Punjab University College of Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence and Multidisciplinary Research Laboratory
Since the dawn of life on the earth and birth of human civilization the human intellect is in a continuous pursuit of investigating the universe outside in within itself. Several means and mechanisms are devised and employed to understand mysteries and patterns, and the causes behind them. Disciplines like religion, art, magic, science, technology etc. have addressed and contributed through different prospective in human understanding, but still, we the human, and the world around us is not obvious. Recent developments in the science, art and technology have brought us to a nexus where tools, techniques and findings of various disciplines could be combined to better understand mysteries within and around us. Artificial Intelligence and Multidisciplinary (AIM) research laboratory is established in May 2012 to design and utilize cross-disciplinary research tools and techniques for human understanding of such hidden mysteries and craft new artifacts based on research findings for the wellbeing of humanity. During FALL 2012 fifteen undergraduate final year projects and two MPhil theses were supervised in various filed which have resulted into publication of several national and international research papers and have won prizes in research and development competitions. In FALL 2013 AIM-RL has conducted nine undergraduate final year projects which were of development, research and development, and research categories and two MPhil theses completed. During In FALL 2014 five undergraduate final year projects and three MPhil theses were completed which resulted into publication of several national and international research papers and have won prizes in research and development competitions. In FALL 2015 Lab has supervised fourteen undergraduate projects and seven MPhil theses and is supervising three PhD candidates. Projects supervised by Lab have won six out of seven project awards including overall winner, best mobile app, best web application, best research project, most innovative idea and viewer’s choice awards in National Software Competition and Exhibition (SoftExpo’16) held at Lahore, Pakistan.
- Dr. Syed Waqar ul Qounain (Assistant Professor, PUCIT)
- Mr. Muhammad Kamran Malik (Assistant Professor, PUCIT)
- Mr. Hafiz Anzar Ahmad (Lecturer, PUCIT)
- Mr. Mian Muhammad Mubashir (Lecturer, PUCIT)
- Mr. Bilal Shahzad (Project Manager, Program Architect at IBEX Global)
PhD Candidate/Research Associates
- Mr. Asif Sohail (PhD Scholar)
- Mr. Mian Muhammad Mubashir (PhD Scholar)
- Mrs. Sadaf Inam (PhD Scholar)
- Mr. Bilal Shahzad (PhD Scholar)
- Ms. Baseerat Fatima (PhD Candidate)
Mr. Raheel Imtiaz, Mr. Muhammad Bilal Javed, Ms. Nida Qureshi, Ms. Ainee Ejaz Mirza, Ms. Muffrah Naveed, Ms. Maria Javaid, Ms. Afnan Iftakhar, Ms. Zara Nasar
Artificial Intelligence
Data Mining and Machine Learning
Modeling and Simulation
Human Computer Interaction and Serious Games
AIMRL has a dedicated research facility beside PUCIT final year project office which is open for twelve hours a day from 8:00am – 8:00pm. Lab is well equipped with dedicated servers (Windows, Linux), Xbox Machine, Microsoft Kinect, GTX 570 GPU Card, CAN Bus, Nikon 3100D DLSR Camera with AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G VR lens, Oculus Rift - Virtual Reality Headset for 3D Gaming (order placed) etc. Dedicated servers are accessible from inside and outside of PUCIT around the clock. These servers have state of the art machinery and services installed (like ssh, hosting, ftp, cloud, svn, git, ticketing system, regular backups etc.) which are required for project development and research. Being the part of AIMRL you would be provided with a sitting space in the lab, access to lab resources, servers access credentials, dedicated project supervision hours, regular AIMRL group meetings where you can ask your questions in a larger audience and help others in their problems etc.
Funding Projects
2016
A Proposal worth PKRS 10,000,000 is submitted for approval in HEC National Research Program for Universities.
2014–2015 (PKRS 463,000)
Social Experimentation with a Social Media Agent – PKRS 150,000 – University of the Punjab Research and Development Fund
Technology for Litigation System Support – PKRS 125,000 – University of the Punjab Research and Development Fund
Virtual Reality Powered Driving Tutor – PKRS 90,000 – National ICT Research and Development Fund
Learning Optimal Driver Personality Profile – PKRS 35,000 – National ICT Research and Development Fund
Technology for Litigation Interface – PKRS 28,000 – National ICT Research and Development Fund
Multiplayer Warcraft Strategy Game – PKRS 35,000 – National ICT Research and Development Fund
2013–2014 (PKRS 348,250)
Human Decision Making in Uncertain Environment – PKRS 150,000 – University of the Punjab Research and Development Fund
Scenario Development Environment for Traffic Simulation– PKRS 125,000 – University of the Punjab Research and Development Fund
Acceptance of Autonomous Social Media Agent – PKRS 40,000 – National ICT Research and Development Fund
3D Search Engine – PKRS 33,250 – National ICT Research and Development Fund
Books
2013
Arts, M., Avital, M., Bennamar, K., Besselink, T., Boog, W., Collard, P., Colton, S., Corneille, S., Germans, D., Gielink, S., Hanson, A., Hanson, D., Hekkert, P., Hoekendijk, C., Hoorn, J. F., Jaffry, S. W., Jensenius, H., Krabbendam, D., Kresin, F., Kuipers, A., Kuipers, T., Lee, M., Lindenberg, V., Lowe, J., Straffon, L. Miller, A. I., Molella, A., Olthof, T., Ott, C., Otte, M., Poelman, W., Pontier, M., Postma, A., Roosendaal, L., Rump, V., Runco, M., Smeulders, A., Taylor, R., van den Herik, J., van der Kooij, K., van der Sloot, J., van der Veen, O., van Dijk, G., van Gorsel, P., van Rosmalen, B., van Uden, J., Werner, J., (2013). Organic Creativity and Physics Within, John Benjamins Publishing.
Graduate Theses
2015
Anzar Ahmed, (2015). An Investigation on Cast Based Agent Oriented Programming (CBAOP) Language Design and Implementation. Thesis MPhil Computer Science, PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Baseerat Fatima, (2015). Design and Analysis of Social Agent. Thesis MPhil Computer Science, PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Huma Shoaib, (2015). Sentiment Analysis of Visual Perception of Images. Thesis MPhil Computer Science, PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
2014
Imran Latif, (2014). A Trust Evaluation Framework for Wikipedia. Thesis MPhil Computer Science, PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Bilal Shahzad, (2014). A Framework for Social Modeling and Simulation. Thesis MPhil Computer Science, PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
2013
Muhammad Haris, (2013). Design of a Conceptual Framework for Location Based Social Networking. Thesis MPhil Geographical Information Systems and Remote Sensing, PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Mian Muhammad Mubasher, (2013). A Multi-agent Model for Realistic Urban Traffic Flow Simulation. Thesis MPhil Computer Science, PUCIT, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Journals Papers
2016
Aslam, L., Sarwar, S., Yousaf, M. M., Jaffry, S. W., Cycle Discrepancy of d-Colorable Graphs. Pakistan Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 18. University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore. 2016, pp. 50–55.
2015
Mubasher, M. M., Jaffry, S.W., Incorporation of the Driver’s Personality Profile in an Agent Model. In: PROMET – Traffic&Transportation, (PTT) , to appear, 2015
2014
Hoogendoorn, M., Jaffry, S.W., Maanen, P.P. van, and Treur, J., Design and Validation of a Relative Trust Model. Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), vol. 57, 2014, pp. 81–94.
2013
Hoogendoorn, M., Jaffry, S.W., Maanen, P.P. van, and Treur, J., Modelling Biased Human Trust Dynamics. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal (WIAS), vol. 11, no. 1, IOS Press, 2013, pp. 1–21.
Jaffry, S.W., and Treur, J., Agent-Based and Population-Based Modelling of Trust Dynamics, Transactions on Computational Collective Intelligence (TCCI), vol. 9, Springer Verlag, 2013, pp 124–151.
2012
Bosse, T., Jaffry, S.W., Siddiqui, G.F., Treur, J., Comparative Analysis of Agent-Based and Population-Based Modelling in Epidemics and Economics. In: Multiagent and Grid Systems, An International Journal (MAGS), vol. 8, no. 3, IOS Press, 2012, pp. 223–255.
Hoogendoorn, M., Jaffry, S.W., and Treur, J., Cognitive and Neural Modeling of Dynamics of Trust in Competitive Trustees. In: Cognitive Systems Research Journal (CSR), vol. 14, Elsevier B. V., 2012, pp. 60–83.
Conference Papers
2016
Basserat Fatima, Waqar Ul Qounain, Mian Muhammad Mubasher, Anas Sherwani, Human Acceptance of Autonomous Social Media Agent. In: Proceedings of The 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud-2016), to be held at Vienna, Austria, during 22 – 24 August 2016.
2015
Mubasher, M. M., Jaffry, S. W., Systematic Literature Review of Vehicular Traffic Flow Simulators. In: Proceedings of 1st International Conference on Open Source Software Computing (OSSCOM 2015), Jordan, September, 10-13, 2015, to appear.
Shoaib, H., Jaffry, S. W., A Survey of Augmented Reality. In: Proceedings of XIII International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality (ICVAR 2015), Singapore, January, 8-9, 2015, to appear.
2013
Haris, M., Jaffry, S. W., An Object Based Conceptual Framework for Location Based Social Networking. In: Proceedings of International Workshop on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN'13) associated with the 21st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, November 5–8, 2013, Orlando, Florida, USA.
Saeed, A., R., Jaffry, S. W., Information Mining from Islamic Scriptures. In: Proceedings of The 4th Workshop on South and Southeast Asian Natural Language Processing (WSSANLP) associated with the International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Nagoya, Japan, October 14 – 18, 2013. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, 2013, to appear.
Latif, I., Jaffry, S. W., A Survey on Trust Evaluation Mechanisms for Wikipedia. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Social Natural Language Processing (SocialNLP) in conjunction with 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP), Nagoya, Japan, October 14 – 18, 2013. Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, 2013, to appear.
Mansoor, F., Rohail, M., Jaffry S. W., Empirical Validation for Human Decision Making. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence (HAI) in International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT'13), Atlanta, GA, USA, November 17 – 20, 2013. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2013, to appear.
The following course work is offered by AIM RL for Graduate and Undergraduate levels:
CS-501 Computational Modeling (Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016)
CS-502 Research Methods in Information and Computational Sciences (Fall 2012)
CS-569 Topics in Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
CS-572 Data Mining and Information Retrieval (Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Fall 2015)
CS-580 Mathematics for Computer Science (Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
CS-702 Managing Information (Fall 2013, Fall 2014)
CS-701 Advance Computational Modeling (Fall 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016)
CS-769 Advance Topics in Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2014, Spring 2015)
CS-772 Advance Data Mining and Information Retrieval (Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Fall 2015)
CS-701 Advance Mathematics for Computer Science (Fall 2013, Spring 2015)
CS-360 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013, Fall 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
CMP-140 Programming Fundamentals (Fall 2013)
CS-443 Mobile Computing (Spring 2013, Spring 2014)
CS-441 Enterprise application Development (Spring 2015, Spring 2016)
CMP-101 Introduction to Computing (Fall 2015)
