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Title: An Empirical Study of Investigating Mobile Applications Development Challenges Author:Ahmad, Arshad; Li, Kan; Feng, Chong; Asim, Syed Mohammad; Yousif, Abdallah; Ge, Shi Subject:Mobile Applications ; Application Programming Interfaces ; Mobile Communication ; Interviews ; Organizations ; Software Engineering ; Quality Assessment ; Mobile Application Development ; Mobile Apps Development ; Mobile Application Software Engineering ; Challenges and Barriers ; Empirical Study ; Engineering Description:
Context: mobile application development is rapidly evolving with substantial economic and scientific interest. One of the primary reasons for mobile application development failure is the increasing number of mobile platforms; some organizations endorse mobile application development before understanding the associated development challenges of each target platform. Objective: the objective of this paper is to identify the challenges of native, web, and hybrid mobile applications, which can undermine the successful development of such applications. Method: we adopted a two-phase research approach: at first, the challenges were identified via a systematic literature review (SLR); and then, the identified challenges were validated through conducting interviews with practitioners. Results: through both research approaches, we identified nine challenges vital to the success of mobile application development and four additional challenges from interviews not reported in the literature....
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IEEE access, 2018, Vol.6, pp.17711-17728
Identifier:
2169-3536 (E-ISSN); 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2818724 (DOI)
Title: News Recommendation Systems - Accomplishments, Challenges & Future Directions Author:Feng, Chong; Khan, Muzammil; Rahman, Arif Ur; Ahmad, Arshad Subject:Object Recognition ; Bibliographies ; Data Collection ; Quality Assessment ; Collaboration ; Computer Science ; Recommendations ; News Recommendations ; Literature Review ; Recommendation Techniques ; News Recommendation Overview ; Engineering ; Computer Science Description:
News publishers have decreased disseminating news through conventional newspapers and have migrated to the use of digital means like websites and purpose-built mobile applications. It is observed that news recommendation systems can automatically process lengthy articles and identify similar articles for readers considering predefined criteria. The objectives of the current work are to identify and classify the challenges in news recommendation domain, to identify state-of-the-art approaches and classify on the application domain, to identify datasets used for evaluation and their sources, the evaluation approaches used and to highlight the challenges explicitly addressed. The literature is thoroughly studied over the time span of 2001-2019 and shortlisted 81 related studies, broadly classified into six categories and discussed. The analysis showed that 60% of news recommendation system adopted a hybrid approach, 66% studies little talk about datasets, and addresses a few challenges...
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IEEE access, 2020, Vol.8, pp.16702-16725
Identifier:
2169-3536 (E-ISSN); 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2967792 (DOI)
Title: Toward Empirically Investigating Non-Functional Requirements of iOS Developers on Stack Overflow Author:Ahmad, Arshad; Feng, Chong; Li, Kan; Asim, Syed Mohammad; Sun, Tingting Subject:Software ; Market Research ; Data Mining ; Application Programming Interfaces ; Mobile Communication ; Mobile Applications ; Technological Innovation ; Non-Functional Requirements (Nfrs) ; Quality Requirements ; Ios ; Latent Dirichlet Allocation (Lda) ; Stack Overflow ; Engineering Description:
Context: Mobile application developers are getting more concerned due to the importance of quality requirements or non-functional requirements (NFR) in software quality. Developers around the globe are actively asking a question(s) and sharing solutions to the problems related to software development on Stack Overflow (SO). The knowledge shared by developers on SO contains useful information related to software development such as feature requests (functional/non-functional), code snippets, reporting bugs or sentiments. Extracting the NFRs shared by iOS developers on programming Q&A website SO has become a challenge and a less researched area. Objective: To identify and understand the real problems, needs, trends, and the critical NFRs or quality requirements discussed on Stack Overflow related to iOS mobile application development. Method: We extracted and used only the iOS posts data of SO. We applied the well-known statistical topical model Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to identify the main topics in iOS posts on SO. Then, we labeled the extracted topics with quality requirements or NFRs by using the wordlists to assess the trend, evolution, hot and unresolved NFRs in all iOS discussions. Results: Our findings revealed that the highly frequent topics the iOS developers discussed are related to usability, reliability, and functionality followed by efficiency. Interestingly, the most problematic areas unresolved are also usability, reliability, and functionality though followed by portability. Besides, the evolution trend of each of the six different quality requirements or NFRs over time is depicted through comprehensive visualization. Conclusion: Our first empirical investigation on approximately 1.5 million iOS posts and comments of SO gives insight on comprehending the NFRs in iOS application development through the lens of real-world practitioners.
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IEEE Access, 2019, Vol.7, pp.61145-61169
Identifier:
2169-3536 (E-ISSN); 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2914429 (DOI)
Title: Underwater Pragmatic Routing Approach Through Packet Reverberation Mechanism Author:Ashraf, Shahzad; Gao, Mingsheng; Chen, Zhengming; Naeem, Hamad; Ahmad, Arshad; Ahmed, Tauqeer Subject:Batteries ; Routing ; Reverberation ; Relays ; Energy Consumption ; Throughput ; Pragmatics ; Packet Reverberation ; Opportunistic Routing ; Dearth Node ; Energy Efficiency ; Network Throughput ; Forwarding Relay Node ; Sagacious Link ; Engineering Description:
The advances in underwater sensor communication has become imperative getting up-to-date information about underwater happenings, especially when world has already faced the calamity like Tsunami. The underwater environment possessed freak and unpredictable movements which becomes more harsh time to time. The sensor nodes deployed under such juncture are the main source of information which in fact, facing numerous challenges. These nodes are mainly energy-constrained and rely on limited battery source. Due to most intricated underwater routing architecture, the biggest detriment is the limited battery lifespan. Therefore, it is imperative to adopt the pragmatic and possible alternate to improve the life expectancy of these sensor nodes. The solution of such shortcomings and identifying the varieties of impingements impelled by forwarding node on battery lifespan during packet transmission course are meticulously explored by developing an Underwater Pragmatic Routing Approach...
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IEEE access, 2020, Vol.8, pp.163091-163114
Identifier:
2169-3536 (E-ISSN); 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3022565 (DOI)