Tulip Lab | Publications of SCI/SSCI Journals

2025

Mousa Tayseer Jafar, Luxing Yang, Gang Li. An Innovative Practical Roadmap for Optimal Control Strategies in Malware Propagation Through The Integration of RL with MPC. Computers & Security, 2025.

Huy Quan Vu, Baobao Song, Gang Li, Rob Law. Exploring Emotional Aspects of Travel Concepts via Travel Photos based on Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining. Tourism Management, 2025.

Baobao Song, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Tianqing Zhu, Gang Li. Towards A Hybrid Quantum Differential Privacy. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2025.

Aiting Yao, Shantanu Pal, Gang Li, Xuejun Li, Zheng Zhang, Frank Jiang, Chengzu Dong, Xiao Liu. FedShufde: A privacy preserving framework of federated learning for edge-based smart UAV delivery system. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2025.

Bingtao Wan, Peng Wu, Pu Han, Gang Li. Aspect-based sentiment analysis by knowledge and attention integrated graph convolutional network. Applied Soft Computing, 171,2025.

Dev Gurung, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Gang Li. Quantum Federated Learning for Metaverse: Analysis, Design and Implementation. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2025.

Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Gang Li, Robin Doss, Surya Nepal. Toward Decentralized Operationalization of Zero Trust Architecture for Next Generation Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 43,2025.

Xiaojuan Cheng, Luxing Yang, Qingyi Zhu, Chenquan Gan, Gang Li. Impulse Strategies for Suppressing Cyber Propaganda With Awareness. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2025.

Haiyang Xia, Birgit Muskat, Marion Karl, Qian Li, Gang Li. Destination Competitiveness Improvement: Insights From Causal Counterfactual AI Analysis. Journal of Travel Research, 2025.

Shun Mao, Gang Li, Yuncheng Jiang. Boosting Knowledge Tracing with Structure-preserving Adaptive Contrastive Learning. IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 2025.

Jingxian Mo, Baobao Song, Qingfeng Chen, Gang Li. Medical Tourism Research: Trends, Themes, and Future Directions Through Bibliometric Analysis. Journal of Smart Tourism, 2025.

Nasreen Fathima A H, Ansam Khraisat, Syed Ibrahim S P, Gang Li. Adaptive Memory Replay for Network Intrusion Detection: Tackling Data Drift and Catastrophic Forgetting. Computer Networks, 2025.

Baobao Song, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Mengyue Deng, Qiujun Lan, Robin Doss, Tianqing Zhu, Gang Li. Digital Privacy Under Attack: Challenges and Enablers. ACM Computing Surveys, 2025.

Xiaojuan Cheng, Luxing Yang, Gang Li, Zenan Ma, Tianqing Zhu, Lidan Wang, Shukai Duan. Modeling and Mitigating Social Engineering Malware: Integrating Malware-Opinion Dynamics with Optimal Impulse Control Approaches. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2025.

Mousa Tayseer Jafar, Lu-Xing Yang, Gang Li, Robin Doss, Kon Mouzakis, Rajesh Vasa, Helge Janicke, Ahmed Ibrahim, Ahmed Mohsin, Iqbal H. Sarker, Kristen Moore, Seyit Camtepe, Diksha Goel. Mitigating malware prevalence in networks with arbitrary topologies: A Flip-It cyber game approach integrated with epidemic modeling. Information Sciences, 2025.

2024

Qian Li, Zhichao Wang, Haiyang Xia, Gang Li, Yanan Cao, Lina Yao, Guandong Xu. HOT-GAN: Hilbert Optimal Transport for Generative Adversarial Network. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2024.

Haiyang Xia, Birgit Muskat, Marion Karl, Gang Li, Rob Law. Destination competitiveness research over the past three decades: a computational literature review using topic modelling. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 2024.

Xiangru Qin, Birgit Muskat, Haiyang Xia, Judith Mair, Gang Li. How to communicate green innovations to online communities: Evidence from sports mega events. Journal of Travel Research, 2024.

Baojie Zhang, Ye Zhu, Sutharshan Rajasegarar, Gang Li, Gang Liu. Kernel-based iVAT with adaptive cluster extraction. Knowledge and Information Systems, 2024.

Yishuo Zhang, Nayyar Zaidi, Jiahui Zhou, Tao Wang, Gang Li. Effective interpretable learning for large-scale categorical data. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2024.

Huanhuan Ge, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Zhenyu Liu, Jinlong Wang, Gang Li. PFL-DKD: Modeling decoupled knowledge fusion with distillation for improving personalized federated learning. Computer Networks, 2024.

Mousa Tayseer Jafar, Luxing Yang, Gang Li, Qingyi Zhu, Chenquan Gan, Xiaofan Yang. Malware containment with immediate response in IoT networks: An optimal control approach. Computer Communications, 2024.

Baobao Song, Haiyang Xia, Rob Law, Birgit Muskat, Gang Li. Discovery of smart hotels’ competitiveness based on online reviews. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2024.

Mousa Tayseer Jafar, Luxing Yang, Gang Li, Xiaofan Yang. The evolution of the flip-it game in cybersecurity: Insights from the past to the future. Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, 2024.

Mousa Tayseer Jafar, Luxing Yang, Gang Li, Qingyi Zhu, Chenquan Gan. Minimizing Malware Propagation in Internet of Things Networks: An Optimal Control Using Feedback Loop Approach. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024.

Ziyan Qiao, Yingxiao Xiang, Thar Baker, Gang Li, Yalun Wu, Endong Tong, Shuanghe Peng, Ye Zhu, Dongwei Xu, Wenjia Niu. Reinforcement Learning-based Security Enhancement for Controlled Optimization of Phases in Intelligent Traffic Signal System. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, 2024.

Xiaojuan Cheng, Luxing Yang, Qingyi Zhu, Chenquan Gan, Xiaofan Yang, Gang Li. Cost-effective hybrid control strategies for dynamical propaganda war game. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024.

Dev Gurung, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Gang Li. Performance analysis and evaluation of postquantum secure blockchained federated learning. Computer Networks, 2024.

2023

Cong Ma, Huy Quan Vu, Jinlong Wang, Van-Hau Trieu, Gang Li. Understanding Residents’ Behaviour for Smart City Management by Sequential and Periodic Pattern Mining. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social System, 2023.

Xin Han, Ye Zhu, Kai Ming Ting, Gang Li. The Impact of Isolation Kernel on Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms. Pattern Recognition, 2023.

Dasith de Silva Edirimuni, Xuequan Lu, Zhiwen Shao, Gang Li, Antonio Robles-Kelly, Ying He. Contrastive Learning for Joint Normal Estimation and Point Cloud Filtering. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 2023.

Huawen Liu, Wenhua Zhou, Hong Zhang, Gang Li, Shichao Zhang, Xuelong Li. Bit Reduction for Locality Sensitive Hashing. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2023.

Yang Cao, Shiva Pokhrel, Ye Zhu, Robin Doss, Gang Li. Automation and Orchestration of Zero Trust Architecture: Potential Solutions and challenges. Machine Intelligence Research, 2023.

Hao Sun, Xiaofan Yang, Luxing Yang, Kaifan Huang, Gang Li. Impulsive Artificial Defense Against Advanced Persistent Threat. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 2023.

Huy Quan Vu, Shah J Miah, Haiyang Xia, Gang Li, Birgit Muskat, Rob Law. Advancing reliability assessment of venue-reference social media data for enhanced domestic tourism development. Information Technology & Tourism, 2023.

(2023 Best Paper Award)

Haiyang Xia, Nayyar Zaidi, Yishuo Zhang, Gang Li. Improving Neural Network's Robustness on Tabular Data with D-Layers. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2023.

Haiyang Xia, Birgit Muskat, Huy Quan Vu, Rob Law, Gang Li. Leveraging employee online reviews for improving hotel competitiveness in the great resignation. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2023.

Aiting Yao, Gang Li, Xuejun Li, Frank Jiang, Jia Xu, Xiao Liu. Differential privacy in edge computing-based smart city Applications:Security issues, solutions and future directions. Array, 2023.

Rongxin Xu, Qiujun Lan, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Gang Li. A Knowledge Graph based Survey on Distributed Ledger Technology for IoT Verticals. ACM Computing Surveys, 2023.

Huawen Liu, Wenhua Zhou, Zongda Wu, Shichao Zhang, Gang Li, XueLong Li. Refining Codes for Locality Sensitive Hashing. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2023.

Haiyang Xia, Birgit Muskat, Gang Li, Girish Prayag. AI-Based Counterfactual Reasoning For Tourism Research. Annals of Tourism Research, 2023.

Birgit Muskat, Girish Prayag, Sameer Hosany, Gang Li, Quan Vu, Sarah Wagner. The interplay of sensory and non-sensory factors in food tourism experiences. Tourism Review, 2023.

Shu Li, Nayyar A. Zaidi, Meijie Du, Zhou Zhou, Hongfei Zhang, Gang Li. Property Graph Representation Learning for Node Classification. Knowledge and Information Systems, 2023.

Kaifan Huang, Xiaofan Yang, Luxing Yang, Ye Zhu, Gang Li. Mitigating the impact of a false message through sequential release of clarifying messages. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2023.

Gang Li, Aswani Kumar Cherukuri. Embrace Open-environment Machine Learning for Robust AI. National Science Review, 2023.

Bingtao Wan, Peng Wu, Chai Kiat Yeo, Gang Li. Emotion-Cognitive Reasoning Integrated BERT for Sentiment Analysis of Online Public Opinions on Emergencies. Information Processing and Management, 2023.

Van-Hau Trieu, Huy Quan Vu, Marta Indulska, Gang Li. A Computer Vision-Based Concept Model to Recommend Domestic Overseas-like Travel Experiences: A Design Science Study. Decision Support Systems, 2023.

Yang Cao, Ye Zhu, Kai Ming Ting, Flora D. Salim, Hongxian Li, Luxing Yang, Gang Li. Detecting Change Intervals with Isolation Distributional Kernel. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2023.

2022

Yishuo Zhang, Nayyar Zaidi, Jiahui Zhou, Gang Li. Interpretable Tabular Data Generation. Knowledge and Information Systems(KAIS), 2022.

Huy Quan Vu, Baobao Song, Gang Li, and Rob Law. Aboard-at-Home: Identifying Domestic Tourism Locations for Overseas-Like Travel Experiences by Leveraging Concept Modeling. Tourism Management, 2022.

Zhiwei Guo, Keping Yu, Alireza Jolfaei, Gang Li, Feng Ding, Amin Beheshti. Mixed Graph Neural Network-based Fake News Detection for Sustainable Vehicular Social Networks. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022.

Tao Xue, Yu Wen, Bo Luo, Gang Li, Yingjiu Li, Boyang Zhang, Yang Zheng, Yanfei Hu, Dan Meng. SparkAC: Fine-Grained Access Control in Spark for Secure Data Sharing and Analytics. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022.

Sandya De Alwis, Yishuo Zhang, Ziwei Hou, Bahadorreza Ofoghi, Myung Hwan Na, Atul Sajjanhar. A survey on smart farming data, applications and techniques. Computers in Industry, 2022.

Qian Li, Zhichao Wang, Shaowu Liu, Gang Li, Guandong Xu. Deep Treatment-Adaptive Network for Causal Inference. International Journal on Very Large Data Bases, 2022.

Daniel Gao, Haiyang Xia, Weiling Deng, Gang Li, Rob Law. Value creation in wine tourism – an exploration through deep neural networks. Journal of Vacation Marketing, 2022.

Qiujun Lan, Baobao Song, Yang Li, Gang Li. Distributed Differentially Private Ranking Aggregation. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2022.

2021

Qian Li, Zhichao Wang, Shaowu Liu, Gang Li, Guandong Xu. Causal Optimal Transport for Treatment Effects Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2021.

Tong Chen, Jiqiang Liu, He Li, Shuoru Wang, Wenjia Niu, Endong Tong, Liang Chang, Qi Alfred Chen, Gang Li. Robustness Assessment of Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic based on Dynamic Skewness and Sparseness Computation: A Parallel Computing View. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2021.

Qiujun Lan, Jiaqi Ma, Ziqi Yan, Gang Li. Utility-preserving differentially private skyline query. Expert Systems With Applications (ESWA), 115871,2021.

Sumarga Kumar Sah Tyagi, Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Mahyar Nemati, Deepak Kumar Jain, Gang Li, Jinho Choi. Redesigning compound TCP with cognitive edge intelligence for WiFi-based IoT. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2021.

Jian Ming Luo, Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, Rob Law. Understanding hotel robot services: A sentiment analysis of customer online reviews. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2021.

Bin Wang, Shuai Ding, Xiao Liu, X Li, Gang Li. Predictive Classification of ICU Readmission Using Weight Decay Random ForestPredictive Classification of ICU Readmission Using Weight Decay Random Forest. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2021.

Vinh Bui, Ali Reza Alaei, Quan Vu, Gang Li, Rob Law. Revisiting Tourism Destination Image: A Holistic Measurement Framework Using User-Generated Contents. Journal of Travel Research, 2021.

Jianguo Jiang, Boquan Li, Baole Wei, Gang Li, Chao Liu, Weiqing Huang, Meimei Li, Min Yu. FakeFilter: A cross-distribution Deepfake detection system with domain adaptation. Journal of Computer Security, 2021.

Chris Zhang, Gang Li, Birgit Muskat, Quan Vu and Rob Law. Predictivity of tourism demand data. Annals of Tourism Research, 2021.

2020

Huy Quan Vu, Birgit Muskat, Gang Li, and Rob Law. Improving resident–tourist relationship in urban hotspot. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2020.

Ziqi Yan, Jiqiang Liu, and Gang Li. Private rank aggregation under local differential privacy. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2020.

Yishuo Zhang, Gang Li, Birgit Muskat, and Rob Law. Tourism demand forecasting: A decomposed deep learning approach. Journal of Travel Research, 2020.

Meng Ren, Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, and Rob Law. Large scale comparative analyses of hotel photo content posted by managers and customers to review platforms based on deep learning: Implications for hospitality marketers. Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, 2020.

Yishuo Zhang, Gang Li, Birgit Muskat, Rob Law, and Yating Yang. Group pooling for deep tourism demand forecasting. Annals of Tourism Research, 82:102899,2020.

Gang Li, Hao Wang, and Wibowo Hardjawana. New advancement in information technologies for industry 4.0. Enterprise Information Systems, 14(4):402–405,2020.

Shu Li, Gang Li, Rob Law, and Yin Paradise. Racism in tourism reviews. Tourism Management, 2020.

Kenny Luo, Quan Vu, Gang Li, and Rob Law. Topic modelling for theme park online reviews: Analysis of disneyland. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 2020.

Gang Li, Srikanth Prabhu, Qingfeng Chen, and Jia Wu. Editorial of special issue on information security and biometrics. Information Discovery and Delivery, 2020.

2019

Shuai Ding, Shikang Hu, Jinxin Pan, Xiaojian Li, Gang Li, and Xiao Liu. A homogeneous ensemble method for predicting gastric cancer based on gastroscopy reports. Expert Systems, page e12499,2019.

Jinxin Pan, Shuai Ding, Shanlin Yang, Gang Li, and Xiao Liu. Endoscopy report mining for intelligent gastric cancer screening. Expert Systems, 2019.

Huy Quan Vu, Jianming Luo, Gang Li, and Rob Law. Exploration of tourist activities in urban destination using venue check-in data. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 2019.

Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, and Rob Law. Discovering highly profitable travel patterns by high-utility pattern mining tourism management. Tourism Management, 2019.

Wei Fan, Gang Li, and Rob Law. Analyzing co-authoring communities of tourism research collaboration. Tourism Management Perspectives, 2019.

Qiujun Lan, Xuqing Xu, Haojie Ma, and Gang Li. Multivariable data imputation for the analysis of incomplete credit data. Expert Systems With Applications, 2019.

Haiyang Xia, Huy Qua Vu, Rob Law, and Gang Li. Evaluation of hotel brand competitiveness based on hotel features ratings. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 2019.

Wei Fan, Rob Law, Gang Li, and Davis Fong. Understanding clusters of tourist behavior associations using network analysis. International Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Administration, 2019.

Gang Li, Hao Wang, and Wibowo Hardjawana. New advancement in information technologies for industry 4.0. Enterprise Information Systems, 2019.

Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, and Rob Law. Discovering implicit activity preferences in travel itineraries by topic modeling. Tourism Management, 2019.

Gang Li and Lynn Batten. Foreword to the special issue of the 8th international conference on applications and techniques for information security (atis 2017). Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2019.

Min Yu, Jianguo Jiang, Gang Li, Chenzhe Lou, Yunzheng Liu, Chao Liu, and Weiqing Huang. Malicious documents detection for business process management based on multi-layer abstract model. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2019.

Rob Law, Gang Li, Davis Fong, and Xin Han. Tourism demand forecasting: A deep learning approach. Annals of Tourism Research, 2019.

2018

Gang Li, Jianlong Tan, and Sohail S.Chaudhry. Industry 4.0 and big data innovations. Enterprise Information Systems, 2018.

Gang Li, Jianlong Tan, and Sohail S.Chaudhry. IEEE Access Special Section:Curbing crowdturfing in online social networks. IEEE Access, 6:2169–3536,2018.

Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, and Rob Law. Cross-country analysis of tourist activities based on venue-referenced social media data. Journal of Travel Research, 2018.

Huy Quan Vu, Rob Law, and Gang Li. Breach of traveller privacy in location-based social media. Current Issues in Tourism, 2018.

Yang Xu, Xiaofeng Li, Haixiao Hu, and Gang Li. Feedback-based metric learning for activity recognition. Expert Systems with Applications, 2018.

Sudha Subramani, Hua Wang, Huy Quan Vu, and Gang Li. Domestic violence crisis identification from facebook posts based on deep learning. IEEE Access, 2018.

Haiyang Xia, Huy Quan Vu, Lan Qiujun, Rob Law, and Gang Li. Identifying hotel competitiveness based on hotel feature ratings. Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, 2018.

Jia Wu, Shirui Pan, Chuan Zhou, Gang Li, Wu He, and Chengqi Zhang. Advances in processing, mining, and learning complex data: From foundations to real-world applications. Complexity, 2018.

Ping Xiong, Lefeng Zhang, Tianqing Zhu, Gang Li, and Wanlei Zhou. Private collaborative filtering under untrusted recommender server. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2018.

Jianming Luo, Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, and Rob Law. Tourist behavior analysis in gaming destinations based venue check-in data. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 2018.

Suganeshwari G, Syed Ibrahim SP, Gang Li. Lazy Collaborative Filtering with Dynamic Neighborhoods. Information Discovery and Delivery, Information Discovery and Delivery, 2018.

Yuxin Tao,Hairong Yan,Hang Gao,Yuying Sun,Gang Li. Application of SVR Optimized by Modified Simulated Annealing (MSA-SVR) Air Conditioning Load Prediction Model. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 2018.

Tianqing Zhu,Ping Xiong,Gang Li,Wanlei Zhou,Philip S. Yu. Differentially private model publishing in cyber physical systems. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2018.

Qiujun Lan, Haojie Ma, Gang Li. Characters-based Sentiment Identification Method for Short and Informal Chinese Text. Information Discovery and Delivery, 46(1): 57-66,2018.

Hongtao Wang, Hongmei Wang, Feng Yi, Hui Wen, Gang Li, Limin Sun. Context-aware personalized path inference from large-scale GPS snippets. Expert Systems with Applications, 91: 78-88,2018.

Iynkaran Natgunanathan, Abid Mehmood, Yong Xiang, Guang Hua, Gang Li, Shaun Bangay. An overview of protection of privacy in multibiometrics. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 77(6): 6753-6773,2018.

2017

Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, Rob Law, Yanchun Zhang. Exploring Tourist Dining Preferences Based on Restaurant Reviews. Journal of Travel Research, 12-18,2017.

Menik Tissera, Robin Doss, Gang Li, Vicky Mak-Hau, Lynn Batten. A Novel Approach for Information Discovery in Wireless Sensor Grids. Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2017.

Kenny Luo, Huy Quan Vu, Xinyuan Zhao, Gang Li, Rob Law. Ananlyzing Museum Visitor Experiencces Based On User-Generated Travel Photos. Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, 2017.

Tianqing Zhu, Gang Li, Ping Xiong, Wanlei Zhou. Answering Differentially Private Queries for Continual Datasets Release. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2017.

Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, Rob Law, Yanchun Zhang. Tourist Activity Analysis by Leveraging Mobile Social Media Data. Journal of Travel Research, 2017.

Gang Li, Wenjia Niu, Lynn Batten, Jiqiang Liu. New Advances in Securing Cyberspace and Curbing Crowdturfing. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2017.

Gang Li, Wenjia Niu, Jianlong Tan, Lynn Batten, Liang Chang. Curbing Collusive Cyber-gossips for Business Brand Management. Enterprise Information Systems, 2017.

Tianqing Zhu, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou, and Philip S Yu. Differentially Private Data Publishing and Analysis: a Survey. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 29(8): 1619-1638,2017.

Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, Rob Law, Yanchun Zhang. Travel Diaries Analysis by Sequential Rule Mining. Journal of Travel Research, 57(3): 399-413,2017.

(IFITT 2017 Journal Paper of The Year Award (1st Prize))

2016

Yuemei Xu, Song Ci, Yang Li, Tao Lin, Gang Li. Design and evaluation of coordinated in-network caching model for content centric networking. Computer Networks, 110: 266-283,2016.

Shaowu Liu, Gang Li, Truyen Tran, and Yuan Jiang. Preference Relation-based Markov Random Fields. Machine Learning, 1-24,2016.

Qian Li, Wenjia Niu, Gang Li, Li Guo. Boosting Imbalanced Data Learning with Wiener Process Oversampling. Frontiers of Computer Science, 1-16,2016.

Wei Fan, Gang Li, Rob Law. Temporal Analysis of Tourism Research Collaboration Network. Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research, 2016.

Bo Zhang, Endong Tong, Jie Hao, Wenjia Niu, Gang Li. Energy Efficient Sleep Schedule with Service Coverage Guarantee in Wireless Sensor Networks. Journal of Network and Systems Management, 24(4): 834-858,2016.

Gang Li, Yiqing Tu. Book Review "Advances in Crowdsourcing". Information Technology & Tourism (Springer). Journal of Network and Systems Management, 16(3): 317-319,2016.

2015

Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou. A survey of recommendation techniques based on offline data processing. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 27(15): 3915-3942,2015.

Gleb Beliakov, Gang Li, Shaowu Liu. Parallel bucket sorting on graphics processing units based on convex optimization. Optimization, 64(4): 1033-1055,2015.

Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, Rob Law, Ben Haobin Yip. Exploring the travel behaviors of inbound tourists to Hong Kong using Geotagged photos. Tourism Management, 46: 222-232,2015.

(IFITT 2015 Journal Paper of The Year Award (3rd Prize))

Gang Li, Rob Law, Huy Quan Vu, Jia Rong, Xinyuan Roy Zhao. Identifying emerging hotel preferences using Emerging Pattern Mining technique. Tourism Management, 46: 311-321,2015.

Tianqing Zhu, Ping Xiong, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou. Correlated differential privacy: hiding information in non-IID data set. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 10(2): 229-242,2015.

Gang Li, Wenjia Niu, Li Guo, Lynn Batten, Yinlong Liu, Guoyong Cai. Securing cyberspace. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 28: 1870-1871,2015.

Tianqing Zhu, Gang Li, Yongli Ren, Wanlei Zhou, Ping Xiong. Privacy Preserving Data Release for Tagging Recommender System, Web Intelligence, 13: 229-246,2015.

Gang Li. Book Review "Big Data related Technologies, Challenges and Future Prospects", Information Technology & Tourism (Springer), 15(3): 283-285,2015.

Wenjia Niu, Endong Tong, Qian Li, Gang LI, Xuemin Wen, Jianlong Tan, Li Guo. Exploring Probabilistic Follow Relationship to Prevent Collusive Peer-to-Peer Piracy. Knowledge and Information Systems, 48(1): 111-141,2015.

Ping Xiong, Tianqing Zhu, Wenjia Niu, Gang Li. A Differentially Private Algorithm for Location Data Release. Knowledge and Information Systems, 47(3): 647-669,2015.

Tianqing Zhu, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou, Ping Xiong, Cao Yuan. Privacy Preserving Topic Model for Tagging Recommender Systems. Knowledge and Information Systems, 46(1): 81-88,2015.

2014

Rob Law, Gang Li. Accuracy of Impact Factors in Tourism Journals. Annals of Tourism Research, 50: 19-21,2014.

Ping Xiong, Xiaofeng Wang, Wenjia Niu, Tianqing Zhu, and Gang Li. Android malware detection with contrasting permission patterns. Communications, China, 11(8): 1-14,2014.

Yongli Ren, Gang Li and Wanlei Zhou, Modelling personal preferences for Top-N movie recommendations. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, 12(3): 289-307,2014.

Andy Lee, Rob Law, Normal Au, and Gang Li. An Insight Into Research Performance Through a Citation Counting Analysis. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 21: 54-63,2014.

Li Guo, Wenjia Niu, Gang Li. Preface: Special issue on Network Security Behaviour Analysis. Chinese Journal of Computers, 37(1): 2014,2014.

Gleb Beliakov, Gang Li, Huy Quan Vu, Tim Wilkin. Characterizing compactness of geometrical clusters using fuzzy measures. IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy System (TFS), 23(4): 1030-1043,2014.

Wenjia Niu, Gang Li, Quan Z. Sheng, Endong Tong, Ping Liu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Li Guo. A Block-Aware Hybrid Data Dissemination with Hotspot Elimination in Wireless Sensor Network. Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), 44: 120-133,2014.

Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Jun Zhang and Wanlei Zhou. Maximum Imputation Framework for Neighborhood-based Collaborative Filtering. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 4(1): 1-15,2014.

Tianqing Zhu, Gang Li, Lei Pan, Yongli Ren, Wanlei Zhou. Privacy Preserving Collaborative Filtering for KNN Attack Resisting. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 4(1): 1-14,2014.

Gang Li, Wenjia Niu, Lynn Batten. Preface - Behavior Data Security Issues in Network Information Propagation. Future Generation of Computer Systems, 36: 120-121,2014.

Qian Li, Wenjia Niu, Gang Li, Endong Tong, Liang Chang, Ping Liu, Li Guo. Recover fault services via complex service-to-node mappings in wireless sensor networks. Journal of Network and Systems Management (JONS), 23(3): 474-501,2014.

Wenjia Niu, Jun Lei, Endong Tong, Gang Li, Zhongzhi Shi, Song Ci. Context-aware Service Ranking in Wireless Sensor Networks. Journal of Network and Systems Management (JONS), 22(1): 50-74,2014.

Daniel Leung, Gang Li, Lawrence Hoc Nang Fong, Rob Law, and Ada Lo. Current State of China Tourism Research. Current Issues in Tourism, 17(8): 679-704,2014.

2013

Veelasha Moonsamy, Jia Rong, Shaowu Liu, Mining Permission Patterns for Contrasting Clean and Malicious Android Applications. Future Generation of Computer Systems, 36: 122-132,2013.

Gleb Beliakov, Gang Li, Shaowu Liu. Parallel bucket sorting on graphics processing units based on convex optimization. Optimization, 64(4):1033-1055,2013.

Tianqing Zhu, Yongli Ren, Wanlei Zhou, Jia Rong, Ping Xiong. An Effective Privacy Preserving Algorithm for Neighborhood-based Collaborative Filtering. Future Generation Computer Systems, 36: 142-155,2013.

Rob Law, Gang Li and Daniel Leung. Reviewing articles for tourism journals Annals of Tourism Research. Annals of Tourism Research, 43: 643-645,2013.

Endong Tong, Wenjia Niu, Gang Li, Ding Tang, Hui Tang and Song Ci. Bloom filter-based Workflow Management to Enable QoS Guarantee in Wireless Sensor Networks. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 39: 38-51,2013.

Rob Law, Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li. Discovering Implicit Criteria Preferences Reflected in Tourism Journal Ranking Lists using the Choquet Integral. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 19(6): 662-679,2013.

Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou. A learning method for Top-N recommendations with incomplete data. Social Network Analysis and Mining, 3(4): 1135-1148,2013.

Shaowu Liu, Rob Law, Jia Rong, Gang Li, and John Hall. Analyzing changes in hotel customers' expectations by trip mode. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 34: 359-371,2013.

Yongli Ren, Gang Li, Jun Zhang, Wanlei Zhou. Lazy Collaborative Filtering for Datasets with Missing Values. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics,Part B: Cybernetics, 43(6): 1822-1834,2013.

Gang Li, Rob Law, Huy Quan Vu, Jia Rong. Discovering the hotel selection preferences of Hong Kong inbound travelers using the Choquet Integral. Tourism Management, 36: 321-330,2013.

Rosanna Leung, Jia Rong, Gang Li, Rob Law. Personality Differences and Hotel Web Design Study Using Targeted Positive and Negative Association Rule Mining. Journal of Hospitality Marketing & Management, 22(7): 701-727,2013.

Xiaofeng Wang, Gang Li, Guang Jiang, Zhongzhi Shi. Semantic Trajectory based Event Detection and Event Pattern Mining. Knowledge and information systems, 37(2): 305-329,2013.

2012

D. Moloney, N. Sukhorukova, P. Vamplew, J.Ugon, G. Li, G. Beliakov, C. Philippe, H.Amiel, and A. Ugon. Detecting K-complexes for sleep stage identification using nonsmooth optimisation. ANZIAM Journal, 52: 319-332,2012.

Gleb Beliakov, Gang Li. Improving the speed and stability of the k-Nearest Neighbors method. Pattern Recognition Letters, 33(10): 1296-1301,2012.

Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, Nadezda Sukhorukova, Gleb Beliakov, Shaowu Liu, Carole Philippe, Helene Amiel, and Adrien Ugon. K-complex detection using a hybrid-synergic machine learning method. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, IEEE Transactions on, 42(6): 1478-1490,2012.

Yuemei Xu, Wenjia Niu, Hui Tang, Gang Li, Zhijun Zhao, Song Ci. A Policy-based Web Service Redundancy Detection in Wireless Sensor Network. Journal of network and systems management, 21(3): 384-407,2012.

Wenjia Niu, Gang Li. Guest Editorial. Journal of Networks, 7(6): 893-894,2012.

2011

Jia Rong, Huy Quan Vu, Rob Law, Gang Li. A Behavioral Analysis of Web Sharers and Browsers in Hong Kong using Targeted Association Rule Mining. Tourism Management, 33(4): 731-740,2011.

Wenjia Niu, Gang Li, Zhijun Zhao, Hui Tang, Zhongzhi Shi. CARSA: A Context-Aware Reasoning-based Service Agent Model for AI planning of Web Service Composition. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 34(5): 1757-1770,2011.

Gleb Beliakov, Simon James, Gang Li. Learning Choquet-integral-based metrics for semisupervised clustering. Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on, 19(3): 562-574,2011.

Qingfeng Chen, Gang Li, Phoebe Chen. Interval-based distance function for identifying RNA structure candidates. Journal of theoretical biology, 269(1): 280-286,2011.

Wenjia Niu, Gang Li, Hui Tang, Zhongzhi Shi. Multi-granularity context model for dynamic Web service composition. ournal of network and computer applications, 34(1): 312-326,2011.

Yangdong Ye, Yongli Ren, Gang Li. Using Local Density Information to Improve IB Algorithms. Pattern recognition letters, 32(2): 310-320,2011.

Rob Law, Jia Rong, Huy Quan Vu, Gang Li, Andy Lee. Identifying changes and trends in Hong Kong outbound tourism. Tourism management, 32(5): 1106-1114,2011.

Jinlong Wang, Shunyao Wu, Gang Li. An Effective Semi-Supervised Clustering Framework Integrating Pairwise Constraints and Attribute Preferences. Computing & Informatics, 31(3),2011.

Jinlong Wang, Shunyao Wu, Gang Li. Zhe Wei. Integrating Instance-level and Attribute-level Knowledge into Document Clustering. Computer Science and Information Systems, 8(3): 635-651,2011.

2010

Gang Li, Rob Law, Jinlong Wang. Analyzing International Travelers' Profile with Self-Organizing Maps. Journal of travel & tourism marketing, 27(2): 113-131,2010.

Gang Li, Rob Law, Jia Rong and Huy Quan Vu. Incorporating both positive and negative association rules into the analysis of outbound tourism in Hong Kong. Journal of travel & tourism marketing, 27(8): 812-828,2010.

Robin Doss, Gang Li, Vicky Mak, MenikTissera. Information Discovery in Mission Critical Wireless Sensor Networks. Computer networks, 54(14): 2383-2399,2010.

Jinlong Wang, Ke Gao, Gang Li. Empirical Analysis of Customer Behaviors in Chinese E-Commerce. Journal of networks, 5(10),2010.

Jinlong Wang, Shunyao Wu, Gang Li. Clustering with instance and attribute level side information. International journal of computational intelligence systems, 3(6): 770-785,2010.

2009

Jia Rong, Gang Li, Rob Law. A Contrast Analysis of Online Hotel Web Service Purchasers and Browsers. International Journal of Hospitality Management, 28(3): 466-478,2009.

Jinlong Wang, Congfu Xu, Gang Li. Mining Frequent Itemsets in Distorted Databases with Granular Computing. International Journal of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, 23(04): 825-846,2009.

Jia Rong, Gang Li, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen. Acoustic Feature Selection for Automatic Emotion Recognition from Speech. Information processing & management, 45(3): 315-328,2009.

Robin Doss, Gang Li, Shui Yu, Vicky Mak, Morshed Chowdhury. Improving the QoS for Information Discovery in Autonomic Wireless Sensor Networks. Pervasive and mobile computing, 5(4): 334-349,2009.

2007

Jingyu Hou, Wei Shi, Gang Li, Wanlei Zhou. An effective non-parametric method for globally clustering genes from expression profiles. Medical & biological engineering & computing, 45(12): 1175-1185,2007.

(2007 Nightingale Prize)