Publications on Cybersecurity, Software Testing, Program Analysis & CS
Education
2016
[ACM CHI - Late-Breaking-Work] Akbar Siami Namin, Rattikorn Hewett, Keith Jones, and Rona Pogrund, Sonifying Internet Security Threats,ACM International Conference in Computer-Human Interactions (CHI),
USA [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
2015
[ICMLA Conference] Yulei
Pang, Xiaozhen Xue, and Akbar Siami Namin, Predicting Vulnerable Software
Components through N-gram Analysis and Statistical Feature
Selection,International Conference in Machine Learning Application (ICMLA),
USA [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[ICMLA Conference] Alaa
Darabseh and Akbar Siami Namin, Effective User Authentications Using
Keystroke Dynamics Based on Feature Selection,International Conference in
Machine Learning Application (ICMLA), USA [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[ICMLA Conference] Akbar
Siami Namin, Statistical Fault Localization based on Importance Sampling,
International Conference in Machine Learning Application (ICMLA), USA [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[ETS Journal] Fethi Inan,
Akbar Siami Namin, Rona Pogrund, and Keith Jones, Consumer Perception of
Cybersecurity Risks for Internet Users Who are Visually Impaired,
Educational Technology & Society" (ISSN 1436-4522) [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[BIOSIG Conference] Alaa
Darabseh, Akbar Siami Namin, On Accuracy of Keystroke Authentications Based
on Commonly Used English Words, 14th International Conference of the
Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), September, 2015 Darmstadt,
Germany. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[CyberWorlds Workshop] Alaa
Darabseh and Akbar Siami Namin, On Accuracy of Classification-based
Keystroke Dynamics for Continuous User Authentication, International
Workshop on Biometric Secrurity in Conjunction with 2015 International
Conference on CyberWorlds, Gotland, Sweden, 2015. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[CSEIT Conference] Akbar
Siami Namin, Rattikorn Hewett, and Fethi Inan, Faculty Development Programs
on Cybersecurity for Community Colleges - An Experience and Lessons Learned
Report from a Two-Year Education Project, 6th Annual International
Conference on Computer Science Education: Innovation and Technology (CSEIT
2015), 5 - 6 October 2015 - Singapore. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[ICSE - Poster] Sara Sartoli
and Akbar Siami Namin, Reasoning based on Imperfect Context Data in
Adaptive Security, in International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE), Firenze, Italy, 2015. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[CODASPY Workshop] Alaa
Darabseh and Akbar Siami Namin, “Keystroke Active Authentications Based
on Most Frequently Used Words,” International workshop on Security and
Privacy Analytics (SPA), Col-located with ACM CODASPY 2015, March 2015, San
Antonio, TX, USA. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[JS Jounral] Yulei Pang,
Xiaozhen Xue, Akbar Siami Namin, Debugging in Parallel or Sequential: An
Empirical Study, Volume 10, Number 5, Journal of Software, May 2015. [ Paper][ Bib]
2014
[STVR - Journal] Akbar Siami Namin,
Xiaozhen Xue, Omar Rosa, Pankaj Sharma, MuRanker: A Mutation Ranking Tool,
International Journal on Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability
(STVR). [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[JSM - Journal] Delbert Bonner and Akbar
Siami Namin: Measuring the Energy Efficiency Ratio of Parallelized Software
Applications, Journal of JSM Computer Science and Engineering, (Online) [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[ICMLA - Conference] Xiaozehn Xue, Yulei
Pang, and Akbar Siami Namin, “Feature Selections for Effectively
Localizing Faulty Events in GUI Applications,” International Conference
on Machine Learning and Application (ICMLA), Detroit, Michigan. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[AECT - Conference] Fethi Inan and Akbar
Siami Namin, “Evaluation of Cybersecurity Training: Exploring
Participants’ Knowledge, Confidence, Satisfaction,” AECT: Association
for Educational Communications and Technology, AECT International
Convention Learning, Design, and Technology, November 2014, Jacksonville,
Florida, USA. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[CSEIT - Conference] Akbar Siami Namin,
Fethi Inan, Rattikorn Hewett, “Building Cyber Security Instructional
Plans Through Faculty Development Program - An Experience Report With Two
and Four Year Educational Institutions”, 5th Annual International
Conference on Computer Science Education: Innovation and Technology (CSEIT
2014), 22nd - 23rd September 2014, Singapore. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[FECS, WorldComp - Conference] Akbar Siami
Namin, Fethi Inan, Rattikorn Hewett, “Stimulating Software Security
Education at Community Colleges Through Training Workshops,” FECS'14 -
The 2014 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer
Science and Computer Engineering, in conjunction with The 2014 World
Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
(WorldComp'14), ISBN#:1-60132-271-2, July 2014, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[COMPSAC - Conference] Yulei Pang,
Xiaozhen Xue, and Akbar Siami Namin, “Trimming Test Suites with
Coincidentally Correct Test Cases for Enhancing Fault Localizations,”
COMPSAC 2014. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[CISR - Conference] Alaa Darabseh and
Akbar Siami Namin, “The Accuracy of User Authentication through Keystroke
Features Using Most Frequent Words,” The 9th Annual Cyber and Information
Security Research (CISR) Conference, USA, [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
2013
[ICMLA - Conference] Xiaozehn Xue and
Akbar Siami Namin, “Identifying Effective Test Cases Through K-means
Clustering for Enhancing Regression Testing,” International Conference on
Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Miami, Florida, 2013. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[ESEM - Conference] Xiaozhen Xue and Akbar
Siami Namin, “How significant is the effect of fault interactions on
coverage-based fault localizations,” International Symposium on Empirical
Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM), Baltimore, USA, 2013.
Acceptance rate 26%. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[Ada-Europe - Conference] Xiaozhen Xue and
Akabr Siami Namin, “Measuring the Odds of Statements Being Faulty,”
European Conference on Ada (Ada-Europe), Berlin, Germany, 2013. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
2012
[ICSE - Tutorial] Akbar Siami Namin:
Effective Experimental Design and Statistical Analysis of Software
Engineering Data," International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE
2012), Zurich, Switzerland, June, 2012. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[CGC - Conference] Delbert Bonner and
Akbar Siami Namin: An Energy Model for Applications Running on Multicore
Systems, in the International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC)
[Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
2011
[ISSTA - Conference] A. Siami Namin, S.
Kakarla, "The use of mutation in testing experiment and its sensitivity to
external threats", International Symposium on Software Testing and
Analysis (ISSTA 2011) July 2011. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[Mutation, ICST - Workshop] P. Madiraju
and A. Siami Namin, "ParaMu − A Partial and Higher-Order Mutation
Tool with Concurrency Operators", the 6th International Workshop on
Mutation Analysis (Mutation 2011), in conjunction with the International
conference on Software Testing (ICST 2011). [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[Mutation, ICST, Workshop] S. Kakarla, S.
Momotaz, and A. Siami Namin, "An Evaluation of Mutation and Data-flow
Testing: A Meta-Analysis", the 6th International Workshop on Mutation
Analysis (Mutation 2011), in conjunction with the International conference
on Software Testing (ICST 2011) . [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
2010
[ISSRE - Fast Abstract] A. Siami Namin, B.
Millet, M. Sridharan, "Fast Abstract: Stochastic Model-based Testing for
Human-Robot Interaction", 21th International Symposium on Software
Relaibility Engineering (ISSRE 2010) November 2010
[ICSE - Tutorial] M. Sridharan and A.S.
Namin, Bayesian Methods for Data Analysis inSoftware Engineering, 32nd
International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Cape Town,
South Africa. [Slides]
[Paper] [Bib]
[ISSRE - Fast Abstract] K. Rathod and A.
Siami Namin, "Fast Abstract: A Framework for Testing Multithreaded
Applications with Interleaving Faults", 21th International Symposium on
Software Relaibility Engineering (ISSRE 2010) November 2010
[ISSRE - Conference] M. Sridharan and A.
Siami Namin, "Prioritizing Mutation Operators Using Probabilistic
Sampling", 21st International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
(ISSRE 2010)November 2010 [ Slides] [Paper] [ Bib]
[ESEM - Conference] S. Kakarla and A.
Siami Namin, "The Influence of Environmental Parameters on Concurrency
Fault Exposures − An Explanatory Study", 4th International Symposium on
Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2010), bolzano-Bozen,
Italy, September 2010 [Slides] [Paper] [Bib]
[FSE - FOSER Workshop] A. Siami Namin and
M. Sridharan, "Position Paper: Bayesian Reasoning for Software Reasoning",
International Workshop on Future of Software Engineering (FoSER) in
conjunction with the International Conference on Foundation of Software
Engineering (FSE 2010) [Slides] [Paper] [Bib]
[ICSE - Workshop] A. Siami
Namin, M. Sridharan, P. Tomar, Predicting Multi-Core Performance Using
Solaris Containers: A Case Study, Third International Workshop on Multicore
Software Engineering (IWMSE 2010) in Conjunction with 32nd International
Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Cape Town, South Africa.
[Slides] [Paper][Bib]
[TTU - Technical Report] M. Sridharan and
A. Siami Namin, "Probabilistic Model for Effective Mutation Testing",
Computer Science Department, Texas Tech University, May 2010.
2009
[ISSTA - Conference] A. Siami Namin, J.
Andrews, "The Influence of Size and Coverage on Test Suite Effectiveness",
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2009),
Chicago, USA, July 2009 [Slides] [Paper] [Bib]
2008
[ICSE - Conference] A. Siami Namin, J.
Andrews, D. Murdoch, "Mutation Analysis for Assessing Software Testing
Techniques", 30th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE
2008), Leipzig, Germany, May 2008 [Slides] [Paper] [Bib]
2007
[ICSE - Doctoral Symposium] A. Siami
Namin, J. Andrews, "On Sufficiency of Mutants", Doctoral Symposium being
held in conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Software
Engineering (ICSE 2007), pp. 73-74, Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 2007 [Slides] [Paper] [Bib]
[ICSE - Poster] A. Siami Namin, J.
Andrews, "On Sufficiency of Mutants", Doctoral Symposium being held in
conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering
(ICSE 2007), Minneapolis, MN, USA, May 2007. [Poster]
2006
[TSE - Journal] James H. Andrews, Lionel
C. Briand, Yvan Labiche, Akbar Siami Namin, Using Mutation Analysis for
Assessing and Comparing Testing Coverage Criteria, IEEE Transactions on
Software Engineering, vol. 32, no. 8, pp. 608-624, Aug., 2006. [ Paper][ Bib]
[Mutation, ISSRE, Workshop] A. Siami
Namin, J. Andrews, Finding Sufficient Mutation Operators via Variable
Reduction, Second Workshop on Mutation Analysis (Mutation 2006) in
conjunction with the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Software
Reliability Engineering ( ISSRE 2006), November, Raleigh, North Carolina,
USA. [Slides] [Paper][Bib]
[IJNVO, Journal] A. S. Namin, A., Shen,
W., Ghenniwa, H. Implementing Enterprise Collaboration Using Web Services
and Software Agents, International Journal of Networking and Virtual
Organizations: Special issue on Organizing Collaborative Supply Chains and
Networks, 2006 − Vol3, No.2 pp. 185 − 201. ISSN (Online): 1741−5225
− ISSN (Print): 1470−9503 [Paper] [Bib]
Early Publications on Information Technolg
[CSCW - Conference] A. S. Namin, A. Wei,
R., Shen, W., Ghenniwa, H. An Efficient Trust Model for Multi−Agent
Systems, The 10th International Conference on CSCW in Design, CSCWID2006,
pp. 659 - 664, May 3-5, Nanjing, China. [Paper] [Bib]
[CSCW - Conference] A. S. Namin, A. Wei,
R., Shen, W., Ghenniwa, H. Applying Secret Sharing Schemes to Service
Reputation, The 9th International Conference on CSCW in Design, CSCWID2005,
pp. 696 − 703, May, Coventry, UK. [Slides] [Paper] [Bib]
[BASIS - Book Chapter] A. S. Namin, A.,
Shen, W., Ghenniwa, H. A Web Services / Agent-Based Model for
Inter−Enterprise Collaboration, in Camarinha−Matos, L.M. (Ed.),
Emerging Solutions for Future Management Systems, Springer, 2004, pp.
231-240. [Paper] [Bib]
[FAIM - Conference] A. S. Namin, A.S.,
Shen, W. Towards Web Services Oriented Agent Based Manufacturing,
Proceedings of FAIM 2004, July 12−14, 2004, Toronto, Canada, pp.
632−639. [Paper]
[AAMAS - Workshop] A. S. Namin, A., Wei,
R., Shen, W., Ghenniwa, H. An Agent-Based Threshold Payment Model for
Metering Web Services, Proceedings of AAMAS’04 Workshop on Services and
Agent-Based Engineering, July 19, 2004, New York, NY. [Paper]
[NRC - Technical Report] A. S. Namin, W.
Shen, "A Service-Oriented Model for Manufacturing System Design", A
Technical Report, National Research Council Canada, Integrated
Manufacturing Technologies Institute, 116 pages, NRC-IMTI, London, Canada,
December 2003