Publication – Bestoun S. Ahmed, Ph.D.

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ISI Impact Factor Journals

Matej Klima, Miroslav Bures, Karel Frajtak, Vaclav Rechtberger, Michal Trnka, Xavier Bellekens, Tomas Cerny, and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Selected Code-quality Characteristics and Metrics for Internet of Things Systems“, 2022, IEEE Access.
Firas Bayram, Bestoun S. Ahmed, and Andreas Kassler “From Concept Drift to Model Degradation: An Overview on Performance-Aware Drift Detectors“, Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, 2022. Impact Factor = 8.038.
Kamal Z Zamli, Md Abdul Kader, Saiful Azad, Bestoun S Ahmed, “Hybrid Henry gas solubility optimization algorithm with dynamic cluster-to-algorithm mapping“, Neural Computing and Applications Journal, 2021, Impact Factor = 5.6.
Abdul Kader, Kamal Z. Zamli, Bestoun S. Ahmed, “A systematic review on emperor penguin optimizer” Neural Computing and Applications Journal, 2021, Impact Factor = 5.6.
Qusay I. Sarhan, Bestoun S. Ahmed, Miroslav Bures, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “Software Module Clustering: An In-Depth Literature Analysis“, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, In Press, Impact Factor = 6.1.
Miroslav Bures, Miroslav Macik, Bestoun S. Ahmed, Vaclav Rechtberger, and Pavel Slavik, “Testing the Usability and Accessibility of Smart TV Applications Using an Automated Model-based Approach“, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 66, Issue, 2, PP. 134-143, May 2020, Impact Factor = 2.083. Download
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Eduard Enoiu, Wasif Afzal, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “An Evaluation of Monte Carlo-Based Hyper-Heuristic for Interaction Testing of Industrial Embedded Software Applications” Soft Computing Journal, Springer, Vol. 24, PP. 13929–13954, 2020. Impact Factor = 2.784 Download
Imad H. Hasan, Bestoun S Ahmed, Moayad Y. Potrus, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “Generation and Application of Constrained Interaction Test Suites Using Base Forbidden Tuples with a Mixed Neighborhood Tabu Search“, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 2020. Impact Factor = 0.6. Download
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Angelo Gargantini, Kamal Z. Zamli, Cemal Yilmaz, Miroslav Bures, and Marek Szeles, “Code-Aware Combinatorial Interaction Testing“, IET Software Journal, 2019. Impact Factor = 0.695. Download
Thair Shakir Mahmoud, Bestoun S. Ahmed, and Mohammed Y. Hassan, “The role of intelligent generation control algorithms in optimizing battery energy storage systems size in microgrids: A case study from Western Australia” Energy Conversion and Management Journal, 2019, Vol. 196, PP. 1335-1352, Impact Factor = 7.18. the paper can be found here
Miroslav Bures and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Employment of Multiple Algorithms for Optimal Path-based Test Selection Strategy“, Accepted for publication in Information and Software Technology, 2019, Impact Factor=2.62. Download
Bestoun S. Ahmed and Miroslav Bures, “EvoCreeper: Automated Black-Box Model Generation for Smart TV Applications” Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 2019. Impact Factor=1.8
Ibrahim-Anka Salihu, Rosziati Ibrahim, Bestoun S. Ahmed, Kamal Z. Zamli, and Asmau Usman, ” AMOGA: A Static-Dynamic Model Generation Strategy for Mobile Apps Testing“, IEEE Access, 2019, Vol. 7, Issue 1, PP. 17158-17173, Impact Factor = 3.557.
Miroslav Bures, Bestoun S. Ahmed, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “Prioritized Process Test: An Alternative to Current Process Testing Strategies” accepted Int’l Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Impact factor = 0.397. Download
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Miroslav Bures, Karel Frajtak, and Tomas Cerny, “Aspects of Quality in the Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions: A Systematic Mapping Study” IEEE Access, 2019, Vol. 7, Issue 1, PP. 13758-13780. Impact Factor = 3.557. Download
Kamal Z. Zamli, Fakhrud Din, Bestoun S. Ahmed, and Miroslav Bures, “A Hybrid Q-Learning Sine-Cosine-based Strategy for Addressing the Combinatorial Test Suite Minimization Problem“, PLoS One, Volume: 13, Issue:5, Pages: 1-29, (2018), [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 2.76] Download Preprint
Miroslav Bures, Karel Frajtak, Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Tapir: Automation Support of Exploratory Testing Using Model Reconstruction of the System Under Test“, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Volume: 67, Issue:2, Pages: 557-580, (2018). [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor= 2.79] Download Preprint
Hong Min, Taesik Kim, Junyoung Heo, Tomas Cerny, SriramSankaran, Bestoun S. Ahmed, and Jinman Jung, “Pattern Matching Based Sensor Identification Layer for an Android Platform“, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, (2018), [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 0.86] Download Preprint
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Kamal Z. Zamli, Wasif Afzal, and Miroslav Bures, “Constrained Interaction Testing: A Systematic Mapping Study”, IEEE Access Journal, Volume:5, Pages 25706-25730, (2017). [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor= 3.5] Download Preprint
Abdullah B. Nasser, Kamal Z. Zamli, AbdulRahman Al-Sewari, and Bestoun S. Ahmed “An Elitist-Flower Pollination based Strategy for Constructing Sequence and Sequence-less T- Way Test Suite Generation,” International Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Volume 12, Issue 2, (2018), [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor= 2.26]. Download
Abdullah B. Nasser, Kamal Z. Zamli, AbdulRahman A. Alsewari, and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Hybrid flower pollination algorithm strategies for t-way test suite generation“, PLoS One, Volume: 13, Issue: 5, (2018), [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 2.79]. Download
Miroslav Bures, Tomas Cerny, Karel Frajtak, and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Testing the Consistency of Business Data Objects Using Extended Static Testing of CRUD Matrices“, Cluster Computing, Accepted for Publication, (2017), [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 2.04]. Download Preprint
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Luca M. Gambardella, Wasif Afzal, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “Handling Constraints in Combinatorial Interaction Testing in the presence of Multi-Objective Particle Swarm and Multithreading“, Information and Software Technology, Volume: 86, Pages: 20-36, (2017), Elsevier. [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 1.569]. Download Pre-print
Kamal Z. Zamli, Fakhrud Din, Graham Kendall, Bestoun S Ahmed, “An Experimental Study of Hyper-Heuristic Selection and Acceptance Mechanism for Combinatorial t-way Test Suite Generation”, Information Science, Volume: 399, Pages 121-153, (2017), Elsevier. [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 3.364]. Download Preprint
Kamal Z. Zamli, Fakhrud Din, Salmi Baharom and Bestoun S Ahmed, “Fuzzy Adaptive Teaching Learning-based Optimization Strategy for the Problem of Generating Mixed Strength t-way Test Suites”, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 59 (March), pp.35-50, (2017), [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 2.36 ]. Download Pre-print
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Mouayad A. Sahib, Luca M. Gambardella, Wasif Afzal, and Kamal Z. Zamli “Optimum Design of PIλDμ Controller for an Automatic Voltage Regulator System Using Combinatorial Test Design“, PLoS One 11(11), 2016, [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 3.54].
Mouayad A. Sahib, and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “A new multiobjective performance criterion used in PID tuning optimization algorithms“, Journal of Advanced Research, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Pages 125-134, (2016) Elsevier. [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 4.3].
Thair Mahmoud, Bestoun S. Ahmed, ” An Efficient Covering Array Construction Strategy Using Fuzzy Logic-based Adaptive Swarm Optimisation for the Use of Software Testing“, Expert Systems with Applications, Accepted for publication, (2015), Elsevier. [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor=2.24].
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Mouayad A. Sahib, and Moayad Y. Potrus, ” Generating Combinatorial Test Cases Using Simplified Swarm Optimization (SSO) Algorithm for Automated GUI Functional Testing“, Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, 17 (4), Pages 218-226, (2014) Elsevier. Impact Factor=3.21
Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Test Case Minimization Approach Using Fault Detection and Combinatorial Optimization Techniques for Configuration-Aware Structural Testing“, Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, Vol. 19, Issue 22, PP. 737-753, 2015, Elsevier. Impact Factor=3.21.
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Taib Sh. Abdulsamad, and Moayad Y. Potrus “The Achievement of Minimized Combinatorial Test Suite for Software Functional Testing Using Cuckoo Optimization Algorithm“, Information and Software Technology, 66(2015): 13-29, (2015), Elsevier. [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor=1.569].
Moayad Y. Potrus, Umi Kalthum Ngah, and Bestoun S. Ahmed, ” An Evolutionary Harmony Search Algorithm with Dominant Point Detection for Recognition-based segmentation of Online Arabic Text Recognition“, Ain Shams Engineering Journal (ASEJ), 5(4): 1129–1139 (2014), Elsevier. [Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 3.01 ].
Bestoun S. Ahmed and Kamal Z. Zamli, and Chee Peng Lim,” Application of Particle Swarm Optimization for Uniform and Variable Strength Covering Array Construction” Applied Soft Computing Journal, 12(4): 1330-1347, (2012), Elsevier. [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 2.81].
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Kamal Z. Zamli, and Chee Peng Lim, “Constructing a T-Way Interaction Test Suite Using the Particle Swarm Optimization Approach,” International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information, and Control (IJICIC), 8(1A): 431-452, (2012). [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 2.97, SNIP = 0.93, IPP = 1.2].
Bestoun S. Ahmed and Kamal Z. Zamli, “A Variable-Strength Interaction Test Suites Generation Strategy Using Particle Swarm Optimization,” Journal of Systems and Software, 84(12): 2171-2185, (2011), Elsevier. [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, Impact Factor = 1.35, SNIP = 2.4, IPP = 1.975].

Refereed Journals

Mouayad A. Sahib, Bestoun S. Ahmed, and Moayad Y. Potrus, “Application of Combinatorial Interaction Design for DC Servomotor PID Controller Tuning,” Journal of Control Science and Engineering, vol. 2014, Article ID 576868, 7 pages, (2014), [Indexed by Scopus, SNIP = 0.31, IPP = 0.26].

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Vaclav Rechtberger, Miroslav Bures, and Bestoun S. Ahmed”Overview of Test Coverage Criteria for Test Case Generation from Finite State Machines Modelled as Directed Graphs“, International Workshop on User Interface Test Automation and Testing Techniques for Event Based Software (INTUITESTBEDS 2022) colocated with ICST2022.
Vaclav Rechtberger, Miroslav Bures, Bestoun S. Ahmed, Youcef Belkhier, Jiri Nema and Hynek Schvach, ”Prioritized Variable-length Test Cases Generation for Finite State Machines” 6th International Workshop on Testing Extra-Functional Properties and Quality Characteristics of Software Systems 2022, Co-located with International conference on Software Testing (ICST2022).
Yunpeng Ma, Andreas Kassler, Bestoun S. Ahmed, Pavel Krakhmalev, Andreas Thore, Arash Toyser, Hans Lindback, ”Using Deep Reinforcement Learning for Zero Defect Smart Forging”, The 10th Swedish Production Symposium 2022 (SPS2022).
Vaclav Rechtberger, Miroslav Bures, Bestoun S. Ahmed, ”Overview of Test Coverage Criteria for Test Case Generation from Finite State Machines Modelled as Directed Graphs”, international Workshop on User Interface Test Automation and Testing Techniques for Event Based Software (INTUITESTBEDS2022), Co-located with International conference on Software Testing (ICST2022).
Miroslav Bures, Bestoun S. Ahmed Ahmed, Vaclav Rechtberger, Matej Klima, Michal Trnka, Miroslav Jaros, Xavier Bellekens, Dani Almog, Pavel Herout, “PatrIoT: IoT Automated Interoperability and Integration Testing Framework“, International Conference of Software Testing (ICST2021), 2021.
Miroslav Bures, Matej Klima, Vaclav Rechtberger, Bestoun S. Ahmed and Hanan Hindy and Xavier Bellekens, “Review of Specific Features and Challenges in the Current Internet of Things Systems Impacting their Security and Reliability“, 9th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies WorldCist’21, 2021.
Matej Klima, Vaclav Rechtberger, Miroslav Bures, Xavier Bellekens, Hanan Hindy, and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Quality and Reliability Metrics for IoT Systems: A Consolidated View“, 5th EAI International Conference on IoT in Urban Space (EAI Urb-IoT 2020), 2020.
Krystof Sykora, Bestoun S. Ahmed, and Miroslav Bures, “Code Coverage Aware Test Generation Using Constraint Solver“, 2nd International Workshop on Automated and verifiable Software sYstem DEvelopment, 2020.
Vaclav Rechtberger, Miroslav Bures, and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Alternative Effort-optimal Model-based Strategy for State Machine Testing of IoT Systems“, Proceedings of 2020 The 2nd World Symposium on Software Engineering, PP. 141–145, 2020.
Miroslav Bures, Matej Klima, Vaclav Rechtberger, Xavier Bellekens, Christos Tachtatzis, Robert Atkinson, and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Interoperability and Integration Testing Methods for IoT Systems: A Systematic Mapping Study” Proceeding of Software Engineering and Formal Methods: 18th International Conference, SEFM 2020, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 14-18, 2020.
Bestoun Ahmed, Angelo Gargantini, and Miroslav Bures “An Automated Testing Framework For Smart TV apps Based on Model Separation”, International Workshop on User Interface Test Automation and Testing Techniques for Event-Based Software (INTUITESTBEDS2020), Colocated with International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST2020), Porto, Portugal, March 23, 2020. Download
Jan Richter, Bestoun S. Ahmed, Miroslav Bures, and Cleber R. Rosa Junior, “Avocado: Open-Source Flexible Constrained Interaction Testing for Practical Application”, 9th International Workshop on Combinatorial Testing (IWCT2020), Colocated with International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST2020), Porto, Portugal, March 23, 2020. Download
Miroslav Bures and Pavel Herout and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Open-source Defect Injection Benchmark Testbed for the Evaluation of Testing”, IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST2020), Porto, Portugal, March 2020. Download
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Amador Pahim, Cleber R. Rosa Junior, D. Richard Kuhn, and Miroslav Bures, “Towards an Automated Unified Framework to Run Applications for Combinatorial Interaction Testing,” The 23rd Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE2019) conference, ACM, Copenhagen, Denmark, PP 252–258. Download
Miroslav Bures, Bellekens, X., Karel Frajtak, Bestoun S. Ahmed, “A Comprehensive View on Quality Characteristics of the IoT Solutions”. 3rd EAI International Conference on IoT in Urban Space, 2019, PP. 59-69, Springer. Download
Bestoun S. Ahmed, and Miroslav Bures, “Testing of Smart TV Applications: Key Ingredients, Challenges and Proposed Solutions“, Future Technology Conference, FTC2018, November 2018, Vancouver, Canada PP 241-256, Springer.
Kamal Z. Zamli, Fakhrud Din, Nazirah Ramli, and Bestoun S.Ahmed, “Software Module Clustering based on the Fuzzy Adaptive Teaching Learning based Optimization Algorithm”, Accepted for publication in the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent and Interactive Computing 2018 (IIC 2018), Melaka, Malaysia, Springer.
Abdullah B. Nasser, Kamal Z. Zamli, and Bestoun S.Ahmed, “Dynamic Solution Probability Acceptance within the Flower Pollination Algorithm for t-way Test Suite Generation”, Accepted for publication in the 2nd International Conference on Intelligent and Interactive Computing 2018 (IIC 2018), Melaka, Malaysia, Springer.
Miroslav Bures, Tomas Cerny, and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Internet of Things: Current Challenges in the Quality Assurance and Testing Methods“, Accepted for publication 9th iCatse Conference on Information Science and Applications, 2018, Macau, China. Download Draft
Miroslav Bures, Bestoun S. Ahmed, “On The Effectiveness of Combinatorial Interaction Testing: A Case Study”,2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security Companion (QRS-C), Combinatorial Testing and its application workshop (CTA2017), 2017, pp.69-76, Prague, Czech Republic. Download Draft
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Luca M. Gambardella, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “A New Approach to Speed Up Combinatorial Search Algorithms Using Stack and Hash Table”, 3rd IEEE Science and Information Conference (SAI2016), 2016, pp.1217-1222, London, United Kingdome.
Diary R. Sulaiman and Bestoun S. Ahmed,” Using the Combinatorial Optimization Approach for DVS in High-Performance Processors ” The International Conference on Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE2013), 2013, pp.105-109, IEEE Computer Society.
Bestoun S. Ahmed and Kamal Z. Zamli, “Comparison of Metaheuristic Test Generation Strategies Based on Interaction Elements Coverage Criterion”, The 2011 IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA 2011), 2011, pp. 537-541, IEEE Computer Society.
Bestoun S. Ahmed and Kamal Z. Zamli, “PSTG: a t-way strategy adopting particle swarm optimization,” in: Proceeding of 4th Asia International Conference on Mathematical/Analytical Modeling and Computer Simulation, 2010, pp. 1-5, IEEE Computer Society.
Bestoun S. Ahmed and Kamal Z. Zamli,” T-Way Test Data Generation Strategy Based on Particle Swarm Optimization,” in: Proceeding of 2nd International Conference on Computer Research and Development (ICCRD 2010), Pages (93-97), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2010, IEEE Computer Society.
Bestoun S. Ahmed and Kamal Z. Zamli,” Motivation for Developing a High Combinatorial Interaction Strength Testing Suite via the Grid Computing Approach”, In Proceedings of the Electrical and Electronic Postgraduate Colloquium EEPC2009, Jawi, Malaysia, November 2009.
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Khairulmizam Samsudin, Abdul Rahman Ramli, and ShahNor Basri, “A descriptive performance model of a load balancing single system image”, In 2008 Second Asia International Conference on Modeling & Simulation (AMS2008), pages 180-184, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, May 2008, IEEE Computer Society.
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Khairulmizam Samsudin, Abdul Rahman Ramli, and ShahNor Basri, “Toward descriptive performance model for openMosix cluster”, In 13th International CSI Computer Science 2008, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Kish Island, Iran, March 2008. Springer-Verlag, pp. 728–731.

Local Journals

Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Generating Pairwise Combinatorial Interaction Test Suites Using Single Objective Dragonfly Optimisation Algorithm“, Journal of Zankoy Sulaimani (JZS-A), vol.19(1), 2018.
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Amin S. Mohammad, and Hemin T. Essa, “Assessing Combinatorial Design for Analyzing System Performance of a Computer Network“, Journal of Zankoy Sulaimani (JZS-A), vol. 16 (4), 2014.

Books and Book Chapters

Kamal Z. Zamli, Bestoun S. Ahmed, Thair Mahmoud, and Wasif Afzal, “Fuzzy Adaptive Tuning of a Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Variable-Strength Combinatorial Test Suite Generation“, Swarm Intelligence Volume 3: Applications, 2018, IET. Download

Early Stage Publications

Bestoun S. Ahmed and Kamal Z. Zamli, “A Greedy Particle Swarm Optimization Strategy for T-way Software Testing” Journal of Artificial Intelligence, 5(2): 85-90, (2012). [Indexed by Scopus, SNIP = 0.467, IPP = 0.32].
Bestoun S. Ahmed and Kamal Z. Zamli,” A Review of Covering Arrays and Their Application to Software Testing”, Journal of Computer Science, 7(9): 1375-1385, (2011). [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, SNIP = 0.67, IPP = 0.31].
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Khairulmizam Samsudin, and Abdul Rahman Ramli. Architectural review of load balancing single system image. Journal of Computer Science, 4(9):752-761, (2008). [ISI, Indexed by Scopus, SNIP = 0.67, IPP = 0.31].
Bestoun S. Ahmed, Khairulmizam Samsudin, and Abdul Rahman Ramli, “Benchmark framework for a load balancing single system image”, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (IJCSNS), 8(5):320-333, (2008).