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Overview

Awais Rashid is a researcher affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Computer Science, with a significant focus on information systems and cyber security.

The scientist's research spans multiple subfields, including:

  • Information Systems
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Signal Processing
  • Control and Systems Engineering

Their work covers a range of main topics such as:

  • Information and Cyber Security
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
  • Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies
  • Security and Verification in Computing
  • Software Engineering Research
  • Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies

Awais Rashid has contributed to numerous papers published in key venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Security & Privacy
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security

Recent publications include:

  • "On the privacy of mental health apps," 2022, Empirical Software Engineering
  • "Bringing Cyber to School: Integrating Cybersecurity Into Secondary School Education," 2020, IEEE Security & Privacy
  • "The Case for Adaptive Security Interventions," 2021, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • "Beware suppliers bearing gifts!: Analysing coverage of supply chain cyber security in critical national infrastructure sectorial and cross-sectorial frameworks," 2021, Computers & Security
  • "Privacy Engineering in the Wild: Understanding the Practitioners' Mindset, Organizational Aspects, and Current Practices," 2023, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

The scientist has frequently collaborated with other researchers such as Kopo M. Ramokapane, Joseph Hallett, Matthew Edwards, Partha Das Chowdhury, and Joseph Gardiner, having multiple coauthored works together.

In addition to journal and conference papers, Awais Rashid has contributed to academic books published by Springer Science+Business Media, including "Critical Information Infrastructures Security" released in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Modularisation and composition of aspectual requirements

    Awais Rashid;Ana Moreira;Joāo Araújo

  • Towards a taxonomy of software change

    Jim Buckley;Tom Mens;Matthias Zenger;Awais Rashid

  • Early aspects: a model for aspect-oriented requirements engineering

    A. Rashid;P. Sawyer;A. Moreira;J. Araujo

  • On the impact of aspectual decompositions on design stability: an empirical study

    Phil Greenwood;Thiago Bartolomei;Eduardo Figueiredo;Marcos Dosea

  • XML Data Management: Native XML and XML-Enabled Database Systems

    A. Chaudhri;Roberto Zicari;Awais Rashid

  • Discovering early aspects

    Elisa Baniassad;P.C. Clements;J. Araujo;A. Moreira

  • Persistence as an aspect

    Awais Rashid;Ruzanna Chitchyan

  • Multi-dimensional separation of concerns in requirements engineering

    A. Moreira;A. Rashid;J. Araujo

  • Survey of Aspect-Oriented Analysis and Design Approaches

    Ruzanna Chitchyan;A. Rashid;P. Sawyer;A. Garcia

  • A framework for constructing semantically composable feature models from natural language requirements

    Nathan Weston;Ruzanna Chitchyan;Awais Rashid

  • Semantics-based composition for aspect-oriented requirements engineering

    Ruzanna Chitchyan;Awais Rashid;Paul Rayson;Robert Waters

  • Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II

    Awais Rashid;Mehmet Aksit

  • Aspect-Oriented Requirements with UML

    R. Moreira;A. Rashid;J. Araujo;I. Brito

  • An Exploratory Study of Information Retrieval Techniques in Domain Analysis

    V. Alves;C. Schwanninger;L. Barbosa;A. Rashid

  • EA-Miner: a tool for automating aspect-oriented requirements identification

    Américo Sampaio;Ruzanna Chitchyan;Awais Rashid;Paul Rayson

  • Mutation Testing for Aspect-Oriented Programs

    F.C. Ferrari;J.C. Maldonado;A. Rashid

  • Assessing the Impact of Aspects on Exception Flows: An Exploratory Study

    Roberta Coelho;Awais Rashid;Alessandro Garcia;Fabiano Ferrari

  • Towards a Taxonomy of Software Evolution

    Tom Mens;Jim Buckley;Matthias Zenger;Awais Rashid

  • Towards a taxonomy of software change: Research Articles

    Jim Buckley;Tom Mens;Matthias Zenger;Awais Rashid

  • Mining Aspects in Requirements

    A. Sampaio;N. Loughran;A. Rashid;P. Rayson

  • Data exfiltration

    Faheem Ullah;Matthew Edwards;Rajiv Ramdhany;Ruzanna Chitchyan

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Rayson
Paul Rayson Lancaster University
Alessandro Garcia
Alessandro Garcia Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Pete Sawyer
Pete Sawyer Aston University
James Noble
James Noble Victoria University of Wellington
Gordon S. Blair
Gordon S. Blair Lancaster University
Bedir Tekinerdogan
Bedir Tekinerdogan Wageningen University & Research
Alexandru Telea
Alexandru Telea Utrecht University
Carlos José Pereira de Lucena
Carlos José Pereira de Lucena Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
José Carlos Maldonado
José Carlos Maldonado Universidade de São Paulo
Wouter Joosen
Wouter Joosen KU Leuven

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