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Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence A novel triplet loss architecture with visual explanation for detecting the unwanted rotation of bolts in safety-critical environments (2025)
Journal Article

In the commonly used method of bolting to secure parts of equipment and structure, the bolts must be tightened to an adequate preload force. Failure to do so could affect the integrity of the structure, as well as the efficient running of the site an... Read More about Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence A novel triplet loss architecture with visual explanation for detecting the unwanted rotation of bolts in safety-critical environments.

Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing in Nigeria (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cybersecurity challenges are common in Nigeria. Sharing cyber threat intelligence is essential in addressing the extensive challenges posed by cyber threats. It also helps in meeting regulatory compliance. There are a range of impediments that preven... Read More about Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing in Nigeria.

Tailoring Agile for Medical Software Development: Global South Perspective (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Agile practices have been adopted in developing various software for Information and Communication Technology (ICT4D) due to their flexibility in empowering development teams to provide higher-quality, customer-aligned software. Medical software deve... Read More about Tailoring Agile for Medical Software Development: Global South Perspective.

Euromicro SEAA Apendix (2024)
Data

This document presents the detailed guided questions used to gather data from 21 highly experienced selected agile practitioners developing safety-critical and medical information system products in the UK, India, and Nigeria. It further presents inf... Read More about Euromicro SEAA Apendix.

Empirical Investigation of Practitioners' Perceptions of Agile Testing Coordination in Medical Information Systems Development (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Despite adopting agile practices during large-scale agile software development testing, practitioners developing medical information systems face critical challenges coordinating agile software testing. The lack of collaboration and coordination amon... Read More about Empirical Investigation of Practitioners' Perceptions of Agile Testing Coordination in Medical Information Systems Development.

Factors Amplifying or Inhibiting Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The increasing frequency of cyberattacks by criminal and state-sponsored actors, has elevated the importance of cyber threat intelligence for organisations. We are interested to understand why practitioner share cyber threat intelligence and the impe... Read More about Factors Amplifying or Inhibiting Cyber Threat Intelligence Sharing.

A Novel Practice-Based Process Model for Secure Agile Software Development (2024)
Thesis

Nigeria is ranked second globally after India in reported incidences of cyberattacks. Attackers usually exploit vulnerabilities in software which may not have considered security features during the development process. Agile methodologies are a well... Read More about A Novel Practice-Based Process Model for Secure Agile Software Development.

ACTIVITIES TAILORING WITHIN AGILE SCRUM ROLES: A CASE OF NIGERIAN HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT (2024)
Journal Article

Developing quality agile healthcare information systems requires understanding regulatory compliance and evolving healthcare needs through activities tailored within agile scrum roles. Agile scrum, a widely adopted philosophy, offers significant adva... Read More about ACTIVITIES TAILORING WITHIN AGILE SCRUM ROLES: A CASE OF NIGERIAN HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT.

Novel Cloud Load Distribution Management and Deployment Techniques (2023)
Thesis

Cloud computing provides scalable, flexible, and cost-effective computing resources. Cloud adoption has, however, introduced resource utilisation and service unavailability issues during the process of designing, deploying, and hosting cloud-native a... Read More about Novel Cloud Load Distribution Management and Deployment Techniques.

Implications of regulatory policy for building secure agile software in Nigeria: A grounded theory (2023)
Journal Article
Ardo, A. A., A. Ardo, A. A., Bass, J. M., & Gaber, T. (2023). Implications of regulatory policy for building secure agile software in Nigeria: A grounded theory. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 89(6), https://doi.org/10.1002/isd2.12285

Nigeria is ranked second worldwide, after India, in reported incidences of cyberattacks. Attackers usually exploit vulnerabilities in software which may not have adequately considered security features during the development process. Agile methods ha... Read More about Implications of regulatory policy for building secure agile software in Nigeria: A grounded theory.

Comparing Object Recognition Models and Studying Hyperparameter Selection for the Detection of Bolts (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The commonly-used method of bolting, used to secure parts of apparatus together, relies on the bolts having a sufficient preload force in order to the ensure mechanical strength. Failing to secure bolted connections to a suitable torque rating can ha... Read More about Comparing Object Recognition Models and Studying Hyperparameter Selection for the Detection of Bolts.

A Data Brokering Architecture to Guarantee Nonfunctional Requirements in IoT Applications (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

IoT sensors capture different aspects of the environmental data and generate high throughput data streams. To harvest potential values from these sensors, a system fulfilling the big data requirements should be designed. In this work, we reviewed the... Read More about A Data Brokering Architecture to Guarantee Nonfunctional Requirements in IoT Applications.

A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications (2023)
Journal Article

Web applications commonly suffer from flash crowds and resource failure, resulting in performance degradation. Flash crowds are large, sudden, yet legitimate influxes of user requests that constitute a critical problem because of their potential econ... Read More about A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications.

Agile Software Engineering Skills (2023)
Book
Bass, J. M. (2023). Agile Software Engineering Skills. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05469-3

- Covers skills in agile software development methods, team working, version control and continuous integration

- Includes nearly 100 exercises plus hints, tips and further advice for students and early career professionals

- Addresses signi... Read More about Agile Software Engineering Skills.

EJISDC Paper 2022 - Appendix (2022)
Data

This document contains the initial and reviewed interview guides used for this study data collection. The document also contains the table describing the attributes of participants and their organizations.

A comparison of deep learning techniques for corrosion detection (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Corrosion - degradation in metal structures - is problematic, expensive to rectify, and can be unpredictable in the rate at which it spreads. Traditional preventative maintenance techniques are complemented by human visual inspection, in turn complem... Read More about A comparison of deep learning techniques for corrosion detection.

Coordination of development and operations activities in agile software development (2022)
Thesis
Macarthy, R. Coordination of development and operations activities in agile software development. (Thesis). University of Salford

DevOps is described as a software engineering culture and philosophy that utilises cross-functional teams, to build test and release software faster and more reliably through automation. As an emerging concept, its definitions and best practices are... Read More about Coordination of development and operations activities in agile software development.

Multi-cloud load distribution for three-tier applications (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Web-based business applications commonly experience user request spikes called flash crowds. Flash crowds
in web applications might result in resource failure and/or performance degradation. To alleviate these challenges, this class of applications... Read More about Multi-cloud load distribution for three-tier applications.

A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Load balancing dynamically optimizes cloud resources and performance, and enhances the performance of
applications deployed on cloud. We have chosen to investigate the class of cloud deployed web-based threetier business applications. There is a pro... Read More about A novel weight-assignment load balancing algorithm for cloud applications.

Euromicro SEAA 2022 - APPENDIX.pdf (2022)
Data

The document contains interview guide use for this research as well as the model validation focus group questions. Also, Table supporting the inclusion of each element on the model as well as the details of the research participants are presented.