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Abbas Javan Jafari

I am a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University under Dr. Emad Shihab’s supervision. I have previously received my Masters and Bachelors degree in Software Engineering at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM), Iran. I have 2 years of experience as a Security Analyst and Research Assistant at FUM Cert Labs were I worked on reverse engineering and penetration testing guidelines, and contributed to several in-house projects. My current research interests include Empirical Software Engineering, Software Ecosystems and Dependency Management.

Publications​

Journals

  • A. J. Jafari, D. E. Costa, E. Shihab, and R. Abdalkareem, "Dependency Update Strategies and Package Characteristics," in ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023
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  • A. J. Jafari, D. E. Costa, R. Abdalkareem, E. Shihab, and N. Tsantalis, "Dependency Smells in JavaScript Projects," in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), 2021
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Publications Before Joining DAS​

  • A. Javan Jafari, and A. Rasoolzadegan, “Security patterns: A systematic mapping study”. Journal of Computer Languages 56 (2020). (Link)

  • B. Bafandeh Mayvan, A. Rasoolzadegan, and A. Javan Jafari, , “Bad smell detection using quality metrics and refactoring opportunities”. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process (2020). (Link)

  • A. Javan Jafari, and A. Rasoolzadegan, “Quality-centric security pattern mutations”. Software Quality Journal 27, no. 4 (2019): 1531-1561. (Link)

  • A. Ahmadian Ramaki, A. Rasoolzadegan, and A. Javan Jafari, “A systematic review on intrusion detection based on the Hidden Markov Model”. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: The ASA Data Science Journal 11, no. 3 (2018): 111-134. (Link)

  • A. Javan Jafari, and A. Rasoolzadegan, “Securing Gang of Four Design Patterns”. Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (PLoP’16). Monticello, Illinois, USA. 2016. (Link)

Awards​

  • Concordia University Merit Scholarship 2019
  • Concordia University International Tuition Award of Excellence 2019

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