OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Software-Practice & Experience is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Organizations' readiness for insider attacks: A process‐oriented approach	193
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Post golden jubilee year of the software journal: New research trends and strengthening advisory editorial team	49
SPIDER: An availability‐aware framework for the service function chain placement in distributed scenarios	47
Advanced discovery mechanisms in model repositories	35
Evaluate Chat‐GPT's programming capability in Swift through real university exam questions	29
Searching long patterns with BNDM	28
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Rafting multiplayer video games	24
Evaluation of design pattern alternatives in Java	24
SDFunc: Modular spreadsheet design with sheet‐defined functions in Microsoft Excel	23
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Microservice reference architecture design: A multi‐case study	21
Towards a pattern‐based model transformation framework	21
Large‐scale characterization of Java streams	20
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A novel forgery classification method based on multi‐scale feature capsule network in mobile edge computing	17
Charging stations‐oriented electric vehicle charging strategy based on battery characteristics	16
Special issue on efficient management of microservice‐based systems and applications	16
LLAMA: The low‐level abstraction for memory access	15
Workload management and server speed setting for cost‐performance ratio optimization	15
The μTOSCA toolchain: Mining, analyzing, and refactoring microservice‐based architectures	15

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A procedural and flexible approach for specification, modeling, definition, and analysis for self‐adaptive systems	14
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Micro‐IDE: A tool platform for generating efficient deployment alternatives based on microservices	13
Strategies and software support for the management of hardware performance counters	12
On the comprehension of application programming interface usability in game engines	12
Post‐quantum cryptography techniques for secure communication in resource‐constrained Internet of Things devices: A comprehensive survey	12
Distributed computation of the critical path from execution traces	11
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CDTC: Automatically establishing the trace links between class diagrams in design phase and source code	11
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Data interplay: A model to optimize data usage in the Internet of Things	10
On the influence of architectural languages on requirements traceability	10
An industry survey on approaches, success factors, and barriers for technology transfer in software engineering	10
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Analysis of Software Developers' Programming Language Preferences and Community Behavior From Big5 Personality Traits	10
Special issue on new trends in high‐performance computing: Software systems and applications	10
Transcoding unicode characters with AVX‐512 instructions	9
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The human in model‐driven engineering loop: A case study on integrating handwritten code in model‐driven engineering repositories	8
Customized scheduling for shared bus with deadlines	8
A probabilistic modeling and evolutionary optimization approach for serverless workflow configuration	8
Resource management of IoT edge devices: Challenges, techniques, and solutions	8
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Profiling and controlling I/O‐related memory contention in COTS heterogeneous platforms	8
DRS: A deep reinforcement learning enhanced Kubernetes scheduler for microservice‐based system	8
Prototype‐Based Collaborative Learning in UAV‐Assisted Edge Computing Networks	8
DOMICO: Checking conformance between domain models and implementations	8
Impacts, causes, and solutions of architectural smells in microservices: An industrial investigation	7
An automated model‐based testing approach for the self‐adaptive behavior of the unmanned aircraft system application software	7
Exploring the use of blockchain in resource‐constrained fog computing environments	7
iQuantum: A toolkit for modeling and simulation of quantum computing environments	7
Is the edge really necessary for drone computing offloading? An experimental assessment in carrier‐grade 5G operator networks	7
A secure neural network‐based ranking approach for document searching in cloud data center	6
Vectorized and performance‐portable quicksort	6
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DEPO: A dynamic energy‐performance optimizer tool for automatic power capping for energy efficient high‐performance computing	6
Algorithms for generating small random samples	6
Security‐based code smell definition, detection, and impact quantification in Android	6
Valuating requirements arguments in the online user's forum for requirements decision‐making: The CrowdRE‐VArg framework	6
A multi‐dimensional incentive mechanism based on age of update in hierarchical federated learning	6
Just‐in‐time defect prediction for software hunks	5
Batched ranged random integer generation	5
Towards a Readiness Model for Usable‐Software Development in Organizations	5
Practical and secure multifactor authentication protocol for autonomous vehicles in 5G	5
FLAME GPU 2: A framework for flexible and performant agent based simulation on GPUs	5
Search Multiple Types of Research Assets From Jupyter Notebook	5

Retracted: An unmanned aerial vehicles navigation system on the basis of pattern recognition applications—Review of implementation options and prospects for development	5
Scaling scrum with a customized nexus framework: A report from a joint industry‐academia research project	5
A flexible approach for virtual machine selection in cloud data centers with AHP	5
On the analysis of makespan and performance of the task‐based execution model for enterprise application integration platforms: An empirical study	5
Real time flood disaster monitoring based on energy efficient ensemble clustering mechanism in wireless sensor network	5
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A systematic gray literature review: The technologies and concerns of microservice application programming interfaces	5
FLight: A lightweight federated learning framework in edge and fog computing	5
Toward a novel engine for compiler optimization space exploration of big data workloads	5
Large‐scale semi‐automated migration of legacy C/C++ test code	5
LSRAM: A Lightweight Autoscaling and SLO Resource Allocation Framework for Microservices Based on Gradient Descent	5
A declarative approach and benchmark tool for controlled evaluation of microservice resiliency patterns	5
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Python shared atomic data types	4
Design of frameworks for self‐adaptive service‐oriented applications: A systematic analysis	4
STOPPAGE: Spatio‐temporal data driven cloud‐fog‐edge computing framework for pandemic monitoring and management	4
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Software and hardware co‐design for sustainable cyber‐physical systems	4
Federated learning based multi‐task feature fusion framework for code expressive semantic extraction	4
Is There a Correlation Between Readme Content and Project Meta‐Characteristics?	4
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An autonomous model for self‐optimizing virtual machine selection by learning automata in cloud environment	4
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Analyzing business process management capabilities of low‐code development platforms	4
An approach to forecast impact of Covid‐19 using supervised machine learning model	4
A novel vulnerability measure based on complex network communities	4
Hate‐UDF: Explainable Hateful Meme Detection With Uncertainty‐Aware Dynamic Fusion	4
Enabling continuous deployment techniques for quantum services	4
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Large language model ChatGPT versus small deep learning models for self‐admitted technical debt detection: Why not together?	4
Generation of logic designs for efficiently solving ordinary differential equations on field programmable gate arrays	4
Dynamics signature based anomaly detection	4
Migrating monolithic applications to function as a service	4
Are the smart contracts on Q&A site reliable?	4
What makes a readable code? A causal analysis method	4
Detection of microservice‐based software anomalies based on OpenTracing in cloud	3
On the design of an advanced business rule engine	3
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Full‐mesh VPN performance evaluation for a secure edge‐cloud continuum	3
On‐demand JSON: A better way to parse documents?	3
Parsing millions of URLs per second	3
On the interaction between the search parameters and the nature of the search problems in search‐based model‐driven engineering	3
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QoS‐aware resource scheduling using whale optimization algorithm for microservice applications	3
Standards‐based modeling and deployment of serverless function orchestrations using BPMN and TOSCA	3
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Constraint‐aware and multi‐objective optimization for micro‐service composition in mobile edge computing	3
Big data analytics in Industry 4.0 ecosystems	3
Deploying IoT services on the fog infrastructure: A graph partitioning‐based approach	3
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Multi‐objective based container placement strategy in CaaS	3
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Software design pattern selection approaches: A systematic literature review	3
From zero to fog: Efficient engineering of fog‐based Internet of Things applications	3
DeepPlayer: An open‐source SignalPlant plugin for deep learning inference	3
A large‐scale empirical study of low‐level function use in Ethereum smart contracts and automated replacement	3
SPHT: A scalable and high‐performance hashing scheme for persistent memory	3
A novel acceleration method for molecular dynamics of crystal silicon on GPUs using OpenACC	3
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Principled and practical static analysis for Python: Weakest precondition inference of hyperparameter constraints	3
Implementing scripted conversations by means of smart assistants	3
How the adoption of feature toggles correlates with branch merges and defects in open‐source projects?	3
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Journey from cloud of things to fog of things: Survey, new trends, and research directions	3
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Modeling the correlation between the workload and the power consumed by a server using stochastic and non‐parametric approaches	3
Automated library mapping approach based on cross‐platform for mobile development programming languages	3
Container‐based data‐intensive application scheduling in hybrid cloud‐edge collaborative environment	3
A review of microservices autoscaling with formal verification perspective	3
IoTSim‐Osmosis‐RES: Towards autonomic renewable energy‐aware osmotic computing	3
Jay: A software framework for prototyping and evaluating offloading applications in hybrid edge clouds	3
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Trustworthy artificial intelligence: A decision‐making taxonomy of potential challenges	3
Edge intelligence based digital twins for internet of autonomous unmanned vehicles	3
Python meets JIT compilers: A simple implementation and a comparative evaluation	3