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Selected Journal Publications

2023 - 2026


IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Bohan Liu, He Zhang, Weigang Ma, Gongyuan Li, Shanshan Li, Haifeng Shen (2023). The Why, When, What and How about Predictive Continuous Integration: A Simulation-Based Investigation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

Rank: A*
Percentile: Top 9%
IF: 9.322
CiteScore: 11.4

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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Shenghui Gu, Guoping Rong, Tian Ren, He Zhang, Haifeng Shen, Yongda Yu, Xian Li, Jian Ouyang (2023). TrinityRCL: Multi-Granular and Code-Level Root Cause Localization Using Multiple Types of Telemetry Data in Microservice Systems. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 49(5):3071 - 3088.

Rank: A*
Percentile: Top 9%
IF: 9.322
CiteScore: 11.4

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Haifeng Shen, Othman Asiry, M. Ali Babar, Tomasz Bednarz (2023). Evaluating the efficacy of using a novel gaze-based attentive user interface to extend ADHD children's attention span. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 169:102927.

Rank: A
Percentile: Top 2%
IF: 4.866
CiteScore: 9.2

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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Shenghui Gu, Guoping Rong, He Zhang, Haifeng Shen (2023). Logging Practices in Software Engineering: A Systematic Mapping Study. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 49(2): 902 - 923

Rank: A*
Percentile: Top 9%
IF: 9.322
CiteScore: 11.4

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2019 - 2022


IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Zhibin Liao, Kewen Liao, Haifeng Shen, Marouska F Van Boxel, Jasper Prijs, Ruurd L Jaarsma, Job Doornberg, Anton van den Hengel, Johan W. Verjans (2022). CNN Attention Guidance for Improved Orthopedics Radiographic Fracture Classification. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 26(7): 3139-3150.

Rank: A*
Percentile: Top 7%
IF: 7.021
CiteScore: 10.9

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Information and Software Technology

Roshan N.Rajapakse, Mansooreh Zahedi, M. Ali Babar, Haifeng Shen (2022). Challenges and solutions when adopting DevSecOps: A systematic review. Information and Software Technology, 141:106700.

Rank: A
Percentile: Top 10%
IF: 3.862
CiteScore: 9.1

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Theoretical Computer Science

Yunyun Deng, Longkun Guo, Kewen Liao, Yi Chen (2021). On finding maximum disjoint paths with different colors: Computational complexity and practical LP-based algorithms. Theoretical Computer Science, 886: 157-168.

Rank: A
Percentile: Top 50%
IF: 1.002
CiteScore: 2.1

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Information and Software Technology

He Zhang, Runfeng Mao, Huang Huang, Qiming Dai, Xin Zhou, Haifeng Shen, Guoping Rong (2021). Processes, challenges and recommendations of Gray Literature Review: An experience report. Information and Software Technology, 137:106607.

Rank: A
Percentile: Top 10%
IF: 3.862
CiteScore: 9.1

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Information and Software Technology

Lanxin Yang, He Zhang, Haifeng Shen, Xin Huang, Xin Zhou, Guoping Rong, Dong Shao (2021). Quality Assessment in Systematic Literature Reviews: A Software Engineering Perspective. Information and Software Technology, 30:106397.

Rank: A
Percentile: Top 10%
IF: 3.862
CiteScore: 9.1

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International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Theodor Wyeld, Peerumporn Jiranantanagorn, Haifeng Shen, Kewen Liao, Tomasz Bednarz (2021). Understanding the effects of real-time sentiment analysis and morale visualisation in backchannel systems: A case study. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 145:102524.

Rank: A
Percentile: Top 2%
IF: 4.866
CiteScore: 9.2

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Journal of Industrial Information Integration

Haifeng Shen, Tomasz Bednarz, Huyen Nguyen, Frank Feng, Theodor Wyeld, Peter J.Hoek, Edward H.S.Lo (2019). Information visualisation methods and techniques: State-of-the-art and future directions. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 16:100102.

Rank: NA
Percentile: Top 1%
IF: 11.718
CiteScore: 20.9

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Expert Systems with Applications

Omid Tarkhaneh and Haifeng Shen (2019). An adaptive differential evolution algorithm to optimal multi-level thresholding for MRI brain image segmentation. Expert Systems with Applications, 138:112820.

Rank: B
Percentile: Top 3%
IF: 8.665
CiteScore: 12.2

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IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

Maoying Qiao, Jun Yu, Wei Bian, Qiang Li, Dacheng Tao (2019). Adapting Stochastic Block Models to Power-Law Degree Distributions. IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 49(2):626 - 637.

Rank: A
Percentile: Top 1%
IF: 19.118
CiteScore: 22.0

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2015 - 2018


Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Shaymaa Akraa, Anh Pham Tran Tam, Haifeng Shen, Youhong Tang, Ben Zhong Tang, Jimmy Li, Sandy Walker (2018). A smartphone-based point-of-care quantitative urinalysis device for chronic kidney disease patients. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 115:59-69.

Rank: A
Percentile: Top 3%
IF: 7.574
CiteScore: 15.7

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Pattern Recognition

Maoying Qiao, Liu Liu, Jun Yu, Chang Xu, Dacheng Tao (2017). Diversified dictionaries for multi-instance learning. Pattern Recognition, 64:407-416.

Rank: A*
Percentile: Top 5%
IF: 8.518
CiteScore: 15.5

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Advanced Engineering Informatics

Chen Gao, Kaiqi Jin, Haifeng Shen, Muhammed Ali Babar (2017). Are you a human or a humanoid: Predictive user modelling through behavioural analysis of online gameplay data. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 33:410-424.

Rank: NA
Percentile: Top 6%
IF: 7.862
CiteScore: 10.1

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IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems

Yuqing Mao, Haifeng Shen (2016). Web of Credit: Adaptive Personalized Trust Network Inference From Online Rating Data. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 3(4):176-189.

Rank: NA
Percentile: Top 3%
IF: NA
CiteScore: 8.6

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ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

Maoying Qiao, Richard Yi Da Xu, Wei Bian, Dacheng Tao (2016). Fast sampling for time-varying determinantal point processes. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 11(1):8.

Rank: B
Percentile: Top 17%
IF: 2.713
CiteScore: 6.0

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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Maoying Qiao, Wei Bian, Richard Yi Da Xu, Dacheng Tao (2015). Diversified Hidden Markov Models for Sequential Labeling. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 27(11): 2947-2960.

Rank: A*
Percentile: Top 4%
IF: 9.235
CiteScore: 13.1

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Theoretical Computer Science

Kewen Liao, Hong Shen, Longkun Guo (2015). Improved approximation algorithms for constrained fault-tolerant resource allocation. Theoretical Computer Science, 590: 118-128.

Rank: A
Percentile: Top 50%
IF: 1.002
CiteScore: 2.1

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Selected Conference Publications

2023 - 2026


  1. Songjie Xie, Youlong Wu, Kewen Liao, Lu Chen, Chengfei Liu, Haifeng Shen, MingJian Tang, Lu Sun (2023). Fed-SC: One-Shot Federated Subspace Clustering over High-Dimensional Data. The 39th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2023).
    Rank: A* | Paper: here
  2. Guoping Rong, Shenghui Gu, Haifeng Shen, He Zhang, Hongyu Kuang (2023). How Do Developers' Profiles and Experiences Influence their Logging Practices? An Empirical Study of Industrial Practitioners. The 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023).
    Rank: A* | Paper: here

2019 - 2022


  1. Hao Li, Jie Shao, Kewen Liao, Mingjian Tang (2022). Do Simpler Statistical Methods Perform Better in Multivariate Long Sequence Time-Series Forecasting?. The 31st ACM International Conference on Information & Knowledge Management (CIKM), 4168–4172.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  2. Wei Duan, Junyu Xuan, Maoying Qiao, Jie Lu (2022). Learning from the Dark: Boosting Graph Convolutional Neural Networks with Diverse Negative Samples. The 36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
    Rank: A* | Paper: here
  3. Haifeng Shen, Kewen Liao, Zhibin Liao, Job Doornberg, Maoying Qiao, Anton van den Hengel, Johan W. Verjans (2021). Human-AI Interactive and Continuous Sensemaking: A Case Study of Image Classification using Scribble Attention Maps. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI'21 Extended Abstracts), Article No.: 290, Pages 1–8.
    Rank: A* | Paper: here
  4. Bohan Liu, He Zhang, Lanxin Yang, Liming Dong, Haifeng Shen, Kaiwen Song (2020). An Experimental Evaluation of Imbalanced Learning and Time-Series Validation in the Context of CI/CD Prediction. Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE), 21-30.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  5. Maoying Qiao, Jun Yu, Tongliang Liu, Xinchao Wang, Dacheng Tao (2020). Diversified Bayesian Nonnegative Matrix Factorization. The 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 5420-5427.
    Rank: A* | Paper: here
  6. Lu Chen, Chengfei Liu, Kewen Liao, Jianxin Li, Rui Zhou (2019). Contextual Community Search Over Large Social Networks. The 35th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 88-99.
    Rank: A* | Paper: here

2015 - 2018


  1. Longkun Guo, Yunyun Deng, Kewen Liao, Qiang He, Timos Sellis, Zheshan Hu (2018). A Fast Algorithm for Optimally Finding Partially Disjoint Shortest Paths. The 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 1456-1462.
    Rank: A* | Paper: here
  2. Federico Montori, Kewen Liao, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Luciano Bononi, Timos Sellis, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos (2018). Classification and Annotation of Open Internet of Things Datastreams. Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), 209-224.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  3. Jameel Almalki, Haifeng Shen (2018). SORCER: A Decentralised Continuous Integration Platform for Service-Oriented Software Systems. International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) Workshops, 458-464.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  4. Oshini Goonetilleke, Danai Koutra, Timos Sellis, Kewen Liao (2017). Edge Labeling Schemes for Graph Data. The 29th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), 12:1-12:12.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  5. Kewen Liao, Alistair Moffat, Matthias Petri, Anthony Wirth (2017). A Cost Model for Long-Term Compressed Data Retention. The 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 241-249.
    Rank: A* | Paper: here
  6. Maoying Qiao, Jun Yu, Wei Bian, Qiang Li, Dacheng Tao (2017). Improving Stochastic Block Models by Incorporating Power-Law Degree Characteristic. The 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2620-2626.
    Rank: A* | Paper: here
  7. Qiang Li, Maoying Qiao, Wei Bian, Dacheng Tao (2016). Conditional Graphical Lasso for Multi-label Image Classification. IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2977-2986.
    Rank: A* | Paper: here
  8. Kewen Liao, Matthias Petri, Alistair Moffat, Anthony Wirth (2016). Effective Construction of Relative Lempel-Ziv Dictionaries. The 25th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), 807-816.
    Rank: A* | Paper: here
  9. Maoying Qiao, Wei Bian, Richard Yi Da Xu, Dacheng Tao (2016). Diversified hidden Markov models for sequential labeling. The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 1512-1513.
    Rank: A* | Paper: here
  10. Longkun Guo, Kewen Liao, Hong Shen, Peng Li (2015). Brief Announcement: Efficient Approximation Algorithms for Computing k Disjoint Restricted Shortest Paths. The 27th ACM on Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), 62-64.
    Rank: A | Paper: here

Selected Earlier Publications (Before 2015)

  1. Mark D. Reilly, Haifeng Shen, Paul R. Calder, Henry Been-Lirn Duh (2014).Towards a Collaborative Classroom through Shared Workspaces on Mobile Devices. The 28th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (BCS HCI), 335-340.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  2. Yuqing Mao, Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun (2013). Online silk road: nurturing social search through knowledge bartering. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 1193-1202.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  3. Jiangang Ma, Quan Z. Sheng, Kewen Liao, Yanchun Zhang, Anne H. H. Ngu (2012). WS-Finder: A Framework for Similarity Search of Web Services. The 10th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), 313-327.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  4. Haifeng Shen, Mark D. Reilly (2012). Personalized multi-user view and content synchronization and retrieval in real-time mobile social software applications. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 78(4):1185-1203.
    Rank: A* | Percentile: Top 33% | IF: 1.043 | CiteScore: 3.1 | Paper: here
  5. David Sun, Chengzheng Sun, Steven Xia, Haifeng Shen (2012). Creative conflict resolution in realtime collaborative editing systems. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), 1411-1420.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  6. Yuqing Mao, Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun (2012). Diversification of Web Search Results through Social Interest Mining. The 45th Hawaii International International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS), 3581-3590.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  7. Yang Zheng, Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun (2011). Collaborative design: Improving efficiency by concurrent execution of Boolean tasks. Expert Systems with Applications, 38(2):1089-1098.
    Rank: B | Percentile: Top 2% | IF: 8.665 | CiteScore: 12.2 | Paper: here
  8. Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun (2011). Achieving Data Consistency by Contextualization in Web-Based Collaborative Applications. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 10(4):13:1-13:37.
    Rank: B | Percentile: Top 20% | IF: 1.598 | CiteScore: 6.3 | Paper: here
  9. Jun Cheng, Maoying Qiao, Wei Bian, Dacheng Tao (2011). 3D human posture segmentation by spectral clustering with surface normal constraint. Signal Processing, 91(9): 2204-2212.
    Rank: A | Percentile: Top 11% | IF: 4.729 | CiteScore: 8.9 | Paper: here
  10. Yuqing Mao, Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun (2011). Looking for non-existent information: a consumer-led interactive search approach. The 25th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (BCS HCI), 151-156.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  11. Yang Zheng, Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun (2010). Inspiring Innovative Design Integration by Collaborative Exploration of Boolean Operations. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 38(2):1089-1098.
    Rank: A | Percentile: Top 1% | IF: 11.648 | CiteScore: 21.3 | Paper: here
  12. Yuqing Mao, Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun (2010). Supporting exploratory information seeking by epistemology-based social search. The 15th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 353-356.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  13. Haifeng Shen (2009). Maintaining constraints of UML models in distributed collaborative environments. Journal of Systems Architecture, 55(7-9):396-408.
    Rank: B | Percentile: Top 21% | IF: 5.836 | CiteScore: 7.2 | Paper: here
  14. Agustina, Fei Liu, Steven Xia, Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun (2008). CoMaya: incorporating advanced collaboration capabilities into 3d digital media design tools. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 5-8.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  15. Haifeng Shen, Siyuan Liu, Steven Xia, Chengzheng Sun (2008). Distributed Constraints Maintenance in Collaborative UML Modeling Environments. The 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 367-370.
    Rank: A* | Paper: here
  16. Yang Zheng, Haifeng Shen, Steven Xia, Chengzheng Sun (2007). Conflict Resolution of Boolean Operations by Integration in Real-Time Collaborative CAD Systems. The 15th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), 238-252.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  17. Chengzheng Sun, Steven Xia, David Sun, David Chen, Haifeng Shen, Wentong Cai (2006). Transparent adaptation of single-user applications for multi-user real-time collaboration. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 13(4): 531-582.
    Rank: A* | Percentile: Top 11% | IF: 2.351 | CiteScore: 9.2 | Paper: here
  18. Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun (2004). Improving real-time collaboration with highlighting. Future Generation Computer Systems, 20(4): 605-625.
    Rank: A | Percentile: Top 1% | IF: 7.307 | CiteScore: 18.7 | Paper: here
  19. Steven Xia, David Sun, Chengzheng Sun, David Chen, Haifeng Shen (2004). Leveraging single-user applications for multi-user collaboration: the coword approach. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 162-171.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  20. Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun (2002). Flexible Merging for Asynchronous Collaborative Systems. The 10th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), 304-321.
    Rank: A | Paper: here
  21. Haifeng Shen, Chengzheng Sun (2002). Flexible notification for collaborative systems. ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 77-86.
    Rank: A | Paper: here