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Ladan Tahvildari, PEng

Publications

2008

Coping with Requirements Changes in Software Verification and Validation
Shimin Li, Ladan Tahvildari,Weining Liu, Mike Morrissey, Gary Cort
To appear in the Proceedings of IEEE European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), Athens, Greece, April 2008.

An Empirical Study on Bayesian Network-Based Approach for Test Case Prioritization
Siavash Mirarab, Ladan Tahvildari
To appear in the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST), Lillehammer, Norway, April 2008.

Adaptive Action Selection in Autonomic Software Using Reinforcement Learning
Mehdi Amoui, Mazeiar Salehie, Siavash Mirarab, Ladan Tahvildari
To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS), Gosier, Guadeloupe, March 2008.

Change Propagation in Object-Oriented Software Systems: A Probabilistic Approach
Ali R. Sharafat, Ladan Tahvildari
To appear in Journal of Software (JSW), Academy Publisher, 14 pages, Vol. 3, Issue 1, January 2008.

2007

Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM)
Ladan Tahvildari, Gerardo Canfora (Editors)
IEEE Computer Society, October 2007.

Action Selection in Self-Adaptive Software Using Social Choice Theory
Mazeiar Salehie, Ladan Tahvildari
Technical Report UW-E&CE#2007-17, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, September 2007.

Incorporating Feedback Mechanism to Bayesian Networks-based Test Case Prioritization
Siavash Mirarab, Ladan Tahvildari
Technical Report UW-E&CE#2007-27, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, September 2007.

Temporal Software Change Prediction Using Neural Networks
Mehdi Amoui, Mazeiar Salehie, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE), Boston, MA, USA, pp. 380-385, July 2007.

A Weighted Voting Mechanism for Action Selection Problem in Self-Adaptive Software
Mazeiar Salehie, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO), Boston, MA, USA, pp. 328-331, July 2007.

Using Bayesian Belief Networks to Predict Change Propagation in Software Systems
Siavash Mirarab, Alaa Hassouna, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), Banff, Alberta, Canada, pp. 177-188, June 2007.

A Quality-Driven Approach to Enable Decision-Making in Self-Adaptive Software
Mazeiar Salehie, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Minneapolis, MN, USA, pp. 103-104, May 2007.

A Probabilistic Approach to Predict Changes in Object-Oriented Software Systems
Ali R. Sharafat, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 27-38, March 2007.

2006

A Service-Oriented Componentization Framework for Java Software Systems
Shimin Li, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of the 13th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), Benevento, Italy, pp. 115-124, October 2006.

A Hybrid Analysis Framework to Evaluate Runtime Behavior of OO Systems
Azin Ashkan, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of the WCRE 2nd International Workshop on Program Comprehension through Dynamic Analysis (PCODA), Benevento, Italy, pp. 1-5, October 2006.

A Metric-Based Heuristic Framework to Detect Object-Oriented Design Flaws
Mazeiar Salehie, Shimin Li, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), Athens, Greece, pp. 159-168, June 2006.

JComp: A Reuse-Driven Componentization Framework for Java Applications
Shimin Li, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC), Athens, Greece, pp. 264-267, June 2006.

A Coordination Mechanism for Self-Healing and Self-Optimizing Disciplines
Mazeiar Salehie, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of IEEE/ACM ICSE Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), Shanghai, China, May 2006.

Evaluating Architectural Stability Using a Metric-Based Approach
Subrina A. Tonu, Azin Ashkan, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of the 10th IEEE European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), Bari, Italy, pp. 261-270, March 2006.

Investigating IBM Tivoli Intelligence ThinkDynamic Orchestrator (ITITO) And IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager (ITPM)
Derek Kwok and Ladan Tahvildari
Technical Report UW-E&CE#2006-07, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, April 2006.

Coordinating Self-Healing and Self-Optimizing Disciplines in Autonomic Elements
Mazeiar Salehie, Ladan Tahvildari
Technical Report UW-E&CE#2006-06, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, April 2006.

2005

A Policy-Based Decision Making Approach for Orchestrating Autonomic Elements
Mazeiar Salehie, Ladan Tahvildari
To appear in the Proceedings of IEEE Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP), Budapest, Hungary, 2005.

Towards a Framework to Incorporate NFRs into UML Models
Subrina A. Tonu, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of IEEE WCRE Workshop on Reverse Engineering to Requirements (RETR), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA , pp. 13-18, November 2005.

Policy-Based Orchestration of Autonomic Elements
Mazeiar Salehie, Ladan Tahvildari
Pre-Proceedings of IEEE STEP Workshop on System Integration and Interoperability, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 251-254, September 2005.

Autonomic Computing: Emerging Trends and Open Problems
Mazeiar Salehie, Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of IEEE ICSE Workshop on Design and Evolution of Autonomic Application Software (DEAS), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, pp. 82-88, May 2005.

Architectural Recovery of JBoss Application Server
Mazeiar Salehie, Shimin Li, Ladan Tahvildari
Technical Report UW-E&CE#2005-02, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, January 2005.

2004

Evolving Legacy Systems through a Multi-Objective Decision Process
Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP), Chicago, Illinois, USA, pp. 65-75, September 2004.

Developing a Multi-Objective Decision Approach for Selecting Source-Code Improving Transformations
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), Chicago, Illinois, USA, pp. 427-431, September 2004.

Quality-Driven Object-Oriented Re-engineering Framework
Ladan Tahvildari
PhD Dissertation Synopsis, Proceedings of International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), Chicago, Illinois, USA, pp. 479-483, September 2004.

Requirements Driven Software Evolution
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on program Comprehension (IWPC), Bari, Italy, pp. 258-259, June 2004.

Testing Challenges in Adoption of Component-Based Software
Ladan Tahvildari
Proceedings of ICSE Workshop on Adoption-Centric Software Engineering (ACSE), Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. 21-25, May 2004.

Quality-Driven Object-Oriented Code Restructuring
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of ICSE Workshop on Software Quality, Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. 47-52, May 2004.

Investigating of Evolution for a Spreadsheet: A Case Study
Azin Ashkan, Ladan Tahvildari
Technical Report UW-E&CE #2004-27, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, December 2004.

Investigating Architectural Evolution in Gnumeric
Subrina Anjum Tonu, Ladan Tahvildari
Technical Report UW-E&CE #2004-26, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, November 2004.

Improving Design Quality Using Meta-Pattern Transformations: A Metric-Based Approach
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice (JSME), John Wiley Publishers, Volume 16, Issue 4-5, pp. 331-361, July-October 2004.

Proceedings of the IEEE Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP)
Ladan Tahvildari, George Wilkie (Editors)
IEEE Computer Society, September 2004.

CD-ROM for Workshops, Tutorial, and Tool Descriptions of IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE)
Ladan Tahvildari (Editor)
IEEE Computer Society, November 2004.

2003

The First International Workshop on Refactoring: Achievements, Challenges, and Effects (REFACE)
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, pp. 369-370, November 2003.

Quality-Driven Object-Oriented Code Restructuring
Ladan Tahvildari
In the IEEE Software Technology and Engineering Practice (STEP) - Workshop on Software Analysis and Maintenance: Practices, Tools, Interoperability (SAM), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2003.

A Metric-Based Approach to Enhance Design Quality Through Meta-Pattern Transformations
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of IEEE European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), Benevento, Italy, pp. 183-192, March 2003.

Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE)
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
In John G. Webster, Editor, Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley Publishers, 2003.

Quality-Driven Software Re-engineering
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis, John Mylopoulos
Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Special Issue on: Software Architecture - Engineering Quality Attributes, Elsevier Publishers, Volume 66, Issue 3, pp. 225-239, June 2003.

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on REFactoring: Achievements, Challenges, and Effects (REFACE)
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis (Editors)
Supported by IEEE Computer Society and Reengineering Forum, Victoria, BC, 60 pages, November 2003.

2002

A Methodology for Developing Transformations Using the Maintainability Soft-Goal Graph
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), Richmond, Virginia, USA, pp. 77-86, November 2002.

A Software Transformation Framework for Quality-Driven Object-Oriented Re-engineering
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), Montreal, Canada, pp. 596-605, October 2002.

On the Role of Design Patterns in Quality-Driven Re-engineering
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of IEEE European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), Budapest, Hungary, pp. 230-240, March 2002.

2001

Requirements-Driven Software Re-engineering
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis, John Mylopolous
Proceedings of IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE), Stuttgart, Germany, pp. 71-80, October 2001.

Weaving Between Non-Functional Requirements and Object-Oriented Re-engineering
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis, John Mylopolous
Proceedings of Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems, Ottawa, ON, Canada, pp. 64-65, June 2001.

2000

Impact of Using Pattern-Based Systems on the Qualities of Parallel Application
Ladan Tahvildari, Ajit Singh
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, Vol. III, pages 1713-1719, June 2000.

Categorization of Object-Oriented Software Metrics
Ladan Tahvildari, Ajit Singh
Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Halifax, Canada, pages 235-239, May 2000.

Quality-Based Software Re-engineering
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of Annual Canadian Conference on Intelligent Systems, Montreal, Canada, page 89-90, May 2000.

A Workbench for Quality Based Software Re-engineering to Object Oriented Platforms
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference in Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) - Doctoral Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, pp. 157-158, October 2000.

A Workbench for Quality Based Software Re-engineering
Ladan Tahvildari, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of ACM International Conference in Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA) - Poster Session, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, pp. 53-54, October 2000.

1999

An Approach for Measuring Software Evolution Using Source Code Features
Ladan Tahvildari, Richard Gregory, Kostas Kontogiannis
Proceedings of IEEE Asia-Pacific Software Engineering (APSEC), Takamatsu, Japan, pages 10-17, December 1999.

Software Bugs
Ladan Tahvildari, Ajit Singh
In John G. Webster, Editor, Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, John Wiley Publishers, Volume 19, pp. 445-465, July 1999.