Ishfaq Ahmad

4.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
125 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Ishfaq Ahmad is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Ishfaq Ahmad has authored 125 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 37 papers in Hardware and Architecture and 29 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Ishfaq Ahmad's work include Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (33 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (33 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (22 papers). Ishfaq Ahmad is often cited by papers focused on Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems (33 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (33 papers) and Cloud Computing and Resource Management (22 papers). Ishfaq Ahmad collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and Pakistan. Ishfaq Ahmad's co-authors include Yu‐Kwong Kwok, Samee U. Khan, Sanjay Ranka, Thanasis Loukopoulos, Arif Ghafoor, Dongrui Fan, M.K. Dhodhi, Imtiaz Ahmad, Zhe Wang and M.L. Liou and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Scientific Reports and Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

In The Last Decade

Ishfaq Ahmad

115 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Static scheduling algorithms for allocating directed task graphs to multiprocessors

1999 878 citations Yu‐Kwong Kwok, Ishfaq Ahmad profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ishfaq Ahmad United States	25	2.4k	1.4k	1.2k	321	262	125	3.0k
Behrooz Shirazi United States	21	1.5k 0.6×	609 0.4×	460 0.4×	427 1.3×	296 1.1×	126	2.0k
Ligang He United Kingdom	24	1.2k 0.5×	348 0.3×	913 0.8×	178 0.6×	291 1.1×	163	1.9k
Xiaofei Liao China	25	2.6k 1.1×	645 0.5×	1.4k 1.1×	656 2.0×	800 3.1×	314	3.6k
Vijay K. Madisetti United States	20	801 0.3×	241 0.2×	679 0.6×	418 1.3×	239 0.9×	146	2.0k
Abhishek Verma United States	19	1.6k 0.7×	232 0.2×	1.6k 1.3×	129 0.4×	234 0.9×	40	2.4k
Richard M. Fujimoto United States	32	3.4k 1.4×	1.1k 0.8×	276 0.2×	327 1.0×	62 0.2×	126	4.7k
Valeria Cardellini Italy	30	2.5k 1.0×	203 0.1×	1.7k 1.4×	293 0.9×	174 0.7×	106	2.9k
Allen B. Downey United States	20	1.3k 0.6×	355 0.3×	470 0.4×	305 1.0×	102 0.4×	47	1.9k
Smruti R. Sarangi India	19	1.3k 0.5×	817 0.6×	360 0.3×	1.4k 4.2×	184 0.7×	109	2.5k
Nicola Mazzocca Italy	21	753 0.3×	322 0.2×	569 0.5×	290 0.9×	105 0.4×	181	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ishfaq Ahmad

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Hussain, Zamir, et al.. (2025). A comparative analysis of L-moments, maximum likelihood, and maximum product of spacing methods for the four-parameter kappa distribution in extreme value analysis. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 164–164. 1 indexed citations

Ahmad, Ishfaq, et al.. (2024). What Influence Could the Acceptance of Visitors Cause on the Epidemic Dynamics of a Reinfectious Disease?: A Mathematical Model. Acta Biotheoretica. 72(1). 3–3. 2 indexed citations

Ahmad, Ishfaq, et al.. (2024). Determining critical nodes in optimal cost attacks on networked infrastructures. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1).

Bayoumy, Ahmed B., Chris J. Mulder, Job Peters, et al.. (2023). The Effectiveness and Safety of First-Line Thioguanine in Thiopurine-Naïve Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. 30(9). 1492–1499. 2 indexed citations

Ahmad, Ishfaq, et al.. (2023). Treatment Options for Relapsed Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Study. 17(2). 445–446. 2 indexed citations

Ahmad, Ishfaq & Hiromi Seno. (2023). An epidemic dynamics model with limited isolation capacity. Theory in Biosciences. 142(3). 259–273. 4 indexed citations

Chakraborty, Chinmay, Muhammad Khurram Khan, & Ishfaq Ahmad. (2021). Call for Special Issue Papers: Big Data-Driven Futuristic Fabric System in Societal Digital Transformation. Big Data. 9(4). 324–325. 3 indexed citations

Ahmad, Ishfaq, et al.. (2018). Superpixel-Enhanced Pairwise Conditional Random Field for Semantic Segmentation. 5 indexed citations

Ahmad, Ishfaq, et al.. (2017). “Rapid” regions-of-interest detection in big histopathological images. 595–600.

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Ahmad, Ishfaq, et al.. (2012). Cooperative Game Theoretical Techniques for Energy-Aware Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing. International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. 1075–1084. 2 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Ishfaq, et al.. (2012). Simultaneous optimization of performance, energy and temperature for DAG scheduling in multi-core processors. 1–6. 14 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Ishfaq, et al.. (2011). A comparative analysis of parallel computing approaches for genome assembly. Interdisciplinary Sciences Computational Life Sciences. 3(1). 57–63. 4 indexed citations

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Tian, Ling, et al.. (2009). Effective intra-only rate control for H.264/AVC. 7. 3445–3448. 4 indexed citations

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Liang, Yongfang, Ishfaq Ahmad, & Xiaohui Wei. (2006). Adaptive Techniques for Simultaneous Optimization of Visual Quality and Battery Power in Video Encoding Sensors. 14. 2477–2480. 4 indexed citations

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Khan, Samee U. & Ishfaq Ahmad. (2005). A game theoretical extended vickery auction mechanism for replicating data in large-scale distributed computing systems. Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. 904–910. 4 indexed citations

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Khan, Samee U. & Ishfaq Ahmad. (2004). Heuristics-Based Replication Schemas for Fast Information Retrieval over the Internet.. 278–283. 14 indexed citations

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Loukopoulos, Thanasis & Ishfaq Ahmad. (2004). Static and adaptive distributed data replication using genetic algorithms. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 64(11). 1270–1285. 64 indexed citations

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Kwok, Yu‐Kwong & Ishfaq Ahmad. (1999). Benchmarking and Comparison of the Task Graph Scheduling Algorithms. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 59(3). 381–422. 271 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Ishfaq, et al.. (1998). Optimization of Software-based Real-time H.263 Video Encoding. Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering. 3653. 727.

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Ahmad, Ishfaq & Arif Ghafoor. (1990). A semi distributed task allocation strategy for large hypercube supercomputers. Conference on High Performance Computing (Supercomputing). 898–907. 11 indexed citations

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