Publications

Research at WIT is carried out by students and full-time research staff who regularly publish their work at venues of national and international repute.

Graduate Theses

Information about graduate theses published by students at the Centre: Complete list

Peer-reviewed Articles

Below is a list of publications (co) authored by the staff at WIT

2023

• S. I. Ullah and A. Muhammad, "Autonomous Navigation and Mapping of Water Channels in a Simulated Environment Using Micro-Aerial Vehicles," 2023. International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Industry (ICRAI), Peshawar, Pakistan, 2023, pp. 1-7
• Sohail, M., & Muhammad, A. 2023. Assessment Of The 2022 Flood Disaster In Pakistan’s Lower Indus Plain Using SAR And Optical Remote Sensing. In IGARSS 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 2173-2176). Pasadena, CA, USA.
• Hassan, W., Manzoor, T., & Muhammad, A. 2023. Improving equity in demand-driven irrigation systems through a rights-preserving water allocation mechanism. Agricultural Water Management, 287, 108443.
• Muhammad, A., & Wescoat, J. L. 2023. Developing Knowledge Capacity and Wisdom for Water Resource Management and Service Delivery: New Conceptual Models and Tools. In M. Ahmad (Ed.), Water Policy in Pakistan (Global Issues in Water Policy, Vol. 30). Springer, Cham. 

2022

• Ilyas, A., Parkinson, S., Vinca, A., Byers, E., Manzoor, T., Riahi, K., Willaarts, B., Siddiqi, A., and Muhammad, A., 2022. Balancing smart irrigation and hydropower investments for sustainable water conservation in the Indus basin. Environmental Science & Policy, 135.
• Affan, A., Nasir, H. A., Manzoor, T., and Muhammad, A., 2022. Mobile sensing for estimation of hydro-dynamic parameters for minimally gauged open channels.  Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 198, 107072.
• Ilyas, A., Manzoor, T., and Muhammad, A., 2022. Capturing Local Behavioural Feedbacks in Large Scale Models for Resource Optimization.  In 2022 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) (pp. 901-906). 
• Khan, Z., Abraham, E., Aggarwal, S., ... Ilyas, A., Muhammad, A., et. al. 2022. Emerging themes and future directions of multi-sector nexus research and implementation.  Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10, 1025. 
• Sohail, M., Ahmad, Z., and Muhammad, A., 2022. Catchment-Level Estimation of Snow Depth Using Sentinel-1 and Ground Sensor Validation in the Upper Indus Basin.  In IGARSS 2022- IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 4260-4263).
• Manzoor, T., Arshad, H., Nasir, H. A., Sheraz, M., and Khan, M. J., 2022. Development of Hydrometric Sensor Networks in Formerly Ungauged Watersheds: Lessons from Namal Valley, Mianwali.  In IGARSS 2022- IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (pp. 4260-4263).

2021

• Ilyas, A., Manzoor, T., & Muhammad, A.,  2021. A Dynamic Socio‐Hydrological Model of the Irrigation Efficiency Paradox. Water Resources Research, 57(12), e2021WR029783.
• Hassan, W., Manzoor, T., Jaleel, H. and Muhammad, A., 2021. Demand-based water allocation in irrigation systems using mechanism design: A case study from Pakistan. Agricultural Water Management, 256(1).
• Vinca, A., Parkinson, S., Riahi, K., Byers, E., Siddiqi, A., Muhammad, A., Ilyas, A., Yogeswaran, N., Willaarts, B., Magnuszewski, P. and Awais, M., 2021. Transboundary cooperation a potential route to sustainable development in the Indus basin. Nature Sustainability, 4(4), pp.331-339.

2020

• Hale, M.T., Ruf, S.F., Manzoor, T. and Muhammad, A., 2020. Stability and Sustainability of a Networked Resource Consumption Model. IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 7(4), pp.2876-2888.
• Farooq, M., Muhammad, A. and Manzoor, T., 2020, December. Climate Informatics for the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in the Indus Basin: A Scoping Study in Modeling Dairy Farms. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
• Vinca, A., Parkinson, S., Byers, E., Burek, P., Khan, Z., Krey, V., Diuana, F.A., Wang, Y., Ilyas, A., Köberle, A.C. and Staffell, I., 2020. The NExus Solutions Tool (NEST) v1. 0: an open platform for optimizing multi-scale energy–water–land system transformations. Geoscientific Model Development, 13(3), pp.1095-1121.
• Ilyas, A., Parkinson, S., Vinca, A. and Muhammad, A., 2020. Diffusion of Smart Irrigation Systems for Tackling Water-Energy-Food Nexus Challenges in the Indus Basin, 14th International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2020), Mexico, 2020.
• Hassan, W., Jaleel, H., Manzoor, T. and Muhammad, A., 2020. A VCG Mechanism for Demand Management of Irrigation Systems. Proc. of the 20th IFAC World Congress (IFAC-PapersOnLine), 53(2), pp.16555-16560, Germany.
• Affan, A., Nasir, H.A. and Muhammad, A., 2020. State Estimation in 2D Hydrological Models using Lagrangian Sensors and Low Resolution Elevation Maps. Proc. of the 20th IFAC World Congress (IFAC-PapersOnLine), 53(2), pp.16549-16554, Germany.

2019

• Ruf, S.F., Hale, M.T., Manzoor, T. and Muhammad, A., 2019, December. Design of sustainable resource consumption networks. In 2019 IEEE 58th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp. 1692-1697). IEEE.
• Abbas, S.M., Ali, H. and Muhammad, A., 2019. Autonomous canal following by a micro-aerial vehicle using deep CNN. 6th International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) on Sensing, Control and Automation Technologies for Agriculture, IFAC-PapersOnLine 52(30), pp.243-250, Sydney, Australia.
• Ilyas, A., Vinca, A., Parkinson, S., Byers, E., Burek, P., Wada, Y., Krey, V., Riahi, K., Djilali, N., Khan, A. and Langan, S., 2019, January. Quantifying impacts of smart irrigation technology on long-term water-energy nexus challenges in the Indus River Basin. In Geophysical Research Abstracts (Vol. 21).
• Affan, A., Nasir, H.A., Shafiq, B. and Muhammad, A., 2019. Data Assimilation of Mobile Sensors in Hydrological Models of Unsteady Flow. IFAC Workshop on Control Methods in Water Resource Systems, IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(23), pp.29-36, Delft, Netherlands.
• Ilyas, A., Hassan, W., Manzoor, T. and Muhammad, A., 2019. Towards Regulating Consumption in a Socio-hydrological Model for Groundwater Extraction. 1st IFAC Workshop on Control Methods for Water Resource Systems (CMWRS), IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(23), pp.94-100, Delft Netherlands.

2018

• Ruf, S.F., Hale, M.T., Manzoor, T. and Muhammad, A., 2018, December. Stability of leaderless resource consumption networks. In 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp. 5334-5339). IEEE.
• Siddiqi, A., Muhammad, A. and Wescoat Jr, J.L., 2018, December. Dynamics of allocations and deliveries in irrigation systems: investigating human-water interactions. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2018, pp. H53D-01).
• Vinca, A., Parkinson, S., Byers, E., Burek, P., Ilyas, A., Wang, Y., Khan, A., Wada, Y., Muhammad, A., Krey, V. and Djilali, N., 2018, December. A Framework for Charting Water-Energy-Land Nexus Solutions for the Indus Basin. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2018, pp. GC53C-07).
• Vinca, A., Ilyas, A., Wang, Y., Parkinson, S., Byers, E., Khan, A., Burek, P., Wada, Y., Mayor, B., Riahi, K. and Djilali, N., 2018, December. Quantifying interactions between smart irrigation technologies and energy transformation in the Indus Basin. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2018, pp. GC51I-0908).
• Ahmad, Z., Khalid, R. and Muhammad, A., 2018, October. Spatially distributed water quality monitoring using floating sensors. In IECON 2018-44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (pp. 2833-2838). IEEE.
• Siddiqi, A., Wescoat Jr, J.L. and Muhammad, A., 2018. Socio-hydrological assessment of water security in canal irrigation systems: a conjoint quantitative analysis of equity and reliability. Water Security, 4, pp.44-55.
• Wescoat Jr, J.L., Siddiqi, A. and Muhammad, A., 2018. Socio‐hydrology of channel flows in complex river basins: Rivers, canals, and distributaries in Punjab, Pakistan. Water Resources Research, 54(1), pp.464-479.

2017

• Siddiqi, A., Muhammad, A. and Wescoat Jr, J.L., 2017, December. A Quantitative Socio-hydrological Characterization of Water Security in Large-Scale Irrigation Systems. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts (Vol. 2017, pp. H13S-04).
• Manzoor, T., Rovenskaya, E., Davydov, A. and Muhammad, A., 2017. Learning through fictitious play in a game-theoretic model of natural resource consumption. IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2(1), pp.163-168.
• Ahmad, Z., Pasha, M.A., Ahmad, A., Muhammad, A., Masud, S., Schappacher, M. and Sikora, A., 2017, September. Performance evaluation of IEEE 802.15. 4-compliant smart water meters for automating large-scale waterways. In 2017 9th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS) (Vol. 2, pp. 746-751). IEEE.
• Manzoor, T., Rovenskaya, E. and Muhammad, A., 2017. Structural effects and aggregation in a social-network model of natural resource consumption. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50(1), pp.7675-7680.

2016

• Manzoor, T., Rovenskaya, E. and Muhammad, A., 2016. Game-theoretic insights into the role of environmentalism and social-ecological relevance: A cognitive model of resource consumption. Ecological modelling, 340, pp.74-85.
• Muhammad, A., 2016, July. Managing river basins with thinking machines. In 2016 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century (21CW) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
• Riaz, W., Ahmad, Z. and Muhammad, A., 2016. A smart metering approach towards measuring flows in small irrigation outlets. Procedia Engineering, 154, pp.236-242.
• Rehmat, C.A., Muhammad, A. and Hassan, N.U., 2016. Comparative frameworks for risk mitigation in canal networks. Procedia Engineering, 154, pp.1414-1423.
• Muhammad, A., Haider, B. and Ahmad, Z., 2016. IoT enabled analysis of irrigation rosters in the Indus basin irrigation system. Procedia Engineering, 154, pp.229-235.