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Cost and Effect of Using Scheduling Security Model in a Cloud Environment (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sheikh, A., Munro, M., & Budgen, D. (2019, December). Cost and Effect of Using Scheduling Security Model in a Cloud Environment. Presented at 6th IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing (CSCloud 2019), Paris, France

Resource scheduling is concerned with selecting the most appropriate resources to meet the needs of consumers. This is a complex task in Cloud Computing because of the large amount of available resources such as applications and data storage faciliti... Read More about Cost and Effect of Using Scheduling Security Model in a Cloud Environment.

Collaborative Denoising Autoencoder for High Glycated Haemoglobin Prediction (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhassan, Z., Budgen, D., Alessa, A., Alshammari, R., Daghstani, T., & Al Moubayed, N. (2019, September). Collaborative Denoising Autoencoder for High Glycated Haemoglobin Prediction. Presented at 28th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN2019), Munich, Germany

A pioneering study is presented demonstrating that the presence of high glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) levels in a patient’s blood can be reliably predicted from routinely collected clinical data. This paves the way for performing early detection of Ty... Read More about Collaborative Denoising Autoencoder for High Glycated Haemoglobin Prediction.

Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis from Time Series Clinical Data using Deep Learning Models (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhassan, Z., McGough, S., Alshammari, R., Daghstani, T., Budgen, D., & Al Moubayed, N. (2018, October). Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis from Time Series Clinical Data using Deep Learning Models. Presented at 27th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN)., Rhodes, Greece

Clinical data is usually observed and recorded at irregular intervals and includes: evaluations, treatments, vital sign and lab test results. These provide an invaluable source of information to help diagnose and understand medical conditions. In thi... Read More about Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis from Time Series Clinical Data using Deep Learning Models.

SSM: Scheduling Security Model for a Cloud Environment (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sheikh, A., Munro, M., & Budgen, D. (2018, December). SSM: Scheduling Security Model for a Cloud Environment. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing (ICCBDC), Barcelona, Spain

Scheduling in the cloud is a complex task due to the number and variety of resources available and the volatility of usage-patterns of resources considering that the resource setting is on the service provider. This complexity is compounded further w... Read More about SSM: Scheduling Security Model for a Cloud Environment.

Stacked Denoising Autoencoders for Mortality Risk Prediction Using Imbalanced Clinical Data (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Alhassan, Z., McGough, A. S., Alshammari, R., Daghstani, T., Budgen, D., & Al Moubayed, N. (2018, December). Stacked Denoising Autoencoders for Mortality Risk Prediction Using Imbalanced Clinical Data. Presented at IEEE 17th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA 2018)., Orlando, Fl, USA

Clinical data, such as evaluations, treatments, vital sign and lab test results, are usually observed and recorded in hospital systems. Making use of such data to help physicians to evaluate the mortality risk of in-hospital patients provides an inva... Read More about Stacked Denoising Autoencoders for Mortality Risk Prediction Using Imbalanced Clinical Data.

What Do We Know and How Well Do We Know It? Current Knowledge about Software Engineering Practices (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Budgen, D. (2015, July). What Do We Know and How Well Do We Know It? Current Knowledge about Software Engineering Practices. Presented at 10th International Joint Conference on Software Technologies (ICSOFT), Colmar, France

Context: The ‘prescriptions’ used in software engineering for developing and maintaining systems make use of a set of ‘practice models’, which have largely been derived by codifying successful experiences of expert practitioners. Aim: To review the w... Read More about What Do We Know and How Well Do We Know It? Current Knowledge about Software Engineering Practices.

Applying the SE2014 Curriculum Model (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Budgen, D. (2015, May). Applying the SE2014 Curriculum Model. Presented at Software Engineering Education Conference, Proceedings, Florence

The original ACM/IEEE Curriculum Guidelines for undergraduate degree programs in software engineering were issued in 2004. In 2010 the two professional bodies set up a task force to review these and see what changes might be needed, and following the... Read More about Applying the SE2014 Curriculum Model.

Lessons from Conducting a Distributed Quasi-Experiment (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Budgen, D., Kitchenham, B., Charters, S., Gibbs, S., Pohthong, A., Keung, J., & Brereton, P. (2013, October). Lessons from Conducting a Distributed Quasi-Experiment. Presented at 2013 ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Baltimore, USA

Context: Due to the lack of suitably skilled participants, software engineering experiments often lack the statistical power needed to detect the levels of effect that may be encountered. Aim: To investigate whether this can be remedied by running an... Read More about Lessons from Conducting a Distributed Quasi-Experiment.

The case for knowledge translation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Budgen, D., Kitchenham, B., & Brereton, P. (2013, June). The case for knowledge translation. Presented at International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, Baltimore, USA

Context: For the outcomes of systematic literature reviews to be of use for practitioners, we need to develop models for addressing the needs of Knowledge Translation (KT). Aim: To identify some of the key issues that need to be addressed by a KT pro... Read More about The case for knowledge translation.

Town hall discussion of SE 2004 revisions (panel) (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ardis, M., Budgen, D., Hislop, G. W., Offutt, J., Sebern, M., & Visser, W. (2013, February). Town hall discussion of SE 2004 revisions (panel). Presented at 2013 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), San Francisco, USA

This panel will engage participants in a discussion of recent changes in software engineering practice that should be reflected in curriculum guidelines for undergraduate software engineering programs. Current progress in revising the guidelines will... Read More about Town hall discussion of SE 2004 revisions (panel).

Workshop on revisions to SE 2004 (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ardis, M., Budgen, D., Hislop, G. W., Offutt, J., Sebern, M., & Visser, W. (2013, February). Workshop on revisions to SE 2004. Presented at 2013 26th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), San Francisco, USA

We shall conduct a half-day workshop on needed revisions to Software Engineering 2004: Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering (SE 2004). A brief overview of the current guidelines and their revision status wil... Read More about Workshop on revisions to SE 2004.

Revision of the SE 2004 curriculum model (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hislop, G. W., Sebern, M. J., Ardis, M., Offut, J., Budgen, D., & Visser, W. (2013, February). Revision of the SE 2004 curriculum model. Presented at SIGCSE '13: The 44th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, San Francisco, USA

Software Engineering 2004: Curriculum Guidelines for Undergraduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering (SE 2004) [1] is one volume in a set of computing curricula adopted and supported by the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. In order to keep th... Read More about Revision of the SE 2004 curriculum model.

Mapping study completeness and reliability - A case study (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kitchenham, B., Brereton, P., & Budgen, D. (2012, May). Mapping study completeness and reliability - A case study. Presented at 16th International Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2012), Ciudad Real

Context: We have been undertaking a series of case studies to investigate the value of mapping (scoping) studies in software engineering. Our previous studies have assessed these using the subjective opinions of researchers. Objective: In order to pr... Read More about Mapping study completeness and reliability - A case study.

Using agents to create a university timetable addressing essential & desirable constraints and fair allocation of resources (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wangmaeteekul, P., & Budgen, D. (2011, February). Using agents to create a university timetable addressing essential & desirable constraints and fair allocation of resources. Presented at Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Intelligent Systems and Agents 2011, Part of the IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 2011, MCCSIS 2011, Avila, Spain

University timetabling resource allocation problems have previously been investigated using multi-agent systems. Although these studies have proposed various models, these have not addressed such issues as fairness of allocation, and of ranking const... Read More about Using agents to create a university timetable addressing essential & desirable constraints and fair allocation of resources.

Repeatability of systematic literature reviews (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kitchenham, B., Brereton, P., Li, Z., Budgen, D., & Burn, A. (2011, April). Repeatability of systematic literature reviews. Presented at 15th Annual Conference on Evaluation & Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2011), Durham

Background: One of the anticipated benefits of systematic literature reviews (SLRs) is that they can be conducted in an auditable way to produce repeatable results. Aim: This study aims to identify under what conditions SLRs are likely to be stable,... Read More about Repeatability of systematic literature reviews.

The Educational Value of Mapping Studies of Software Engineering Literature (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kitchenham, B., Brereton, P., & Budgen, D. (2010, December). The Educational Value of Mapping Studies of Software Engineering Literature. Presented at 32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010) ACM Press, Cape Town, South Africa

We identify three challenges related to the provenance of the material we use in teaching software engineering. We suggest that these challenges can be addressed by using evidence-based software engineering (EBSE) and its primary tool of systematic l... Read More about The Educational Value of Mapping Studies of Software Engineering Literature.

Can we evaluate the quality of software engineering experiments? (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kitchenham, B., Sjøberg, D. I., Brereton, O. P., Budgen, D., Dybå, T., Höst, M., Pfahl, D., & Runeson, P. (2010, September). Can we evaluate the quality of software engineering experiments?. Presented at ESEM 2010 - 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement, Bolzano-Bozen, Italy

Context: The authors wanted to assess whether the quality of published human-centric software engineering experiments was improving. This required a reliable means of assessing the quality of such experiments. Aims: The aims of the study were to conf... Read More about Can we evaluate the quality of software engineering experiments?.

The value of mapping studies – A participant-observer case study (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kitchenham, B. A., Budgen, D., & Brereton, O. P. (2010, April). The value of mapping studies – A participant-observer case study. Presented at 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2010, Keele University, UK

Background: We are strong advocates of evidence-based software engineering (EBSE) in general and systematic literature reviews (SLRs) in particular. We believe it is essential that the SLR methodology is being used constructively to support software... Read More about The value of mapping studies – A participant-observer case study.

The value of mapping studies – A participant-observer case study (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kitchenham, B. A., Budgen, D., & Brereton, O. P. (2010, January). The value of mapping studies – A participant-observer case study. Presented at 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, EASE 2010, Durham University

Background: We are strong advocates of evidence-based software engineering (EBSE) in general and systematic literature reviews (SLRs) in particular. We believe it is essential that the SLR methodology is being used constructively to support software... Read More about The value of mapping studies – A participant-observer case study.