publications: - title: "SuSoftPro: Sustainability Profiling for Software" author: - name: "Ahmed D. Alharthi" link: "https://ahmedalharthi.net" - name: "Maria Spichkova" link: "https://none" - name: "Margaret Hamilton" link: "http://none" year: "2018" month: "8" doi: "10.1109/RE.2018.00072" abstract: "The paper presents a SuSoftPro tool for requirement engineers to analyse the requirements' impacts on system sustainability. To perform the analysis of system sustainability, the tool provides quantitative questionnaires for rating highlevel requirements within sustainability dimensions via a Fuzzy Rating Scale method. Stakeholders' responses are analysed by applying Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution. The tool presents sustainability as a five-star rating label, a visualisation of the degree for sustainability dimensions, and a bar graph that illustrates the sustainability level." links: "url": "https://www.ahmedalharthi.net/susoftpro-re18-poster/" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/AlharthiSuSoftPro2018" cites: 0 citedby: 0 booktitle: "the 26th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'18)" kind: "inproceedings" key: "AlharthiSuSoftPro2018" - title: "SuSoftPro: Sustainability Profiling for Software" author: - name: "Ahmed D. Alharthi" link: "https://ahmedalharthi.net" - name: "Maria Spichkova" link: "https://none" - name: "Margaret Hamilton" link: "http://none" year: "2018" doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/RE.2018.00072" links: doi: "http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/RE.2018.00072" dblp: "http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/re/AlharthiSH18" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/AlharthiSH18" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "500-501" booktitle: "RE" kind: "inproceedings" key: "AlharthiSH18" - title: "Gender-Based Perspectives of eLearning Systems: An Empirical Study of Social Sustainability" author: - name: "Ahmed D. Alharthi" link: "https://ahmedalharthi.net" - name: "Maria Spichkova" link: "https://none" - name: "Margaret Hamilton" link: "http://none" - name: "Tawfeeq Alsanoosy" link: "http://none" year: "2018" month: "8" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/AlharthiGender2018" cites: 0 citedby: 0 kind: "inproceedings" key: "AlharthiGender2018" - title: "A prototypical skin cancer information system" author: - name: "Ahmed D. Alharthi" link: "https://ahmedalharthi.net" - name: "Peter Busch" link: "http://none" - name: "Stephen Smith" link: "http://none" year: "2013" doi: "https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04980" abstract: "Skin cancer is a common problem in Australia and indeed around the world. Within the domain of eHealth, there appears to be no satisfactory clinical software that follows the flow of a normal skin cancer examination. This paper introduces a system that was specifically designed, coded and implemented to store patient health records as a means of registering the diagnoses of skin cancer along with the treatment. The information system was intended to be web-based, and connect to remote database servers. The implemented system was designed to incorporate features such as inserting procedural details, generating forms and reports with interactive interfaces, yet be relatively unsophisticated to use. We expect the system once fully implemented and on line, will aid in Australia?s e-Health industry, delivering more accurate information to doctors and patients in an effort to combat issues involving skin cancer. Other parameters discussed are the need for data encryption of medical records and the role such a system can play in medical information." links: doi: "https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.04980" "url": "https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.04980" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/Alharthi2013" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "1-11" booktitle: "24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2013)" kind: "inproceedings" key: "Alharthi2013" - title: "Sustainability requirements for eLearning systems: a systematic literature review and analysis " author: - name: "Ahmed D. Alharthi" link: "https://ahmedalharthi.net" - name: "Maria Spichkova" link: "https://none" - name: "Margaret Hamilton" link: "http://none" year: "2018" month: "8" doi: "10.1007/s00766-018-0299-9" abstract: "eLearning systems have become a very important part of teaching, both as web-based systems for online education and as auxiliary tools for face-to-face study, where they provide an additional learning support for on-campus learners. To insure the sustainability of an eLearning system on both individual and social levels, we have to cover many aspects of sustainability requirements: human, technical, economic, and environmental. This paper provides a systematic literature review of the sustainability meta-requirements for eLearning systems to identify open problems and to present the state of the art of this research area. We analysed 124 papers, so we identified 18 high-level sustainability requirements for eLearning systems." researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/AlharthiSLR2018" cites: 0 citedby: 0 journal: "Requirements Engineering" kind: "article" key: "AlharthiSLR2018" - title: "Requirements Engineering Aspects of ELearning Systems" author: - name: "Ahmed D. Alharthi" link: "https://ahmedalharthi.net" - name: "Maria Spichkova" link: "https://none" - name: "Margaret Hamilton" link: "http://none" year: "2015" doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2811681.2817756" links: doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2811681.2817756" dblp: "http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/aswec/AlharthiSH15" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/AlharthiRE15" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "132-133" booktitle: "ASWEC" kind: "inproceedings" key: "AlharthiRE15" - title: "Individual and Social Requirement Aspects of Sustainable eLearning Systems" author: - name: "Ahmed D. Alharthi" link: "https://ahmedalharthi.net" - name: "Maria Spichkova" link: "https://none" year: "2016" month: "11" abstract: "Internationalisation of the higher education has created the so-called borderless university, which provides better opportunities for learning and increases the human and social sustainability. eLearning systems are a special kind of software systems, developed to provide a platform for accessible teaching and learning, including also online access to learning materials and online support for learning and teaching. The aim of our current work is to extract, analyse, and combine the results from multiple studies in order to develop a requirements engineering framework for sustainable eLearning systems. We call a system sustainable, if it has a positive effect on and whose direct and indirect negative impacts resulting from its development, deployment, and usage are minimal. Sustainability has various dimensions. We classify sustainability requirements of eLearning system to five dimensions: individual (human), social, technical, environmental, and economic. In this paper, we focus on human and social aspects (i.e., individual needs the relationship of people within society), as the eLearning systems have a very strong impact on human dimension of sustainability, where their impact on environmental dimension is rather small. This also provides us a basis to identify the corresponding requirements for sustainable eLearning systems. These requirements include collaboration, learner-centred features, leadership development and the reuse of the learning materials. As a result, achieving individual and social requirements for eLearning systems would provide a higher quality of learning and teaching, as well as better opportunities for learning and increasing the human and social sustainability." researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/alharthi2016individual" cites: 0 citedby: 0 booktitle: "Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Education and Research" kind: "inproceedings" key: "alharthi2016individual" - title: "Green architecture for sustainable eLearning systems" author: - name: "Ahmed D. Alharthi" link: "https://ahmedalharthi.net" - name: "Maria Spichkova" link: "https://none" year: "2017" doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3129790.3129817" abstract: "eLearning systems provide a platform for accessible teaching and learning, including online access to learning materials and online support for learning and teaching. With the growing use of eLearning systems, the corresponding storage requirements and energy consumption would grow, unless these systems are based on a green architecture taking into account sustainability requirements. In this paper, we present sustainability requirements for eLearning systems as well as the corresponding green cloud-based architecture. The proposed approach could increase human and social sustainability by providing the learning and teaching facilities via eLearning, and support environmental sustainability. " links: doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3129790.3129817" dblp: "http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/ecsa/AlharthiS17" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/AlharthiGreen17" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "199-204" booktitle: "ecsa" kind: "inproceedings" key: "AlharthiGreen17" - title: "Sustainability Profiling of Long-living Software Systems" author: - name: "Ahmed D. Alharthi" link: "https://ahmedalharthi.net" - name: "Maria Spichkova" link: "https://none" - name: "Margaret Hamilton" link: "http://none" year: "2016" doi: "http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1771/paper3.pdf" abstract: "This paper introduces a framework for software sustainability profiling. The goal of the framework is to analyse sustainability requirements for long-living software systems, focusing on usability and readability of the sustainability profiles. To achieve this goal, we apply a quantitate approach such as fuzzy rating scale-based questionnaires to rank the sustainability requirements, and the Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to analyse the results of questionnaires and to provide a basis for system profiling. The core profiling elements provided by our framework are (1) a sustainability five-star rating, (2) visualisation of the five sustainability dimensions as a pentagon graph detailing combination for individual, social, technical, economic and environmental dimensions, and (3) a bar graph of overall sustainability level for each requirement. To ensure sustainability, the proposed profiling framework covers the five dimensions of sustainability to quantify the sustainability of any software system not only during the requirement gathering phase but also during maintenance phase of software system lifecycle. " links: doi: "http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1771/paper3.pdf" dblp: "http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/apsec/AlharthiSH16" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/AlharthiProfiling2016" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "12-19" booktitle: "apsec" kind: "inproceedings" key: "AlharthiProfiling2016" - title: "Online Support System for Transnational Education" author: - name: "Maria Spichkova" link: "https://none" - name: "James Harland" link: "http://none" - name: "Ahmed D. Alharthi" link: "https://ahmedalharthi.net" year: "2016" month: "11" abstract: "The number of students who travel abroad to study or are enrolled in a distance learning program outside their home country is growing. According to UNESCO, such students are called internationally mobile students (IMSs) and 5 destination countries accounted for almost 50% of IMSs: United States (18%), United Kingdom (11%), France (7%), Australia (6%), and Germany (5%). Internationalisation of the higher education has created the so-called borderless university, providing better opportunities for learning and increases the human and social sustainability. In this paper, we propose an online system to support transnational education (TNE) in Australia. This system will consist of both an online module and quiz, and an automated assistance module. The first part will ensure that students understand TNE-related potential problems, such as the importance of submission deadlines, and provide students early hints and help to avoid the TNErelated problems. The second part will provide assistance with general issues related to studying and living in Australia, and more specific ones tailored to a specific institution. The ability to provide an immediate response when required will help overcome feelings of isolation, and provide appropriate advice on matters such as plagiarism and related issues, many of which arise from misunderstandings due to divergent cultural backgrounds and a lack of awareness about differences in socio-cultural environments." researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/spichkova2016online" cites: 0 citedby: 0 booktitle: "Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Education and Research" kind: "inproceedings" key: "spichkova2016online" - title: "Towards Tool-support for Sustainability Profiling" author: - name: "Ahmed D. Alharthi" link: "https://ahmedalharthi.net" - name: "Maria Spichkova" link: "https://none" - name: "Margaret Hamilton" link: "http://none" year: "2018" month: "8" abstract: "The demand for sustainable software is increasing, as the understanding of the importance of sustainability aspects is developing in the software engineering community. The most effective decisions related to sustainability of software can be made in the early stages of software development. To support these decisions, we introduce Sustainability Profiling for Software (SuSoftPro) tool that can assist in analysing sustainability require- ments. In this paper, we analyse the core features of SuSoftPro in comparison with two other approaches, which utilise Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis. We also present a case study we conducted using SuSoftPro: analysis of sustainability aspects of a Skin Cancer Information System. " researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/Alharthitool2018" cites: 0 citedby: 0 booktitle: "the 7th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy@RE18)" kind: "inproceedings" key: "Alharthitool2018"