Recent publications

• A. Mubarak, S. Counsell, R.M.Hierons and Y. Hassoun, Package Evolvability and its Relationship with Refactoring
  Proceedings of the 3rd International ECRIM Symposium on Software Evolution,
  Paris, France, October 5, 2007
• M. Harman, Y. Hassoun, K. Lakhotia, P. McMinn and J. Wegener,
  The Impact of Input Domain Reduction on Search-Based Test Data Generagion
  Proceedings of the 6th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium
  on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2007) Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 3-7, 2007
• D. Colling, T. Ferrari, Y. Hassoun, Chenxi Huang, C. Kotsokalis, A. S. McGough, Y. Patel, E. Ronchieri and P. Tsanakas,
  On Quality of Service Support for Grid Computing
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Distributed Cooperative Laboratories and Instrumenting the GRID
  (INGRID 2007), Santa Margherita Ligure - Portofino Italy, April 16-18, 2007
• S. Counsell, R. M. Hierons, R. Najjar, G. Loizou and Y. Hassoun,
  The Effectiveness of Refactoring, Based on a Compatibility Testing Taxonomy and a Dependency Graph
  Proceedings of IEEE Testing: Academic & Industrial Conference (TAIC part), Windsor, UK, August 29-31, 2006.
• S. Counsell, Y. Hassoun and G. Loizou,
  Common refactorings, code smells and a dependency diagram: an empirical study of Java open-source software
  Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering (ISESE2006), September 21-22, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2006
• D. J. Colling, L. W. Dickens, T. Ferrari, Y. Hassoun, C. A. Kotsokalis, M. Krznaric, J. Martyniak, A. S. McGough and E. Ronchieri,
  Adding Instruments and Workflow support to existing Grid Architecture
  Proccedings of the 1st International Workshop on Workflow Systems in e-Science (WSES 2006), May 28-31, Reading, UK, 2006. Computational Science ICCS 2006, V. N. Alexandrov et al. (Eds.), LNCS 3993, pp. 956-963, 2006, Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg.
• Y. Hassoun, R. Johnson and S. Counsell, Applications of Dynamic Proxies in Distributed Environments
  Journal of Software- Practice and Experience 35(1): 75--99 (Jan. 2005)
• R. Najjar, S. Counsell, G. Loizou and Y. Hassoun, A Comparison of Automated and Manual Data Collection Processes in Java Software
  International Workshop on Data and Information Quality (DIQ), Riga, Latvia, 8th June 2004.
• Y. Hassoun, R. Johnson and S. Counsell, Code Reuse Through Reflection: An Empirical Perspective
  Birkbeck College London, Technical Report BBKCS-04-06, June 2004
• Y. Hassoun, R. Johnson and S. Counsell, A Dynamic Runtime Coupling Metric for Meta-Level Architectures
  Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, Tampere, Finland, March 2004 (CSMR 2004).
  [IEEE Computer Society Press].
• Y. Hassoun, S. Counsell and R. Johnson, Dynamic Coupling Metric: Proof of Concept
  Journal of IEE Proceedings- Software (SPE) 152(6): 273--279.
• Y. Hassoun, R. Johnson and S. Counsell, Reusability, Open Implementation and Java’s Dynamic Proxies
  ACM 2nd International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, Kilkenny, Ireland, June 2003
• S. Counsell, Y. Hassoun, R. Johnson, K. Mannock and E. Mendes, Trends in Java code changes: the key identification of refactorings
  ACM 2nd International Conference on the Principles and Practice of Programming in Java, Kilkenny, Ireland, June 2003.
• Y. Hassoun and C. A. Constantinides, The development of generic definitions of hyperslice packages in Hyper/J
  The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS). Workshop on Software Composition, 2003.
  Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science 82, No. 5 (2003).
• Y. Hassoun and C. A. Constantinides, Visibility considerations and notion of aspect reusability in AspectJ
  3rd Workshop on Aspect-Oriented Software Development of the SIG Object-Oriented Software Development of
  the German Informatics Society, Essen, Germany, March 4-5, 2003
• Y. Hassoun and C. A. Constantinides, Code reuse for improving software productivity and quality in AOP
  Birkbeck College London, Technical Report BBKCS-03-06, October 2003
• S. Counsell, Y. Hassoun and A. Advani, Heuristics and Metrics for OO Refactoring. A Consolidation and Appraisal of Current Issues
  Chapter 8 in Object-Oriented Design Knowledge: Principles, Heuristics, Best Practices, eds. J. Garzs and M. Piattini, IDEA Group Publishers, PA, USA, 2006.
• D. Advani, Y. Hassoun and S. Counsell, Unders/tanding the complexity of refactoring in software systems: a tool-based approach
  International Journal of General Systems (IJGS) 35(3):329-346 (2006).
• D. Advani, Y. Hassoun and S. Counsell,
  Extracting refactoring trends from open-source software and a possible solution to the 'related refactoring' conundrum
  Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, Dijon, France, April 23-27, 2006.