han, and Sira Yongchareon. The 19th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2015). Adelaide, Australia, September 21-25, 2015.

117. Controlling Web 2.0 Applications in the Workplace. Zakaria Maamar, Vanilson Buregio, Noura Faci, Djamal Benslimane, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 19th IEEE International EDOC Conference (EDOC 2015). Adelaide, Australia, September 21-25, 2015.

118. RF-Care: Device-Free Posture Monitoring of Elderly People Using a Passive RFID Tag Array. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Wenjie Ruan, Tao Gu, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, Xue Li, and Zhi Yang. The 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2015). Coimbra, Portugal, July 22-24, 2015.

119. TagFall: Towards Device-Free, Fine-Grained Fall Detection based on UHF Passive RFID Tags. Wenjie Ruan, Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, Xue Li, and Tao Gu. The 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2015). Coimbra, Portugal, July 22-24, 2015.

120. Service Recommendation for Mashup Composition with Implicit Correlation Regularization. Lina Yao, Xianzhi Wang, Quan Z. Sheng, Wenjie Ruan, and Wei Emma Zhang. The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2015). New York, USA, June 27-July 2, 2015.

121. Managing Configurable Business Process as a Service to Satisfy Client Transactional Requirements. Scott Bourne, Claudia Szabo, Quan Z. Sheng. The 12th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2015). New York, USA, June 27-July 2, 2015.

122. A Reference Architecture for a Cloud-based Tools as a Service Space. Muhammad Aufeef Chauhan, Muhammad Ali Babar, Quan Z. Sheng. The 12th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2015). New York, USA, June 27-July 2, 2015.

123. Batch Matching of Conjunctive Triple Patterns over Linked Data Streams in the Internet of Things. Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, Ali Shemshadi, and Edward Curry. The 27th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM 2015). San Diego, California, USA, June 29-July 1, 2015.

124. Ontology Augmentation via Attribute Extraction from Multiple Types of Sources. Xiu Susie Fang, Xianzhi Wang, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 26th Australasian Database Conference (ADC 2015). Melbourne, Australia, June 4-6, 2015.

125. Identifying and Caching Hot Triples for Efficient RDF Query Processing. Wei Emma Zhang, Quan Z. Sheng, Kerry Taylor, and Yongrui Qin. The 20th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA 2015). Hanoi, Vietnam, April 20-23, 2015.

126. SIEF: Efficiently Answering Distance Queries for Failure Prone Graphs. Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, and Wei Emma Zhang. The 18th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2015). Brussels, Belgium, March 23-27, 2015.

127. Mining Personal Health Index from Annual Geriatric Medical Examinations. Ling Chen, Xue Li, Sen Wang, Hsiao-Yun Hu, Nicole Huang, Quan Z. Sheng, and Mohamed Sharif. The 14th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2014). Shenzhen, China, December 14-17, 2014.

128. Towards Ontology-Enhanced Cloud Services Discovery. Abdullah Alfazi, Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, and Yong Xu. The 10th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA 2014). Guilin, China, December 19-21, 2014.

129. TagTrack: Device-free Localization and Tracking Using Passive RFID Tags. Wenjie Ruan, Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, and Xue Li. The 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2014). London, UK, December 2-5, 2014.

130. ThingsNavi: Finding Most Related Things via Multi-Dimensional Modeling of Human-Thing Interactions. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, and Anne H.H. Ngu. The 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2014). London, UK, December 2-5, 2014.

131. Handling Irreconcilable Mismatches in Web Services Mediation. Xiaoqiang Qiao, Quan Z. Sheng, and Wei Chen. The 12th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2014). Paris, France, November 3-6, 2014.

132. TL-VIEWS: A Tool for Temporal Logic Verification of Transactional Behavior of Web Service Compositions. Scott Bourne, Claudia Szabo, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 12th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2014), System Demo. Paris, France, November 3-6, 2014.

133. Towards Efficient Dissemination of Linked Data in the Internet of Things. Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, Ali Shemshadi, and Edward Curry. The 23rd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014). Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014.

134. Indexing Linked Data in a Wireless Broadcast System with 3D Hilbert Space-Filling Curves. Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, Nickolas J.G. Falkner, Wei Emma Zhang, and Hua Wang. The 23rd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014). Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014.

135. Exploring Tag-Free RFID-based Passive Localization and Tracking via Learning-based Probabilistic Approaches. Lina Yao, Wenjie Ruan, Quan Z. Sheng, Xue Li, and Nickolas J.G. Falkner. The 23rd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014). Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014.

136. Keeping You in the Loop: Enabling Web-based Things Management in the Internet of Things. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu, and Byron Gao. The 23rd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2014), System Demo. Shanghai, China, November 3-7, 2014.

137. Managing Uncertainties in RFID Applications: A Survey. Dong Xie, Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, and Yong Xu. The 11th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2014). Guangzhou, China, November 5-7, 2014.

138. A Decremental Search Approach for Large Scale Dynamic Ridesharing. Ali Shemshadi, Quan Z. Sheng, and Wei Emma Zhang. The 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2014). Thessaloniki, Greece, October 12-14, 2014.

139. Cleaning Environmental Sensing Data Streams based on Individual Sensor Reliability. Yihong Zhang, Claudia Szabo, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2014). Thessaloniki, Greece, October 12-14, 2014.

140. Keyword Search over Web Documents based on Earth Mover's Distance. Jiangang Ma, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, Yong Xu, and Ali Shemshadi. The 15th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2014). Thessaloniki, Greece, October 12-14, 2014.

141. Exploring Recommendations in Internet of Things. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu, Helen Ashman, and Xue Li. The 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2014). Gold Coast, Australia, July 6-11, 2014.

142. ServiceXplorer: A Similarity-based Web Service Search Engine. Anne H.H. Ngu, Jiangang Ma, Quan Z. Sheng, Lina Yao, and Scott Julian. The 37th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference (SIGIR 2014), System Demo. Gold Coast, Australia, July 6-11, 2014.

143. A Model for Discovering Correlations of Ubiquitous Things. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Byron Gao, Anne H.H. Ngu, and Xue Li. The 13th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2013). Dallas, Texas, USA, December 7-10, 2013.

144. CloudArmor: A Platform for Credibility-based Trust Management of Cloud Services. Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu, Abdullah Alfazi, and Jeriel Law. The 22nd ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2013), System Demo. San Francisco, CA, USA, October 27-November 1, 2013.

145. Online Human Gesture Recognition from Motion Data Streams. Xin Zhao, Xue Li, Chaoyi Pang, Xiaofeng Zhu, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 21st ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2013). Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, October 21-25, 2013. [Nomination for the Best Paper Award, PDF]

146. A Framework for Processing Uncertain RFID Data in Supply Chain Management. Dong Xie, Quan Z. Sheng, Jiangang Ma, Yun Cheng, Yongrui Qin, and Rui Zeng. The 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013). Nanjing, China, October 13-15, 2013.

147. Verifying Transactional Requirements of Web Service Compositions with Temporal Logic Templates. Scott Bourne, Claudia Szabo, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 14th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2013). Nanjing, China, October 13-15, 2013.

148. Effectively Delivering XML Information in Periodic Broadcast Environments. Yongrui Qin, Quan Z. Sheng, Muntazir Mehdi, Hua Wang, and Dong Xie. The 24th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2013). Prague, Czech Republic, August 26-30, 2013.

149. Detecting Occasional Reputation Attacks on Cloud Services. Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, and Abdullah Alfazi. The 13th International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE 2013). Aalborg, Denmark, July 8-12, 2013.

150. CSCE: A Crawler Engine for Cloud Services Discovery on the World Wide Web. Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, Abdullah Alfazi, Anne H.H. Ngu, and Jeriel Law. The 20th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2013). Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA, June 27 to July 2, 2013.

151. Recommending Web Services via Collaborative Filtering with Content-based Features. Lina Yao, Quan Z. Sheng, Aviv Segev, and Jian Yu. The 20th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2013). Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA, June 27 to July 2, 2013.

152. Correlation Discovery of Web of Things. Lina Yao and Quan Z. Sheng. The 22nd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013). Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 13-17, 2013.

153. Reputation Attacks Detection for Effective Trust Assessment among Cloud Services. Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, and Abdullah Alfazi. The 12th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom 2013). Melbourne, Australia, July 16-18, 2013.

154. Towards an Efficient Sales Pitch with the Web of Things. Sujith Mathew, Yacine Atif, Quan Z. Sheng, and Zakaria Maamar. The 10th IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering (ICEBE 2013). Coventry, UK, September 11-13, 2013

155. Exploiting Latent Relevance for Relational Learning of Ubiquitous Things. Lina Yao and Quan Z. Sheng. The 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012). Maui, Hawaii, USA. October 29 to November 2, 2012.

156. A Tag-Centric Discriminative Model for Web Objects Classification. Lina Yao and Quan Z. Sheng. The 21st ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2012). Maui, Hawaii, USA. October 29 to November 2, 2012.

157. Modeling Sovereign RFID Data Streams in Collaborative Traceable Networks. Yanbo Wu, Quan Z. Sheng, Rui Zeng, and Jiangang Ma. The 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2012). Paphos, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2012.

158. A Unified Framework for Distributed Managing Uncertain Data in RFID Traceability Networks. Jiangang Ma, Quan Z. Sheng, Damith Ranasinghe, Jen Min Chuah, and Yanbo Wu. The 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2012). Paphos, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2012.

159. Towards a User-Centric Social Approach to Web Services Composition, Execution, and Monitoring. Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Quan Z. Sheng, and Lina Yao. The 13th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2012). Paphos, Cyprus, November 28-30, 2012.

160. WS-Finder: A Framework for Similarity Search of Web Services. Jiangang Ma, Quan Z. Sheng, Kewen Liao, Yanchun Zhang, and Anne H.H. Ngu. The 10th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2012). Shanghai, China, November 12-16, 2012.

161. Ensuring Well-Formed Conversations Between Control and Operational Behaviors of Web Services. Scott Bourne, Claudia Szabo, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 10th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2012). Shanghai, China, November 12-16, 2012.

162. PerCAS: An Approach to Enabling Dynamic and Personalized Adaptation for Context-Aware Services. Jian Yu, Jun Han, Quan Z. Sheng, and Steven O. Gunarso. The 10th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2012). Shanghai, China, November 12-16, 2012.

163. PeerTrack: A Platform for Tracking and Tracing Objects in Large-Scale Traceability Networks. Yanbo Wu, Quan Z. Sheng, Damith Ranasinghe, and Lina Yao. The 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT 2012). Berlin, Germany, March 26-30, 2012.

164. Discovery and Cataloging of Deep Web Sources. Chelsea Hicks, Matthew Scheffer, Anne H.H. Ngu, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 13th IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2012), Las Vegas, USA, 8-10 August 2012.

165. Credibility-based Trust Management for Services in Cloud Environments. Talal H. Noor and Quan Z. Sheng. The 9th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2011). Paphos, Cyprus, December 5-8, 2011.

166. Particle Filtering based Availability Prediction for Web Services. Lina Yao and Quan Z. Sheng. The 9th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2011). Paphos, Cyprus, December 5-8, 2011.

167. Trust as a Service: A Framework for Trust Management in Cloud Environments. Talal H. Noor and Quan Z. Sheng. The 12th International Conference on Web and Information Systems (WISE 2011). Sydney, Australia, October 11-14, 2011.

168. Web of Things: Description, Discovery and Integration. Sujith S. Mathew, Yacine Atif, Quan Z. Sheng, and Zakaria Maamar. The 2011 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2011), Dalian, China, October 19-22, 2011.

169. P2P Object Tracking in the Internet of Things. Yanbo Wu, Quan Z. Sheng, and Damith Ranasinghe. The 40th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2011), Taipei, Taiwan, September 13-16, 2011.

170. Tracing Moving Objects in Internet-based RFID Networks. Yanbo Wu, Quan Z. Sheng, and Damith Ranasinghe. The 7th International Symposium on Web and Mobile Information Systems, WAMIS 2011. Singapore, March 22-25, 2011.

171. Towards Context-adaptable Web Service Policies. Hamdi Yahyaoui, Lijuan Wang, A. Mourad, M. Almullah, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 8th International Conference on Mobile Web Information Systems (MobiWIS 2011), Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, September 19-21, 2011.

172. Model-Driven Development of Adaptive Service-Based Systems with Aspects and Rules. Jian Yu, Quan Z. Sheng, and Kheng Y. Swee. The 11th International Conference on Web and Information Systems (WISE 2010). Hong Kong, China, December 12-14, 2010.  [PDF]

173. Enabling Scalable RFID Traceability Networks. Quan Z. Sheng, Yanbo Wu, and Damith Ranasinghe. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010). Perth, Australia, April 20-23, 2010.

174. From Communities of Web Services to Marts of Composite Web Services. Zakaria Maamar, Leandro K. Wives, Ghzi Al-Khatib, Quan Z. Sheng, Antonio R. Vitt, and Djamal Benslimane. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010). Perth, Australia, April 20-23, 2010.

175. Towards a User-Centric Visual Semantic Service Browser. Jian Yu, Quan Z. Sheng, and Paolo Falcarin. The 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010). Perth, Australia, April 20-23 2010.

176. On the Synchronization of Web Services Interactions. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Khouloud Boukadi, and Xitong Li. The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2009), Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009

177. ContextServ: A Platform for Rapid and Flexible Development of Context-Aware Web Services. Quan Z. Sheng, Sam Pohlenz, Jian Yu, Hoi Sim Wong, Anne H.H. Ngu, and Zakaria Maamar. The 31st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), Vancouver, Canada, May 16-24, 2009. [PDF, PPT]

178. A User-Centric Mobile Service Creation Approach Converging Telco and IT Services. Jian Yu, Paolo Falcarin, Jose M. del Alamo, Juergen Sienet, Quan Z. Sheng, and Jose F. Mejia. The 8th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB 2009), Dalian, China. June 27-28, 2009.

179. XDM: Compatible Service Repository for User-Centric Service Creation and Discovery. Jian Yu, Paolo Falcarin, Sancho Rego, Isabel Ordas, Eduardo Martins, Quan Sun, Rubaon Trapero, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 7th IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2009), Los Angeles, CA, USA. July 6-10, 2009.

180. Compatibility Checking of Heterogeneous Web Service Policies Using VDM++, Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, Zakaria Maamar, Wei Jiang, and Xitong Li. The 4th 2009 IEEE Congress on Services (Services 2009), Los Angeles, CA, USA. July 6-10, 2009.

181. Robust Web Services Provisioning Through On-Demand Replication. Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, Jian Yu, and Anne H.H. Ngu. The 8th International Conference on Information Systems Technology and Its Applications (ISTA 2009), Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2009.

182. Significance-Based Failure and Interference Detection in Data Streams. Nickolas J.G. Falkner and Quan Z. Sheng. The 20th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 2009), Linz, Austria. August 31- September 4, 2009. [PDF]

183. Ontology Construction for Web Services. Aviv Segev and Quan Z. Sheng. Workshop on Ontology Patterns (WOP 2009), held together with the 8th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2009), Washington D.C., USA. October 25-29, 2009.

184. Smart Adelaide Guide: A Context-Aware Web Application. Kewen Liao, Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, and Hoi S. Wong. The 11th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (iiWAS 2009). Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 14-16 2009. [Winner and Champion of the inaugural Web Application Competition at iiWAS 2009.]

185. A New Approach to Model Web Services Behaviors based on Synchronization. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Khouloud Boukadi. The Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Frontiers of Information Systems and Network Applications (FINA 2009), Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009

186. Weaving Business Processes and Rules: A Petri Net Approach. Jian Yu, Quan Z. Sheng, Paolo Falcarin, and Manurizio Morisio. The 8th International Conference on Information Systems Technology and Its Applications (ISTA 2009), Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2009.

187. A P2P Implementation for the High Availability of Web Services. Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, Samir Tata, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 11th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009), Milan, Italy, May 6-10, 2009

188. Sustaining Web Services High Availability Using Communities. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Djamal Benslimane. The 3rd International Conference on Availability, Reliability, and Security (ARES 2008), Barcelona, Spain, Mar 4-7, 2008.

189. WS3 - International Workshop on Context-Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation (CSSSIA 2008). Quan Z. Sheng, Ullas Nambiar, Amit P. Sheth, Biplav Srivastava, Zakaria Maamar, and Said Elnaffar. The 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), Beijing, China, April 21-25, 2008.

190. Reconciling Protocol Mismatches of Web Services by Using Mediators. Xitong Li, Yushun Fan, Stuart Madnick, Quan Z. Sheng. The 18th Annual Workshop on Information Techonologies and Systems (WITS'08), Paris, France, December 13-14, 2008.

191. A Novel Approach for Robust Web Services Provisioning, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu. The 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS'07),  Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 12-16, 2007.

192. Towards a Two-Layered Framework for Managing Web Services Interactions. Zakaria Maamar, Djamal Benslimane, and Quan Z. Sheng. The 6th IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS'07), Melbourne, Australia, July 11-13, 2007.

193. On Checking and Achieving the Compatibility of Web Services Policies. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Djamal Benslimane, and Fenglin Liu. The 8th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'07), Adelaide, Australia, Dec 3-6, 2007.

194. On-demand Invocation of Web Services, Zhitong Zhao, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu. The IASTED International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications and Services (WTAS 2006), Calgary, Canada, July 17-19, 2006.

195. ContextUML: A UML-Based Modeling Language for Model-Driven Development of Context-Aware Web Services,Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah  The 4th International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB'05), IEEE Computer Society. Sydney, Australia, July 11-13 2005. [TALK, PDF]

196. Enabling Personalized Composition and Adaptive Provisioning of Web Services, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Zakaria Maamar, Marlon Dumas, and Anne H.H. Ngu , The 16th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'04), pp 322-337. June 7-11, Riga, Latvia, 2004. [TALK, PDF]  

197. Towards an Approach for Coordinating Personalized Composite Services in an Environment of Mobile Users, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah  , Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems (UMICS 2004) LNCS 3272, held in conjunction with CAiSE'04, Riga, Latvia, June 7-8, 2004.

198. Quality Driven Web Service Composition, Liangzhao Zeng, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Duams, Jayant Kalagnanam, Quan Z. Sheng  , The 12th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2003), Budapest, Hungary, May 20-24, 2003.

199. An Adaptive Document Version Management Scheme, Boualem Benatallah, Mehregan Mahdavi, Phuong Nguyen, , Quan Z. Sheng, Lionel Port, Bill McIver , The 15th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'03), Austria, June 16-20, 2003. [PDF].

200. Selection of Web Services for Composition Using Location of Provider Hosts Criterion, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah , Ubiquitous Mobile Information and Collaboration Systems (UMICS 2003), Held in conjunction with CAiSE'03. Austria, June 16-17, 2003. [PDF].

201. Interleaving Web Services Composition and Execution Using Software Agents and Delegation, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah , AAMAS'03 Workshop on Web Services and Agent-based Engineering, Melbourne, Australia, July 14, 2003.     [TALK]

202. Declarative Composition and Peer-to-Peer Provisioning of Dynamic Web Services, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Quan Z. Sheng, Anne H.H. Ngu . IEEE 18th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE02), pp 297-308, San Jose, California, USA, Feb, 2002.   [PDF]

203. Discovering E-Services Using UDDI in SELF-SERV, Quan Z. Sheng , Boualem Benatallah, Rayan Stephan, Eileen Oi-Yan Mak , International Conference on E-Business (ICEB2002), Beijing China, May 23-26, 2002.    [TALK, PDF]

204. A Unified Framework for Composing E-/M-Services, Zakaria Maamar, Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng,  The First International Workshop on M-services: Concepts, Approaches, Tools, 26 June, Lyon France, 2002.

205. Towards a Composition Framework for E-/M-Services, Zakaria Maamar, Boualem Benatallah, Quan Z. Sheng , Workshop on Ubiquitous Agents on Embedded, Wearable, and Mobile Devices (ACM), 16 July, Bologna, Italy, 2002.    [PDF]

206. SELF-SERV: A Platform for Rapid Composition of Web Services in a Peer-to-Peer Environment, Quan Z. Sheng, Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Eileen Oi-Yan Mak , The 28th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB02), Aug 20-23, Hong Kong, China, 2002.  [TALK, PDF]    

Selected Refereed Book Chapters

1. Designing and Building Context-Aware Services: the ContextServ Project. Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, Wei Emma Zhang, Shuang Wang, Xiaoping Li, and Boualem Benatallah. Next-Generation Digital Services - Essays Dedicated to Mike Papazoglou, Springer, 2020. [PDF]

2. Big Data Analysis and IoT. Yongrui Qin and Quan Z. Sheng. Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies, Springer, 2018.

3. Searching the Big Data: Practices and Experiences in Efficiently Querying Knowledge Bases. Wei Emma Zhang and Quan Z. Sheng. Book chapter in Handbook on Big Data Technologies, Springer, 2016.

4. Pattern Matching Over Linked Data Streams. Yongrui Qin and Quan Z. Sheng. Book chapter in Handbook on Big Data Technologies, Springer, 2016.

5. Realizing an Ecosystem of Social Web Services. Zakaria Maamar, Youakim Badr, Noura Faci, and Quan Z. Sheng. Book chapter in Advanced Web Services, Springer, 2014.

6. Web Services based Trust Management in Cloud Environments. Talal H. Noor and Quan Z. Sheng. Book chapter in Advanced Web Services, Springer, 2014.

7. The Web of Things: Challenges and Enabling Technologies. Sujith S. Matthew, Yacine Atif, Quan Z. Sheng, and Zakaria Maamar. Book chapter in Internet of Things and Inter-cooperative Computational Technologies for Collective Intelligence, Springer, 2012.

8. Web Service-based Trust Management in Cloud Environments. Talal H. Noor and Quan Z. Sheng. Book chapter in Handbook on Web Services, Springer, 2012.

9. Model-Driven Development of Context-Aware Web Services. Jian Yu, Quan Z. Sheng, Kewen Liao, and Hoi S. Wong. Book chapter in Enabling Context-Aware Web Services: Methods, Architectures, and Technologies, CRC Press, 2010.

10. Personalized Service Creation and Provision for the Mobile Web. Quan Z. Sheng, Jian Yu, Jose M. del Alamo, and Paolo Falcarin. Book chapter in Weaving Services, Location, and People on the World Wide Web, Irwin King and Ricardo Baeza-Yates (Eds). Springer, 2009. [PDF]

11. Internet-Enabled Supply Chains. Quan Z. Sheng, John Mo, and Li Jiang. Book chapter in The Handbook of Technology Management, Hossein Bidgoli (Ed). John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 2009. [PDF]

12. Web Service and Policies - Concepts and Solutions. Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, Djamal Benslimane, and Philippe Thiran. In Advances of Computational Intelligence in Industrial Systems, Y. Liu, A. Sun, H.T. Loh, W.F. Lu, and E.P. Lim (Ed.), Springer, 2008.

13. RFID Data Management: Issues, Solutions, and Directions. Quan Z. Sheng, Kerry L. Taylor, Zakaria Maamar, and Paul Brebner. In The Internet of Things: from RFID to Pervasive Networked Systems, L. Yan, et al. (Ed.), Auerbach Publications, Taylor & Francis Group, 2008.

14. Configurable QoS Computation and Policing in Dynamic Web Service Selection. Anne H.H. Ngu, Yintong Liu, Liangzhao Zeng, and Quan Z. Sheng. In Service Oriented Computing, Dimitrios Geograkopoulos and Mike Papazoglou (Ed). MIT Press, 2008.

15. Agent-Based Support for Service Composition, Zakaria Maamar, Quan Z. Sheng, and Boualem Benatallah. Book chapter in Extending Web Services Technologies: the Use of Multi-Agent Approaches, L. Cavedon, Z. Maamar, D. Martin, and B. Benatallah (Ed.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005.

Some Other Edited Books and Volumes

1. Trust Management in the Internet of Vehicles. Adnan Mahmood, Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, and Sira Yongchareon. Chapman & Hall, CRC Press, Dec 2023, ISBN 9781032429502.

2. Guest Editorial: Data-Centric Big Services. Quan Z. Sheng, Xiaofei Xu, Rong Chang, and Liang-Jie Zhang. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Vol 12, No 3, pp 341-342, 2019.

3. Guest Editors' Introduction for Special Issue on Service Management for the Internet of Things. Samir Tata, Quan Z. Sheng, and Eleni Stroulia. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 19, No 1, pp6:1-6:3, 2019.

4. Machine Learning for Computer and Cyber Security: Principle, Algorithms, and Practices. Brij B. Gupta and Quan Z. Sheng, CRC, Feb 2019, ISBN: 1138587303, 9781138587304.

5. Managing Data from Knowledge Bases: Querying and Extraction. Wei Emma Zhang and Quan Z. Sheng, Springer, July 2018.

6. Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Big Data on the Cloud with Engineering Applications. Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Quan Z. Sheng, and Zhiyong Zhang, Elsevier, 2018, ISBN: 9780128133149.

7. Practices and Applications in Ambient and Intelligent Information Systems. Quan Z. Sheng, Wei Emma Zhang, and Elhadi Shakshuki, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Springer, 2017.

8. Intelligent Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Computing: Paradigms and Applications. Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Ajith Abraham, Patrick Siarry, and Michael Sheng (Eds.), Springer Press, 2017.

9. The 14th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2016). Quan Z. Sheng, Eleni Stroulia, Samir Tata, and Sami Bhiri (Eds.), LNCS 9936, Springer. October 10-13 2016, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

10. The Uncertain Web: Concepts, Challenges and Current Solutions. Djamal Benslimane, Quan Z. Sheng, Mahmoud Barhamgi, and Henri Prade, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 16, No 1, 2016.

11. Web of Things. Quan Z. Sheng, Xue Li, Anne H.H. Ngu, Yongrui Qin and Dong Xie. Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, Vol 18, No 4, pp 639-643, 2016.

12. Smart Cities: Enabling Services and Applications. Edward Curry, Schahram Dustdar, Quan Z. Sheng, and Amit Sheth. Journal of Internet Services and Applications (JISA), Springer, 7(1): 6:1-6:3, 2016.

13. Big Data Analytics and the Web, Part I. Quan Z. Sheng, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Qi Yu, and Lina Yao, IEEE Transactions on Big Data, Vol 1, No 4, 2015.

14. Ambient and Context-Aware Services for the Future Web. Quan Z. Sheng, Elhadi M. Shakshuki, and Jian Yu, The Computer Journal (Oxford), Vol 58, No 8, 2015.

15. Guest Editorial: Web Technologies and Applications. Quan Z. Sheng, Jing He, Guoren Wang, and Christian S. Jensen, World Wide Web Journal, Springer, Vol 17, No 4, 2014.

16. Trust Management in Cloud Services. Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, and Athman Bouguettaya, Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-12249-6, 2014.

17. Current Trends in Web Engineering - ICWE 2013 Workshops and PhD Symposium. Quan Z. Sheng and Jesper Kjeldskov (Eds.), Springer, LNCS 8295, 2013.

18. The Australasian Web Conference (AWC 2013). Helen Ashman, Quan Z. Sheng, and Andrew Trotman (Eds.), CRPIT Vol 144. Adelaide, Australia, 29 January-1 February 2013.

19. Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2012 Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. Aditya Ghose, Huibiao Zhu, Qi Yu, Alex Delis, Quan Z. Sheng, Olivier Perrin, Jianmin Wang, and Yan Wang (Eds.), LNCS 7759, Springer, 2013.

20. The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb 2012). Quan Z. Sheng, Guoren Wang, Christian S. Jensen, and Guandong Xu (Eds.), LNCS 7235, Springer. April 11-13 2012, Kunming, China.

21. Service-Oriented Computing - ICSOC 2011 Workshops, Revised Selected Papers. George Pallis, Mohamed Jmaiel, Anis Charfi, Sven Graupner, Yucel Karabulut, Sam Guinea, Florian Rosenberg, Quan Z. Sheng, Cesare Pautasso, Sonia Ben Mokhtar (Eds.), LNCS 7221, Springer, 2012.

22. The 14th Asia-Pacific Web Conference - A Chair's Report. Quan Z. Sheng and Yanchun Zhang. D-Lib Magazine (D-Lib), Vol 18, No 5/6, 2012.

23. Unique Radio Innovation for the 21st Century: Building Scalable and Global RFID Networks. Damith Ranasinghe, Quan Z. Sheng, Sherali Zeadally (Eds.), Springer Press, 2010.

24. Web-Based Information Technologies and Distributed Systems. Alban Gabillon, Quan Z. Sheng, Wathiq Mansoor (Eds.), Atlantis Press. December 2009.

25. Special issue on Context-Aware Web Services for the Future Internet. Quan Z. Sheng and Schahram Dustdar (Eds.). ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Vol 11, No 3, 2012.

26. Web-Based Information Technologies and Distributed Systems. Alban Gabillon, Quan Z. Sheng, Wathiq Mansoor (Eds.), Atlantis Press. December 2009.

27. Web Information Systems Engineering: WISE 2005. Anne H.H. Ngu, Masaru Kitsuregawa, Eric Neuhold, Jen-Yao Chung, Quan Z. Sheng (Eds.), (LNCS 3806), ISBN: 3-540-30017-1, Springer. November 20-22 2005, New York, USA.

28. Web Information Systems Engineering: WISE 2005 Workshops. Mike Dean; Yuanbo Guo, Woochun Jun, Roland Kaschek, Shonali Krishnaswamy, Zhengxiang Pan, Quan Z. Sheng (Eds.), (LNCS 3807), ISBN: 3-540-30017-1, Springer. November 20-22 2005, New York, USA.

29. The First International Workshop on RFID Technology: Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2007). Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, Mark Cameron (Eds.). June 12 2007, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

30. The 8th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT 2007). David S. Munro, Hong Shen, Quan Z. Sheng, et al. (Eds.). IEEE Computer Society Press, ISBN: 0-7695-3049-4. December 3-6, 2007, Adelaide, Australia.

31. The International Workshop on Context-Enabled Source and Service Selection, Integration and Adaptation (CSSSIA 2008) . Quan Z. Sheng, Ullas Nambiar, Amit P. Sheth, Biplav Srivastava, Zakaria Maamar, and Said Elnaffar (Eds.). ACM International Conference Proceeding Series (AICPS) Volume 292, ISBN: 978-1-60558-107-1.ACM Press. April 22, 2008, Beijing, China. [LINK]

32. The Second International Workshop on RFID Technology: Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2008). Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, Sherali Zeadally, Mark Cameron (Eds.). June 12 2008, Barcelona, Spain.

33. The Third International Workshop on RFID Technology: Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2009). Quan Z. Sheng, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Sherali Zeadally, Zakaria Maamar (Eds.). May 6 2009, Milan, Italy.

34. The Fourth International Workshop on RFID Technology: Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT 2010). Quan Z. Sheng, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Sherali Zeadally, Zakaria Maamar (Eds.). June 8-96 2010, Funchal, Madeira, Portugal.

35. Special issue on RFID: Technologies, Applications, and Trends. Quan Z. Sheng, Mark A. Cameron, Sherali Zeadally, and Zakaria Maamar (Eds.). International Journal on Internet Protocol Technology, Vol 2, No 3-4, 2007. [PDF, LINK]

Ph.D. Thesis

• Composite Web Services Provisioning in Dynamic Environments, Quan Z. Sheng, The Univeristy of New South Wales, March 2006.