Lero Newsletter

Newsletter December 2014

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Director’s Message The biggest news in the last few weeks was, of course, the announcement by Richard Bruton TD and Damien English TD of 5 new SFI Research Centres, of which Lero is one. Lero members have had other success in terms of funding recently; you can read about these in this newsletter.

Outreach in all its guises (to the community, to schools, for gender equality, etc.) has been particularly effective in this period too, and there are a number of short articles detailing Lero’s achievements in this area.

As we approach the holiday period (and associated celebrations in Limerick and Dublin), I like to take the opportunity to wish all of you, your families, friends, and collaborators, the very best of the season and a Happy New Year, with the Lero Research Centre starting on 1st January 2015.

Best wishes,

Directors Message Lero to benefit from €245 in government funding Women in Engineering Mallow Maths and Science Fair: Beyond Expectations Lero Annual Workshop Celebrate Science

Professor Mike Hinchey

New Medical Software Quality Assurance Course Awards for Lero TrustCom 2014 Conferences and Workshops Invited Speakers to Lero Graduatiions 11th Annual CPD Employer of the Year Awards IMDA Risks Associated with Medical Device Software Cloud Computing: Towards Enlightenment Publications

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Lero to benefit from €245 in government funding Lero is one of five New World-Class SFI Research Centres in Ireland that will receive part of the €245 Million investment from Government and Industry.

The funding of €155 million from the Department of Jobs will be delivered through Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) Research Centres Programme, coupled with €90 million in cash and in-kind contributions from industry partners. The funding will support cutting-edge research in critical and emerging sectors of the economy which are key for job creation in Ireland. The funding will be provided over the next six years, 2014-2020 directly supporting 700 researcher positions across the five Universities.

The five SFI Research Centres will be involved in over 165 industry collaborations with partners ranging from multinationals to SMEs and including Intel, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Medtronic Vascular Galway Ltd, Xilinx, Huawei and many more

Women in Engineering

Clare McInerney, Anne Meade, Sophie Lennon

Dr. Anne Meade (Dell and Lero PhD graduate), Sophie Lennon (Intel and Lero PhD candidate) and Clare McInerney (Lero) participated in Womenin-Engineering, a careers seminar, organised by Engineers Ireland, in Dublin Castle on Wednesday October 8th. The keynote address was given by Regina Moran who is CEO of Fujitsu Ireland. The president of Engineers Ireland also spoke and there were presentations from some of the other engineers attending. 250 female second-level students participated in a round table discussion with industry based engineers

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Lero Annual Workshop The 12th Lero annual workshop took place in September in Athlone. Over 90 delegates attended the event from each of the partner institutes. The keynote speaker was Tore Dyba from SINTEF with a presentation entitled, “Do Empirical Studies Really Matter, and Does it Really Matter if they Do?” The main focus of the workshop was commercialisation and publication strategy. Feedback was very positive from these sessions. Our BBQ beside the lake was really successful and the weather stayed dry and warm into the evening

Limerick Celebrates Science The Limerick Celebrate Science Festival was a great success on Saturday.

Children of all ages enjoyed a series of physics experiments during the science busking session in the Milk Market. The Celebrate Science festival continued at the Hunt Museum where the general public enjoyed an afternoon of science demonstrations, experiments and workshops including food, technology, nanotechnology, robotics, crystallography, aerospace, software, altitude, lego and many more.

“It was great to see so many families coming into the city to enjoy and experience science during Science Week”, said Clare McInerney, Lero/UL coordinator for Limerick Celebrate Science. “We were delighted to see such a large turnout at the festival”.

The Limerick Celebrate Science Event culminated in a Pub Science event at the Locke Bar on Saturday evening. Eleven researchers and scientists from the University of Limerick gave 5 minute presentations about their work including “Fly me to the moon”, “What language do you speak”, “Dying to Live” “Bad glue makes good nanomachines”, “Above the clouds” and “Why do bubbles in Guinness sink?”

Limerick Celebrate Science festival is funded by SFI Discover and involves researchers from the following centres at the University of Limerick: Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre, SSPC – Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre, MACI- Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry, the National Altitude Training Centre, the National Centre for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning and the Faculty of Science and Engineering

Cloud Computing: Towards Enlightenment

The EVolving Open Software Systems (EVOSS) research group at the National University of Ireland Galway hosted a free industryspecific event entitled ‘Cloud Computing: Towards Enlightenment’ on Friday Oct 31, 2014. The event was supported by the Irish Software Research Centre (Lero), NUI Galway’s Whitaker Institute, and the Irish Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (IAIS).

The event was well attended from industry including delegates from IBM and Cisco

Mallow Maths and Science Fair: Beyond Expectations

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Clare McInerney from Lero@ UL took part in the Mallow Festival of Science. The amazing resonance between the Mallow community, industries, third level institutes, researchers and local schools continues to bring the Mallow Maths and Science Fair to levels beyond expectations. Up to 4,500 visitors at the fair experienced a trip to Space with Dr. Niamh Shaw’s My place in Space, a walk down the Alimentary Adventures Tunnel with the Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (UCC) team and making crystals with the Synthesis and Solid State Pharmaceutical Centre (SSPC based in UL). Aimed at all the family, the emphasis in the Fair was fun and entertainment, and

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featured a whole range of interactive demonstrations including robotics, lego, technology, knee joints for implantation, maths puzzles and dome building - just a sample of the activities visitors took part in at the country’s largest communitybased Science and Maths Family Fair.

Apart from the mission to demonstrate that Science and Maths can be both entertaining, interesting and the bedrock for technology, the more serious objective is to encourage young people in Mallow and North Cork to embrace the subjects which can be the pathway to stimulating career opportunities later on

Awards for Lero 6th International Symposium on SearchBased Software Engineering to place in Brazil at the end of August. Shadi Ghaith, John Murphy, Philip Perry and Miao Wang won the Best Paper Award for the PhD Student Track. Their paper was entitled ‘Transaction profile estimation of queuing network models for IT systems using a searchbased technique’

Verona and Health Informatics

Dr John Noll attended the International Conference on Health Informatics, 2015, in Verona, Italy, 15-17 September, and presented two papers with results from ARCH research: System ‘Support for Standardisation of Health Care’, O’Leary, Padraig, Noel Carroll and Ita Richardson, and ‘Care Pathway Support System’, O’Leary, Padraig, Lucia Brunetti, John Noll and Ita Richardson

New Medical Software Quality Assurance Course

TrustCom 2014 Bashar Nuseibeh and colleagues received the “Best Paper Award” at TrustCom 2014 - the 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, held in Beijing China, 24-26th September 2014. The paper was selected from among 73 papers published at the conference (http://www. greenorbs.org/TrustCom2014/). Details: Mu Yang, Yijun Yu, Arosha Bandara and Bashar Nuseibeh, “Adaptive Sharing for Online Social Networks: A Trade-off between Privacy Risk and Social Benefit”. 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, Beijing China, 24-26th September 2014 (http://oro.open.ac.uk/40549/)

Software for Medication Management Marie Travers and Dr Ita Richardson have been awarded an Enterprise Ireland Commercial Case Feasibility Support Grant under the Commercialisation Fund Programme 2014.

This grant will allow them to undertake Market Research into Software for Medication Management

Conferences Attended

A collaboration between Lero, ARCH, Continuing and Professional Education (CPE) in UL and the Irish Medical Device Association, commenced a course in Medical Software Quality Assurance under an outreach program and is funded through IMDA Skillnet.

Course development team was led by Dr Ita Richardson, Principal Investigator in Lero and ARCH, and included Dr Pádraig O’Leary (ARCH), Michael Hennessy and Dr Ann Ledwith (CPE), Dr Michael Lane and Dr Val Casey. The course has been ratified by the UL Academic Council, and is recognised as 2 modules (15 credits) from the University. Students are also required to spend an internship within industry.

Commenting on the programme, IMDA Skillnet Manager, Pauline O’Flanagan said: “Software skills are high in demand in the medtech sector and are now specifically required for some niche roles. This programme will provide graduates with fundamental theoretical and practical skills, abilities and knowledge for assuring the quality of medical software applications in accordance with regulatory requirements and quality management systems.”

IMDA Director, Sinead Keogh said: “The number of computer engineering and software graduates required for the medtech sector has been rising steadily over the past number of years and this trend is set to continue. The sector employs 25,000 people across 300 companies - the availability of new skillsets in vital if we are to realise the sectors growth potential.”

The program is running in Lero at the University of Limerick from October 2014 to January 2015

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Luciano Baresi and Liliana Pasquale gave a tutorial titled “Requirements engineering for self-adaptive systems” at the 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2014)

Dr Ita Richardson is Principal Investigator on the Enterprise Ireland-funded, Applied Research in Connected Health (ARCH) Technology Centre, which has received funding of €5million for 5 years. Prof Brian Caulfield, UCD is the Academic Lead on the project, and Prof Susi Geiger, UCD is also a Principal Investigator. The centre is industry-lead, and Ita’s role in the project is to lead research on software processes, software quality, and the requirements by healthcare professionals for Connected Health. She has also been appointed to the Applied Research in Connected Health Technology Steering Committee

Lero dominates at SPICE

MDevSPICE At the 14th International SPICE Conference on Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination (SPICE 2014) held in Vilnius (Lithuania) in early November 2014, four Lero affiliated researchers (Rory O’Connor, Fergal McCaffery, Paul Clarke and Gilbert Regan) presented a total of 6 papers, in addition to a keynote on MDevSPICE delivered jointly by Fergal McCaffery and Paul Clarke. This impressive representation at SPICE 2014 comes after a several of years significant contribution to the SPICE standards community lead by Rory O’Connor and Fergal McCaffery.

On 5th November 2014 Dr.Fergal Mc Caffery and Dr. Paul Clarke delivered a keynote at the 14th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination( SPICE 2014), held in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The keynote presented MDevSPICE which is a medical device software process assessment framework, has been developed in consultation with academia, the international standards community and the medical device industry. The framework will help to alleviate the present software challenges that encumber the medical device sector

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Torgeir Dingsøyr, who gave this presentation, is a senior scientist at the SINTEF Research Foundation, Norway where he works with software process improvement and knowledge management projects. In particular, he has focused on agile software development through a number of case studies, co-authoring of a systematic review of empirical studies, co-editing of the book Agile Software Development: Current Research and Future Directions, as well as co-editing the special issue on Agile Methods in the Journal of Systems and Software in 2012.

Invited Speakers to Lero Sept 10th 2014 @ NUIG ‘Are Agile Teams More Effective? Findings from the Teamwork Literature and Empirical Studies of Agile Teams’

11th Annual CPD Employer of the Year Awards

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Oct 6th @ UL ‘Understanding the Context Where the Project Exists’ Paula Savolainen from University of Eastern Finland. Paula is a Project Manager in the School of Computing Department at the University of Eastern Finland. She received her D.Sc. (Econ.) from the University of Jyväskylä in 2011. Before joining the university, she worked over 15 years in the software industry and the public sector. Her current research concentrates on project success and the management of a software project in a business context

Keynote for Klaas

Dr. Klaas-Jan Stol was keynote speaker at the 10th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (OpenSym) in Berlin, Germany (http://www.opensym.org/os2014/).

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Jack Rosik, under the supervision of Dr. Jim Buckley, has successfully defended his Ph.D. His thesis entitled “A Continuous Approach for Software Architecture Consistency”. His External Examiner was Dr. Liam O Brien, currently a Solutions Architect from Geoscience Austrialia (and previously of the SEI and CSIRO). His Internal Examiner was Dr. Paddy Healy from the CSIS Department.

Pooyan Jamshidi successfully defended his PhD thesis earlier this month. Pooyan’s thesis ‘A Framework for Robust Control of Uncertainty in Self-Adaptive Software Connectors’ was supervised by Dr. Claus Pahl. The external examiner was Prof. Pete Sawyer, Lancaster University and the internal examiner was Dr. Kevin Casey. The committee was chaired by Dr. Mark Roantree.

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‘Risks Associated with Medical Device Software’ Irish Medical Device Association Skillnet Manager, Pauline O’Flanagan, launched the Lero leaflet ‘Risks Associated with Medical Device Software’. This was developed as a result of Healthcare Research carried out by Dr Ita Richardson, Dr Louise Reid and Dr Pádraig O’Leary in Lero and ARCH, and will be distributed to clinicians and hospital staff through Health Research and Education programs

IMDA Brendan O’Malley, Ita Richardson and Clare McInerney represented Lero at the Irish Medical Devices Networking Event at UL on Thursday October 2ndThis was IMDA’s second networking evening of 2014. This event hosted members from both Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland who updated the sector on their medtech strategy and priorities for the next 12-24 months. They also heard from Tony Kennedy, Senior VP of Global Operations in Teleflex, who will presented a playbook on attracting corporate investment into Ireland. The event also saw the launch of our Medical Technologies Pilot Mentoring Programme for Entrepreneurs in conjunction with Enterprise Ireland and our CEO forum in Conjunction with Enterprise Ireland & IDA Ireland

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MobiHealth 2014

Ita Richardson, Lero@UL and Sinéad O’Mahony, ARCH@UCD ran a Connected Health Workshop at 4th International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2014, November 3–5, Athens, Greece

Science in Seville Eoin Cullina attended the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre Workshop on Science 2.0 in Seville. The workshop focused upon crowd-funding and alternative mechanisms for funding scientific research

Books Vassev, E. and Hinchey, M. (2014) Autonomy Requirements Engineering for Space Missions, NASA Monographs in Systems and Software Engineering, London and New York: Springer ISBN 978-3319098159

Book chapters Beecham, S. (2014) ‘Motivating Software Engineers’ in Claes Wohlin and Guenther Ruhe, ed. Software Project Management for the 21st Century, Cawley, O., Weibelzahl, S., Richardson, I. and Delaney, Y. (2014) ‘Incorporating a self-directed learning pedagogy in the Computing Classroom: Problem-Based Learning as a means to improving Software Engineering learning outcomes ‘ in Liguo Yu, ed. Overcoming Challenges in Software Engineering Education: Delivering Non-Technical Knowledge and Skills, IGI Global, Clarke, P., Lepmets, M., McCaffery, F., Finnegan, A., Dorling, A. and Flood, D. (2014) ‘MDevSPICE - A Comprehensive Solution for Manufacturers and Assessors of Safety-Critical Medical Device Software’ in Antanas Mitasiunas, Terry Rout, Roryv O’connor and Alec Dorling, eds., Software Process Improvement

and Capability Determination, Springer International Publishing, pp 274-278, ISBN 978-3-319-13035-4.

Clohessy, T., Morgan, L. and Acton, T. (2014) ‘A Theoretical Framework for Examining IT Governance in Living Laboratory Ecosystems ‘ in Creating Values For All Through IT: IFIP Advances in Information & Communication Technology, Aalborg: Springer, Giese, H., Bencomo, N., Pasquale, L., Ramirez, A. J., Inverardi, P., Watzoldt, S. and Clarke, S. (2014) ‘Living with Uncertainty in the Age of Runtime Models’ in Models@run.time, CSET2: Springer, Host, M., Stol, K. and Oručević-Alagić, A. (2014) ‹Inner Source Project Management› in G Ruhe & C Wohlin, ed. Software Project Management in a Changing World, Springer,

Kearney, P., Sinclair, D. and Wagner, S. (2014) ‘Security Design Patterns in the MASTER Workbench’ in, CSET: Springer, 185-197 O’Connor, R. (2014) ‘Deploying a Software Process Lifecycle Standard in Very Small Companies’ in Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 3rd ed., CSET2: pp 762-772 Regan, G., McCaffery, F., McDaid, K. and Flood, D. (2014) ‘The Development and Validation of a Traceability Assessment Model’ in Antanas Mitasiunas, Terry Rout, Roryv O’connor and Alec Dorling, eds., Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination, Springer International Publishing, pp 72-83, ISBN 978-3-319-13035-4.

Conference Papers Atachiants, R., Gregg, D., Jarvis, K. and Doherty, G. (2014) ‘Design Considerations for Parallel Performance Tools’, in ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto,Canada.

Ayala, V., Cereques, T., McDonagh, P. and Murphy, L. (2014) ‘Ontology-Based Quality Evaluation of Value Generalization Hierarchies for Data Anonymization’, in Privacy In Statistical Databases Conference, Spain.

Barafort, B., O’Connor, R. V. and R, M. (Eds)(2014) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, Proceedings of the 21st European Conference, EuroSPI 2014, Luxembourg, June 25-27, 2014,Springer, ISBN: 978-3-662-43895-4.

Bragard, Q., Ventresque, A. and Murphy, L. (2014) ‘Synchronisation for Dynamic

Load Balancing of Decentralised Conservative Distributed Simulation’, in 2014 SIGSIM PADS 2014, the 28th ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, Denver, USA. Butterfield, A. (2014) ‘UTP2: HigherOrder Equational Reasoning by Pointing’, in the Conference paper-User Interfaces for Theorem Proving (UITP 2014) Vienna, Austria.

Cahill, V., Clarke, S., Doolan, R., Dusparic, I. and Harris, C. (2014) ‘A distributed agent based mechanism for shaping of aggregate demand on the smart grid’, in Energy Conference (ENERGYCON), 2014 IEEE International Croatia.

Clarke, P., Dorling, A., Finnegan, P., Lepmets, M. and McCaffrey, F. (2014) ‘Characteristics of Medical Device Software

Development Framework ‘, in 21st European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuropSPI 2014) Cullina, E., Conboy, K. and Morgan, L. (2014) ‘Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Mechanisms for Scientific Research Funding Agencies’, in IPP2014 Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy Oxford, UK. Dangel, U., Bragard, Q., McDonagh, P., Ventresque, A. and Murphy, L. (2014) ‘Can Road Traffic Volume Information Improve Partitioning for Distributed SUMO?’, in Proceedings of SUMO2014, Reports of the DLR-Institute of Transportation Systems, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. ,pp 45-55.

Doolan, R. and Muntean, G.-M. (2014) ‘Reducing Carbon Emissions by

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Conference Papers

Introducing Electric Vehicle Enhanced Dedicated Bus Lanes’, in Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Proceedings, 2014 IEEE, Michigan, USA. Doolan, R. and Muntean, G. M. (2014) ‘TIME-ANTS: An Innovative Temporal and Spatial Ant-based Vehicular Routing Mechanism ‘, in 2014 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) June 8-11, 2014, Michigan, USA. Flood, D., McCaffrey, F., Regan, G. and Casey, V. (2014) ‘A Critical Evaluation of a Methodology for the Generation of Software Process Improvement Roadmaps ‘, in EuroSPI 2014 CCIS, Garica-Galan, Pasquale, L., Trinidad, P. and RuizCortes, A. (2014) ‘User-centric adaptation of multitenant services: preference-based analysis for service reconfiguration ‘, in 9th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems Hyderbad, India.

Ghaith, S., Wang, M., Perry, P. and Murphy, J. (2014) ‘Transaction Profile Estimation of Queueing Network Models for IT Systems Using A Search-based Technique’, in 6th International Symposium, SSBSE 2014, Brazil. Springer,pp 234-239.

Ghaith, S., Wang, M., Perry, P. and Murphy, L. (2014) ‘Software Contention Aware Queueing Network Model of Three-Tier Web Systems (Work-InProgress)’, in ICPE ‘14 Proceedings of the 5th ACM/ SPEC international conference on Performance Engineering Dublin, Ireland. pp 273-276.

Guoping, R., Boehm, B., Kuhrmann, M., Tian, E., Lian, S. and Richardson, I. (2014) ‘Towards ContextSpecific Software Process Selection, Tailoring, and Composition’, in ICSSP 2014 International Conference on Software and System Process,, Nanjing, China.

Han, Y., Magoni, D., McDonagh, P. and Murphy, L. (2014) ‘Determination of Bit-Rate Adaptation Thresholds for the Opus Codec for VoIP Services’, in ISCC 2014, the 19th IEEE symposium on computers and communications, Portugal.

Han, Y. and Muntean, G.-M. (2014) ‘No Reference Objective Quality Metric for Stereoscopic 3D’, in BMSB 2014 : The IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting Beijing, China.

Harris, C., Dusparic, I., Galvan, E., Marinescu, A., Cahill, V. and Clarke, S. (2014) ‘Set point control for charging of electric vehicles on the distribution network ‘, in IEEE Power &

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Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT) Washington DC, USA. Herold, S. and Mai, M. (2014) ‘Recommending Refactorings to Re-establish Architectural Consistency’, in the 8th European Conference, ECSA 2014, Vienna, Austria. pp 390-397 Iglesias, J. O., Perry, P., Murphy, L., Buda, T. S. and Thorburn, J. (2014) ‘An Experimental Methodology to Evaluate Energy Efficiency and Performance in an Enterprise Virtualized Environment’, in 5th ACM/ SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Dublin, Ireland. ACM,pp 51-62.

Insaurralde, C. C. and Vassev, E. (2014) ‘Artificial homeostasis for vehicle control architecture of unmanned spacecraft’, in IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, USA.

Entities: Implementation and Initial Results’, in 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), Portugal.

Lepmets, M., Clarke, P., McCaffery, F., Finegan, A. and Dorling, A. (2014) ‘Development of a Process Assessment Model for Medical Device Software Development’, in 21th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2014), Luxembourg.

Lepmets, M., O’Connor, R. V., Cater-Steel, A., M. A. and T., M. (2014) ‘Towards a Holistic View of Process Improvement: A Cynefin based approach to process model tailoring and goal alignment ‘, in 9th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC) Portugal.

Jordan, H., Beecham, S. and Botterweck, G. (2014) ‘Modelling Software Engineering Research with RSML’, in 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering,, London, UK.

Li, X., Ventresque, A., Murphy, J. and Thorburn, J. (2014) ‘A Fair Comparison of VM Placement Heuristics and a More Effective Solution’, in 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing Aix-Marseille University, Porquerolles Island-Côte d’Azur- France

Kroll, J., Richardson, I., Audy, J. L. N. and Fernandes, J. M. (2014) ‘Handoffs Management in Follow-the-Sun Software Projects: A Case Study ‘, in Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) Hawaii.

Mair, M., Herold, S. and Rausch, A. (2014) ‘Towards flexible automated software architecture erosion diagnosis and treatment’, in Proceedings of the WICSA 2014 Companion Volume Article No. 9 Sydney, Australia. ACM New York,

Kurhmann, M. and Beecham, S. (2014) ‘Artifactbased software process improvement and management: a method proposal ‘, in International Conference on Software and System Process (ICSSP 2014) USA.

Marinescu, A., Harris, A., Dusparic, I., Cahil, V. and Clarek, S. (2014) ‘A Hybrid Approach to Very Small Scale Electrical Demand Forecasting ‘, in IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), Washington DC, USA.

Laporte, C. and O’Connor, R. (2014) ‘Designing systems engineering profiles for VSEs’, in the 14th International SPICE Conference on Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination (SPICE 2014), Vilnius, Lithuania.

McHugh, M., Abder-Rahman, A. and McCaffrey, F. (2014) ‘The Impact of Fuzzy Requirements on Medical Device Software Development’, in 21st European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuropSPI 2014) Luxembourg.

Laporte, C. and O’Connor, R. (2014) ‘A Systems Process Lifecycle Standard for Very Small Entities: Development and Pilot Trials’, in 21th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2014), Springer-Verlag,

McHugh, M., Caffery, F. M., Daid, K. M. and Flood, D. (2014) ‘An Agile Implementation within a Medical Device Software Organisation’, in Proceedings 14th International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination, Springer-Verlag,

Laporte, C. Y., O’Connor, R., Paucar, L. H. G. and Gerançon, B. (2014) ‘An Innovative Approach in Developing Standard Professionals by Involving Software Engineering Students in Implementing and Improving International Standards’, in International Cooperation for Education about Standardization Conference (ICES 2014), Ottawa Canada.

Mkaouer, W., Kessentini, M., Deb, K. and Ó Cinnéide, M. (2014) ‘High Dimensional Search-based Software Engineering: Finding Tradeoffs Among 15 Objectives for Automating Software Refactoring Using NSGA-III’, in Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GEC), Canada.

Laporte, C. Y. and O’Connor, R. (2014) ‘Systems and Software Engineering Standards for Very Small

Moad, D., Djahel, S. and Nait-Abdesselam, F. (2014) ‘Padovan sequence based Backoff Algorithm for

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Conference Papers

improved wireless medium access in MANETs ‘, in Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium (GIIS), 2014 Montreal, Canada. IEEE, Monasor, M., Noll, J., Vizcaíno, A., Piattini, M. and Beecham, S. (2014) ‘Walk before you run: using heuristic evaluation to assess a training tool prototype’, in (EASE’14) 18th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering London, UK. Monasor, M. J., Vizcaíno, A., Piattini, M., Noll, J. and Beecham, S. (2014) ‘Assessment process for a simulation-based training environment in Global Software Development ‘, in ITiCSE 2014 - ACM SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Uppsala, Sweden.

Nhlabatsi, A., Khan, N., Khan, K., Tun, T., Yu, Y., Bandara, A. K. and Nuseibeh, B. (2014) ‘Traceability for Adaptive Information Security in the Cloud’, in 7th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Alaska, USA. O’Connor, R. (2014) ‘Early stage adoption of ISO/IEC 29110 software project management practices: a case study’, in the 14th International SPICE Conference on Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination (SPICE 2014), Vilnius, Lithuania. Springer-Verlag, O’Connor, R. and Duchonova, N. (2014) ‘Assessing The Value of an Agile Coach in Agile Method Adoption’, in 21th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2014), Springer-Verlag,

Osborne-O’Hagan, A., Coleman, G. and O’Connor, R. V. (2014) ‘Software Development Processes for Games: A Systematic Literature Review’, in 21th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2014), Springer-Verlag, Pasquale, L., Ghezzi, C., Menghi, C., Tsigkanos, C. and Nuseibeh, B. (2014) ‘Topology Aware Adaptive Security’, in SEAMS 2014 Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems Hyderbad, India.

Portillo-Dominguez, A., W., M.,, Magoni, D., Murphy, J., Mitchell, N., Sweeney, P. and Altman, E. (2014) ‘Towards an Automated Approach to Use Expert Systems in the Performance Testing of Distributed Systems’, in 2nd Joining AcadeMiA and Industry Contributions to Test Automation and Model-based Testing Jamaica.

Portillo-Dominguez, A., Wang, M., Magoni, D., Perry, P. and Murphy, J. (2014) ‘Load Balancing of Java Applications by Forecasting Garbage Collections ‘, in 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Porquerolles, France.

Regan, G., Biro, M., Mc Caffery, F., McDaid, K. and Flood, D. (2014) ‘A Traceability Process Assessment Model for the Medical Device Domain ‘, in 1st European Conference on systems, Software and Services Process Improvements ( EuroSPI 2014), Luxembourg.

Richardson, I. (2014) ‘Sofware Processes: How Important Is Your Domain?

‘, in ICSSP 2014 International Conference on Software and System Process, China.

Stol, K.-J. (2014) ‘Inner Source: Coming to a Company Near You Soon!’, in Proceedings of The International Symposium on Open Collaboration pp 44.

Stol, K.-J., Fitzgerald,B (2014) ‘Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd: A Case Study of Crowdsourcing Software Development’, in 36th International Conference on software( ICSE), Hyderbad.

CSET2, Stol, K.-J., Fitzgerald, B. and Musial, M. (2014) ‘Evidence-Based Decision Making in Lean Software Project Management’, in 36th International Conference on Software Engineering (SEIP), Hyderbad, India.

Sweetman, R., O’Dwyer, O. and Conboy, K. (2014) ‘Control in Software Project Portfolios: A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach’, in 15th International Conference on Agile Software Development (XP 2014) Rome, Italy.

Thomas, K., Bandara, A. K., Price, B. A. and Nuseibeh, B. (2014) ‘Distilling privacy requirements for mobile applications’, in ICSE 2014, Hyderbad, India.

Yilmaz, M., O’Connor, R. and Clarke, P. (2014) ‘An Exploration of Individual Personality Types in Software Development’, in 21th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2014), Springer-Verlag,

Journal Articles Ahmad, A., Jamshidi, P.,Pahl, C. (2014) ‘Classification and comparison of architecture evolution reuse knowledge—a systematic review ‘, Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, Ahmed, A., Jamshidi, P. and Pahl, C. (2014) ‘A Pattern Language for the Evolution of Component-based Software Architectures ‘, Electronic Communications of the EASST, Special Issue on Patterns Promotion and Anti-patterns Prevention,

Beecham, S., O’Leary, P., Baker, S., Richardson, I. and Noll, J. (2014) ‘Making Software Engineering Research Relevant’, Computer, 47(4), pp 80-83.

Creissac Campos, J., Doherty, G. and Harrison, M. D. (2014) ‘Analysing interactive devices based on information resource constraints’, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 72(3), pp 284–297.

Djahel, S., Doolan, R., Muntean, G.-M. and Murphy, J. (2014) ‘A

Communications-oriented Perspective on Traffic Management Systems for Smart Cities: Challenges and Innovative Approache’, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutororials, IEEE Frigeri, A., Pasquale, L. and Spoletini, P. (2014) ‘Fuzzy Time in LTL’, ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL), 15(4), Article No. 30.

Khoshkbarforoushha, A., Jamshidi, P. and Gholami, M. F. (2014) ‘Metrics for BPEL Process

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Publications so far in 2014

Reusability Analysis in a Workflow System’, Systems Journal,

Engineering and Methodology), 23(2), Article No. 18.

Li, X., Ventresque, A., Murphy, J. and Thorburn, J. (2014) ‘SOC: Satisfaction-Oriented Virtual Machine Consolidation in Enterprise Data Centers’, International Journal of Parallel Programming, pp 1-21.

Stol, K.-J. and Fitzgerald, B. (2014) ‘Inner Source— Adopting Open Source Development Practices within Organizations: A Tutorial’, IEEE Software,

Morgan, L. and Finnegan, P. (2014) ‘Beyond free software: An exploration of the business value of strategic open source’, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 23(3), pp 226-238.

O’Hanlon, S., O’Regan, N., Maclullich, A., Cullen, W., Dunne, C., Exton, C. and Meagher, D. (2014) ‘A comprehensive review of evidence that can assist in prevention, detection and management’, Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 85(2) O’Connor, R. and Basri, S. (2014) ‘Understanding the Role of Knowledge Management in Software Development: A Case Study in Very Small Companies ‘, International Journal of Systems and ServiceOriented Engineering, 4(1), 14.

O’Connor, R. and Laporte, C. Y. (2014) ‘An Innovative Approach to the Development of an International Software Process Lifecycle Standard for Very Small Entities’, International Journal of Information Technology and the Systems Approach, 7(1) Portillo-Rodriguez, J., Vincaino, J. A., Piattino, M. and Beecham, S. (2014) ‘Using Agents to Manage Socio-Technical Congruence in a Global Software Engineering Project’, Information Sciences, Volume 264, pp 235-259.

Riungu-Kalliosaari, L., Taipale, O., Smolander, K. and Richardson, I. (2014) ‘Adoption and use of cloud-based testing in practice’, Software Quality Journal, Silva, I. F. d., Neto, P. A. d. M. S., O’Leary, P., Almeida, E. S. d. and Meira, S. R. d. L. (2014) ‘Software Product Lines Scoping and Requirements Engineering in a Small and Medium -Sized Enterprise: An Industrial Case Study’, Journal of Systems and Software, Stol, K.-J., Avgeriou, P., Babar, A., M, Lucas, Y. and Fitzgerald, B. (2014) ‘Key Factors for Adopting Inner Source’, TOSEM (ACM Transactions on Software

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Stol, K.-J. and Fitzgerald, B. (2014) ‘Theory-Oriented Software Engineering ‘, Science of Computer Programming Special Issue on General Theory of Software, Thorpe, C. and Murphy, L. (2014) ‘A Survey of Adaptive Carrier Sensing Mechanisms for IEEE 802.11 WLAN’, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 16(3), pp 1266 - 1293.

Verner, J., Babar, M., Cerpa, N. and Beecham, S. (2014) ‘Factors That Motivate Software Engineering Teams: A Four Country Empirical Study’, Journal of Systems and Software, 92, pp 115–127.

Wang, X., Kuzmickaja, I., Stol, K.-J., Abrahamsson, P. and Fitzgerald, B. (2014) ‘Microblogging in Open Source Software Development: The Case of Drupal Using Twitter’, IEEE Software, 4(31), pp 72-80.

Workshop Papers Clohessy, T., Acton, T. and Morgan, L. (2014) ‘Smart City as a Service (SCaaS): Catalysing E-Government Smart City Development with Cloud Computing’, in Pre-ECIS 2014 AIS SIG eGov Workshop, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Dangel, U., McDonagh, P. and Murphy, L. (2014) ‘Micro Analysis of Urban Vehicular Data for Enhanced Information Services for Commuters’, in VTM2014 - Second International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities, Seoul, South Korea.

Dever, M. and Hamilton, G. (2014) ‘AutoPar: Automatic Parallelization of Functional Programs’, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Metacomputation, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia.

Fitzgerald, B. and Stol, K.-J. (2014) ‘Continuous Software Engineering and Beyond: Trends and Challenges’, in First Workshop on Rapid Continuous Software Engineering (RCoSE) co-located with ICSE’14, Hyderbad, India. ICSE,

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Jones, N. D. and Hamilton, G. (2014) ‘Asymptotic Speedups, Bisimulation and Distillation’, in Proceedings of the Ninth International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference: Perspectives of System Informatics St. Petersburg, Russia.

Jones, N. D. and Hamilton, G. (2014) ‘Towards Understanding Superlinear Speedup by Distillation’, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Metacomputation, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia.

Kannan, V. and Hamilton, G. (2014) ‘Extracting Data Parallel Computations from Distilled Programs’, in Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Metacomputation, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia.

Magoni, D., Murphy, L. and Portillo-Rodríguez, J. (2014) ‘Automated WAIT for Cloud-based Application Testing’, in Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW), 2014 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Cleveland, Ohio, USA. pp 370-375 Saber, T., Ventresque, A. and Murphy, L. (2014) ‘GeNePi: a Multi-Objective Machine Reassignment Algorithm for Data Centres’, in the 9th International Workshop on Hybrid Metaheuristics, Hamburg, Germany.

Smith, D., Djahel, S. and Murphy, J. (2014) ‘A SUMO Based Evaluation of Road Incidents’ Impact on Traffic Congestion Level in Smart Cities’, in goSMART 2014, The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on GlObal Trends in SMART Cities, co-located with IEEE LCN 2014, Edmonton, Canada.

Stol, K. and Fitzgerald, Crowdsourcing Software tives and Concerns ‘, in shop on Crowdsourcing (CSI-SE) Hyderbad, India.

B. (2014) ‘Researching Development: PerspecFirst International Workin Software Engineering

Vassev, E. and Hinchey, M. (2014) ‘Autonomy requirements engineering for self-adaptive science clouds’, in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops Phoenix Arizona, USA. IEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, USA,pp 1344-1353.