Hema Subramaniam

• PhD in Software Engineering
• Senior Lecturer at University of Malaya

Background In the current era of rapid technological innovation, our lives are becoming more closely intertwined with digital systems. Consequently, every human action generates a valuable repository of digital data. In this context, data-driven architectures are pivotal for organizing, manipulating, and presenting data to facilitate positive compu...

Abstract: Social media is a crucial aspect of modern society, shaping global communication and information exchange. Social media slang encompasses informal language expressions, abbreviations, and unconventional words on these platforms, serving purposes such as concise communication and identity establishment. Data analytics from social media sla...

The recent surge in sentiment analysis within software engineering texts has gained prominence due to its proven influence on productivity and collaborative work quality. Stack Overflow, a substantial repository of software engineering content, has become a focal point for sentiment analysis research, particularly in software development. Neverthel...

Social media slang, encompassing informal language, words, phrases, and acronyms on digital platforms, reflects the dynamic nature of online communication. Analyzing social media slang offers valuable insights for organizations and researchers, enabling a deeper understanding of communication trends, sentiment analysis, and user behavior in the dig...

Ambiguous software requirements are a significant contributor to software project failure. Ambiguity in software requirements is characterized by the presence of multiple possible interpretations. As requirements documents often rely on natural language, ambiguity is a frequent challenge in industrial software construction, with the potential to re...

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Background As the number of COVID-19 cases grows worldwide, one solution to the global pandemic is vaccination. Unfortunately, the hesitancy of receiving vaccines is still high, particularly among younger age groups (eg, students). Because the hesitancy of receiving vaccines is an important issue, instruments have been developed to assess vaccine h...

Learning strategies are undergoing a revolution in producing successful learners. However, some children academically demonstrate inability from an early stage. The current solution to increase the academic performance of those groups of students while learning the national language at vernacular schools in Malaysia remains ineffective. Most vernac...

The concern on mental health issues keeps increasing among college students globally. College years are prone for students to experience mental disorders. Hence, the demand for mental health services on campus far exceeds the available resources. Colleges around the world are aware of the critical issue of mental health among their students. Some i...

Wearable speech enhancement can improve the recognition accuracy of the speech signals in stationary noise environments at 0dB to 60dB signal to noise ratio. Beamforming, adaptive noise reduction, and voice active detection algorithms are methods used in wearable speech enhancement system to enhance the speech signals. In recent works, a word rate...

Human emotion is often a reflection of one’s behaviour that leads to awareness of one’s mental health. Emotion detection on Twitter users specifically gains attention as it generates information that is useful in the field of psychology and linguistics. However, most existing works related to the subject analysed the emotion of a tweet based on the...

The rates of mental illness amongst Malaysian youth have been noted to be quite high. Subsequently, majority were reported among school and university students. Thus, it causes urgency in deriving the solution in various platform. However, the number of cases is yet to be reduced with regard to many conventional counseling services. On the other ha...

Course file is one of the important aspects assessed by either the MQA or EAC panels. Currently, almost all Malaysian universities and college universities are using a traditional method in their filing system and this affects the organization, financially and environmentally. Using a quality assurance guideline and open source solution, this study...

Agile methodology is a leading approach in digitalization era. It has become an appealing alternative for IT based service providers in an attempt to improve their work performance. However, the methodology which were originally designed for small and individual teams need to be tailored to cater for multinational companies. This creates a number o...

At the age of software modularization, Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) has become a central focus among researchers. In fact, recent developments in the aspect-orientation has increased the need for refactoring on the existing applications. Although, source code level refactoring has high levels of preferences, it still remains ambiguou...

Software quality is vital to guarantee that developed software products meet user requirements, reliable and viable in the market. Past studies showed that the awareness and understanding of software process improvement was quite low. This paper presents the findings from practitioners' experiences in using SPI and challenges in implementing SPI in...

Software quality is vital to guarantee that developed software products meet user requirements, reliable and viable in the market. Past studies showed that the awareness and understanding of software process improvement was quite low. This paper presents the findings from practitioners' experiences in using SPI and challenges in implementing SPI in...

Modularization is an essential part of a software program that ensures software maintainability. However, object oriented programs still can't achieve the higher level modularization since it still contain extensive amount of crosscutting concerns. Crosscutting concerns refer to common functionality that does exist in software programs. Separation...

Modularity is categorized as quality characteristic which can increase the maintainability of a software program. Although modularity is gaining popularity, yet it is hard to be realized since there are many crosscutting concerns scattered and tangled in object oriented programs. Thus, more efforts are needed to maintain the software program which...

The maximum benefits offered by modularization have increases the need for refactoring of an existing object oriented programs. However, refactoring needs lot of efforts since object oriented programs contain extensive amount of crosscutting concerns and it’s hard to ensure the continuity of crosscutting concern flow throughout the software life cy...

Web based application's become an essential element in most of the business domain nowadays. Increasing demand for web based application certainly trigger the needs for a quality assessment of it. In that case, most of the web based quality assessment method utilize usability concept since web based application widely deal with usability characteri...

Software is an essential asset of an organization in organizing business process. Thus, demand for software gradually increase from day-to-day. However, due to the complex structure of a software and tedious software design has cause delays in making it to be available in market. Consequently it increases the needs for customizing software from exi...

Student attendance plays significant role in order to justify academic outcome of a student and school as overall. Unfortunately, there is no automated attendance record keeping application available in Malaysia’s secondary schools. A preliminary study has been conducted in one of secondary schools in Selangor, Malaysia in order to understand the m...

Software flexibility has been viewed as one of the software quality determinant factors apart from usability, reliability and maintainability. Software expected to achieve high level of flexibility in order to comply with current dynamic nature of user requirement. However, there is no effort on systematically collect, review and synthesize article...

The culture of knowledge sharing in the organization play a vital role as to ensure the knowledge is shared among the faculty staff. Knowledge sharing culture contributes to a positive working environment. Currently, there is no platform for the Faculty of Industrial Information Technology (FIIT), Unisel academic staff to share knowledge among them...

Knowledge sharing culture contributes to a positive working environment. Currently, there is no platform for the Faculty of Industrial Information Technology (FIIT), Unisel academic staff to share knowledge among them. As it is done manually, the sharing process is through common meeting or by any offline discussions. There is no repository for fut...

Web based application has a big impact in nowadays business world in order to increase organization productivity and profitability. By knowing this, most of the fast food restaurants step up into the online ordering business approach apart from conventional business process. Quality become an issue that need high concentration when plan to conduct...