Dr Azadeh Ghari-Neiat
Senior Lecturer Software Engineering
School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Researcher biography
Dr. Azadeh Ghari-Neiat is a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of Queensland. Her research interests lie at the intersection of the Internet of Things (IoT), Mobile Computing, Crowdsourcing, and Cybersecurity. Her work focuses on enhancing connectivity and security in modern computing environments through innovative crowdsourcing solutions. She completed her PhD in Computer Science from RMIT University in 2018. Prior to joining UQ, Dr. Ghari-Neiat held academic positions at Deakin University as a Senior Lecturer and at the University of Sydney as a postdoctoral research fellow and casual lecturer.
Book
Neiat, Azadeh Ghari and Bouguettaya, Athman (2018). Crowdsourcing of Sensor Cloud Services. Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-91536-4
Journal Articles
An, Qi, Jiang, Frank, Dong, Chengzu, Pal, Shantanu, Li, Jianhua, Neiat, Azadeh Ghari and Yeoh, William (2025). A Blockchain-Powered Secure Architecture for Cyber Marketplaces of Electric Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, PP (99), 1-19. doi: 10.1109/TIA.2025.3536421
Xu, Jia, Liu, Xiao, Neiat, Azadeh Ghari, Chu, Liju, Li, Xuejun and Yang, Yun (2024). A holistic and hybrid service selection strategy for MEC-based UAV last-mile delivery systems. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 17 (6), 3022-3036. doi: 10.1109/tsc.2024.3451243
Bahutair, Mohammed, Bouguettaya, Athman and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2023). Multi-use trust in crowdsourced IoT services. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 16 (2), 1268-1281. doi: 10.1109/tsc.2022.3160469
Hamdi, Ali, Salim, Flora D., Kim, Du Yong, Neiat, Azadeh Ghari and Bouguettaya, Athman (2022). Drone-as-a-service composition under uncertainty. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 15 (5), 2685-2698. doi: 10.1109/tsc.2021.3066006
Bahutair, Mohammed, Bouguettaya, Athman and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2022). Multi-perspective trust management framework for crowdsourced IoT services. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 15 (4), 2396-2409. doi: 10.1109/tsc.2021.3052219
Neiat, Azadeh Ghari, Bouguettaya, Athman and Bahutair, Mohammed (2022). A deep reinforcement learning approach for composing moving IoT services. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 15 (5), 2538-2550. doi: 10.1109/tsc.2021.3064329
Bouguettaya, Athman, Sheng, Quan Z., Benatallah, Boualem, Neiat, Azadeh Ghari, Mistry, Sajib, Ghose, Aditya, Nepal, Surya and Yao, Lina (2021). An internet of things service roadmap. Communications of the ACM, 64 (9), 86-95. doi: 10.1145/3464960
Shahzaad, Babar, Bouguettaya, Athman, Mistry, Sajib and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2021). Resilient composition of drone services for delivery. Future Generation Computer Systems, 115, 335-350. doi: 10.1016/j.future.2020.09.023
Lakhdari, Abdallah, Bouguettaya, Athman, Mistry, Sajib and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2020). Composing energy services in a crowdsourced IoT environment. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 15 (3), 1280-1294. doi: 10.1109/tsc.2020.2980258
Ben Said, Ahmed, Erradi, Abdelkarim, Neiat, Azadeh Ghari and Bouguettaya, Athman (2019). A Deep Learning Spatiotemporal Prediction Framework for Mobile Crowdsourced Services. Mobile Networks and Applications, 24 (3), 1120-1133. doi: 10.1007/s11036-018-1105-0
Neiat, Azadeh Ghari, Bouguettaya, Athman and Mistry, Sajib (2019). Incentive-based crowdsourcing of hotspot services. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 19 (1) 5, 1. doi: 10.1145/3229047
Neiat, Azadeh Ghari, Bouguettaya, Athman, Sellis, Timos and Mistry, Sajib (2017). Crowdsourced Coverage as a Service: Two-Level Composition of Sensor Cloud Services. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 29 (7) 7862268, 1384-1397. doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2017.2672738
Bouguettaya, Athman, Singh, Munindar, Huhns, Michael, Sheng, Quan Z., Dong, Hai, Yu, Qi, Neiat, Azadeh Ghari, Mistry, Sajib, Benatallah, Boualem, Medjahed, Brahim, Ouzzani, Mourad, Casati, Fabio, Liu, Xumin, Wang, Hongbing, Georgakopoulos, Dimitrios, Chen, Liang, Nepal, Surya, Malik, Zaki, Erradi, Abdelkarim, Wang, Yan, Blake, Brian, Dustdar, Schahram, Leymann, Frank and Papazoglou, Michael (2017). A service computing manifesto: The next 10 years. Communications of the ACM, 60 (4), 64-72. doi: 10.1145/2983528
Conference Papers
Islam, Muhammad, Nagesh, Sanjay Segu, Fernando, Niroshinie, Loke, Seng W., Neiat, AzadehGhari and Pathirana, Pubudu N. (2024). Blockchain Based Trust and Validation Mechanism for Mobile Collaborative Computing. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/3672200.3673879
Nagesh, Sanjay Segu, Fernando, Niroshinie, Loke, Seng W., Neiat, Azadehghari and Pathirana, Pubudu N. (2022). Opportunistic mobile crowd computing: task-dependency based work-stealing. ACM MobiCom '22: The 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, Sydney, NSW Australia, 17-21 October 2022. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3495243.3558751
Chu, Liju, Li, Xuejun, Xu, Jia, Neiat, Azadeh Ghari and Liu, Xiao (2021). A holistic service provision strategy for drone-as-a-service in MEC-based UAV delivery. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Chicago, IL USA, 5-10 September 2021. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICWS53863.2021.00092
Lakhdari, Abdallah, Bouguettaya, Athman, Mistry, Sajib, Ghari Neiat, Azadeh Ghari and Suleiman, Basem (2020). Elastic composition of crowdsourced IoT energy services. 17th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services, Darmstadt, Germany, 7-9 December 2020. New York, NY USA: Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3448891.3448922
Bahutair, Mohammed, Bouguettaya, Athman and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2020). Just-in-time memoryless trust for crowdsourced IoT services. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), Beijing, China, 19-23 October 2020. Piscataway, NJ USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/ICWS49710.2020.00008
Shahzaad, Babar, Bouguettaya, Athman, Mistry, Sajib and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2019). Composing drone-as-a-service (DaaS) for delivery. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. doi: 10.1109/ICWS.2019.00017
Bahutair, Mohammed, Bougeuttaya, Athman and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2019). Adaptive trust: Usage-based trust in crowdsourced IoT services. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. doi: 10.1109/ICWS.2019.00038
Shahzaad, Babar, Bouguettaya, Athman, Mistry, Sajib and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2019). Constraint-Aware Drone-as-a-Service Composition. Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-33702-5_28
Huang, Bing, Bouguettaya, Athman and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2018). Discovering Spatio-Temporal Relationships among IoT Services. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. doi: 10.1109/ICWS.2018.00058
Huang, Bing, Bouguettaya, Athman and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2018). Convenience-based periodic composition of IoT services. Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-03596-9_48
Lakhdari, Abdallah, Bouguettaya, Athman and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2018). Crowdsourcing energy as a service. Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-03596-9_24
Ben Said, Ahmed, Erradi, Abdelkarim, Gharia Neiat, Azadeh and Bouguettaya, Athman (2018). Mobile crowdsourced sensors selection for journey services. Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-03596-9_33
Qu, Lie, Bouguettaya, Athman and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2017). Confidence-aware reputation bootstrapping in composite service environments. Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-69035-3_11
Neiat, Azadeh Ghari, Bouguettaya, Athman and Sellis, Timos (2015). Spatio-temporal composition of crowdsourced services. Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-48616-0_26
Neiat, Azadeh Ghari, Bouguettaya, Athman, Sellis, Timos and Dong, Hai (2014). Failure-proof spatio-temporal composition of sensor cloud services. Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-45391-9_26
Neiat, Azadeh Ghari, Bouguettaya, Athman, Sellis, Timos and Ye, Zhen (2014). Spatio-temporal composition of Sensor Cloud services. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. doi: 10.1109/ICWS.2014.44
Yousefipour, Amin, Ghari Neiat, Azadeh, Mohsenzadeh, Mehran and Seyyedi, Mir Ali (2010). A new broker-based semantic Web service discovery framework for selecting and ranking suggested web services. doi: 10.1109/ICCP.2010.5606416
Shavalady, Sajjad Haj, Mohsenzadeh, Mehran, Neiat, Azadeh Ghari and Mahmoodi, Fariborz (2009). A web service recommender system using user ontology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). doi: 10.1115/1.802977.paper233
Neiat, Azadeh Ghari, Shavalady, Sajjad Haj, Mohsenzadeh, Mehran and Rahmani, Amir Masoud (2009). A new approach for semantic web service discovery and propagation based on agents. doi: 10.1109/ICNS.2009.87
Neiat, Azadeh Ghari, Mohsenzadeh, Mehran, Forsati, Rana and Rahmani, Amir Masoud (2009). An agent- based semantic web service discovery framework. doi: 10.1109/ICCMS.2009.75
Forsati, R., Meybodi, M. R. and Neiat, A. Ghari (2009). Web page personalization based on weighted association rules. doi: 10.1109/ICECT.2009.104
Forsati, Rana, Meybodi, Mohammad Reza, Mahdavi, Mehrdad and Neiat, Azadeh Ghari (2008). Hybridization of K-means and harmony search methods for web page clustering. doi: 10.1109/WIIAT.2008.370