Research

Journal Publications

Saiqa Aleem, L. F. Capretz and F. Ahmed, (2023). “Variability Management Framework for Software Product Lines” accepted in Computer and Information Science Journal. (28th Oct. 2022).

Saiqa Aleem, F. Ahmed, R. Batool, and A. Khattak (2021). Empirical Investigation of Key Factors for SaaS Architecture Dimension, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2019.2906299. (IF: 5.93- Q1).

F. Iqbal, R. Batool, B. CM Fung, Saiqa Aleem, A. Abbasi, and A. R. Javed, (2021). Toward Tweet-Mining Framework for Extracting Terrorist Attack-Related Information and Reporting, IEEE Access, Vol. 9, pp. 115535-115547. (IF:3.74- Q1)

F. Iqbal,  J. M. Hashmi, B. C. M. Fung, R. Batool, A. M. Khattak, Saiqa Aleem, and P.C. K. Hung, (2019). A Hybrid Framework for Sentiment Analysis Using Genetic Algorithm Based Feature Reduction, IEEE Access, Vol .7, pp. 14637- 14652 DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2892852. (IF: 3.74- Q1)

M. Fahim, T. Baker, A. Khattak, B. Shah, Saiqa Aleem, and F. Chow (2018). Context mining of sedentary behaviour for promoting self-awareness using a smartphone, Sensors 18 (3), 874. (IF: 3.27- Q2)

Saiqa Aleem, L. F. Capretz and F. Ahmed (2018). A Consumer’s Perspective on Digital Games, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 7 (3), 56-61. (IF: 2.21- Q1)

Saiqa Aleem, L. F. Capretz and F. Ahmed, (2016). Game development life cycle: A systematic review. Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development, 4, 6. Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40411-016-0032-7

Saiqa Aleem, L. F. Capretz and F. Ahmed, (2016). Critical Success Factors to Improve the Game Development Process from a Developer’s Perspective, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Springer, V31(5), pp. 925-950 (IF: 1.5- Q2)

Saiqa Aleem, L. F. Capretz and F. Ahmed, (2016). A Digital Game Maturity Model, Entertainment Computing, Vol. 17, Elsevier, pp. 55-73 (IF: 1.34 – Q2)

Saiqa Aleem, L. F. Capretz and F. Ahmed, (2016). An empirical investigation of key business factors for digital game performance, Entertainment Computing, Vol. 13, Elsevier, pp. 25-36 (IF: 1.34 – Q2)

Saiqa Aleem, L. F. Capretz and F. Ahmed, (2015). Business Process Mining Approaches A Relative Comparison, International Journal of Science, Technology & Management, Vol. 4, Special Issue No. 01, pp. 1557- 1564.

Saiqa Aleem, L. F. Capretz and F. Ahmed, (2015). Benchmarking Machine Learning Techniques for Software Defect Detection, International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA), Vol. 6, No.3, pp. 11-23.

Saiqa Aleem, L. F. Capretz and F. Ahmed, (2015). Data security approaches and solutions for data warehouse, International Journal of Computers, NAUN, Vol. 9, pp. 91-97, May 2015.

Journal Papers in Review/Progress

Saiqa Aleem, F. Ahmed, R. Batool, and A. Khattak (2022). “Critical Organizational Factors for SaaS Organizations: An Empirical Investigation,” Submitted to ACM Transactions of Information Systems.

Saiqa Aleem, F.Ahmed, R. Batool, and A. Khattak (2022). “Key Design Factors for SaaS Applications: An Empirical Investigation,” Submitted to IEEE Transactions of Cloud Computing.

Saiqa Aleem, F.Ahmed, R. Batool, and A. Khattak, (2021). “Business Perspective of SaaS Product: An Empirical Investigation” submitted a revision to the Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

F. Ahmed, Saiqa Aleem, (2022). “Practicing Equity Diversity Inclusion (EDI) in Software Development Teams: A Systematic Literature Survey” submitted to
Journal of Information and Software Technology, currently under review.

Saiqa Aleem, F.Ahmed, R. Batool, and A. Khattak, (2022). “Maturity Model for Software as a Service”, work in progress.

Conference Papers

(Peer-Reviewed)

P.C.K. Hung, F. Iqbal, Saiqa Aleem, L. Rafferty, L. (2022). Snapshot of Research Issues in Service Robots. In: , et al. Service-Oriented Computing – ICSOC 2021 Workshops. ICSOC 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14135-5_32

Saiqa Aleem, L. F. Capretz, F. Ahmed, S. Basri, (2021). User Requirements for Game Software Success: An Empirical Investigation, Proceedings of the 24th Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER 2021), August 23-27, 2021.

(Scopus Indexed)

M. Motyliński, Á. MacDermott, F. Iqbal, M. Hussain, Saiqa Aleem, (2020). Digital Forensic Acquisition and Analysis of Discord Applications’. 2020 International Conference on Communications, Computing, Cybersecurity, and Informatics (CCCI), pp 1-7. (Scopus Indexed)

A. Ullah, M. Z. Asghar, A. Habib, Saiqa Aleem, F. M. Kundi, A.M. Khattak, (2020) Optimizing the Efficiency of Machine Learning Techniques. In: Tian Y., Ma T., Khan M. (eds) Big Data and Security. ICBDS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1210. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7530-3_42. (Scopus Indexed)

R. Ali, A. Ali, F. Iqbal, A.M. Khattak , Saiqa Aleem (2019) A Systematic Review of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Techniques for Cyber Security. In: Tian

Y., Ma T., Khan M. (eds) Big Data and Security. ICBDS 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1210. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7530-3_44. (Scopus Indexed)

Saiqa Aleem, R. Batool, F. Ahmed and A. Khattak (2019). Guidelines for Key Organizational Factors for SaaS Organizations, ICBDR 2019: Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Big Data Research November 2019 Pages 83–87, https://doi.org/10.1145/3372454.3372475. (Scopus Indexed)

B.Yankson, F. Iqbal, Saiqa Aleem, B. Shah, P. C. K. Hung, and A. P. de Albuquerque (2019). A Privacy-Preserving Context Ontology (PPCO) for Smart Connected Toys, 12th CMI Conference on Cybersecurity and Privacy (CMI), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2019, pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1109/CMI48017.2019.8962141. (Scopus Indexed)

L Rafferty, F Iqbal, Saiqa Aleem, Z. Lu, S. C. Huang, and P. C. K. Hung (2018). Intelligent Multi-Agent Collaboration Model for Smart Home IoT Security, 2018 IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (ICIOT), 65-71. (Scopus Indexed).

Saiqa Aleem, R. Batool, F. Ahmed and A. Khattak (2018). Design guidelines for SaaS development process, IEEE 9th Annual Information Technology, Electronics and Mobile Communication Conference (IEMCON), pp. 825-831. (Scopus Indexed)

M. Faheem, A. Khattak, Saiqa Aleem, and H. Katheeri (2017). Physical Activity Recognizer based on Multimodal, Sensors in Smartphone for Ubiquitous-lifecare Services, IEEE AFRICON 2017, Cape Town, 18-20 September 2017. (Scopus Indexed)

Saiqa Aleem, R. Batool, F. Ahmed, and A. Khattak (2017). Architecture guidelines for SaaS development process, ICCBDC 2017, September 17–19, 2017, London, United Kingdom ©  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). (Scopus Indexed)

Saiqa Aleem, L.F. Capretz and F. Ahmed (2015). Comparative Performance Analysis of Machine Learning Techniques for Software Bug Detection, 4th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (JSE), Zurich, Switzerland, pp. 71-79, AIRCC, DOI: 10.5121/csit.2015.50108, January 2015.

Saiqa Aleem, L.F. Capretz and F. Ahmed (2014). Security Issues in Data Warehouse, Proceedings of 5th European Conference of Computer Science (ECCS’14), Recent Advance in IT, Switzerland, Geneva, pp. 15-20, December 29-31, 2014.

Saiqa Aleem and N. Al Qirim (2012) IT Governance Framework For E-Government, 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Geelong Australia, 3-5 Dec 2012.  (A-ranked)