Day 1: Monday, December 12, 2022

Plenary Session

Auditorium

0900Hrs

Guests to be seated

0915Hrs

National Anthem

0920Hrs

Recitation of Holy Quran

0925Hrs

Overview of the Conference

0935Hrs

Welcome Address

0945Hrs

Keynote Address: Bridging the Academia - Industry Divide by S. Sohail H. Naqvi, KnowlEDGE Streams (Private) Ltd., Pakistan

1030Hrs

Address by Chief Guest

1045Hrs

Closing of Inaugural Ceremony

1050Hrs

Refreshments

FIT 2022-Technical Sessions

Parallel Sessions 1, 2, 3, and 4

Session 1: Software Engineering

Sir Syed Hall

1130 – 1215

Invited Talk: Motivators and Inhibitors of Software Piracy: A User’s Perspective by Irfan Butt, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

1215 – 1235

Successful Change Management in Cloud-Based Offshore Software Development Outsourcing by Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Saima Rafi, Rafiq Ahmad Khan and Muhammad Tanveer Riaz

1235 – 1255

Investigation of Latest CASE Tools for Database Engineering: A Systematic Literature Review by Nazish Yousaf, Madeha Arif, Misbah Mehboob and Wasi Haider

1255 – 1315

Determining The Level of Detail of Software Requirements by Syed Absar Ul Hasan and Zeeshan Ali Rana

1315 – 1415

Lunch & Prayers

Session 2: Pattern Recognition, Image & Natural Language Processing

Jinnah Hall

1130 – 1215

Invited Talk: Recent Developments in AI and Multispectral Imaging for Skin Cancer Detection by Ricardo Vardasca, ISLA Santarém, Portugal

1215 – 1235

Inspecting Mega Solar Plants through Computer Vision and Drone Technologies by Syed Umaid Ahmed, Muhammad Affan, Muhammad Raza and Muhammad Harris Hashmi

1235 – 1255

Tri-model Ensemble with Grid Search Optimization for Bipolar Disorder Diagnosis by Syed Muhammad Zain and Wajid Mumtaz

1255 – 1315

Summarization of Cricket Videos Using Deep Learning Technique by Tabinda Nasir, Muhammad Javed Iqbal and Mehmoon Anwar

1315 – 1415

Lunch & Prayers

Session 3: Tutorial

Iqbal Hall

1130 – 1315

Introduction to Blockchain : Concepts and Applications by Jawad Shamsi, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), Pakistan

1315 – 1415

Lunch & Prayers

Session 4: Invited Talks

Liaqat Hall

1130 – 1205

How 6G Joint Communication & Sensing Use Case will Help for Future Healthcare by Qammer Abbasi, University of Glasgow, UK

1205 – 1240

Bridging The Digital Divide in Healthcare by Syed Ahmad Chan Bukhari, St. John's University, USA

1240 – 1315

Visualizing Healthcare in the Developing World: A Real-World Analysis Using Geospatial Information System by Faisal Ahmad Khan, Balochistan University of IT, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Pakistan

1315 – 1415

Lunch & Prayers

Parallel Sessions 5, 6, 7,8, and 9

Session 5: Remote Health Monitoring and Prediction Systems

Jinnah Hall

1415 – 1500

Invited Talk: Artificial Intelligence based Technologies in Digital Healthcare by Naeem Ramzan, University of West of Scotland, UK

1500 – 1520

An Improved Deep Learning Approach for Heart Attack Detection from Digital Images by Zaheer Ahmed, Aun Irtaza, Awais Mehmood and Muhammad Faheem Saleem

1520 – 1540

Multiclass Classification of Breast Cancer using Mammographic Images With Masses by Nazeef Ul Haq, Muhammad Danish, Madeeha Kanwal and Muhammad Arslan Rauf

1540 – 1600

Hybrid Deep Learning model for ECG-based Arrhythmia Detection by Amina Ashfaq, Nadeem Anjum, Salman Ahmed and Nayyer Masood

1600 – 1620

EHG Signal Analysis for Prediction of Term and Preterm using Variational Mode Decomposition and Artificial Neural Networks by Muhammad Umar Khan, Sumair Aziz, Khushbakht Iqtidar and Raul Fernandez-Rojas

Session 6: Pattern Recognition, Image & Natural Language Processing

Iqbal Hall

1415 – 1500

Invited Talk: Microwave Imaging for Low-Cost and Safe Medical Diagnostic Applications by Muhammad Zubair, Information Technology University, Pakistan

1500 – 1520

A Methodology of Customized Dataset for Cotton Disease Detection Using Deep Learning Algorithms by Maryam Saba Tahir, Ayesha Yaqoob, Haiqa Hamid and Rana M. Amir Latif

1520 – 1540

Detection of COVID-19 in High Resolution Computed Tomography Using Vision Transformer by Aroosa Yaqoob, Abdul Basit, Abdul Rehman, Abdul Hannan and Kaleem Ullah

1540 – 1600

Impact of Demographics on Automated Criminal Tendency Detection from Facial Images by Negarish Mushtaq, Khizer Ali, Momina Moetesum and Imran Siddiqi

1600 – 1620

Locomotion Classification of Bipedal Humanoid Robot using Fast Fourier Transform by Saad Imran, Farrukh Zeeshan and Subhan Fazal

1620 – 1640

A Lecture Centric Automated Distractor Generation for Post-Graduate Software Engineering Courses by Rudeema Chughtai, Farooque Azam, Muhammad Waseem Anwar, Wasi Haider But and Muhammad Umar Farooq

Session 7: Data Science & Advanced Analytics

Sir Syed Hall

1415 – 1500

Invited Talk: Leveraging Data Center Heterogeneity for Improving The Performance of AI Workloads by M. Mustafa Rafique, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

1500 – 1520

Bankruptcy Prediction using Diverse Machine Learning Algorithms by Ahmad Hassan and Nazish Yousaf

1520 – 1540

Rumour Source Detection on Interconnected Social Networks by Amanullah Khan, Mohammad Farooq Shaikh, Fahad Sherwani, Syed Hamza Hassan and Aymen Kalifa Soluman Ahteewash

1540 – 1600

Analyzing Bangkok City Taxi Ride: Reforming Fares for Profit Sustainability using Big Data Driven Model-Revisited by Khan Farhan Rafat

1600 – 1620

An Image Captioning Algorithm based on the Hybrid Deep Learning Technique (CNN+GRU) by Rana Adnan Ahmad, Muhammad Azhar and Hina Sattar

1620 – 1640

Churn Prediction of Customers in a Retail Business using Exploratory Data Analysis by Waseem Abbas, Muhammad Usman and Usman Qamar

Session 8: Network, Cyber & Information Security

Liaqat Hall

1415 – 1500

Invited Talk: Sensor Fault Diagnostics using Machine Learning by Sana Ullah Jan, Edinburgh Napier University Merchiston Campus, UK

1500 – 1520

A Systematic Review on the Block-chain Attacks by Muhammad Azeem, Jabar Mahmood, Tayyaba Aslam and Kiran Shahzadi

1520 – 1540

Let’s Prevent Spectre Attacks in the Docker Containers Too by Humdah Shakir Khan, Farooque Hassan Kumbhar and Jawwad Ahmed Shamsi

1540 – 1600

Network Forensic Analysis of Twitter Application on Android OS by Alia Umrani, Yousra Javed and Muhammad Iftikhar

1600 – 1620

Defeating Modern Day Anti-Viruses for Defense Evaluation by Abdul Basit Ajmal, Shawal Khan and Farhana Jabeen

Session 9: Invited Talks

Nishtar Hall

1415 – 1500

Use of IoTs, AI and Edge Computing for Remote Patient Monitoring by Amir Qayyum, Capital University of Science and Technology (CUST), Pakistan

1500 – 1545

Security Against Microarchitectural Side-Channel Vulnerabilities in Memory Subsystem -the Case of Indirect Eviction Cache! by Khurram Bhatti, Information Technology University, Pakistan

1545 – 1630

Changing Landscape of Operational Technology (OT) Cyber Threats in the Process Industry by Khalil Sultan, Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL), Pakistan

Day 2: Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Parallel Sessions 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14

Session 10: Pattern Recognition, Image & Natural Language Processing

Jinnah Hall

0900 – 0945

Invited Talk: Is Seeing Still Believing? Deepfakes, A Tool for Disinformation: State-of-the-Art Open Challenges, Countermeasures, and a Way Forward by Ali Javed, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Pakistan

0945 – 1005

Contextual Word Embedding based Clustering for Extractive Summarization by Shah Faisal, Atif Khan, Suhail Yousaf and Muhammad Umair

1005 – 1025

Sequence-Driven Neural Network Models for NER Tagging in Roman Urdu by Maaz Ali Nadeem, Khadija Irfan, Khaula Atiq, Mirza Omer Beg and Muhammad Umair Arshad

1025 – 1045

Stroke Sequence Identification in Handwritten Urdu Alphabets Using Convolutional Neural Networks by Awais Qarni, Muhammad Shoaib, Muhammad Abdullah, Saba Khalid, Ayesha Aslam, Noreen Kausar, Ayesha Khan, Mohammad Naveed Tariq, Fizza Jameel and Tayyab Gull Khan

1045 – 1105

Refreshments

Session 11: Pattern Recognition, Image & Natural Language Processing

Iqbal Hall

0900 – 0945

Invited Talk: Deep Ensemble Learning and its Application by Muhammad Atif Tahir, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), Pakistan

0945 – 1005

Brain Tumor Augmentation using the U-NET Architecture by Mohsin Jabbar, Maria Saddiqui and Sultan Daud

1005 – 1025

Deep Neural Networks for Human Activity Recognition by Muhammad Ashar Burney, Ayesha Waheed, Shuaib Khan, Ali Raza Shahid, Mehmood Nawaz, Muhammad Bilal Shaikh and Rizwan Qureshi

1025 – 1045

Automatic Detection of Leukemia through Convolutional Neural Network by Rida Arif, Shahzad Akbar, Ahmad Bilal Farooq, Syed Ale Hassan and Sahar Gull

1045 – 1105

Refreshments

Session 12: Signal Processing and Next Generation Communication Systems

Sir Syed Hall

0900 – 0945

Invited Talk: The 6G Wireless Networks: What to Expect and How to Incept? by Syed Ali Hassan, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan

0945 – 1005

On Evaluation of Dereverberation Algorithms for Expectation-Maximization based Binaural Source Separation in Varying Echoic Conditions by Muhammad Sheryar Fulaly, Sania Gul, Muhammad Salman Khan, Ata Ur Rehman and Syed Waqar Shah

1005 – 1025

A Simulation Study on the Downlink Performance of Non-Uniform Dense Cellular Networks by Muhammad Masood, Muhammad Hanaan and Khurram Shehzad

1025 – 1045

Cyber Attacks and Vulnerabilities Assessment for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Communication Systems by Hassan Jalil Hadi and Yue Cao

1045 – 1105

Refreshments

Session 13: Data Science & Advanced Analytics

Liaqat Hall

0900 – 0945

Invited Talk: Cyber Security for OT Environments by Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK

0945 – 1005

An Improved Social Ties Inference Framework using Location Ranking by Aqeel Ahmed, Xianghong Lin, Ali Arshad, Khalil Ur Rahman and Nauman Ali Khan

1005 – 1025

Covid Severity Prediction: Who Cares About the Data Quality? by Teodora Nae, Johannes Krabbe, Faiza Allah Bukhsh, Jeewanie Jayasinghe Arachchige and Faizan Ahmed

1025 – 1045

Traffic Classification based on Incremental Learning Algorithms for the Software-Defined Networks by Arwa M.Eldhai, Mosab Hamdan, Suleman Khan, Muzaffar Hamzah and MN Marsono

1045 – 1105

Refreshments

Session 14: Water Informatics and Communication Technology

Nishtar Hall

0900 – 0925

Invited Talk: Deep Sea Underwater Acoustic Release: Design Consideration and its Mariana Trench Application by Songzuo LIU, College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, China

0925 – 0950

Invited Talk: SST Variability in the Tropical Indian Ocean during ENSO and IOD Events by Sartaj Khan, Centres of Excellence in Science and Applied Technologies (CESAT), Pakistan

0950 – 1010

Experimental Study and Results on Real-Time Communication via Gigabit Ethernet in Underwater Sensor Array Systems by Kashif Waqas, Umar Hamid and Shahid Ali

1010 – 1030

Measurement-based Analysis of Characteristics of Fast Moving Underwater Acoustic Communication Channel by Yang Wang, Honglu Yan, Chenyu Pan and Songzuo Liu

1030 – 1050

TARIQ: Towards Area Adjustment and Rounding of Intermediate Nodes for Quadrilateration in Blockchain Enabled Underwater Beacon Node Localization by Sheikh Umar, Tariq Ali and Sana Yasin

1050 – 1105

Refreshments

Parallel Sessions 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19

Session 15: Invited Talks

Jinnah Hall

1105 – 1145

Supporting Low-Latency Mobile Edge Applications via Control Plane Interventions by Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan

1145 – 1230

Artificial Intelligence for Mobile Healthcare using Wearable Gadgets by Syed Fawad Hussain, University of Birmingham, Dubai

1230 – 1305

Digital Transformation a Journey to Never Normal and eGovernance of Open Distance Learning in Managed Learning Eco-System (MLE) by Tanveer Ahmed, Technology Consultant at Government of Pakistan

1305 – 1400

Lunch & Prayers

Session 16: Adaptive Systems, Networks, IoT & Cloud Computing

Sir Syed Hall

1105 – 1140

Invited Talk: Challenges and Opportunities in Cyber-Physical Systems Security: Attacks and Defenses by Mujeeb Ahmed, The University of Strathclyde, UK

1140 – 1155

Development of Embedded Device for Stroke Prediction via Artificial Intelligence-based Algorithms by Muhammad Usama, Mudassar Ahmad, Rehan Ashraf and Muhammad Asif Habib

1155 – 1210

A Machine Learning based Approach for Improving TCP Congestion Detection Mechanism in IoTs by Madeha Arif, Usman Qamar and Amreen Riaz

1210 – 1225

A Pothole Warning System using Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) by Pedro Nepomuceno, Kifayat Ullah, Kelly Braghetto and Daniel Macedo Batista

1225 – 1240

Verification and Validation of a VANET-based Formal Model for Online Taxi Service using VDM-SL Toolbox by Sidra Iqbal, Nazir Ahmad Zafar, Tariq Ali and Tahira Batool

1240 – 1255

Efficient Distance based Response Time Pruning Cache Policy for NDN by Ahmad Arsalan, Muhammad Burhan and Rana Asif Rehman

1255 – 1310

Cyber Automated Network Resilience Defensive Response Against Malware Images by Kainat Rizwan, Mudassar Ahmad and Muhammad Asif Habib

1310 – 1400

Lunch & Prayers

Session 17: Smart Grid, Energy & Electronics

Iqbal Hall

1105 – 1145

Invited Talk: Chaining the Blockchain by Shoab A. Khan, Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE), Pakistan

1145 – 1205

IEWH: Modeling and Optimization of Integrated Energy Water Nexus for Hydrogen Generation by Muhammad Babar Rasheed and Maria D. R-Moreno

1205 – 1225

Towards Automatic Retinal Blood Vessels Segmentation in Retinal Images by Noshaba Khurshid, Muhammad Ibrahim Syed, Khurram Khan and Zahid Mahmood

1225 – 1245

Unsupervised Vessel Segmentation Method in Retinal Images by Zanib Qaiser, Waqar Ahmad, Mir Yasir Umair and Zahid Mahmood

1245 – 1305

A Reliable Graph-Based Routing Algorithm in Residential Multi-Microgrid Systems by Khuram Shahzad and Sohail Iqbal

1305 – 1400

Lunch & Prayers

Session 18: Pattern Recognition, Image & Natural Language Processing

Liaqat Hall

1105 – 1140

Invited Talk: Distributed Machine Learning Models for Self-adapting Network of Digital Twins by Ashiq Anjum, University of Leicester, UK

1140 – 1157

Emotional States Detection Model from Handwriting by using Machine Learning by Khadija Nadeem, Mudassar Ahmad and Muhammad Asif Habib

1157 – 1214

CoviFake: A Framework to Detect and Analyze Fake COVID19 Tweets by Tooba Asif, Bilal Tahir, Yasir Saleem and Amir Mehmood

1214 – 1231

Development of a Machine Learning Model for Prediction of Colour Trends in Fashion Industry by Khadija Nadeem, Mudassar Ahmad, Zafar Javed and Muhammad Asif Habib

1231 – 1248

Application of NLP on Student's Discord Messages for Automatic Belbin Role Identification by Konstantine Dichev, Faiza Bukhsh and Yeray Barrios Fleitas

1248 – 1305

Multi-Encoder Convolution Block Attention Model for Binary Segmentation by

Keita Mamadou, Mohib Ullah, Øyvind Nordbø and Faouzi Alaya Cheikh

1305 – 1400

Lunch & Prayers

Session 19: Software Engineering

Nishtar Hall

1105 – 1145

Invited Talk: Cyber Insecurity: Challenges and Way Forward by Haider Abbas, Military College of Signals, National University of Sciences & Technology (MCS- NUST), Pakistan

1145 – 1205

Impact of Serious Game Design Factors and Problem based Pedagogy on Learning Outcome by Fatima Gillani, Irum Inayat and Carlos Carvalho

1205 – 1225

A Project Manager’s Personality is a Treasure Trove of Information by Neelum Qasimi and Ali Afzal Malik

1225 – 1245

Impact of Code Smells on Software Fault Prediction at Class Level and Method Level by Um E Safia and Tamim Ahmed Khan

1245 – 1305

Template-based Automatic code generation for Web application and APIs Using Class Diagram by Irfan Ullah and Irum Inayat

1305 – 1400

Lunch & Prayers

Conference Panel Discussion

Auditorium

1400 – 1600

Topic: Make in Pakistan: Need Assessment for a Strong Policy to Strengthen Indigenization

Closing Ceremony

Auditorium

1600 – 1615

Conference Report

1615 – 1625

Presentation of Shields

1625 – 1635

Address by the Chief Guest

1640

Refreshments