Efficient Management of Things for the Future World Wide Web

Research output

Research output per year 2020 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

• 19 Article
• 5 Conference proceeding contribution
• 2 Chapter
• 1 Review article

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2025

  Accurate POI recommendation for random groups with improved graph neural networks and a multi-negotiation model

  Song, X., Liu, Z., Meng, L., Chu, D., Yu, J. & Sheng, Q. Z., 4 Mar 2025, In: Scientific Reports. 15, 1, p. 1-22 22 p., 7531.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2024

  Can we quantify trust? Towards a trust-based resilient SIoT network

  Sagar, S., Mahmood, A., Sheng, Q. Z., Zaib, M. & Sufyan, F., Feb 2024, In: Computing. 106, 2, p. 557-577 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Internet of Things 100%
  • Quantify 56%
  • Internet of things 46%
  • Trust Model 26%
  • Social Networks 16%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

• POI recommendation for occasional groups based on hybrid graph neural networks

  Meng, L., Liu, Z., Chu, D., Sheng, Q. Z., Yu, J. & Song, X., 1 Mar 2024, In: Expert Systems with Applications. 237, Part B, p. 1-15 15 p., 121583.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Neural networks 100%
  • Ablation 18%
  • Transfer learning 17%
  • Experiments 5%
  14 Citations (Scopus)

• POI recommendation for random groups based on cooperative graph neural networks

  Liu, Z., Meng, L., Sheng, Q. Z., Chu, D., Yu, J. & Song, X., May 2024, In: Information Processing and Management. 61, 3, p. 1-22 22 p., 103676.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Neural Networks 100%
  • neural network 99%
  • Graph 79%
  • Neural networks 50%
  • Point groups 38%
  17 Citations (Scopus)

  30 Downloads (Pure)

• QoSGNN: boosting QoS prediction performance with Graph Neural Networks

  Liu, M., Xu, H., Sheng, Q. Z. & Wang, Z., 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 17, 2, p. 645-658 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Neural Networks 100%
  • Boosting 86%
  • Graph 79%
  • Quality of Service 71%
  • Prediction 68%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Similar modality completion-based multimodal sentiment analysis under uncertain missing modalities

  Sun, Y., Liu, Z., Sheng, Q. Z., Chu, D., Yu, J. & Sun, H., Oct 2024, In: Information Fusion. 110, p. 1-16 16 p., 102454.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sentiment analysis 100%
  • Electric fuses 15%
  • Screening 13%
  • Labels 12%
  • Fusion reactions 12%
  9 Citations (Scopus)
• 2023

  Accurate and reliable service recommendation based on bilateral perception in multi-access edge computing

  Liu, Z., Sheng, Q. Z., Zhang, Z., Xu, X., Chu, D., Yu, J. & Wang, S., 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 16, 2, p. 886-899 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Edge computing 100%
  • Bilateral 75%
  • Quality of service 63%
  • Quality of Service 26%
  • Context-aware 14%
  7 Citations (Scopus)

  103 Downloads (Pure)

• Edge computing and sensor-cloud: overview, solutions, and directions

  Wang, T., Liang, Y., Shen, X., Zheng, X., Mahmood, A. & Sheng, Q. Z., Dec 2023, In: ACM Computing Surveys. 55, 13s, p. 1-37 37 p., 281.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Edge computing 100%
  • Sensor 94%
  • Computing 50%
  • Sensors 41%
  • Cloud Computing 19%
  70 Citations (Scopus)

• Toward a distributed trust management system for misbehavior detection in the internet of vehicles

  Mahmood, A., Sheng, Q. Z., Zhang, W. E., Wang, Y. & Sagar, S., Jul 2023, In: ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems. 7, 3, p. 1-25 25 p., 16.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Trust Management 100%
  • Reputation 39%
  • Internet 34%
  • Attack 25%
  • Public Key Infrastructure 24%
  15 Citations (Scopus)

• Towards dynamic reconfiguration of composite services via failure estimation of general and domain quality of services

  Liu, Z., Zheng, H., Chu, D., Sheng, Q. Z., Yu, J. & Xu, X., Jun 2023, In: Future Generation Computer Systems. 143, p. 76-92 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Quality of service 100%
  • Composite materials 74%
  • Statistical methods 5%
  • Decomposition 4%
  • Experiments 2%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Trust–SIoT: towards trustworthy object classification in the Social Internet of Things

  Sagar, S., Mahmood, A., Wang, K., Sheng, Q. Z., Pabani, J. K. & Zhang, W. E., Jun 2023, In: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 20, 2, p. 1210-1223 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Internet of things 100%
  • Chemical analysis 15%
  • Neural networks 14%
  • Experiments 8%
  27 Citations (Scopus)

  2 Downloads (Pure)
• 2022

  Context-aware and adaptive QoS prediction for mobile edge computing services

  Liu, Z., Sheng, Q. Z., Xu, X., Chu, D. & Zhang, W. E., 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. 15, 1, p. 400-413 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Context-aware 100%
  • Edge computing 88%
  • Quality of Service 62%
  • Prediction 59%
  • Quality of service 56%
  39 Citations (Scopus)

  77 Downloads (Pure)

• Non-invasive techniques for monitoring different aspects of sleep: a comprehensive review

  Hussain, Z., Sheng, Q. Z., Zhang, W. E., Ortiz, J. & Pouriyeh, S., Apr 2022, In: ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare. 3, 2, p. 1-26 26 p., 24.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Polysomnography 100%
  • Sleep 94%
  • Monitoring 50%
  • Sleep Stages 13%
  • Vital Signs 12%
  32 Citations (Scopus)

• Performance analysis and optimization on scheduling stochastic cloud service requests: a survey

  Wang, S., Li, X., Sheng, Q. Z. & Beheshti, A., Sept 2022, In: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 19, 3, p. 3587-3602 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Scheduling 100%
  • Cloud computing 63%
  • Profitability 32%
  • Energy utilization 25%
  • Costs 13%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

  18 Downloads (Pure)

• Swift and sure: hardness-aware contrastive learning for low-dimensional knowledge graph embeddings

  Wang, K., Liu, Y. & Sheng, Q. Z., 2022, WWW 2022 - Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, p. 838-849 12 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

  • Hardness 100%
  • Sampling 29%
  • Chemical activation 18%
  • Costs 8%
  18 Citations (Scopus)
• 2021

  A user-oriented taxi ridesharing system with large-scale urban GPS sensor data

  Zhang, W. E., Shemshadi, A., Sheng, Q. Z., Qin, Y., Xu, X. & Yang, J., Jun 2021, In: IEEE Transactions on Big Data. 7, 2, p. 327-340 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Sensor 100%
  • Global positioning system 73%
  • Large scale systems 72%
  • Ubiquitous computing 46%
  • Sensors 43%

• CompactNet: a light-weight deep learning framework for smart intrusive load monitoring

  Phan, M. H., Nguyen, Q., Phung, S. L., Zhang, W. E., Vo, T. D. & Sheng, Q. Z., 15 Nov 2021, In: IEEE Sensors Journal. 21, 22, p. 25181-25189 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Loads (forces) 100%
  • learning 90%
  • Deep learning 74%
  • Monitoring 46%
  • Internet of things 46%
  6 Citations (Scopus)

• Designing and building context-aware services: the ContextServ project

  Sheng, Q. Z., Yu, J., Zhang, W. E., Wang, S., Li, X. & Benatallah, B., 2021, Next-gen digital services: a retrospective and roadmap for service computing of the future. Aiello, M., Bouguettaya, A., Tamburri, D. A. & van den Heuvel, W-J. (eds.). Cham, Switzerland: Springer, Springer Nature, p. 138-152 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 12521 LNCS).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  • Context-aware 100%
  • Intelligent buildings 32%
  • Modeling languages 29%
  • Internet of things 22%
  • Model-driven Development 17%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Hyperbolic geometry is not necessary: lightweight Euclidean-based models for low-dimensional knowledge graph embeddings

  Wang, K., Liu, Y., Lin, D. & Sheng, Q. Z., 2021, Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Findings of ACL: EMNLP 2021. Moens, M-F., Huang, X., Specia, L. & Yih, S. W. (eds.). Stroudsburg, PA: Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), p. 464-474 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Geometry 100%
  • Graph 83%
  • mathematics 54%
  • Performance Art 19%
  • Normalization 17%
  19 Citations (Scopus)

  346 Downloads (Pure)

• MulDE: multi-teacher knowledge distillation for low-dimensional knowledge graph embeddings

  Wang, K., Liu, Y., Ma, Q. & Sheng, Q. Z., 2021, The Web Conference 2021: Proceedings of the World Wide Web Conference, WWW 2021. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, p. 1716-1726 11 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

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  • Distillation 100%
  • Students 11%
  • Costs 6%
  43 Citations (Scopus)

  180 Downloads (Pure)

• Multi-queue request scheduling for profit maximization in IaaS clouds

  Wang, S., Li, X., Sheng, Q. Z., Ruiz, R., Zhang, J. & Beheshti, A., Nov 2021, In: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 32, 11, p. 2838-2851 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Profit 100%
  • Scheduling 88%
  • Queue 85%
  • Profitability 77%
  • Server 61%
  12 Citations (Scopus)

• Neighborhood intervention consistency: measuring confidence for knowledge graph link prediction

  Wang, K., Liu, Y. & Sheng, Q. Z., 2021, Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2021. Zhou, Z-H. (ed.). Freiburg, Germany: International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, p. 2090-2096 7 p. (IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Momentum 100%
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• When trust meets the Internet of Vehicles: opportunities, challenges, and future prospects

  Mahmood, A., Sheng, Q. Z., Siddiqui, S. A., Sagar, S., Zhang, W. E., Suzuki, H. & Ni, W., 2021, Proceedings - 2021 IEEE 7th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, CIC 2021. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 60-67 8 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

  • Internet 100%
  • World Wide Web 97%
  • Safety 80%
  • Broadcast 69%
  • Internet of Things 67%
  19 Citations (Scopus)
• 2020

  A review and categorization of techniques on device-free human activity recognition

  Hussain, Z., Sheng, Q. Z. & Zhang, W. E., 1 Oct 2020, In: Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 167, p. 1-22 22 p., 102738.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

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  • Entertainment 100%
  • Taxonomies 96%
  • Health 67%
  131 Citations (Scopus)

  84 Downloads (Pure)

• From appearance to essence: comparing truth discovery methods without using ground truth

  Fang, X. S., Sheng, Q. Z., Wang, X., Zhang, W. E., Ngu, A. H. H. & Yang, J., Sept 2020, In: ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. 11, 6, p. 1-24 24 p., 74.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Truth 100%
  • Availability 34%
  • Performance 17%
  • Evaluation 14%
  • Rendering 11%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

• Realizing an Internet of Secure Things: a survey on issues and enabling technologies

  Hamad, S. A., Sheng, Q. Z., Zhang, W. E. & Nepal, S., 25 Feb 2020, In: IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. 22, 2, p. 1372-1391 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

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  • Internet of things 100%
  • Internet 81%
  • Machine-to-machine communication 12%
  • Access control 8%
  • Momentum 8%
  82 Citations (Scopus)

  30 Downloads (Pure)

• The 10 research topics in the Internet of Things

  Zhang, W. E., Sheng, Q. Z., Mahmood, A., Tran, D. H., Zaib, M., Hamad, S. A., Aljubairy, A., Alhazmi, A. A. F., Sagar, S. & Ma, C., 2020, Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, CIC 2020. Piscataway, NJ: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), p. 34-43 10 p. (Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, CIC 2020).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution › peer-review

  • Internet of things 100%
  • Machine-to-machine communication 54%
  • Momentum 36%
  • Internet 27%
  38 Citations (Scopus)