Research

Software reengineering and maintenance, software evolution and change management, aspect oriented design and programming (aspect composition and testing), and knowledge discovery and acquisition with applications in software engineering. The impacts of knowledge delivery factors on software development effectiveness and the effects of open source software (OSS) on the economics of software development.

Application

The research has been applied to software intensive systems (Real Time and Distributed Systems); industrial processes; and avionic systems.

Activities

None found.

Journal Articles

Samuel A. Ajila, and Badara A. Kaba (2008), “Evolution support mechanisms for software product line process,” The Journal of Systems and Software 81(9): 1-18 (publication pending).

Samuel A. Ajila (2008), “The Impact of Knowledge Delivery Factors on New Product Development Teams – A Quantitative Analysis of Software Development Efficiency,” International Journal of Product Development (IJPD) 6(2): 98-117 (publication pending).

Samuel A. Ajila, and Razvan T. Dumitrescu (2007), “Experimental use of code delta, code churn, and rate of change to understand software product line evolution,” The Journal of Systems and Software 80(1): 74 – 91.

Samuel A. Ajila, and Di Wu (2007), “Empirical Study of the Effects of Open Source Adoption on Software Development Economics,” The Journal of Systems and Software 80(9): 1517-1529.
Note: Available online January 5, 2007

Conference Publications

Shahid Alam, and Samuel A. Ajila, “Using Constraints with Action Language for Model Evolution,” The 6th International Workshop on System/Software Architectures (IWSSA’07), Jun 2007.