| 1. | Alharthi, Ahmed D; Alsanoosy, Tawfeeq; Spichkova, Maria; Hamilton, Margaret Social Position and Gender Perspectives of eLearning Systems: A Study of Social Sustainability Book Section In: Advances in Information Systems Development, vol. 34, pp. 169-185, Springer, 2019, ISBN: 978-3-030-22992-4. @incollection{Alharthi2019social,
title = {Social Position and Gender Perspectives of eLearning Systems: A Study of Social Sustainability},
author = {Ahmed D Alharthi and Tawfeeq Alsanoosy and Maria Spichkova and Margaret Hamilton},
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| 2. | Alharthi, Ahmed D.; Spichkova, Maria; Hamilton, Margaret SuSoftPro: Sustainability Profiling for Software Proceedings Article In: 26th {IEEE} International Requirements Engineering Conference, {RE}, pp. 500-501, IEEE, 2018. @inproceedings{alharthitooldemo,
title = {SuSoftPro: Sustainability Profiling for Software},
author = {Ahmed D. Alharthi and
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year = {2018},
date = {2018-08-22},
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abstract = {The paper presents a SuSoftPro tool for requirement engineers to analyse the requirements' impacts on system sustainability. To perform the analysis of system sustainability, the tool provides quantitative questionnaires for rating highlevel requirements within sustainability dimensions via a Fuzzy Rating Scale method. Stakeholders' responses are analysed by applying Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution. The tool presents sustainability as a five-star rating label, a visualisation of the degree for sustainability dimensions, and a bar graph that illustrates the sustainability level.},
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The paper presents a SuSoftPro tool for requirement engineers to analyse the requirements' impacts on system sustainability. To perform the analysis of system sustainability, the tool provides quantitative questionnaires for rating highlevel requirements within sustainability dimensions via a Fuzzy Rating Scale method. Stakeholders' responses are analysed by applying Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution. The tool presents sustainability as a five-star rating label, a visualisation of the degree for sustainability dimensions, and a bar graph that illustrates the sustainability level. |
| 3. | Alharthi, Ahmed D.; Spichkova, Maria; Hamilton, Margaret; Alsanoosy, Tawfeeq Gender-Based Perspectives of eLearning Systems: An Empirical Study of Social Sustainability Proceedings Article In: the 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018), AIS, 2018, ISBN: 978-91-7753-876-9. @inproceedings{AlharthiGender,
title = {Gender-Based Perspectives of eLearning Systems: An Empirical Study of Social Sustainability},
author = {Ahmed D. Alharthi and Maria Spichkova and Margaret Hamilton and Tawfeeq Alsanoosy},
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isbn = {978-91-7753-876-9},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-08-22},
booktitle = {the 27th International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2018)},
publisher = {AIS},
abstract = {Digital technologies have an increasing impact on our everyday life. A large impact of software engineering on society also means that socio-cultural factors are becoming crucial for software systems. The gender and cultural diversity have significant impact not only on the software development process but also on the overall sustainability of the software as well as on the society where the software is used. Thus, these diversity aspects should be analysed while developing a software system. This paper presents an empirical study that investigates the gender and cultural differences in needs and usage of system features. Our focus is on eLearning systems used in Australia and Saudi Arabia, but the results of the study might be expanded to other application domains. To explore the differences, we applied a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods on the data collected from 177 participants. The results demonstrated the cultural and gender diversity may have a significant impact on user needs and preferences.},
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Digital technologies have an increasing impact on our everyday life. A large impact of software engineering on society also means that socio-cultural factors are becoming crucial for software systems. The gender and cultural diversity have significant impact not only on the software development process but also on the overall sustainability of the software as well as on the society where the software is used. Thus, these diversity aspects should be analysed while developing a software system. This paper presents an empirical study that investigates the gender and cultural differences in needs and usage of system features. Our focus is on eLearning systems used in Australia and Saudi Arabia, but the results of the study might be expanded to other application domains. To explore the differences, we applied a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods on the data collected from 177 participants. The results demonstrated the cultural and gender diversity may have a significant impact on user needs and preferences. |
| 4. | Alharthi, Ahmed D.; Spichkova, Maria; Hamilton, Margaret Towards Tool-support for Sustainability Profiling Proceedings Article In: Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy 2018), pp. 6-14, CEUR-WS, 2018, ISSN: 1613-0073. @inproceedings{Alharthitoolb,
title = {Towards Tool-support for Sustainability Profiling},
author = {Ahmed D. Alharthi and Maria Spichkova and Margaret Hamilton},
url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2223/paper2.pdf},
issn = {1613-0073},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-08-20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy 2018)},
volume = {2223},
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| 5. | Alharthi, Ahmed D.; Spichkova, Maria; Hamilton, Margaret Sustainability requirements for eLearning systems: a systematic literature review and analysis Journal Article In: Requirements Engineering, pp. 1-21, 2018, ISSN: 1432-010X. @article{Alharthi2018,
title = {Sustainability requirements for eLearning systems: a systematic literature review and analysis},
author = { Ahmed D. Alharthi and Maria Spichkova and Margaret Hamilton},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-018-0299-9},
doi = {10.1007/s00766-018-0299-9},
issn = {1432-010X},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-05-31},
journal = {Requirements Engineering},
pages = {1-21},
publisher = {Springer London},
abstract = {eLearning systems have become a very important part of teaching, both as web-based systems for online education and as auxiliary tools for face-to-face study, where they provide an additional learning support for on-campus learners. To insure the sustainability of an eLearning system on both individual and social levels, we have to cover many aspects of sustainability requirements: human, technical, economic, and environmental. This paper provides a systematic literature review of the sustainability meta-requirements for eLearning systems to identify open problems and to present the state of the art of this research area. We analysed 124 papers, so we identified 18 high-level sustainability requirements for eLearning systems.},
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eLearning systems have become a very important part of teaching, both as web-based systems for online education and as auxiliary tools for face-to-face study, where they provide an additional learning support for on-campus learners. To insure the sustainability of an eLearning system on both individual and social levels, we have to cover many aspects of sustainability requirements: human, technical, economic, and environmental. This paper provides a systematic literature review of the sustainability meta-requirements for eLearning systems to identify open problems and to present the state of the art of this research area. We analysed 124 papers, so we identified 18 high-level sustainability requirements for eLearning systems. |
| 6. | Alharthi, Ahmed D.; Spichkova, Maria Green Architecture for Sustainable eLearning Systems Proceedings Article In: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Proceedings, pp. 199–204, ACM, Canterbury, United Kingdom, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-4503-5217-8. @inproceedings{Alharthi:2017,
title = {Green Architecture for Sustainable eLearning Systems},
author = {Ahmed D. Alharthi and Maria Spichkova},
url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3129790.3129817},
doi = {10.1145/3129790.3129817},
isbn = {978-1-4503-5217-8},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-09-11},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Proceedings},
pages = {199--204},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {Canterbury, United Kingdom},
series = {ECSA '17},
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| 7. | Alharthi, Ahmed D.; Spichkova, Maria; Hamilton, Margaret Sustainability Profiling of Long-living Software Systems Proceedings Article In: Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality (QuASoQ 2016), pp. 12–19, CEUR-WS, 2016. @inproceedings{alharthisustainability,
title = {Sustainability Profiling of Long-living Software Systems},
author = {Ahmed D. Alharthi and Maria Spichkova and Margaret Hamilton},
url = {http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1771/paper3.pdf},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-12-26},
booktitle = {Proceedings of 4th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality (QuASoQ 2016)},
volume = {1771},
pages = {12--19},
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| 8. | Alharthi, Ahmed D.; Spichkova, Maria Individual and Social Requirement Aspects of Sustainable eLearning Systems Proceedings Article In: Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Education and Research, 21-24 November 2016, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia, Sydney, Australia, 2016, ISBN: 978-0-646-95724-1. @inproceedings{alharthi2016individual,
title = {Individual and Social Requirement Aspects of Sustainable eLearning Systems},
author = {Ahmed D. Alharthi and Maria Spichkova},
isbn = {978-0-646-95724-1},
year = {2016},
date = {2016-11-24},
booktitle = {Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering Education and Research, 21-24 November 2016},
publisher = {Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia},
address = { Sydney, Australia},
organization = {Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia},
abstract = {Internationalisation of the higher education has created the so-called borderless university, which provides better opportunities for learning and increases the human and social sustainability. eLearning systems are a special kind of software systems, developed to provide a platform for accessible teaching and learning, including also online access to learning materials and online support for learning and teaching. The aim of our current work is to extract, analyse, and combine the results from multiple studies in order to develop a requirements engineering framework for sustainable eLearning systems.
We call a system sustainable, if it has a positive effect on and whose direct and indirect negative impacts resulting from its development, deployment, and usage are minimal. Sustainability has various dimensions. We classify sustainability requirements of eLearning system to five dimensions: individual (human), social, technical, environmental, and economic. In this paper, we focus on human and social aspects (i.e., individual needs the relationship of people within society), as the eLearning systems have a very strong impact on human dimension of sustainability, where their impact on environmental dimension is rather small. This also provides us a basis to identify the corresponding requirements for sustainable eLearning systems. These requirements include collaboration, learner-centred features, leadership development and the reuse of the learning materials. As a result, achieving individual and social requirements for eLearning systems would provide a higher quality of learning and teaching, as well as better opportunities for learning and increasing the human and social sustainability.},
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Internationalisation of the higher education has created the so-called borderless university, which provides better opportunities for learning and increases the human and social sustainability. eLearning systems are a special kind of software systems, developed to provide a platform for accessible teaching and learning, including also online access to learning materials and online support for learning and teaching. The aim of our current work is to extract, analyse, and combine the results from multiple studies in order to develop a requirements engineering framework for sustainable eLearning systems.
We call a system sustainable, if it has a positive effect on and whose direct and indirect negative impacts resulting from its development, deployment, and usage are minimal. Sustainability has various dimensions. We classify sustainability requirements of eLearning system to five dimensions: individual (human), social, technical, environmental, and economic. In this paper, we focus on human and social aspects (i.e., individual needs the relationship of people within society), as the eLearning systems have a very strong impact on human dimension of sustainability, where their impact on environmental dimension is rather small. This also provides us a basis to identify the corresponding requirements for sustainable eLearning systems. These requirements include collaboration, learner-centred features, leadership development and the reuse of the learning materials. As a result, achieving individual and social requirements for eLearning systems would provide a higher quality of learning and teaching, as well as better opportunities for learning and increasing the human and social sustainability. |