| 2026 | SAC | Measuring the Effectiveness of Large Language Model for Answer Generation: A Case of Quantum Software Engineering. | Nek Dil Khan, Safia Kanwal, Javed Ali Khan, Arif Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar |
| 2026 | SAC | Quantum Computing and 6G technologies in shaping sustainable circular economy: A Preliminary study. | Paniz Sepehrian, Rabia Saif, Abdullah Ghaffar, Muhammad Azeem Akbar |
| 2025 | EASE | Navigating Decision-Making in Serverless Migration: A Socio-Technical Grounded Theory Approach. | Muhammad Hamza, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Kari Smolander |
| 2025 | EASE | Security Perspective of Open-Source Serverless Platforms: An Empirical Investigation. | Muhammad Hamza, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Kari Smolander, Arif Khan |
| 2025 | EASE | Integrating LLMs in Software Engineering Education: Motivators, Demotivators, and a Roadmap Towards a Framework for Finnish Higher Education Institutes. | Maryam Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Jussi Kasurinen |
| 2025 | EASE | Persona-driven approach to enhance security requirement elicitation. | Daria Levaniuk, Bilal Naqvi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Antti Knutas |
| 2025 | EASE | Assessing Software Product Quality in DevOps: An ISO 25010: 2023 Perspective. | Saima Rafi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Arif Ali Khan |
| 2025 | EASE | Fortifying the Future: A Hybrid Machine Learning Model Against Evolving Malware Threats. | Anshika Sharma, Shalli Rani, Muhammad Azeem Akbar |
| 2025 | EASE | IoT-AI Security for Dynamic Data-driven Environments. | Ankita Sharma, Shalli Rani, Muhammad Azeem Akbar |
| 2025 | SAC | Advancing Quantum Software Engineering: A Vision of Hybrid Full-Stack Iterative Model. | Arif Ali Khan, Davide Taibi, Ccile M. Perrault, Muhammad Azeem Akbar |
| 2024 | EASE | MLOps-Enabled Security Strategies for Next-Generation Operational Technologies. | Tazeem Ahmad, Mohd Adnan, Saima Rafi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Ayesha Anwar |
| 2024 | EASE | Towards People Maturity for Secure Development and Operations: A vision. | Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Saima Rafi, Sami Hyrynsalmi, Arif Ali Khan |
| 2024 | EASE | Aligning Academic with Industrial Needs: Investigating DevOps. | Saima Rafi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Sajjad Mahmood |
| 2024 | FIT | Empirical Insights into Product Security Challenges and Practices in Software Development. | Saima Rafi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Arif Ali Khan |
| 2023 | EASE | Understandings of Ethics in DevOps Teams: A Preliminary Investigation. | Maira Khanam, Saima Rafi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar |
| 2023 | PROFES | The Journey to Serverless Migration: An Empirical Analysis of Intentions, Strategies, and Challenges. | Muhammad Hamza, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Kari Smolander |
| 2022 | EASE | Toward Effective and Efficient DevOps using Blockchain. | Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Sajjad Mahmood, Dominik Siemon |
| 2022 | EASE | Toward a secure global contact tracing app for Covid-19. | Muhammad Hamza, Arif Ali Khan, Muhammad Azeem Akbar |
| 2022 | EASE | Ethics of AI: A Systematic Literature Review of Principles and Challenges. | Arif Ali Khan, Sher Badshah, Peng Liang, Muhammad Waseem, Bilal Khan, Aakash Ahmad, Mahdi Fahmideh, Mahmood Niazi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar |
| 2022 | EASE | DevOps Business Model: Work from Home Environment. | Saima Rafi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Adnan Manzoor |
| 2022 | ESEM | DevOps Practitioners' Perceptions of the Low-code Trend. | Saima Rafi, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Mary Snchez-Gordn, Ricardo Colomo-Palacios |
| 2022 | PROFES | Change Management in Cloud-Based Offshore Software Development: A Researchers Perspective. | Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Kashif Hussain, Saima Rafi, Rafiq Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Tanveer Riaz |
| 2022 | PROFES | Classical to Quantum Software Migration Journey Begins: A Conceptual Readiness Model. | Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Saima Rafi, Arif Ali Khan |
| 2022 | QRS | A Vision of DevOps Requirements Change Management Standardization. | Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Arif Ali Khan, Sajjad Mahmood, Saima Rafi |
| 2020 | EASE | Towards successful global software development. | Muhammad Shafiq, Qinghua Zhang, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Tahir Kamal, Faisal Mehmood, Muhammad Tanveer Riaz |
| 2020 | EASE | Towards Efficient and Secure Global Software Development using Blockchain. | Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Ahmed Alsanad, Abeer Abdul-Aziz Alsanad, Abdu Gumaei, Muhammad Shafiq, Tahir Kamal |
| 2020 | EASE | Towards continues code recommendation and implementation system: An Initial Framework. | Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Zhiqiu Huang, Yu Zhou, Faisal Mehmood, Yasir Hussain, Muhammad Hamza |
| 2020 | EASE | SIOT-RIMM: Towards Secure IOT-Requirement Implementation Maturity Model. | Muhammad Hamza, Haibo Hu, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Faisal Mehmood, Yasir Hussain, Ali Mahmoud Baddour |
| 2020 | EASE | RMDevOps: A Road Map for Improvement in DevOps Activities in Context of Software Organizations. | Saima Rafi, Yu Wu, Muhammad Azeem Akbar |
| 2020 | EASE | Towards a Hypothetical Framework to Secure DevOps Adoption: Grounded Theory Approach. | Saima Rafi, Yu Wu, Muhammad Azeem Akbar |
| 2020 | EASE | Secure V2X Environment using Blockchain Technology. | Ms. Taiyaba, Muhammad Azeem Akbar, Bushra Qureshi, Muhammad Shafiq, Muhammad Hamza, Muhammad Tanveer Riaz |
| 2019 | FIT | Software Requirements Engineering Maturity Model (SREMM) in Offshore Software Development Outsourcing. | Muhammad Shafiq, Qinghua Zhang, Muhammad Azeem Akbar |
| 2019 | SAC | SRCMIMM: managing requirements change activities in global software development: student research abstract. | Muhammad Azeem Akbar |