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2025

• Enhancing Web Accessibility: Automated Detection of Issues with Generative AI
  Ziyao He, Syed Fatiul Huq, and Sam Malek
  ACM on Software Engineering, Volume 2, Issue FSE 2025.
  [PDF]

• Automated Accessibility Analysis of Dynamic Content Changes on Mobile Apps
  Forough Mehralian, Ziyao He, and Sam Malek
  IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025), Ottawa, Canada, April 2025.
  [PDF]

• Automated Generation of Accessibility Test Reports from Recorded User Transcripts
  Syed Fatiul Huq, Mahan Tafreshipour, Kate Kalcevich, and Sam Malek
  47th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025), Ottawa, Canada, April 2025.
  [PDF]

• Bringing Architecture-Based Adaptation to the Mainstream
  Negar Ghorbani, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek
  Elsevier Journal of Information and Software Technology (IST)
  [PDF]

2024

• "I tend to view ads almost like a pestilence": On the Accessibility Implications of Mobile Ads for Blind Users
  Ziyao He, Syed Fatiul Huq and Sam Malek
  IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 2024.
  [PDF]

• A Historical Review of Web Accessibility Using WAVE
  Pooja Naresh Bhatia and Sam Malek
  5th Workshop on Gender Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering (GE 2024), Lisbon, Portugal, April 2024.
  [PDF]

• Darcy: Automatic Architectural Inconsistency Resolution in Java.
  Negar Ghorbani, Tarandeep Singh, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Vol 50, No. 6, June 2024.
  [PDF]

• Ma11y: A Mutation Framework for Web Accessibility Testing.
  Mahan Tafreshipour, Anmol Deshpande, Forough Mehralian, Iftekhar Ahmed, and Sam Malek
  33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024), Vienna, Austria, September 2024.
  [PDF]

2023

• #A11yDev: Understanding Contemporary Software Accessibility Practices from Twitter Conversations
  Syed Fatiul Huq, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Ziyao He, and Sam Malek
  2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023), Hamburg, Germany, April 2023.
  [PDF]

• Assistive-Technology Aided Manual Accessibility Testing in Mobile Apps, Powered by Record-and-Replay
  Navid Salehnamadi, Ziayo He, and Sam Malek
  2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023), 2023, Hamburg, Germany, April 2023.
  [PDF]

• ROUTE: Road Not Taken in UI Testing
  Jun-Wei Lin, Navid Salehnamadi, and Sam Malek
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). Vol. 32, No. 3, April 2023.
  [PDF]

• DeltaDroid: Dynamic Delivery Testing in Android
  Negar Ghorbani, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Navid Salehnamadi, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). Vol. 32, No. 4, May 2023.
  [PDF]

• A Systematic Co-engineering of Safety and Security Analysis in Requirements Engineering Process
  Sejin Jung, Junbeom Yoo, and Sam Malek
  Elsevier International Jounral of Critical Infrastructure Protection. Vol. 43, December 2023.
  [PDF]

2022

• Tool-Assisted Componentization of Java Applications
  Mahmoud Hammad, Ibrahim Abueisa, and Sam Malek
  19th International Conference on Software Architectures (ICSA 2022), Honoloulu, Hawaii, March 2022
  [PDF]

• GUI Test Transfer from Web to Android
  Jun-Wei Lin and Sam Malek
  15th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST 2022). Virtual Event, April 2022.
  [PDF]

• Forecasting Architectural Decay from Evolutionary History
  Joshua Garcia, Ehsan Kouroshfar, Negar Ghorbani, and Sam Malek
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE). Vol. 48, No. 7, July 2022.
  [PDF]

• Too Much Accessibility is Harmful! Automated Detection and Analysis of Overly Accessible Elements in Mobile Apps
  Forough Mehralian*, Navid Salehnamadi*, Syed Fatiul Huq, and Sam Malek
  37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021), Michigan, United States, October 2022.
  [PDF]

• Groundhog: An Automated Accessibility Crawler for Mobile Apps
  Navid Salehnamadi*, Forough Mehralian*, and Sam Malek
  37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021), Michigan, United States, October 2022.
  [PDF]

• AccessiText: Automated Detection of Text Accessibility Issues in Android Apps
  Abdulaziz Alshayban, and Sam Malek
  The ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2022) , Singapore, November 2022.
  [PDF]

2021

• Constructing a Shared Infrastructure for Software Architecture Analysis and Maintenance
  Joshua Garcia, Mehdi Mirakhorli, Lu Xiao, Yutong Zhao, Ibrahim Mujhid, Khoi Pham, Ahmet Okutan, Sam Malek, Rick Kazman, Yuanfang Cai, and Nenad Medvidovic
  IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2021), Stuttgart, Germany, March 2021. (28% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Flair: Efficient Analysis of Android Inter-Component Vulnerabilities in Response to Incremental Changes
  Hamid Bagheri, Jianghao Wang, Jarod Aerts, Negar Ghorbani, and Sam Malek
  Springer Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), Vol 26, No. 54, April 2021.
  [PDF]

• Latte: Use-Case Assistive-Service Driven Automated Accessibility Testing Framework for Android
  Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Jun-Wei Lin, Iftekhar Ahmed, Stacy Branham, and Sam Malek
  ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing System (CHI 2021), Yokohama, Japan, May 2021. (26% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Data-driven Accessibility Repair Revisited: On the Effectiveness of Generating Labels for Icons in Android Apps
  Forough Mehralian, Navid Salehnamadi, and Sam Malek
  ACM joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2021), Athens, Greece, August 2021. (24.5% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Deep GUI: Black-box GUI Input Generation with Deep Learning.
  Faraz YazdaniBanafsheDaragh and Sam Malek
  36th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2021), Melbourne, Australia, November 2021. (27% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

2020

• ER Catcher: A Static Analysis Framework for Accurate and Scalable Event-Race Detection in Android
  Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed , and Sam Malek
  35th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2020), Virtual Event, Australia, September 2020. (23% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Test Automation in Open-Source Android Apps: A Large-Scale Empirical Study
  Jun-Wei Lin, Navid Salehnamadi, and Sam Malek
  35th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2020), Virtual Event, Australia, September 2020. (23% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Automated Constrcution of Energy Test Oracle for Android
  Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Forough Mehralian, and Sam Malek
  ACM joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2020), Sacramento, CA, USA, November 2020.
  [PDF]

• Accessibility Issues in Android Apps: State of Affairs, Sentiments, and Ways Forward
  Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed, and Sam Malek
  42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), Seoul, South Korea, October 2020. (21% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• A Benchmark for Event-Race Analysis in Android Apps
  Navid Salehnamadi, Abdulaziz Alshayban, Iftekhar Ahmed , and Sam Malek
  18th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Aplications, and Services (MobiSys 2020), Virtual Event, June 2020. (Poster)
  [PDF]

2019

• Test Transfer Across Mobile Apps Through Semantic Mapping
  Jun-Wei Lin, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, and Sam Malek
  34th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019), San Diego, USA, November 2019. (21% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Search-Based Energy Testing of Android
  Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Jun-Wei Lin, and Sam Malek
  41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019), Montreal, Canada, May 2019. (21% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Detection and Repair of Architectural Inconsistencies in Java
  Negar Ghorbani, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek
  41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2019), Montreal, Canada, May 2019. (21% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• DelDroid: An Automated Approach for Determination and Enforcement of Least-Privilege Architecture in Android
  Mahmoud Hammad, Hamid Bagheri, and Sam Malek
  Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 149, March 2019.
  [PDF]

2018

• SALMA: Self-Protection of Android Systems from Inter-Component Communication Attacks.
  Mahmoud Hammad, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek
  33rd International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2018), Montpellier, France, September 2018. (20% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Efficient, Evolutionary Security Analysis of Interacting Android Apps
  Hamid Bagheri, Jianghao Wang, Jarod Arets, and Sam Malek
  34th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2018), Madrid, Spain, September 2018. (25% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Lightweight, Obfuscation-Resilient Detection and Family Identification of Android Malware
  Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, and Sam Malek
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Vol. 26, No. 3, January 2018 [ICSE'18 Journal First]
  [PDF]

• A Temporal Permission Analysis and Enforcement Framework for Android
  Alireza Sadeghi, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Negar Ghorbani, Hamid Bagheri, and Sam Malek
  40th International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE 2018), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018. (21% acceptance rate).
  [PDF]

• Nemo: Multi-Criteria Test-Suite Minimization with Integer Nonlinear Programming
  Jun-Wei Lin, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek
  40th International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE 2018), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018. (21% acceptance rate).
  [PDF]

• A Large-Scale Empirical Study on the Effects of Code Obfuscations on Android Apps and Anti-Malware Products
  Mahmoud Hammad, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek
  40th International Conference of Software Engineering (ICSE 2018), Gothenburg, Sweden, May 2018. (21% acceptance rate).
  [PDF]

2017

• Perpetual Assurances for Self-Adaptive Systems
  Danny Weyns, Nelly Bencomo, Radu Clinescu, Javier Camara, Carlo Ghezzi, Vincenzo Grassi, Larse Grunske, Paola Inverardi, Jean-Marc Jezequel, Sam Malek, Raffaela Mirandola, Marco Mori, Giordano Tamburrelli.
  Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems 3, Editors R. de Lemos, D. Garlan, C. Ghezzi, and H. Giese, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2017.
  [Link]

• Mining Mobile App Markets for Prioritization of Security Assessment Effort
  Alireza Sadeghi, Naeem Esfahani, and Sam Malek
  2nd International Workshop on App Market Analytics (WAMA 2017), Paderborn, Germany, September 2017.
  [PDF]

• μDroid: An Energy-Aware Mutation Testing Framework for Android
  Reyhaneh Jabbarvand and Sam Malek
  11th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2017), Paderborn, Germany, September 2017.
  [PDF]

• PATDroid: Permission-Aware GUI Testing of Android
  Alireza Sadeghi, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, and Sam Malek
  11th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2017), Paderborn, Germany, September 2017.
  [PDF]

• Automatic Generation of Inter-Component Communication Exploits for Android Applications
  Joshua Garcia, Mahmoud Hammad, Negar Ghorbani, and Sam Malek
  11th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2017), Paderborn, Germany, September 2017.
  [PDF]

• Ensuring the Consistency of Adaptation through Inter- and Intra-Component Dependency Analysis
  Alireza Sadeghi, Naeem Esfahani, and Sam Malek
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM), Vol. 26 Issue 1, June 2017, Article No. 2
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• A Taxonomy and Qualitative Comparison of Program Analysis Techniques for Security Assessment of Android Software
  Alireza Sadeghi, Hamid Bagheri, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Vol. 43, Issue 6, June 2017 [ICSE'17 Journal First]
  [PDF]

• DELDroid: Determination and Enforcement of Least-Privilege Architecture in Android
  Mahmoud Hammad, Hamid Bagheri, and Sam Malek
  IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2017), Gothenburg, Sweden, April 2017.
  [PDF]

• A Formal Approach for Detection of Security Flaws in the Android Permission System.
  Hamid Bagheri, Eunsuk Kang, Sam Malek, and Daniel Jackson
  Springer Journal on Formal Aspects of Computing, Pages 1-20, November 2017
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2016

• Titanium: Efficient Analysis of Evolving Alloy Specifications
  Hamid Bagheri and Sam Malek
  24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2016), Seattle, WA, November 2016. (27% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Software Architectural Principles in Contemporary Mobile Software: from Conception to Practice
  Hamid Bagheri, Joshua Garcia, Alireza Sadeghi, Sam Malek, and Nenad Medvidovic
  Journal of Systems and Software, Vol 119, Pages 31-44, September 2016.
  [PDF]

• Architecture Modeling and Analysis of Security in Android Systems
  Bradley Schmerl, Jeff Gennari, Alireza Sadeghi, Hamid Bagheri, Sam Malek, Javier Camara, and David Garlan
  10th European Conference on Software Architecture (ECSA 2016), Istanbul, Turkey, September 2016. (14% acceptance rate)
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• Practical, Formal Synthesis and Autonomic Enforcement of Security Policies for Android
  Hamid Bagheri, Alireza Sadeghi, Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, and Sam Malek
  46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2016), Toulouse, France, June 2016. (20% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Energy-Aware Test-Suite Minimization for Android Apps
  Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Alireza Sadeghi, Hamid Bagheri, and Sam Malek
  International Symposium on Software Analysis and Testing (ISSTA), Saarbrucken, Germany, July 2016. (25% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Reducing Combinatorics in GUI Testing of Android Applications
  Nariman Mirzaei, Joshua Garcia, Hamid Bagheri, Alireza Sadeghi, and Sam Malek
  38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2016), Austin, TX, May 2016. (19% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Inferring Software Component Interaction Dependencies for Adaptation Support
  Naeem Esfahani, Eric Yuan, Kyle R. Canavera, and Sam Malek
  ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Vol. 10, No. 4, February 2016.
  [PDF]

• Mining Software Component Interactions to Detect Security Threats at the Architectural Level
  Eric Yuan and Sam Malek
  13th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2016), Venice, Italy, April 2016.
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2015

• COVERT: Compositional Analysis of Android Inter-App Permission Leakage
  Hamid Bagheri, Alireza Sadeghi, Joshua Garcia, and Sam Malek
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 41, No. 9, September 2015.
  [PDF]

• SIG-Droid: Automated System Input Generation for Android Applications
  Nariman Mirzaei, Hamid Bagheri, Riyadh Mahmood, and Sam Malek
  26th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2015), Gaithersburg, MD, November 2015. (19% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Detection of Design Flaws in the Android Permission Protocol through Bounded Verification
  Hamid Bagheri, Eunsuk Kang, Sam Malek, and Daniel Jackson
  20th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM 2015), Oslo, Norway, June 2015. (26% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• A Study on the Role of Software Architecture in the Evolution and Quality of Software
  Ehsan Kouroshfar, Mehdi Mirakhorli, Hamid Bagheri, Lu Xiao, Sam Malek, and Yuanfang Cai
  12th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2015), Florence, Italy, May 2015. (30% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• EcoDroid: An Approach for Energy-Based Ranking of Android Apps
  Reyhaneh Jabbarvand, Alireza Sadeghi, Joshua Garcia, Sam Malek, and Paul Ammann
  4th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS 2015), Florence, Italy, May 2015.
  [PDF]

• Analysis of Android Inter-App Security Vulnerabilities Using COVERT
  Alireza Sadeghi, Hamid Bagheri, and Sam Malek
  37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2015), Demonstrations Track, Florence, Italy, May 2015.
  [PDF]

2014

• A Systematic Survey of Self-Protecting Software Systems
  Eric Yuan, Naeem Esfahani, and Sam Malek
  ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Vol. 8, Issue 4, January 2014.
  [PDF]

• EvoDroid: Segmented Evolutionary Testing of Android Apps
  Riyadh Mahmood, Nariman Mirzaei, and Sam Malek
  22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2014), Hong Kong, November 2014. (22% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Automated Detection and Mitigation of Inter-Application Security Vulnerabilities in Android
  Sam Malek, Hamid Bagheri, and Alireza Sadeghi
  2nd International Workshop on Software Development Lifecycle for Mobile (DeMobile 2014), Hong Kong, China, November 2014.
  [PDF]

• Automated Mining of Software Component Interactions for Self-Adaptation
  Eric Yuan, Naeem Esfahani, and Sam Malek
  9th International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2014), Hyderabad, India, June 2014. (19% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Mining the Categorized Software Repositories to Improve the Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities
  Alireza Sadeghi, Naeem Esfahani, and Sam Malek
  17th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2014), Grenoble, France, April 2014. (22% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

2013

• Proactive Self-Adaptation for Improving the Reliability of Mission-Critical, Embedded, and Mobile Software
  Deshan Cooray, Ehsan Kouroshfar, Sam Malek, and Roshanak Roshandel
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 39, No. 12, December 2013.
  [PDF]

• A Learning-Based Framework for Engineering Feature-Oriented Self-Adaptive Software Systems
  Naeem Esfahani, Ahmed Elkhodary, and Sam Malek
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 39, No. 11, November 2013.
  [PDF]

• Architecture-Based Self-Protecting Software Systems
  Eric Yuan, Sam Malek, Bradley Schmerl, David Garlan, and Jeff Gennari
  9th International Conference on Quality of Software Architectures (QoSA 2013), Vancouver, Canada, June 2013.
  [PDF]

• GuideArch: Guiding the Exploration of Architectural Solution Space Under Uncertainty
  Naeem Esfahani, Sam Malek, Kaveh Razavi
  35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013), San Francisco, California, USA, May 2013. (18% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

2012

• A Middleware Platform for Providing Mobile and Embedded Computing Instruction to Software Engineering Students
  Chris A. Mattmann, Nenad Medvidovic, Sam Malek, George Edwards, and Somo Banerjee
  IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 55, No. 3, pages 425-435, August 2012.
  [PDF]

• Utilizing Architectural Styles to Enhance the Adaptation Support of Middleware Platforms
  Naeem Esfahani and Sam Malek
  Journal of Information and Software Technology, Vol. 54, No. 7, pages 786-801, July 2012.
  [PDF]

• FORMS: Unifying Reference Model for Formal Specification of Distributed Self-Adaptive Systems
  Danny Weyns, Sam Malek, and Jesper Andersson
  ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Special Issue on Formal Methods for Pervasive, Self-Aware, and Context-Aware Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1, pages 1-61, April 2012.
  [PDF]

• An Extensible Framework for Improving a Distributed Software System's Deployment Architecture
  Sam Malek, Nenad Medvidovic, and Marija Mikic-Rakic
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 38, No. 1, pages 73-100, January/February 2012.
  [PDF]

• Mining the Execution History of a Software System to Infer the Best Time for its Adaptation.
  Kyle R. Canavera, Naeem Esfahani, and Sam Malek.
  20th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012), Cary, North Carolina, November 2012. (17% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Dealing with Uncertainty in Early Software Architecture
  Naeem Esfahani, Sam Malek, Kaveh Razavi
  20th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2012), New Ideas and Emerging Results track, Cary, North Carolina, November 2012. (20% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Testing Android Apps through Symbolic Execution
  Nariman Mirzaei, Sam Malek, Corina S. Pasareanu, Naeem Esfahani, Riyadh Mahmood
  Java Pathfinder Workshop (JPF 2012), Cary, North Carolina, November 2012.
  [PDF]

• A Framework for Automated Security Testing of Android Applications on the Cloud
  Sam Malek, Naeem Esfahani, Thabet Kacem, Riyadh Mahmood, Nariman Mirzaei, and Angelos Stavrou
  6th International Conference on Software Security and Reliability (SERE 2012), Washington, DC, June 2012.
  [PDF]

• A Whitebox Approach for Automated Security Testing of Android Applications on the Cloud
  Riyadh Mahmood, Naeem Esfahani, Thabet Kacem, Nariman Mirzaei, Sam Malek, and Angelos Stavrou
  7th International Workshop on Automation of Software Test (AST 2012), Zurich, Switzerland, June 2012.
  [PDF]

• A Taxonomy and Survey of Self-Protecting Software Systems
  Eric Yuan and Sam Malek
  7th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2012), Zurich, Switzerland, June 2012. (30% acceptance rate for full papers)
  [PDF]

• Claims and Supporting Evidence for Self-Adaptive Systems – A Literature Study
  Danny Weyns, M. Usman Iftikhar, Sam Malek, and Jesper Andersson
  7th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2012), Zurich, Switzerland, June 2012. (30% acceptance rate for full papers)
  [PDF]

• Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems: A second Research Roadmap
  Rogerio de Lemos, Holger Giese, Hausi Muller, Mary Shaw, Jesper Andersson, Luciano Baresi, Basil Becker, Nelly Bencomo, Yuriy Brun, Bojan Cikic, Ron Desmarais, Schahram Dustdar, Gregor Engels, Kurt Geihs, Karl M. Goeschka, Alessandra Gorla, Vincenzo Grassi, Poala Inverardi, Gabor Karsai, Jeff Kramer, Marin Litoiu, Antonia Lopes, Jeff Magee, Sam Malek, Serge Mankovskii, Raffaela Mirandola, John Mylopoulos, Oscar Nierstrasz, Mauro Pezze, Christian Prehofer, Wilhelm Schafer, Wilhelm Schlichting, Bradley Schmerl, Dennis B. Smith, Joao P. Sousa, Gabriel Tamura, Ladan Tahvildari, Norha M. Villegas, Thomas Vogel, Danny Weyns, Kenny Wong, and Jochen Wuttke
  Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems 2, Editors R. de Lemos, H. Giese, H. Muller, and M. Shaw. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Hot Topics, Springer, 2012.

• On Patterns for Decentralized Control in Self-Adaptive Systems
  Danny Weyns, Bradley Schmerl, Vincenzo Grassi, Sam Malek, Raffaela Mirandola, Christian Prehofer, Jochen Wuttke, Jesper Andersson, Holger Giese, and Karl Goschka
  Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems 2, Editors R. de Lemos, H. Giese, H. Muller, and M. Shaw. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Hot Topics, Springer, 2012.
  [PDF]

• Uncertainty in Self-Adaptive Software Systems
  Naeem Esfahani and Sam Malek
  Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems 2, Editors R. de Lemos, H. Giese, H. Muller, and M. Shaw. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Hot Topics, Springer, 2012.
  [PDF]

2011

• SASSY: A Framework for Self-Architecting Service-Oriented Systems
  Daniel A. Menasce, Hassan Gomaa, Sam Malek, and Joao P. Sousa
  IEEE Software, Vol. 28, No. 6, Nov./Dec. 2011.
  [PDF]

• Taming Uncertainty in Self-Adaptive Software
  Naeem Esfahani, Ehsan Kouroshfar, and Sam Malek
  8th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2011), Szeged, Hungary, September 2011. (16% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• On Interacting Control Loops in Self-Adaptive Systems
  Pieter Vromant, Danny Weyns, Sam Malek, and Jesper Andersson
  6th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2011), Honolulu, Hawaii, May 2011.
  [PDF]

2010

• Enhancing Middleware Support for Architecture-Based Development through Compositional Weaving of Styles
  Sam Malek, Harshini Ramnath Krishnan, and Jayalakshmi Srinivasan
  Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 83, No. 12, pages 2513-2527, December 2010.
  [PDF]

• An Architecture-Driven Software Mobility Framework
  Sam Malek, George Edwards, Yuriy Brun, Hossein Tajalli, Joshua Garcia, Ivo Krka, Nenad Medvidovic, Marija Mikic-Rakic, and Gaurav Sukhatme
  Journal of Systems and Software, special issue on Software Architecture and Mobility, Vol. 83, No. 6, June 2010.
  [PDF]

• FUSION: A Framework for Engineering Self-Tuning Self-Adaptive Software Systems
  Ahmed Elkhodary, Naeem Esfahani, and Sam Malek
  18th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2010), Santa Fe, NM, November 2010. (20% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• RESISTing Reliability Degradation through Proactive Reconfiguration
  Deshan Cooray, Sam Malek, Roshanak Roshandel, and David Kilgore
  25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2010), Antwerp, Belgium, September 2010.(17% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• On the Role of Architectural Styles in Improving the Adaptation Support of Middleware Platforms
  Naeem Esfahani, and Sam Malek
  4th European Conference on Software Architectures (ECSA 2010), Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2010.
  [PDF]

• Context-Driven Optimization of Mobile Service-Oriented Systems for Improving their Resilience
  Deshan Cooray, Sam Malek, and Roshanak Roshandel
  IEEE International Workshop on Engineering Mobile Service-Oriented Systems (EMSOS 2010), Miami, FL, July 2010.
  [PDF]

• FORMS: A Formal Reference Model for Self-Adaptation
  Danny Weyns, Sam Malek, and Jesper Andersson
  7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2010), Washington, DC, June 2010. (25% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• QoS Architectural Patterns for Self-Architecting Software Systems
  Daniel A. Menasce, Joao Pedro Sousa, Sam Malek, and Hassan Gomaa
  7th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2010), Washington, DC, June 2010. (25% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• Social Computing Networks: A New Paradigm for Engineering Pervasive Software Systems
  Naeem Esfahani, and Sam Malek
  32nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), New Ideas and Emerging Results Track, Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010. (25% acceptance rate)
  [PDF]

• On Decentralized Self-Adaptation: Lessons from the Trenches and Challenges for the Future
  Danny Weyns, Sam Malek, and Jesper Andersson
  ICSE workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.
  [PDF]

• Towards Multi-Design of Situated Service-Oriented Systems
  Joao Pedro Sousa, Zeynep Zengin, and Sam Malek
  ICSE workshop on Principles of Engineering Service Oriented Systems (PESOS 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, May 2010.
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• Software Adaptation Patterns for Service-Oriented Architectures
  Hassan Gomaa, Koji Hashimoto, Minseong Kim, Sam Malek, Daniel A. Menasce
  25th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2010), Dependable and Adaptive Distributed Systems track, Sierre, Switzerland, March 2010. (30% acceptance rate)
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• A Framework for Utility-Based Service Oriented Design in SASSY
  Daniel A. Menasce, John M. Ewing, Hassan Gomaa, Sam Malek, and Joao P. Sousa
  Joint WOSP/SIPEW International Conference on Performance Engineering, San Jose, California, January 2010. (25% acceptance rate)
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2009

• On the Role of Features in Analyzing the Architecture of Self-Adaptive Software Systems
  Ahmed Elkhodary, Sam Malek, Naeem Esfahani
  4th International Workshop on Models at Runtime, Denver, Colorado, October 2009. (20% acceptance rate for full papers)
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• A Modeling Language for Activity-Oriented Composition of Service-Oriented Software Systems
  Naeem Esfahani, Sam Malek, Joao P. Sousa, Hassan Gomaa, and Daniel A. Menasce
  ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 09), Denver, Colorado, October 2009. (16% acceptance rate)
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• "A Framework for Estimating the Energy Consumption Induced by a Distributed System's Architectural Style"
  Chiyoung Seo, George Edwards, Daniel Popescu, Sam Malek, and Nenad Medvidovic
  ESEC/FSE workshop on Specification and Verification of Component-Based Systems (SAVCBS 2009), Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 2009.
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• Reflecting on Self-Adaptive Software Systems
  Jesper Andersson, Rogerio de Lemos, Sam Malek, and Danny Weyns
  ICSE workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2009), Vancouver, Canada, May 2009.
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• Improving the Reliability of Mobile Software Systems through Continuous Analysis and Proactive Reconfiguration
  Sam Malek, Roshanak Roshandel, David Kilgore, and Ibrahim Elhag
  International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2009), New Ideas and Emerging Results Track, Vancouver, Canada, May 2009. (17% acceptance rate)
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• Self-Architecting Software Systems (SASSY) from QoS-Annotated Activity Models
  Sam Malek, Naeem Esfahani, Daniel A. Menasce, Joao Sousa, and Hassan Gomaa
  ICSE workshop on Principles of Engineering Service Oriented Systems (PESOS 2009), Vancouver, Canada, May 2009. (23% acceptance rate)
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• Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems: A Research Roadmap
  Betty H. C. Cheng, Rogerio de Lemos, Holger Giese, Paola Inverardi, Jeff Magee, Jesper Andersson, Basil Becker, Nelly Bencomo, Yuriy Brun, Bojan Cukic, Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Schahram Dustdar, Anthony Finkelstein, Cristina Gacek, Kurt Geihs, Vincenzo Grassi, Gabor Karsai, Holger M. Kienle, Jeff Kramer, Marin Litoiu, Sam Malek, Raffaela Mirandola, Hausi A. Muller, Sooyong Park, Mary Shaw, Matthias Tichy, Massimo Tivoli, Danny Weyns, Jon Whittle.
  Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems, Editors B. H. C. Cheng, R. de Lemos, H. Giese, P. Inverardi, and J. Magee, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2009.
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• Modeling Dimensions of Self-Adaptive Software Systems
  Jesper Andersson, Rogerio de Lemos, Sam Malek, and Danny Weyns.
  Software Engineering for Self-Adaptive Systems, Editors B. H. C. Cheng, R. de Lemos, H. Giese, P. Inverardi, and J. Magee, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 2009.
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2008

• Component-Level Energy Consumption Estimation for Distributed Java-Based Software Systems
  Chiyoung Seo, Sam Malek, and Nenad Medvidovic
  11th International Symposium on Component Based Software Engineering (CBSE 2008), Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2008.
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• Dealing with the Crosscutting Structure of Software Architectural Styles
  Sam Malek
  32nd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2008), Turku, Finland, July 2008. (20% acceptance rate)
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• Architecture-Driven Software Mobility in Support of QoS Requirements
  Marija Mikic-Rakic, Sam Malek, and Nenad Medvidovic
  International Workshop on Software Architectures and Mobility (SAM), Leipzig, Germany, May 2008.
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• Refining Reliability Estimation of Mobile Software Systems
  Roshanak Roshandel, and Sam Malek
  International Workshop on Software Architectures and Mobility (SAM), Leipzig, Germany, May 2008.
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• Estimating the Energy Consumption in Pervasive Java-Based Systems
  Chiyoung Seo, Sam Malek, and Nenad Medvidovic
  6th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2008), Hong Kong, March 2008.
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• Effective Realization of Software Architectural Styles with Aspects
  Sam Malek
  7th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008), Vancouver, BC, Canada, February 2008.
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• A Framework for Estimating the Impact of a Distributed Software System's Architectural Style on its Energy Consumption
  Chiyoung Seo, George Edwards, Sam Malek, and Nenad Medvidovic
  7th Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA 2008), Vancouver, BC, Canada, February 2008.
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2007

• Self-* Software Architectures and Component Middleware in Pervasive Environments
  George Edwards, Chiyoung Seo, Daniel Popescu, Sam malek, and Nenad Medvidovic
  5th International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 2007), Newport Beach, Orange County, California, November 2007.
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• An Energy Consumption Framework for Distributed Java-Based Systems
  Chiyoung Seo, Sam Malek, and Nenad Medvidovic
  22nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2007), Atlanta, Georgia, November 2007.
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• Software Deployment Architecture and Quality-of-Service in Pervasive Environments
  Nenad Medvidovic and Sam Malek
  International Workshop on the Engineering of Software Services for Pervasive Environments (ESSPE 2007), Dubrovnik, Croatia, September 2007.
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• "Reconceptualizing a Family of Heterogeneous Embedded Systems via Explicit Architectural Support"
  Sam Malek, Chiyoung Seo, Sharmila Ravula, Brad Petrus, and Nenad Medvidovic
  29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007), Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2007. (25% acceptance rate)
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• Exploring the Role of Software Architecture in Dynamic and Fault Tolerant Pervasive Systems
  Chiyoung Seo, Sam Malek, George Edwards, Nenad Medvidovic, Brad Petrus, and Sharmila Ravula
  Workshop on Software Engineering of Pervasive Computing Applications, Systems and Environments (SEPCASE 2007), Minneapolis, MN, May 2007.
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• Scenario-Driven Dynamic Analysis of Distributed Architecture
  George Edwards, Sam Malek, and Nenad Medvidovic
  10th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering (FASE 2007), Braga, Portugal, March 2007. (15% acceptance rate)
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2006

• Tailoring an Architectural Middleware Platform to a Heterogeneous Embedded Environment
  Sam Malek, Chiyoung Seo, and Nenad Medvidovic
  6th International Workshop on Software Engineering and Middleware (SEM 2006), Portland, Oregon, November 2006.
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• A User-Centric Framework for Improving a Distributed Software System's Deployment Architecture
  Sam Malek
  14th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundation of Software Engineering (FSE 2006), Doctoral Track, Portland, Oregon, November 2006.
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• Providing Middleware-Level Facilities to Support Architecture-Based Development of Software Systems in Pervasive Environments
  Sam Malek, Chiyoung Seo, Sharmila Ravula, Brad Petrus, and Nenad Medvidovic
  4th International Workshop on Middleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing (MPAC 2006), Melbourne, Australia, November 2006.
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2005

• A Style-Aware Architectural Middleware for Resource Constrained, Distributed Systems
  Sam Malek, Marija Mikic-Rakic, and Nenad Medvidovic
  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 31, No. 3, March 2005.
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• A Decentralized Redeployment Algorithm for Improving the Availability of Distributed Systems
  Sam Malek, Marija Mikic-Rakic, and Nenad Medvidovic
  3rd International Conference on Component Deployment (CD 2005), Grenoble, France, November 2005.
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• Improving Availability in Large, Distributed Component-Based Systems via Redeployment
  Marija Mikic-Rakic, Sam Malek, and Nenad Medvidovic
  3rd International Conference on Component Deployment (CD 2005), Grenoble, France, November 2005.
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• A Framework for Ensuring and Improving Dependability in Highly Distributed Systems
  Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Marija Mikic-Rakic, and Nenad Medvidovic
  Architecting Dependable Systems III, Editors R. de Lemos, C. Gacek, and A. Romanowski, Springer Verlag, October 2005.
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• GLIDE: A Grid-based Lightweight Infrastructure for Data-intensive Environments
  Christian Mattmann, Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Marija Mikic-Rakic, Nenad Medvidovic, and Daniel Crichton
  European Grid Conference (EGC 2005), Amsterdam, Netherlands, February 2005

2004

• An Extensible Framework for Autonomic Analysis and Improvement of Distributed Deployment Architectures
  Sam Malek, Marija Mikic-Rakic, and Nenad Medvidovic
  ACM SIGSOFT Workshop on Self-Managed Systems (WOSS 2004) , Newport Beach, California, October 2004.
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• A Tailorable Environment for Assessing the Quality of Deployment Architectures in Highly Distributed Settings
  Marija Mikic-Rakic, Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, and Nenad Medvidovic
  2nd International Conference on Component Deployment (CD 2004), Edinburgh, UK, May 2004.
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• Improving Availability of Distributed Event-Based Systems via Run-Time Monitoring and Analysis
  Marija Mikic-Rakic, Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, and Nenad Medvidovic
  Twin Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2004), Edinburgh, UK, May 2004, and Florence, Italy, June 2004.
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2003

• Software Architectural Support for Handheld Computing
  Nenad Medvidovic, Marija Mikic-Rakic, Nikunj Mehta, and Sam Malek
  IEEE Computer – Special Issue on Handheld Computing, Vol. 36, No. 9, pages 66-73, September 2003. (5.7% acceptance rate).
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• Software Architectures and Embedded Systems
  Nenad Medvidovic, Sam Malek, and Marija Mikic-Rakic
  Monterey Workshop on Software Engineering for Embedded Systems , Chicago, Illinois, September 2003.
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