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Shafay Shamail

Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Bath, 1990
Software Engineering and Simulation of Large Systems
Email: sshamail [at] lums dot edu dot pk
Extension: 8187

Bio-Sketch


Dr Shafay Shamail completed his BSc Electrical Engineering from UET Lahore in 1985, MSc Electronics from University of Wales in 1987, and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Bath U.K in 1990. Before joining LUMS Dr Shamail worked in both the Software industry as well as the academia. During his stay at Soft Net Systems, he gained experience in e-commerce technologies, especially those from Microsoft. Dr. Shamail has taught at UET Lahore as well as at Pak-AIMS, mostly at the undergraduate level and has a vast experience of curriculum design and implementation. He is a member of IEEE.


Research Interests


His PhD work comprised of simulation of a large Diesel Engine on a distributed memory system. Currently, his research interests include Software Engineering, E-Government, and IT Architecture. His first PhD student, co-advised with Dr. Mian M. Awais, worked in the area of conceptual modeling. Currently one of his PhD students, also co-advised by Dr. Mian M. Awais, is looking at application of Case-Based Reasoning in the area of Autonomous Systems. Another of his PhD students is doing research in the area of Software Quality Prediction.


Professional Activites


Head of Computer Science Department, LUMS, 2005-present.
Convener, 3rd International Conference on E-Government (ICEG 2005).
Member of Technical Review Committee for International Multi-topic Conference (INMIC) 2004.
Member, Executive Committee, IEEE Lahore Section.

Students


Malik Jahan Khan (PhD Candidate), Achieving Self Management Capabilities in Autonomic Systems Using Case Based Reasoning.
Zeeshan Ali Rana (PhD Student).


Recent Publications of Shafay Shamail

  • Survey of Frameworks, Architectures and Techniques in Autonomic Computing
    Khalid, A., Abdul Haye, M., Khan, M. J., and Shamail, S., In fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2009) Valencia, Spain, April 20-25, 2009
  • Decision Making in Autonomic Managers Using Fuzzy Inference System
    Khan, M.J., Shamail, S., and Awais, M.M., In fifth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS 2009) Valencia, Spain, April 20-25, 2009
  • Blending Six Sigma and CMMI - an approach to accelerate process improvement in SMEs
    Habib, M., Ahmed, S., Rehmat, A., Khan, M.J., Shamail, S. In 12th IEEE International Multitopic Conference 2008 (INMIC 2008), Karachi, Pakistan, Decmeber 23-24 , 2008
  • Reference model for devolution in e-governance
    Farooq, M.K., Shamail, S., and Awais, M.M., In International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2008) Cairo, Egypt,  December 1-3, 2008
  • Software quality prediction techniques: A comparative analysis
    Shafi, S., Hassan, S.M., Arshaq, A., Khan, M.J., and Shamail, S. , In 4th International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET 2008) October 18-19, 2008, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
  • Devolution in a Virtual Enterprise
    Farooq, M. K., Shamail, S., and Awais, M. M., In  9th IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises (PRO-VE'08), Poznan, Poland, September 8-10, 2008.
  • On Vowels Segmentation and Identification using Formant Transitions in Continuous Recitation of Quranic Arabic
    Iqbal, H.R., Awais, M.M., Masud, S., and Shamail, S., In 21st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2008), Wroclaw, Poland, June 18-20, 2008.
  • Self-Configuration in Autonomic Systems using Clustered CBR Approach
    Khan, M.J., Awais, M.M., and Shamail, S., In 5th International Conference on Autonomic Computing, (ICAC 2008), Chicago, IL, USA, June 2-6, 2008.
  • Towards a Generic Model for Software Quality Prediction

    Rana, Z.A., Shamail, S., and Awais, M.M., In 6th International workshop on Software Quality during 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '08) Leipzig, Germany, 10-18 May 2008.

  • Enabling Self-Configuration in Automatic Systems using Case-Based Reasoning with Improved Efficiency

    Khan,M.J., Awais, M.M., and Shamail, S., In Fourth International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS-2008), Gosier, Guadeloupe, Caribbean, March 16-21, 2008.

  • Achieving Self-Configuration Capabilities in Autonomic Systems using Case-Based Reasoning with Improve Similarity Measure

    Khan, J.M., Shamail, S., and Awais, M.M., In ICIC 2007, QingDao, China, August 21-24, 2007.

  • Arabic Phoneme Identification using Conventional and Concurrent Neural Networks in Non-Native Speakers

    Awais, M.M., Masud, S., Akhtar, J.,and Shamail, S., In ICIC 2007, QingDao, China, August 21-24, 2007.

  • Dimensionally reduced Krylov subpace model reduction for large scale systems

    Awais, M.M., Shamail, S., and Ahmed, N., In Applied Mathematics and Computation, Voume 191, Issue 1, pages 21-30, August 1, 2007.

  • Applying Fuzzy Logic to Measure Completeness of a Conceptual Model
    Hussain, T.,  Awais, M.M., and Shamail, S., In Applied Mathematics and Computation, 185(2), pp. 1078-1086, Publisher:Elsevier Science, February 2007.
  • Comparative Study of various Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Predict Software Quality

    Khan, M.J., Shamail, S., Awais, M.M., and Hussain, T., In INMIC 2006, Islamabad, Pakistan, December 2006.

  • Automatic Case Generation for Pattern Classification

    Shah, Z.A., Awais, M.M., and Shamail, S., In 11th UKCBR 2006 with AI-2006, Cambridge, UK, December 2006.

  • Continuous Arabic Speech Segmentation using FFT Spectrogram

    Awais, M.M., Ahmad, W., Shamail, S., and Masud, S., In Innovations in Information Technology IIT'06, Dubai, UAE, December 2006.

  • Devolution of E-Governance among Multilevel Government Structure
    Awais, M.M., Shamail, S., and Farooq, M.K., In Innovations in Information Technology IIT'06, Dubai, UAE, December 2006.
  • Software Automated Testing Guidelines

    Khan, M.J., Qadeer, A., and Shamail, S., In Proceedings of the 3rd CIIT Workshop on Research in Computing, Wah Cantt, Pakistan, April 2006.

  • A Fuzzy based Approach to Measure Completeness of an E- R Model
    Hussain, T., Awais, M.M., and Shamail, S., In International Workshop on Quality of Information Systems, held in conjunction with 24th International conference on conceptual modelling, as LNCS, Austria, October 24-28, 2005.
  • Measuring Quality of a Conceptual Model through Fuzzy Completeness Index

    Hussain, T., Awais, MM., and Shamail, S., In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing, (ICIC’ 05), Hefei, China, August 23-26, 2005.

  • An Assessment of Current Level and Future Prospects of Internet Adoption by Banks in Pakistan

    Shamail, S., Awais, M., Hussain, T., Raza, SW., In WSEAS Transactions on Information Scinece and Applications, Issue 8, Volume 2, pp 1167-1172. Publisher: WSEAS Press, ISSN: 1790-0832, August 2005.

  • A Collaboration Portal for Social Enterprises

    Shamail, S., Awais, M.M., and Hussain, T., In Proceedings of the International Conference on Web Technologies, Applications, and Services, WTAS 2005, Calgary, Canada, July 04-06, 2005.

  • On Measuring Structural Complexity of a Conceptual Model

    Hussain, T., Shamail, S., and Awais, M.M., In Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering, Novosibirsk, Russia, pp 71-75, June 20-24, 2005.

  • Automatic Arabic Speech Recognition System

    Anwar, M.J., Awais, M.M., Masud, S., and Shamail, S., In International Journal of Information Technology, vol 12, pp 102-111, 2005. Also published in proceedings of the International  Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC '05), Hefei, China, August 23-26, 2005.

  • CFD Based Combustion Modeling for Industrial Scale Combustsors

    Ahmed, B., Awais, M.M., and Shamail, S., In Proceedings of 8th IEEE International Multitopic Conference, pp 547–552, FAST, Lahore, Pakistan, December 24-26, 2004.

  • Schema Transformations - A Quality Perspective

    Hussain, T., Shamail, S., and Awais, M.M., In Proceedings of the International Multi-topic Conference, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, pp 645-649, Lahore, Pakistan, December 24-26, 2004.

  • On Dependency Preservation and BCNF

    Hussain, T., Shamail, S., Awais, M.M., In Proceedings of the 2nd International workshop on Frontiers of Information Technology,  Islamabad, Pakistan, December 20-21, 2004.

  • Determinants of Electronic Commerce in Pakistan

    Seyal, J., Awais, M.M., Shamail, S., and Abbas, A., In Electronic Markets Vol. 14, No. 4.  pp 372-387, December-2004. Publisher: Taylor & Francis, ISI Indexed, ISSN: 1019-6781

  • Improving Quality in Conceptual Modeling

    Hussain, T., Shamail, S., and Awais, M.M., In the 19th Annual ACM Conference Companion on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications. (OOPSLA), Vancouver, BC, Canada, October 24-28, 2004.

  • Multi-Valued Relationship Attributes in Extended Entity Relationship Model and Their Mapping to Relational Schema

    Hussain, T., Shamail, S., and Awais, M.M., In WSEAS Transactions of Information Science and Applications, Issue 1, Vol1, pp 269-273, July 2004. . Publisher: WSEAS Press, ISSN: 1790-0832. Also published in conference proceedings

  • An Aspect-to-Class Advising Architecture Based on XML in Aspect Oriented Programming

    Hussain, T., Awais, MM., Shamail, S., and Adnan, M.A., In WSEAS Transactions of Information Science and Applications, Issue 1, Volume 1, pp 209-214, July 2004. Publisher: WSEAS Press, ISSN: 1790-0832. Also published in conference proceedings

  • Application Of Concurrent Generalized Regression Neural Networks For Arabic Speech Recognition
    Awais, M.M., Masud, S., and Shamail, S., and Sehgal, S., Presented at Neural Computational Intelligence (NCI), IASTED, Grindelwald, Switzerland, February 23-25, 2004.
  • Application of Concurrent Generalized Regression Neural Networks for Arabic Speech Recognition

    Shoaib, M., Awais, M.M, Masud, S., Shamail, S., and Akhtar, J.,In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Neural Networks and Computational Intelligence (NCI’2004) Grindelwald, Switzerland, February 2004.

  • Web Based Portal for Capacity Building of Development Sector Enterprises in Pakistan

    Shamail, S.,  Awais, M.M., Masud, S., Shams, S., In Proceedings of the  Second World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) Conference on E-Activities, Singapore, December 7-9, 2003.