Publications (Year | Type)

Journals

• Using Wireframing Frameworks in a Capstone Software Engineering Class
  A. Mahmoud, IEEE Software (2023)
• A Sys. Lit. Review of Anti-Discrimination Design Strategies in the Digital Sharing Economy
  M. Tushev, F. Ebrahimi, and A. Mahmoud, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (IEEE TSE 2022)
• Classifying Mobile Applications Using Word Embeddings
  F. Ebrahimi, M. Tushev, and A. Mahmoud, ACM Tran. on Soft. Eng. and Meth. (ACM TOSEM 2021)
• Mobile App Privacy in Software Engineering Research: A Systematic Mapping Study
  F. Ebrahimi, M. Tushev, and A. Mahmoud, Information and Software Technology (IST 2020)
• Modeling User Concerns in Sharing Economy: The Case of Food Delivery Apps
  G. Williams, M. Tushev, F. Ebrahimi, and A. Mahmoud, Automated Software Engineering (ASEJ 2020)
• Using GitHub in Large Software Engineering Classes: An Exploratory Case Study
  M. Tushev, G. Williams and A. Mahmoud, Journal of Computer Science Education (CSE 2019)
• Video Game Development in a Rush: A Survey of the Global Game Jam Participants
  M. Borg, V.Garousi, A. Mahmoud, T. Olsson, O Stalberg, IEEE Transactions on Games (TG 19)
• Mining Non-Functional Requirements from App Store Reviews
  N. Jha and A. Mahmoud, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE 19)
• Using Frame Semantics for Classifying and Summarizing Application Store Reviews
  N. Jha and A. Mahmoud, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE 18)
• Just Enough Semantics: An Information Theoretic Approach for IR-based Software Bug Localization
  S. Khatiwada, M. Tushev, and A. Mahmoud, Information and Software Technology (IST 18)
• A Time and Energy Efficient Routing Algorithm for Electric Vehicles based on Historical Driving Data
  M. Bozorgi, M. Farasat, and A. Mahmoud, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV)
• Semantic Topic Models for Source Code Analysis
  A. Mahmoud and G. Bradshaw, Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE 17)
• Detecting, Classifying, and Tracing Non-Functional Requirements
  A. Mahmoud and G. Williams, Requirements Engineering Journal (REJ 16)
• Estimating Semantic Relatedness in Source Code
  A. Mahmoud and G. Bradshaw, ACM trans. on soft. eng. and meth. (TOSEM 15)
• Leveraging LDA and POS Tagging to Support Combinational Creativity in Requirements Engineering.
  N. Niu, J. Savolainen, and A. Mahmoud, Requirements Engineering Journal (REJ 15).
• Supporting Requirements to Code Traceability through Refactoring
  A. Mahmoud and N. Niu, Requirement Engineering Journal (REJ 14)
• On the Role of Semantics in Automated Requirements Tracing
  A. Mahmoud and N. Niu, Requirement Engineering Journal (REJ 14)
• Real-Time Traffic Information for Emergency Evacuations
  O. Franzese and A. Mahmoud, Journal of Transportation Safety & Security (JTSS 10)

Refereed Conferences

• Generating Rate Features for Mobile Applications
  S. Shrestha and A. Mahmoud, International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering (MobilSoft 2024)
• Unsupervised Summarization of Privacy Concerns in Mobile Application Reviews
  F. Ebrahimi and A. Mahmoud, IEEE/ACM Inter Conf on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2022)
• Domain-Specific Analysis of Mobile App Reviews Using Keyword-Assisted Topic Models
  M. Tushev, F. Ebrahimi, and A. Mahmoud, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022)
• Analysis of Nondiscrimination Policies in the Sharing Economy
  M. Tushev, F. Ebrahimi, and A. Mahmoud, Inter. Conf. Soft. Maint. Evol. (ICSME 2021)
• Digital Discrimination in Sharing Economy: An RE Perspective
  M. Tushev, F. Ebrahimi, and A. Mahmoud, IEEE Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2020)
• On Combining IR Methods to Improve Bug Localization
  S. Khatiwada, M. Tushev, and A. Mahmoud, Inter. Conf. on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2020)
• Modeling User Concerns in the App Store: A Case Study on the Rise and Fall of Yik Yak [Preprint]
  G. Williams, and A. Mahmoud, IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2018)
• Enhancing the Requirements Engineering Process with Efficient Knowledge Acquisition Techniques
  D. Rodriguez, D. Carver, and A. Mahmoud, IEEE/AIAA Aerospace (2018)
• Mining Twitter Feeds for Software User Requirements
  G. Williams and A. Mahmoud, IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2017)
• Analyzing User Comments on YouTube Coding Tutorial Videos
  E. Poche, N. Jha, G. Williams, J. Staten, M. Vesper and A. Mahmoud, (ICPC 2017)
• Mining User Requirements from Application Store Reviews using Frame Semantics
  N. Jha and A. Mahmoud, Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2017)
• An Information Theoretic Approach for Extracting and Tracing Non-Functional Requirements
  A. Mahmoud, IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2015)
• Supporting Requirements Traceability Through Refactoring
  A. Mahmoud and N. Niu, International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2013).
• Departures from Optimality: Understanding Human Analyst's Info Foraging in Requirements Tracing
  N. Niu, A. Mahmoud, and G. Bradshaw, Inter. Conf. on Soft. Eng. (ICSE 2013)
• Evaluating Software Clustering Algorithms in the Context of Program Comprehension
  A. Mahmoud and N. Niu, International Conference on Program comprehension (ICPC 2013)
• Enhancing Candidate Link Generation for Requirements Tracing: The Cluster Hypothesis Revisited
  N. Niu and A. Mahmoud, International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2012)
• A Semantic Relatedness Approach for Traceability Link Recovery
  A. Mahmoud, N. Niu, and S. Xu, International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2012)
• An Experimental Investigation of Reusable Requirements Retrieval
  A. Mahmoud and N. Niu, International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI 2010)

Short Papers

• Linguistic Documentation of Software History
  M. Tushev and A. Mahmoud, International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2020)
• Summary of SST'19 - Software and Systems Traceability
  J. Steghofer, N. Guo, and A. Mahmoud, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes (ACM SEN 2019)
• Linguistic Change in Open Source Software
  M. Tushev, S. Khatiwada and A. Mahmoud, Inter. Conf. Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2019)
• Learning from Failure: Modeling User Goals in the App Market
  G. Williams, N. Jha and A. Mahmoud, IEEE Software Blog
• Copper: Bringing Flexible Components to the .NET Framework
  G. Williams and A. Mahmoud, (ICSE/ECASE 2017)
• Analyzing, Classifying, and Interpreting Emotions in Software Users Tweets
  G. Williams and A. Mahmoud, Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering (ICSE/SEmotion 2017)
• MARC: A Mobile Application Review Classifier
  N. Jha and A. Mahmoud, Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ 2017)
• Mining Twitter Data for a More Responsive Software Engineering Process
  G. Williams and A. Mahmoud, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE: Posters 2017)
• STAC: A Tool for Static Textual Analysis of Code
  S. Khatiwada, M. Kelly, and A. Mahmoud, Inter. Conf. Program Comprehension (ICPC: Tools), 2016
• Exploiting On-line Human Knowledge in Requirements Engineering
  A. Mahmoud and D. Carver, IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE: Next!), 2015
• Toward an Effective Automated Tracing Process: A research Agenda
  A. Mahmoud, International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2012)
• Automatic Labeling of Requirements Clusters
  N. Niu, S. Reddivari, A. Mahmoud and T. Bhowmik, (SUITE/ICSE 2012)
• A Framework for Examining Topical Locality in Object-Oriented Software
  N. Niu, J. Savolainen, T. Bhowmik, A. Mahmoud, and S. Reddivari, Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2012)
• Faceted Navigation for Software Exploration
  A. Mahmoud, X. Yang and N. Niu, International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2011)
• Source Code Indexing for Automated Tracing
  A. Mahmoud and N. Niu, Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE/ICSE 2011)
• TraCter: A Tool for Candidate Traceability Link Clustering
  A. Mahmoud, N. Niu, and X. Yang, International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2011).
• Information Foraging as a Foundation for Code Navigation
  N. Niu, A. Mahmoud, and G. Bradshaw, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2011)
• Using Semantics-Enabled IR in Requirements Tracing: An Ongoing Experimental Investigation
  A. Mahmoud and N. Niu, IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2010)