Prof Julian Bass' Outputs (71)

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.

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.

Comparing Object Recognition Models and Studying Hyperparameter Selection for the Detection of Bolts (2023)
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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 comparison of deep learning techniques for corrosion detection (2022)
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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.

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)
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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.

An empirical investigation of agile information systems development for cybersecurity (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Cybersecurity has been identified as a major challenge confronting the digital world,
neglecting cybersecurity techniques during software design and development increases the risk
of malicious attacks. Thus, there is a need to make security an inte... Read More about An empirical investigation of agile information systems development for cybersecurity.

Towards secure agile software development process: a practice-based model (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Agile methods are a well-established paradigm in the software development field. Agile adoption has contributed to improving software quality. However, software products are vulnerable to security challenges and susceptible to cyberattacks. This stud... Read More about Towards secure agile software development process: a practice-based model.

Redefining legacy : a technical debt perspective (2020)
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Organisations that manage legacy systems at scale, such as those found within large government agencies and commercial enterprises, face a set of unique challenges. They manage complex software landscapes that have evolved over decades. Current conce... Read More about Redefining legacy : a technical debt perspective.

An empirical taxonomy of DevOps in practice (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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. Research shows that its adoption speeds up software
deliver... Read More about An empirical taxonomy of DevOps in practice.

Spotify tailoring for architectural governance (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Organisations usually tailor Agile methods to fit their needs best. Spotify has developed its own Agile culture to facilitate software development for hundreds of developers across multiple cities. The Spotify model has become influential among agile... Read More about Spotify tailoring for architectural governance.

Information and Communication Technologies for Development (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This book presents the collection of papers selected for presentation at the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 9.4 16th International Conference organized under the banner of the Third European Conference on the... Read More about Information and Communication Technologies for Development.

Implementation of agile methodology in developing countries : case study in Lebanon (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Researchers have become interested in agile approaches to information systems development, because of their potential to improve product quality and increase productivity. While
often associated with project orchestration in software development, ag... Read More about Implementation of agile methodology in developing countries : case study in Lebanon.

Spotify tailoring for B2B product development (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Agile software development has become increasinglycommon in the context of large-scale organisations. Typically,software organisations tailor agile methods to fit their needsand ultimately maximise success. The size of the orga... Read More about Spotify tailoring for B2B product development.

A cloud-hosted MapReduce architecture for syntactic parsing (2019)
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Syntactic parsing is a time-consuming task innatural language processing particularlywherea largenumber of text files are beingprocessed. Parsingalgorithms are conventionally designed to operate on a single machine in a sequenti... Read More about A cloud-hosted MapReduce architecture for syntactic parsing.

Future Trends in Agile at Scale: A Summary of the 7th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development (2019)
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This workshop explored the main research challenges in conducting agile software development in large-scale software development. We considered multi-site companies with projects that include a large number of teams which develop sophisticated system... Read More about Future Trends in Agile at Scale: A Summary of the 7th International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development.

Southern theories in ICT4D (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper suggests that the dominance of northern research paradigms in ICT4D may be viewed as a continuation of colonial sway over the endeavors of the global South. The notion of Southern Theory - as introduced in the work of Raewyn Connell, the... Read More about Southern theories in ICT4D.