2026 Tharam S. Dillon: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	71	1774	1718	55	54	895	20186

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Australia Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Australia Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Australia Leader Award
1998 - IEEE Fellow For leadership in the development of optimizations for power systems.

Overview

Tharam S. Dillon is a researcher affiliated with La Trobe University in Australia, with a focus primarily within the fields of Computer Science and Engineering. Their work spans various subfields including Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering, and Signal Processing.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, prominently including:

Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
Network Security and Intrusion Detection
Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
Digital Transformation in Industry
IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis

Recent publications by Tharam S. Dillon include:

"Missing Value Imputation for Industrial IoT Sensor Data With Large Gaps," 2020, published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
"Provenance-based Intrusion Detection Systems: A Survey," 2022, published in ACM Computing Surveys
"Edge Computing-Assisted IoT Framework With an Autoencoder for Fault Detection in Manufacturing Predictive Maintenance," 2022, published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
"An Integrated Framework for Health State Monitoring in a Smart Factory Employing IoT and Big Data Techniques," 2021, published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
"Empowering IoT Predictive Maintenance Solutions With AI: A Distributed System for Manufacturing Plant-Wide Monitoring," 2021, published in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

The venues where Tharam S. Dillon frequently publishes reflect their research focus and include:

IEEE Internet of Things Journal
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
arXiv (Cornell University)
ACM Computing Surveys
npj Digital Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their research career include:

Yuehua Liu
Wenjin Yu
Wenny Rahayu
Elizabeth Chang
Fahed Mostafa

The researcher was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in 1998 for leadership in the development of optimizations for power systems.

Best Publications

Cloud Computing: Issues and Challenges

Tharam Dillon;Chen Wu;Elizabeth Chang

2131
Citations
Electricity price short-term forecasting using artificial neural networks

B.R. Szkuta;L.A. Sanabria;T.S. Dillon

710
Citations
Integer Programming Approach to the Problem of Optimal Unit Commitment with Probabilistic Reserve Determination

T. S. Dillon;K. W. Edwin;H.-D. Kochs;R. J. Taud

530
Citations
Neural-Network-Based Models for Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting Using a Hybrid Exponential Smoothing and Levenberg–Marquardt Algorithm

Kit Yan Chan;T. S. Dillon;J. Singh;E. Chang

488
Citations
The New Frontier of Smart Grids

Xinghuo Yu;C. Cecati;T. Dillon;M. G. Simões

426
Citations
Trust and Reputation for Service-Oriented Environments: Technologies For Building Business Intelligence And Consumer Confidence

Elizabeth Chang;Farookh Hussain;Tharam Dillon

409
Citations
Conceptual SLA framework for cloud computing

Mohammed Alhamad;Tharam Dillon;Elizabeth Chang

373
Citations
Optimized Structure of the Traffic Flow Forecasting Model With a Deep Learning Approach

Hao-Fan Yang;Tharam S. Dillon;Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

278
Citations
SLA-Based Trust Model for Cloud Computing

Mohammed Alhamad;Tharam Dillon;Elizabeth Chang

269
Citations
Operation properties and δ-equalities of complex fuzzy sets

Guangquan Zhang;Tharam Singh Dillon;Kai-Yuan Cai;Jun Ma

212
Citations
Experimental study of a new hybrid PSO with mutation for economic dispatch with non-smooth cost function

Haiyan Lu;Pichet Sriyanyong;Yong Hua Song;Tharam Dillon

209
Citations
A Global Manufacturing Big Data Ecosystem for Fault Detection in Predictive Maintenance

Wenjin Yu;Tharam Dillon;Fahed Mostafa;Wenny Rahayu

209
Citations
Fuzzy trust evaluation and credibility development in multi-agent systems

Stefan Schmidt;Robert Steele;Tharam S. Dillon;Elizabeth Chang

197
Citations
Automated Knowledge Acquisition

Sabrino Sestito;Tharam S. Dillon

194
Citations
On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: Otm 2010

Robert Meersman;Tharam Dillon;Pilar Herrero

192
Citations
Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems

Maja Hadzic;Pornpit Wongthongtham;Tharam Dillon;Elizabeth Chang

188
Citations
Soft computing in case based reasoning

Sankar K. Pal;Tharam S. Dillon;Daniel S. Yeung

168
Citations
The pudding of trust [intelligent systems]

B. Bhargava;L. Lilien;A. Rosenthal;M. Winslett

165
Citations
Exponential stability and oscillation of Hopfield graded response neural network

Hua Yang;T.S. Dillon

164
Citations
Engineering Intelligent Hybrid Multi-Agent Systems

Rajiv Khosla;Tharam Dillon

160
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth Chang Griffith University

Farookh Khadeer Hussain University of Technology Sydney

Omar Khadeer Hussain University of New South Wales

Kit Yan Chan Curtin University

Wenny Rahayu La Trobe University

Robert Meersman Graz University of Technology

Dianhui Wang La Trobe University

Jie Lu University of Technology Sydney

Guangquan Zhang University of Technology Sydney

Hervé Panetto University of Lorraine

External Links

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