Mahmood Khan Niazi

71 papers A 7B 1Misc 1Journal 54Unranked 8
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
KRCapVLM: Beam-guided knowledge replay for knowledge-rich image captioning using vision-language model.
Pattern Recognit.
Reem AlJunaid, Qasim Umer, Sajjad Mahmood, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Muzammil Behzad
2025 J jnl
A Cybersecurity Maturity Model for Digitally Transformed Organizations.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Malek Al zeibak, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Malak Baslyman, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2025 — conf
A Systematic Literature Review on Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Tools: Evaluation, Benchmarks, Challenges, and Future Directions.
EASE Companion
Doaa Dalaq, Kaniz Fatima Daya, Alaa Dalaq, Muhammed Nazmul Arefin, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2025 J jnl
A measurement framework to assess software maturity models.
PeerJ Comput. Sci.
Reem Alshareef, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood
2025 J jnl
Complex outsourcing relationships management model.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Ghulam Murtaza Khan, Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Muhammad Ilyas, Mamoona Humayun, Akash Ahmad, Javed Ali Khan, Sajjad Mahmood
2025 J jnl
Correction: Agile meets quantum: a novel genetic algorithm model for predicting the success of quantum software development project.
Autom. Softw. Eng.
Arif Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Valtteri Lahtinen, Marko Paavola, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mohammed Naif Alatawi, Shoayee Dlaim Alotaibi
2025 — conf
Embedding Security Practices into Taxonomy of DevOps Practices.
EASE Companion
Mohammad Shameem, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad Nadeem
2025 — conf
Evaluating the Effectiveness of SAST Tools: A Comparative Study on Vulnerability Detection, Reporting, and Usability.
EASE Companion
Haifa Abdullah Al-Shammare, Rawan Alraddadi, Faten Al-Abdulwahhab, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mamoona Humayun
2025 — conf
Mitigating Insider Threats: Insights from Software Security Experts for Process Improvement and Risk Reduction.
EASE Companion
Azzah AlGhamdi, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Lucas Carvalho Cordeiro, Mamoona Humayun, Andrew Stewart
2025 J jnl
Robust Image Steganography Approach Based on Edge Detection Combined With CNN Algorithm.
IEEE Access
Rana Al-Rawashdeh, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2025 J jnl
Solutions toCybersecurity Challenges in Secure Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications: A Multivocal Literature Review.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Naeem Ullah, Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Matteo Esposito, Arif Ali Khan, Jamal Abdul Nasir
2025 J jnl
Taxonomy of metrics for effectively estimating quantum software projects: A fuzzy-AHP based analysis.
Appl. Soft Comput.
Mohammad Shameem, Mohammad Nadeem, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Ankur Kumar
2025 — conf
Towards Understanding the Critical Role of Human Behavior in Smart and Cognitive City Cybersecurity.
ANT/EDI40
Rawan Alraddadi, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2025 J jnl
What goes wrong during phishing education? A probe into a game-based assessment with unfavorable results.
Entertain. Comput.
Affan Yasin, Rubia Fatima, Lijie Wen, Jiangbin Zheng, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2024 J jnl
Advancing database security: a comprehensive systematic mapping study of potential challenges.
Wirel. Networks
Asif Iqbal, Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mamoona Humayun, Najm Us Sama, Arif Ali Khan, Aakash Ahmad
2024 J jnl
Agile meets quantum: a novel genetic algorithm model for predicting the success of quantum software development project.
Autom. Softw. Eng.
Arif Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Valtteri Lahtinen, Marko Paavola, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mohammed Naif Alatawi, Shoayee Dlaim Alotaibi
2024 A conf
Challenges in Developing Secure Software within Agile Environments.
EASE
Reem Alshareef, Esra'a Alshabeeb, Noor Alakkas, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2024 J jnl
Maturity model for secure software testing.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Gulzar Alam, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Saad Zafar
2024 J jnl
Organizations' readiness for insider attacks: A process-oriented approach.
Softw. Pract. Exp.
Azzah A. Alghamdi, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood
2024 A conf
The Security Culture Readiness Model (SCRM) for Saudi Universities: A Preliminary Structure.
EASE
Mona Albinali, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2024 J jnl
Towards the Development of a Copyright Risk Checker Tool for Generative Artificial Intelligence Systems.
Digit. Gov. Res. Pract.
Grace Billiris, Asif Gill, Ian J. Oppermann, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2023 J jnl
AI Ethics: An Empirical Study on the Views of Practitioners and Lawmakers.
IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst.
Arif Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Mahdi Fahmideh, Peng Liang, Muhammad Waseem, Aakash Ahmad, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Pekka Abrahamsson
2023 A conf
Toward Successful Secure Software Deployment: An Empirical Study.
EASE
Azzah A. Alghamdi, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2023 J jnl
Toward a readiness model for secure software coding.
Softw. Pract. Exp.
Mamoona Humayun, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Noor Zaman Jhanjhi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb
2023 J jnl
Towards a successful secure software acquisition.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Faisal Alnaseef, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Irfan Ahmad
2022 J jnl
CMMI Compliant Workflow Models to Track and Control Changes.
Intell. Autom. Soft Comput.
Islam Ali, Syed Muhammad Ali, Waqar Mehmood, Wasif Nisar, Muhammad Qaiser Saleem, Majzoob K. Omer, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Muhammad Shafiq, Jin-Ghoo Choi
2022 A conf
Challenges of Secure Software Deployment: An Empirical Study.
EASE
Azzah A. Alghamdi, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2022 — conf
Embracing iterations in Quantum software: a vision.
QP4SE@ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE
Arif Ali Khan, Mahdi Fahmideh, Aakash Ahmad, Muhammad Waseem, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Valtteri Lahtinen, Tommi Mikkonen
2022 A conf
Ethics of AI: A Systematic Literature Review of Principles and Challenges.
EASE
Arif Ali Khan, Sher Badshah, Peng Liang, Muhammad Waseem, Bilal Khan, Aakash Ahmad, Mahdi Fahmideh, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar
2022 J jnl
Introduction to the special issue on managing software processes using soft computing techniques.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Arif Ali Khan, Pekka Abrahamsson, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2021 J jnl
Empirical Investigation of Critical Requirements Engineering Practices for Global Software Development.
IEEE Access
Habib Ullah Khan, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mohamed El-Attar, Naveed Ikram, Siffat Ullah Khan, Asif Qumer Gill
2020 J jnl
A Maturity Model for Secure Software Design: A Multivocal Study.
IEEE Access
Hassan Al-Matouq, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2020 J jnl
A maturity model for secure requirements engineering.
Comput. Secur.
Mahmood Khan Niazi, Ashraf Mohammed Saeed, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood, Saad Zafar
2020 — conf
Adaptive Architecture and Principles for Securing the IoT Systems.
IMIS
Asif Qumer Gill, Ghassan Beydoun, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Habib Ullah Khan
2020 J jnl
GLOB: A global project management readiness framework.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Mahmood Khan Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb
2020 J jnl
ISA Evaluation Framework for Security of Internet of Health Things System Using AHP-TOPSIS Methods.
IEEE Access
Lanjing Wang, Yasir Ali, Shah Nazir, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2020 J jnl
Improving the Security of UML Sequence Diagram Using Genetic Algorithm.
IEEE Access
Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Haris Mumtaz, Sajjad Mahmood, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2020 J jnl
Towards the implementation of requirements management specific practices (SP 1.1 and SP 1.2) for small- and medium-sized software development organisations.
IET Softw.
Ismail Mohamed Keshta, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mohammad R. Alshayeb
2019 J jnl
A measurement framework for software product maturity assessment.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Ahmad Abdellatif, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Sami Zahran, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2019 J jnl
A survey on UML model smells detection techniques for software refactoring.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Haris Mumtaz, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2019 J jnl
GSEPIM: A roadmap for software process assessment and improvement in the domain of global software development.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Arif Ali Khan, Jacky Keung, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Shahid Hussain, Mohammad Shameem
2019 J jnl
Package-Level stability evaluation of object-oriented systems.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Jawad Javed Akbar Baig, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2018 J jnl
A Readiness Model for Security Requirements Engineering.
IEEE Access
Yusuf Mufti, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood
2018 J jnl
An empirical study to improve software security through the application of code refactoring.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Haris Mumtaz, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2018 J jnl
Empirical research in requirements engineering: trends and opportunities.
Requir. Eng.
Talat Ambreen, Naveed Ikram, Muhammad Usman, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2018 J jnl
Scaling for agility: A reference model for hybrid traditional-agile software development methodologies.
Inf. Syst. Frontiers
Asif Qumer Gill, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2018 J jnl
Systematic literature study for dimensional classification of success factors affecting process improvement in global software development: client-vendor perspective.
IET Softw.
Arif Ali Khan, Jacky Keung, Shahid Hussain, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Suzanne Kieffer
2018 J jnl
Towards Implementation of Process and Product Quality Assurance Process Area for Saudi Arabian Small and Medium Sized Software Development Organizations.
IEEE Access
Ismail Mohamed Keshta, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mohammad R. Alshayeb
2017 J jnl
Exploring software security approaches in software development lifecycle: A systematic mapping study.
Comput. Stand. Interfaces
Nabil M. Mohammed, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Sajjad Mahmood
2017 J jnl
Key factors that influence task allocation in global software development.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Sajjad Mahmood, Sajid Anwer, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Ita Richardson
2017 J jnl
Motivators for adopting social computing in global software development: An empirical study.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Mahmood Khan Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Abdulrahman Ahmed Bobakr Baqais, Asif Qumer Gill
2017 B conf
Systematic Literature Reviews of Software Process Improvement: A Tertiary Study.
EuroSPI
Arif Ali Khan, Jacky Keung, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Shahid Hussain, He Zhang
2017 J jnl
Systematic literature review and empirical investigation of barriers to process improvement in global software development: Client-vendor perspective.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Arif Ali Khan, Jacky Keung, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Shahid Hussain, Awais Ahmad
2017 J jnl
Towards Implementation of Requirements Management Specific Practices (SP1.3 and SP1.4) for Saudi Arabian Small and Medium Sized Software Development Organizations.
IEEE Access
Ismail Mohamed Keshta, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mohammad R. Alshayeb
2017 Misc conf
Towards a hypothetical framework of humans related success factors for process improvement in global software development: systematic review.
SAC
Arif Ali Khan, Jacky W. Keung, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Shahid Hussain
2016 J jnl
Challenges of project management in global software development: A client-vendor analysis.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Mahmood Khan Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Mohammed Rehan Riaz, Kanaan Faisal, Narciso Cerpa, Siffat Ullah Khan, Ita Richardson
2016 J jnl
Software SMEs' unofficial readiness for CMMI®-based software process improvement.
Softw. Qual. J.
Javed Iqbal, Rodina Binti Ahmad, Mohd Hairul Nizam Md. Nasir, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Shahaboddin Shamshirband, Muhammad Asim Noor
2015 J jnl
A comparative study of software process improvement implementation success factors.
J. Softw. Evol. Process.
Mahmood Khan Niazi
2015 J jnl
Empirical investigation of the challenges of the existing tools used in global software development projects.
IET Softw.
Mahmood Khan Niazi, Sajjad Mahmood, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Ayman Hroub
2015 — conf
Evaluating PEVNET: A Framework for Visualization of Criminal Networks.
MISNC
Amer Rasheed, Uffe Kock Wiil, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2015 A conf
Identifying the factors that influence task allocation in global software development: preliminary results.
EASE
Sajjad Mahmood, Sajid Anwer, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mohammad R. Alshayeb, Ita Richardson
2015 J jnl
Teaching global software engineering: experiences and lessons learned.
IET Softw.
Mahmood Khan Niazi
2014 J jnl
Risks and risk mitigation in global software development: A tertiary study.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
June M. Verner, O. Pearl Brereton, Barbara A. Kitchenham, Mahmood Turner, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2014 J jnl
What makes service oriented requirements engineering challenging? a qualitative study.
IET Softw.
Muneera Bano, Didar Zowghi, Naveed Ikram, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2013 A conf
A tertiary study: experiences of conducting systematic literature reviews in software engineering.
EASE
Salma Imtiaz, Muneera Bano, Naveed Ikram, Mahmood Khan Niazi
2013 J jnl
Editorial.
IET Softw.
Mahmood Khan Niazi, Naveed Ikram, Asif Qumer Gill, Mohammed Rafi Ul Hassan
2013 J jnl
Establishing trust in offshore software outsourcing relationships: an exploratory study using a systematic literature review.
IET Softw.
Mahmood Khan Niazi, Naveed Ikram, Muneera Bano, Salma Imtiaz, Siffat Ullah Khan
2011 J jnl
Barriers in the selection of offshore software development outsourcing vendors: An exploratory study using a systematic literature review.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Rashid Ahmad
2011 J jnl
Factors influencing clients in the selection of offshore software outsourcing vendors: An exploratory study using a systematic literature review.
J. Syst. Softw.
Siffat Ullah Khan, Mahmood Khan Niazi, Rashid Ahmad
2011 J jnl
Guest Editorial: Special section on the selected papers from 14th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering (EASE 2010).
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Mahmood Khan Niazi, Mark Turner
2010 J jnl
Software Process Improvement barriers: A cross-cultural comparison.
Inf. Softw. Technol.
Mahmood Khan Niazi, Muhammad Ali Babar, June M. Verner