A gyro-elastic device for cloaking of elastic waves in micro-structured materials (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Garau, M., Nieves, M., Carta, G., & Brun, M. (2019). A gyro-elastic device for cloaking of elastic waves in micro-structured materials. . https://doi.org/10.1109/MetaMaterials.2019.8900841

The design of a structured gyro-elastic system capable of being used as a cloaking device for a discrete medium is discussed. The efficiency of the gyro-elastic cloak, composed of springs connecting periodically placed masses, attached to gyroscopic... Read More about A gyro-elastic device for cloaking of elastic waves in micro-structured materials.

Evaluating the Usability of an e-Learning Platform within Higher Education from a Student Perspective (2019)
Presentation / Conference
De Quincey. (2019, November). Evaluating the Usability of an e-Learning Platform within Higher Education from a Student Perspective. Presented at 3rd International Conference on Education and E-Learning (ICEEL 2019)., Barcelona

With the advancement in information technologies, e-learning has become an integral part of the modern higher education system. As part of this progression, Universities have increasingly adopted Virtual Learning Environments (VLE) that enable learne... Read More about Evaluating the Usability of an e-Learning Platform within Higher Education from a Student Perspective.

Meta-analysis for families of experiments in software engineering: a systematic review and reproducibility and validity assessment (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). Meta-analysis for families of experiments in software engineering: a systematic review and reproducibility and validity assessment. Empirical Software Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09747-0

Context
Previous studies have raised concerns about the analysis and meta-analysis of crossover experiments and we were aware of several families of experiments that used crossover designs and meta-analysis.

Objective
To identify families of exp... Read More about Meta-analysis for families of experiments in software engineering: a systematic review and reproducibility and validity assessment.

Scalability performance measurement and testing of cloud-based software services (2019)
Thesis
Al-Said Ahmad, A. (2019). Scalability performance measurement and testing of cloud-based software services. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/414329

Cloud-based software services have become more popular and dependable and are ideal for businesses with growing or changing workload demands. These services are increasing rapidly due to the reduced hosting costs and the increased availability and ef... Read More about Scalability performance measurement and testing of cloud-based software services.

The use of bibliography enriched features for automatic citation screening (2019)
Journal Article
(2019). The use of bibliography enriched features for automatic citation screening. Journal of Biomedical Informatics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbi.2019.103202

Context
Citation screening (also called study selection) is a phase of systematic review process that has attracted a growing interest on the use of text mining (TM) methods to support it to reduce time and effort. Search results are usually imbalan... Read More about The use of bibliography enriched features for automatic citation screening.

Cloud-based Software Services Delivery from the Perspective of Scalability (2019)
Journal Article
Al-Said Ahmad, A., & Andras, P. (2019). Cloud-based Software Services Delivery from the Perspective of Scalability. International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 36(2), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445760.2019.1617864

Measuring and testing the scalability and performance of cloud-based software services is critical for the delivery of such services, and the development of cloud computing. There are three interconnected Cloud-based software services’ performance as... Read More about Cloud-based Software Services Delivery from the Perspective of Scalability.

Problems with Statistical Practice in Software Engineering Research (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Kitchenham, B., Madeyski, L., & Brereton, P. (2019). Problems with Statistical Practice in Software Engineering Research. In EASE '19 Proceedings of the Evaluation and Assessment on Software Engineering (134-143). https://doi.org/10.1145/3319008.3319009

Background
Examples of questionable statistical practice, when published in high quality software engineering (SE) journals, may lead to novice researchers adopting incorrect statistical practices.

Objective
Our goal is to highlight issues contr... Read More about Problems with Statistical Practice in Software Engineering Research.