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2025

  1. Ammar Sohail, Bojie Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Anwaar Ulhaq, Muhammad Ali Babar, Asama Qureshi, "Beyond Data, Towards Sustainability: A Sydney Case Study on Urban Digital Twins", PFG - Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science, 2025.

    [CORE rank: NA, IF=4.1]


  2. Xian-Long Lee, Adel N. Toosi, Peter Pudney, Ian McLeod, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Hao Wang, "Impact Analysis of Optimal EV Bi-directional Charging with Spatial-temporal Constraints", IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM), 2025.

    [CORE rank: NA, h5-index = 68]


2024

  1. Ahmed Fahmin, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Adel N. Toosi, Hua Lu, Huan Li, David Taniar, Hesham A. Rakha and Bojie Shen, "Eco-Friendly Route Planning Algorithms: Taxonomies, Literature Review and Future Directions", ACM Computing Surveys, 2024.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Mohammed Eunus Ali, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Tanzima Hashem, Anwaar Ulhaq, Muhammad Ali Babar, "Enabling Spatial Digital Twins: Technologies, Challenges, and Future Research Directions", PFG - Journal of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Science, 2024.

    [CORE rank: NA, IF=4.1]


  3. Ahmed Fahmin, Bojie Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Adel N. Toosi, Mohammed Eunus Ali, "Efficient Alternative Route Planning in Road Networks", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2024.

    [CORE rank: N/A, IF=9.55, CiteScore=13.7]


  4. Tiantian Liu, Huan Li, Hua Lu, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Harry Kai-Ho Chan, "Contact Tracing over Uncertain Indoor Positioning Data (Extended Abstract)", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2024.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  5. Xinyu Li, Arif Hidayat, David Taniar, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Continuous Monitoring of Reverse Approximate Nearest Neighbour Queries on Road Network", Information Sciences, 2024.

    [CORE rank: A:, IF = 8.1, CiteScore = 13.4]


  6. Mohammad Sadegh Aslanpour, Adel N. Toosi, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, "faasHouse: Sustainable Serverless Edge Computing through Energy-aware Resource Scheduling", IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (IEEE TSC), 2024.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  7. Mohammad Sadegh Aslanpour, Adel N. Toosi, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Mohsen Amini Salehi, "Load Balancing for Heterogeneous Serverless Edge Computing: A Performance-Driven and Empirical Approach", Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 2024.

    [CORE rank: A, IF = 7.5, CiteScore = 21.1]


  8. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Hao Wang, Wei Wang, Adel N. Toosi, Egemen Tanin, Jianzhong Qi, Hanan Samet, "Beyond the Commute: Unlocking the Potential of Electric Vehicles as Future Energy Storage Solutions (Vision Paper)", ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 2024.
    Best Vision Paper Award

    [CORE rank: A]


2023

  1. Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Bilal Afzal, Ghalib Shah, "Energy Management of Smart Homes Over Fog Based IoT Architecture", Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2023.

    [CORE rank: N/A, IF=4.5, CiteScore=8]


  2. Jinchun Du, Bojie Shen, Shizhe Zhao, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Adel N. Toosi, "Efficient Object Search in Game Maps", International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2023.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  3. Tiantian Liu, Huan Li, Hua Lu, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Harry Kai-Ho Chan, "Contact Tracing over Uncertain Indoor Positioning Data", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2023.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  4. Punam Biswas, Tanzima Hashem, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Safest Nearby Neighbor Queries in Road Networks", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2023.

    [CORE rank: N/A, IF=9.55, CiteScore=13.7]


  5. Bojie Shen, Zhe Chen, Jiaoyang Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Daniel Harabor, Peter Stuckey, "Beyond Pairwise Reasoning in Multi-Agent Path Finding", International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2023.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  6. Syed Md. Mukit Rashid, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "DeepAltTrip: Top-k Alternative Itineraries for Trip Recommendation", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2023.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  7. TianZhang He, Adel N. Toosi, Negin Akbari, Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "An Intent-based Framework for Vehicular Edge Computing", IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2023.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  8. Jinchun Du, Bojie Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Ultrafast Euclidean Shortest Path Computation using Hub Labeling", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2023.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  9. Ammar Sohail, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Adel N. Toosi, Hesham A. Rakha, "Data-Driven Approaches for Road Safety: A Comprehensive Systematic Literature Review", Safety Science, 2023.

    [CORE rank: N/A, IF: 6.392, CiteScore: 10.1]


  10. Tiantian Liu, Zijin Feng, Huan Li, Hua Lu, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Hong Cheng, Jianliang Xu, "Towards Indoor Temporal-variation aware Shortest Path Query", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2023.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  11. Lingxiao Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Hua Lu, Huan Li, "Efficiently Computing Alternative Paths in Game Maps", World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 2023.
    Invited Paper as One of the Best Papers in ADC 2022

    [CORE rank: A]


  12. Faisal Alam, Adel N. Toosi, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, C. Cicconetti, P. Serrano, A. Iosup, Zahir Tari, A. Sarvi, "Serverless Vehicular Edge Computing for the Internet of Vehicles", IEEE Internet Computing, 2023.

    [CORE rank: B, IF: 2.68, CiteScore: 6.2]


  13. Yeasir Rayhan, Tanzima Hashem, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Hua Lu, Mohammed Eunus Ali, "An Efficient Approach for Indoor Facility Location Selection", International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2023.

    [CORE rank: A]


  14. Abrar Fahim, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Unsupervised Space Partitioning for Nearest Neighbor Search", International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2023.

    [CORE rank: A]


  15. Syed Afaq Ali Shah, Weifeng Deng, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Abdul Bais, "CommuNety: deep learning-based face recognition system for the prediction of cohesive communities", Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-19, 2023.

    [CORE rank: B]


2022

  1. Mohammad Sadegh Aslanpour, Adel N. Toosi, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Raj Gaire, "Energy-Aware Resource Scheduling for Serverless Edge Computing", IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), 2022.

    [CORE rank: A]


  2. Huan Li, Hua Lu, Christian S. Jensen, Bo Tang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Spatial Data Quality in the Internet of Things: Management, Exploitation, and Prospects", ACM Computing Surveys, 2022.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  3. Bojie Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Daniel D. Harabor, Peter J. Stuckey , "Fast Optimal and Bounded Suboptimal Euclidean Pathfinding", The Journal of Artificial Intelligence (AIJ), 2022.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  4. Bojie Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Daniel D. Harabor, Peter J. Stuckey, "Improving Time-dependent Contraction Hierarchies", International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2022.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  5. Lingxiao Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Hua Lu, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Adel N. Toosi, "Comparing Alternative Route Planning Techniques: A Comparative User Study on Melbourne, Dhaka and Copenhagen Road Networks (Extended Abstract)", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2022.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  6. Lingxiao Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Hua Lu, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Adel N. Toosi, "Comparing Alternative Route Planning Techniques: A Comparative User Study on Melbourne, Dhaka and Copenhagen Road Networks", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2022.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  7. Huan Li, Bo Tang, Hua Lu, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Christian S. Jensen, "Spatial Data Quality in the IoT Era: Management and Exploitation", The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2022.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  8. Arif Hidayat, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Ying Zhang, "Continuous Monitoring of Moving Skyline and Top-k Queries", International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), 2022.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  9. Md. Tareq Mahmood, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Syed Md. Mukit Rashid, Timos Sellis, "PathOracle: A Deep Learning Based Trip Planner for Daily Commuters", European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD), 2022.

    [CORE rank: A]


  10. Ahmed Fahmin, Shenyi Zhang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Adel N. Toosi, Hesham A. Rakha, "Improving Eco-Friendly Routing Considering Detailed Mobility Profiles, Driving Behavior and Vehicle Type", Australasian Database Conference (ADC), 2022.

    [CORE rank: Australasian B]


  11. Lingxiao Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Hua Lu, Huan Li, "Diverse Shortest Paths in Game Maps: A Comparative User Study and Experiments", Australasian Database Conference (ADC), 2022.
    Best Student Paper Runner-up Award

    [CORE rank: Australasian B]


  12. Hasan Iqbal, Muhammad Umair, Syeda Amna Rizvi, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "A Correlation Study of COVID-19 in Europe Considering Different Vaccines, Age Groups and Variants Including Delta and Omicron", BioMed, 2022.
    (Invited paper)

2021

  1. Bojie Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Daniel Harabor, Peter Stuckey, "Contracting and Compressing Shortest Path Database", International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2021.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Lingxiao Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Alternative Pathfinding in Game Maps and Indoor Venues", International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2021.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  3. Zhou Shao, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, Hua Lu, Shiyu Yang, "Efficiently Processing Spatial and Keyword Queries in Indoor Venues", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2021.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  4. Tenindra Abeywickrama, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Sabine Storandt, "Hierarchical Graph Traversal for Aggregate k Nearest Neighbors Search in Road Networks (Extended Abstract)", International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2021.
    (Invited Paper in the Sister Conference Best Paper Track)

    [CORE rank: A*]


  5. Tiantian Liu, Huan Li, Hua Lu, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Lidan Shuo, "Towards Crowd-aware Indoor Path Planning", The Proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), 2021.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  6. Yue Li, Shiyu Yang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Zhou Shao, Xuemin Lin, "IndoorViz: A Demonstration System for Indoor Spatial Data Management", The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 2021.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  7. Syeda Amna Rizvi, Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Clustering of Countries for COVID-19 Cases based on Disease Prevalence, Health Systems and Environmental Indicators", Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, 2021.

    [CORE rank: N/A, IF: 3.76, CiteScore: 7.2]


  8. Muhammad Umair, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Omer Cheema, Huan Li, Hua Lu, "Impact of COVID-19 on IoT Adoption in Healthcare, Smart Homes, Smart Buildings, Smart Cities, Transportation and Industrial IoT", Sensors, 2021.

    [CORE rank: N/A, IF: 3.847, CiteScore: 6.4]


  9. Nasser Allheeib, Md. Saiful Islam, David Taniar, Zhou Shao, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Density-based reverse nearest neighbourhood search in spatial databases", Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (JAIHC), 12(4): 4335-4346, 2021.

    [CORE rank: N/A, IF:4.59, CiteScore: 5.4]


  10. Ryan Hechenberger, Daniel D. Harabor, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Peter J. Stuckey, Pierre Le Bodic, "Multi-Target Search in Euclidean Space with Ray Shooting", The Symposium of Combinatorial Search (SOCS), 2021.

    [CORE rank: B]


  11. Tiantian Liu, Huan Li, Hua Lu, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Lidan Shou, "Indoor Spatial Queries: Modeling, Indexing, and Processing", International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 2021.

    [CORE rank: A]


  12. Mohammad S. Aslanpour, Adel N. Toosi, Raj Gaire, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "WattEdge: A Holistic Approach for Empirical Energy Measurements in Edge Computing", International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC), 2021.
    (Candidate for The Best Paper Award)

    [CORE rank: A]


  13. Xinyu Li, Arif Hidayat, David Taniar, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Reverse Approximate Nearest Neighbour Queries on Road Network", World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 2021.

    [CORE rank: A]


2020

  1. Ryan Hechenberger, Peter J Stuckey, Daniel Harabor, Pierre Le Bodic, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Online Computation of Euclidean Shortest Paths in Two Dimensions", International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 132-142, 2020.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Tenindra Abeywickrama, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Sabine Storandt, "Hierarchical Graph Traversal for Aggregate k Nearest Neighbors Search in Road Networks", International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 2-10, 2020.
    (The Best Paper Award)

    [CORE rank: A*]


  3. Huan Li, Hua Lu, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Lidan Shou, Gang Chen, "Indoor Mobility Semantics Annotation Using Coupled Conditional Markov Networks", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1441-1452, 2020.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  4. Tenindra Abeywickrama, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Arijit Khan, "K-SPIN: Efficiently Processing Spatial Keyword Queries on Road Networks (Extended Abstract)", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2036-2037, 2020.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  5. Tiantian Liu, Zijin Feng, Huan Li, Hua Lu, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Hong Cheng, Jianliang Xu, "Shortest Path Queries for Indoor Venues with Temporal Variations", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2014-2017, 2020.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  6. Tenindra Abeywickrama, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Arijit Khan, "K-SPIN: Efficiently Processing Spatial Keyword Queries on Road Networks", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 983-997, 2020.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  7. Bojie Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Daniel Harabor, Peter J. Stuckey, "Euclidean Pathfinding with Compressed Path Databases", International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 4229-4235, 2020.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  8. Lingxiao Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Hua Lu, David Taniar, "Continuously Monitoring Alternative Shortest Paths on Road Networks", The Proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), 13(11): 2243-2255, 2020.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  9. Ammar Sohail, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, "Geo-Social Temporal Top-k Queries in Location-Based Social Networks", Australasian Database Conference (ADC), 147-160, 2020.

    [CORE rank: Australasian B]


  10. Mohammad Sadegh Aslanpour, Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Raj Gaire, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Auto-scaling of Web Applications in Clouds: A Tail Latency Evaluation", International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), 186-195, 2020.


2019

  1. Ishat E. Rabban, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Tanzima Hashem, "The Maximum Visibility Facility Selection Query in Spatial Databases", ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 149-158, 2019.

    [CORE rank: A]


  2. Anasthasia Agnes Haryanto, Md. Saiful Islam, David Taniar, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "IG-Tree: an efficient spatial keyword index for planning best path queries on road networks", World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 22(4) 1359-1399, 2019.

    [CORE rank: A]


  3. Chaluka Salgado, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Tanzima Hashem, "Continuous Detour Queries in Indoor Venues", International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 150-159, 2019.

    [CORE rank: B]


  4. Yeasir Rayhan, Tanzima Hashem, Roksana Jahan, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Efficient Scheduling of Generalized Group Trips in Road Networks", ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems (TSAS), 5(2) 10:1-10:24, 2019.


2018

  1. Arif Hidayat, Shiyu Yang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, "Reverse Approximate Nearest Neighbor Queries", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 30(2) 339-352, 2018.
    [Appendix]

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Indoor location-based services: challenges and opportunities", ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 10(2) 10-17, 2018.

    [CORE rank: A]


  3. Chaluka Salgado, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, "An efficient approximation algorithm for multi-criteria indoor route planning queries", ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 448-451, 2018.

    [CORE rank: A]


  4. Chaluka Salgado, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, "Continuous monitoring of range spatial keyword query over moving objects", World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 21(3) 687-712, 2018.

    [CORE rank: A]


  5. Ammar Sohail, Arif Hidayat, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, "Location-Aware Group Preference Queries in Social-Networks", Australasian Database Conference (ADC), 53-67, 2018.

    [CORE rank: Australasian B]


  6. Lingxiao Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, Maria Indrawan-Santiago, "Visualising Top-k Alternative Routes", Australasian Database Conference (ADC), 354-358, 2018.

    [CORE rank: Australasian B]


  7. Ammar Sohail, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, "Social-Aware Spatial Top-k and Skyline Queries", The Computer Journal, 61(11) 1620-1638, 2018.

    [CORE rank: B]


  8. Zhou Shao, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, "Trip Planning Queries in Indoor Venues", The Computer Journal, 61(3) 409-426, 2018.

    [CORE rank: B]


  9. Shenlu Wang, Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Maximize Spatial Influence of Facility Bundle Considering Reverse k Nearest Neighbors", International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 684-700, 2018.

    [CORE rank: B]


  10. Tenindra Abeywickrama, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, "k-Nearest Neighbors on Road Networks: Euclidean Heuristic Revisited", The Symposium of Combinatorial Search (SOCS), 184-185, 2018.

    [CORE rank: B]


  11. Chaluka Salgado, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, "An Efficient Approximation Algorithm for Multi-criteria Indoor Route Planning Queries", CoRR, abs/1809.07614, 2018.


2017

  1. Shiyu Yang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, "Reverse k nearest neighbors queries and spatial reverse top-k queries", International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), 26(2) 151-176, 2017.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, "ISA 2016 workshop report: the Eighth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness (ISA): San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA - October 31, 2016", ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 9(1) 46, 2017.

    [CORE rank: A]


  3. Radi Muhammad Reza, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "The Optimal Route and Stops for a Group of Users in a Road Network", ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 4:1-4:10, 2017.

    [CORE rank: A]


  4. Subarna Chowdhury Soma, Tanzima Hashem, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Samiha Samrose, "Trip planning queries with location privacy in spatial databases", World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 20(2) 205-236, 2017.

    [CORE rank: A]


  5. Shanqing Jiang, Chengyuan Zhang, Ying Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xiaoyang Wang, "DSKQ: A System for Efficient Processing of Diversified Spatial-Keyword Query", Australasian Database Conference (ADC), 280-284, 2017.

    [CORE rank: Australasian B]


  6. Tenindra Abeywickrama, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Efficient Landmark-Based Candidate Generation for kNN Queries on Road Networks", International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 425-440, 2017.

    [CORE rank: B]


  7. Radi Muhammad Reza, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "The Optimal Route and Stops for a Group of Users in a Road Network", CoRR, abs/1706.07829, 2017.


  8. Arif Hidayat, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "QUIET ZONE: Reducing The Communication Cost of Continuous Spatial Queries", UrbanGIS@SIGSPATIAL, 1:1-1:8, 2017.


2016

  1. Abdulmohsen Almalawi, Adil Fahad, Zahir Tari, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ibrahim Khalil, "kNNVWC: An efficient k-nearest neighbours approach based on Various-Widths Clustering", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1572-1573, 2016.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Hua Lu, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Indoor data management", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1414-1417, 2016.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  3. Shenlu Wang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Dongxi Liu, "Efficiently computing reverse k furthest neighbors", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1110-1121, 2016.
    [source code]

    [CORE rank: A*]


  4. Abdul Mohsen Almalawi, Adil Fahad, Zahir Tari, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ibrahim Khalil, "kNNVWC: An Efficient k-Nearest Neighbors Approach Based on Various-Widths Clustering", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 28(1) 68-81, 2016.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  5. Tenindra Abeywickrama, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, "k-Nearest Neighbors on Road Networks: A Journey in Experimentation and In-Memory Implementation", The Proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), 9(6) 492-503, 2016.
    [source code, data sets, scripts etc.][Extended technical report]

    [CORE rank: A*]


  6. Zhou Shao, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, Hua Lu, "VIP-Tree: An Effective Index for Indoor Spatial Queries", The Proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), 10(4) 325-336, 2016.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  7. Wei Song, Jianbin Qin, Wei Wang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Pre-computed Region Guardian Sets Based Reverse kNN Queries", International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 98-112, 2016.
    (Best Student Paper Award)

    [CORE rank: B]


  8. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Shiyu Yang, "Proceedings of the Eighth ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness, ISA@SIGSPATIAL 2016, Burlingame, California, USA, October 31, 2016", ACM, 2016.


  9. Tenindra Abeywickrama, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, "k-Nearest Neighbors on Road Networks: A Journey in Experimentation and In-Memory Implementation", CoRR, abs/1601.01549, 2016.
    [source code, data sets, scripts etc.][Extended technical report]

  10. Wei Song, Jianbin Qin, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Wei Wang, "Pre-computed Region Guardian Sets Based Reverse kNN Queries", Data Science and Engineering (DSE), 1(4) 242-251, 2016.
    (Best Student Paper Award)

  11. S�ren Kejser Jensen, Jens Thomas Vejlby Nielsen, Hua Lu, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Outdoor-indoor space: unified modeling and shortest path search", ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Indoor Spatial Awareness (ISA@SIGSPATIAL), 35-42, 2016.


  12. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Wenjie Zhang, Lijun Chang, "Databases Theory and Applications - 27th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2016, Sydney, NSW, Australia, September 28-29, 2016, Proceedings", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2016.


2015

  1. Shiyu Yang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wei Wang, "Reverse k Nearest Neighbors Query Processing: Experiments and Analysis", The Proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), 8(5) 605-616, 2015.
    [presentation]
    [source code, psuedocodes, data sets, scripts etc.]

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Xiaoyang Wang, Ying Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Optimal Spatial Dominance: An Effective Search of Nearest Neighbor Candidates", The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (SIGMOD), 923-938, 2015.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: A*]


  3. Wenjie Zhang, Aiping Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, "Probabilistic n-of-N skyline computation over uncertain data streams", World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 18(5) 1331-1350, 2015.
    (Best Paper Award)

    [CORE rank: A]


  4. Shenlu Wang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, "Efficiently Monitoring Reverse k-Nearest Neighbors in Spatial Networks", The Computer Journal, 58(1) 40-56, 2015.

    [CORE rank: B]


  5. Shiyu Yang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, "Impact Set: Computing Influence Using Query Logs", The Computer Journal, 58(11) 2928-2943, 2015.

    [CORE rank: B]


  6. Arif Hidayat, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, "Relaxed Reverse Nearest Neighbors Queries", International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 61-79, 2015.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: B]


  7. Ishat E. Rabban, Kaysar Abdullah, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Visibility Color Map for a Fixed or Moving Target in Spatial Databases", International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 197-215, 2015.

    [CORE rank: B]


  8. Shenlu Wang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin, "Selecting Representative Objects Considering Coverage and Diversity", GeoRich@SIGMOD (GeoRich@SIGMOD'), 31-38, 2015.


  9. An Liu, Yoshiharu Ishikawa, Tieyun Qian, Sarana Nutanong, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Database Systems for Advanced Applications - DASFAA 2015 International Workshops, SeCoP, BDMS, and Posters, Hanoi, Vietnam, April 20-23, 2015, Revised Selected Papers", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2015.


  10. Matthias Renz, Cyrus Shahabi, Xiaofang Zhou, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 20th International Conference, DASFAA 2015, Hanoi, Vietnam, April 20-23, 2015, Proceedings, Part I", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2015.


  11. Matthias Renz, Cyrus Shahabi, Xiaofang Zhou, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Database Systems for Advanced Applications - 20th International Conference, DASFAA 2015, Hanoi, Vietnam, April 20-23, 2015, Proceedings, Part II", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2015.


  12. Mohamed A. Sharaf, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Jianzhong Qi, "Databases Theory and Applications - 26th Australasian Database Conference, ADC 2015, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, June 4-7, 2015. Proceedings", Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 2015.


2014

  1. Shiyu Yang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, "SLICE: Reviving regions-based pruning for reverse k nearest neighbors queries", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 760-771, 2014.
    [presentation]
    [source code, data sets, scripts etc.]

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Haixun Wang, Jianmin Wang, Wenjie Zhang, "A Unified Framework for Answering k Closest Pairs Queries and Variants", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2610 - 2624, 2014.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  3. Zhitao Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Haixun Wang, "A Generic Framework for Top-k Pairs and Top-k Objects Queries over Sliding Windows", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 26(6) 1349-1366, 2014.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  4. Chengyuan Zhang, Ying Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xiaoyang Wang, "Diversified Spatial Keyword Search On Road Networks", International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 367-378, 2014.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: A]


  5. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Zhitao Shen, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, "A Unified Framework for Efficiently Processing Ranking Related Queries", International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 427-438, 2014.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: A]


  6. Wenjie Zhang, Liming Zhan, Ying Zhang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, "Efficient top-k similarity join processing over multi-valued objects", World Wide Web Journal (WWWJ), 17(3) 285-309, 2014.

    [CORE rank: A]


  7. Ying Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Chengqi Zhang, "Matching dominance: capture the semantics of dominance for multi-dimensional uncertain objects", International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management Systems (SSDBM), 18:1-18:12, 2014.

    [CORE rank: B]


2013

  1. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Ying Zhang, "A safe zone based approach for monitoring moving skyline queries", International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), 275-286, 2013.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: A]


  2. Yang Wang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Qing Zhang, "Multi-Manifold Ranking: Using Multiple Features for Better Image Retrieval", Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD), 449-460, 2013.

    [CORE rank: A]


  3. Xiaoling Zhou, Yifei Lu, Yifang Sun, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Improved Spatial Keyword Search Based on IDF Approximation", Asia-Pacific Web Conference (APWeb), 461-472, 2013.

    [CORE rank: B]


  4. Wenjie Zhang, Aiping Li, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ying Zhang, Lijun Chang, "Probabilistic n-of-N Skyline Computation over Uncertain Data Streams", International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE), 439-457, 2013.
    (Best Paper Award)

    [CORE rank: B]


2012

  1. Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Qing Zhang, "Stochastic skylines", ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), 37(2) 14:1-14:34, 2012.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Zhitao Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Haixun Wang, "Efficiently Monitoring Top-k Pairs over Sliding Windows", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 798-809, 2012.
    [presentation]
    (Invited to the special issue of IEEE-TKDE on the "Best Papers of ICDE 2012")

    [CORE rank: A*]


  3. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, "Efficiently processing snapshot and continuous reverse k nearest neighbors queries", International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), 21(5) 703-728, 2012.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  4. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Xuefei Li, "Continuous reverse k nearest neighbors queries in Euclidean space and in spatial networks", International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ), 21(1) 69-95, 2012.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  5. Zhitao Shen, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, "Loyalty-based selection: retrieving objects that persistently satisfy criteria", ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2189-2193, 2012.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: A]


  6. Wenjie Zhang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ying Zhang, Xuemin Lin, "Skyline: Stacking Optimal Solutions in Exact and Uncertain Worlds", International Journal of Software and Informatics (IJSI), 6(4) 475-493, 2012.


2011

  1. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Haixun Wang, Jianmin Wang, Wenjie Zhang, "A unified approach for computing top-k pairs in multidimensional space", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1031-1042, 2011.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Ying Zhang, "Influence zone: Efficiently processing reverse k nearest neighbors queries", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 577-588, 2011.
    [presentation]
    (Winner of 2010 CiSRA Best Research Paper Award)
    (Winner of Poster of the day award at ICDE2011) (poster)

    [CORE rank: A*]


  3. Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, "Stochastic skyline operator", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 721-732, 2011.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: A*]


  4. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ljiljana Brankovic, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Wei Wang, "Continuous Monitoring of Distance-Based Range Queries", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 23(8) 1182-1199, 2011.
    (Special issue of IEEE-TKDE on the "Best Papers of ICDE 2010")

    [CORE rank: A*]


  5. Mahady Hasan, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, "A Unified Algorithm for Continuous Monitoring of Spatial Queries", International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 104-118, 2011.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: B]


  6. Qianlu Lin, Chuan Xiao, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Wei Wang, "Finding the Sites with Best Accessibilities to Amenities", International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 58-72, 2011.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: B]


2010

  1. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ljiljana Brankovic, Xuemin Lin, Wenjie Zhang, Wei Wang, "Multi-guarded safe zone: An effective technique to monitor moving circular range queries", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 189-200, 2010.
    [presentation]
    (Invited to the special issue of IEEE-TKDE on the "Best Papers of ICDE 2010")

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Wenjie Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Ying Zhang, Wei Wang, "Quantile-based KNN over multi-valued objects", IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 16-27, 2010.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: A*]


  3. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Wei Wang, Wenjie Zhang, Jian Pei, "Probabilistic Reverse Nearest Neighbor Queries on Uncertain Data", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 22(4) 550-564, 2010.

    [CORE rank: A*]


  4. Wenjie Zhang, Ying Zhang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, "Counting distinct objects over sliding windows", Australasian Database Conference (ADC), 75-84, 2010.
    [presentation]
    (Best Paper Award)

    [CORE rank: Australasian B]


  5. Mahady Hasan, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Wenyu Qu, Xuemin Lin, "Efficient Algorithms to Monitor Continuous Constrained k Nearest Neighbor Queries", International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 233-249, 2010.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: B]


2009

  1. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, Wei Wang, Wenjie Zhang, "Lazy Updates: An Efficient Technique to Continuously Monitoring Reverse kNN", The Proceedings of the Very Large Data Bases (PVLDB), 2(1) 1138-1149, 2009.
    [presentation]
    (Winner of 2009 CiSRA Best Research Paper Award)

    [CORE rank: A*]


  2. Mahady Hasan, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang, "Efficient Construction of Safe Regions for Moving kNN Queries over Dynamic Datasets", International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), 373-379, 2009.

    [CORE rank: B]


2007

  1. Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Yidong Yuan, Xuemin Lin, "CircularTrip: An Effective Algorithm for Continuous k NN Queries", International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), 863-869, 2007.
    [presentation]

    [CORE rank: B]




  • Others
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    1. PhD Thesis: Efficient Processing of Proximity Based Spatial Queries
      Winner of The Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Research Excellence in Engineering 2012
      Nominee for ACM Doctoral Dissertation Competition 2013
      Nominee for ACM SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award 2013
    2. Master's Thesis: CircularTrip and ArcTrip: Effective Grid Access Methods for Continuous Spatial Queries