Zhixian Yan

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
40 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Zhixian Yan is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Transportation and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhixian Yan has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Signal Processing, 14 papers in Transportation and 11 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Zhixian Yan's work include Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (14 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (12 papers) and Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (9 papers). Zhixian Yan is often cited by papers focused on Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis (14 papers), Data Management and Algorithms (12 papers) and Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems (9 papers). Zhixian Yan collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and India. Zhixian Yan's co-authors include Karl Aberer, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Stefano Spaccapietra, Christine Parent, Archan Misra, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Nikos Pelekis, Maria Luisa Damiani, Vânia Bogorny and Chiara Renso and has published in prestigious journals such as ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems and Knowledge and Information Systems.

In The Last Decade

Zhixian Yan

39 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Semantic trajectories modeling and analysis 2013 2026 2017 2021 2013 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Semantic trajectories modeling and analysis
    2013 352 citations Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra et al. profile →

Peers

Zhixian Yan
Quannan Li China
Gencai Chen China
Egemen Tanin Australia
Vânia Bogorny Brazil
Héctor González United States
Bart Kuijpers Belgium
Jun Luo China
Sasank Reddy United States
Guan Yuan China
Huub van de Wetering Netherlands
Quannan Li China
Zhixian Yan
Citations per year, relative to Zhixian Yan Zhixian Yan (= 1×) peers Quannan Li

Countries citing papers authored by Zhixian Yan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Zhixian Yan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Zhixian Yan. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Zhixian Yan. The network helps show where Zhixian Yan may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Zhixian Yan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Zhixian Yan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Zhixian Yan based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Zhixian Yan. Zhixian Yan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Qi, Jing Yang, & Zhixian Yan. (2025). Dynamic resource orchestration in edge computing environments using multi-agent reinforcement learning. Knowledge and Information Systems. 67(10). 9363–9383.
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Wei, Ying, et al.. (2018). Transferable Contextual Bandit for Cross-Domain Recommendation. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 32(1). 24 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhixian, et al.. (2017). You are what apps you use. 350–350. 3 indexed citations
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Xiao, Yunpeng, Jing Ma, Yanbing Liu, & Zhixian Yan. (2015). A dynamic influence model of social network hotspot based on grey system. Science China Information Sciences. 58(12). 1–12. 3 indexed citations
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Bao, Xuan, Jun Yang, Zhixian Yan, et al.. (2015). CommSense: Identify Social Relationship with Phone Contacts via Mining Communications. 227–234. 4 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhixian & Dipanjan Chakraborty. (2014). Semantics in Mobile Sensing. 4(1). 1–143. 9 indexed citations
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Feng, Tao, Jun Yang, Zhixian Yan, Emmanuel Munguia Tapia, & Weidong Shi. (2014). TIPS. 1–6. 95 indexed citations
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Predić, Bratislav, Zhixian Yan, Julien Eberle, Dragan Stojanović, & Karl Aberer. (2013). ExposureSense: Integrating daily activities with air quality using mobile participatory sensing. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 303–305. 82 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhixian, Jun Yang, & Emmanuel Munguia Tapia. (2013). Smartphone bluetooth based social sensing. 95–98. 18 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhixian, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Sumit Mittal, Archan Misra, & Karl Aberer. (2013). An exploration with online complex activity recognition using cellphone accelerometer. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 199–202. 9 indexed citations
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Eberle, Julien, Zhixian Yan, & Karl Aberer. (2013). Energy-Efficient Opportunistic Collaborative Sensing. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 3560. 374–378. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhixian, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Christine Parent, Stefano Spaccapietra, & Karl Aberer. (2013). Semantic trajectories. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. 4(3). 1–38. 160 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhixian, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Dipanjan Chakraborty, Archan Misra, & Karl Aberer. (2012). Energy-Efficient Continuous Activity Recognition on Mobile Phones: An Activity-Adaptive Approach. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 17–24. 206 indexed citations
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Liu, Jiajun, Zi Huang, Lei Chen, Heng Tao Shen, & Zhixian Yan. (2012). Discovering areas of interest with geo-tagged images and check-ins. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 589–598. 40 indexed citations
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Guo, Tian, Zhixian Yan, & Karl Aberer. (2012). An adaptive approach for online segmentation of multi-dimensional mobile data. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 7–14. 18 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung, et al.. (2011). Robust and Hierarchical Stop Discovery in Sparse and Diverse Trajectories. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 14 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhixian. (2009). Towards Semantic Trajectory Data Analysis: A Conceptual and Computational Approach.. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 27 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhixian, Jose Macedo, Christine Parent, & Stefano Spaccapietra. (2008). Trajectory Ontologies and Queries. Transactions in GIS. 12(s1). 75–91. 44 indexed citations
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Ding, Ying, et al.. (2008). Integrating social tagging data: Upper Tag Ontology (UTO). Conference proceedings/Conference proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. 460–466. 1 indexed citations
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Yan, Zhixian, et al.. (2007). Business Process Modeling: Classifications and Perspectives.. 222–227. 5 indexed citations

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