Dr Zaigham Mahmood
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Job title: Senior Lecturer and Reader in Applied Computing
Email: z.mahmood@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591733
Room: E509
Recent publications
Book Chapters
- Mahmood Z, "Knowledge Management in Electronic Commerce" in "Knowledge Engineering for Software Development Life Cycle", Ramachandran M (ed), 2010, (to be published)
- Ramachandran M and Mahmood Z, "A Framework for Assessment and Improvement for Internet Security" in "Knowledge Engineering for Software Development Life Cycle", Ramachandran M (ed), 2010, (to be published)
Journal Publications (a selection of):
- Mahmood Z, (2010), Development of E-Government Strategies: A Review of Stage Models, J of E-Government Studies and Best Practices, Vol 2, March 2010, accepted for publication, ISBN: 97809821489-21
- Mahmood Z, (2010), Assessment of E-Readiness for Implementation of E-Government, J of E-Government Studies and Best Practices, Vol 2, March 2010, accepted for publication, ISBN: 97809821489-21
- Zhang K, Antonopoulos N and Mahmood Z, (2010), CBIM: A Cluster Based Incentive Mechanism Against Free Riding in Peer-to-Peer Systems, Int Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, (submitted for publication)
- Mahmood Z, (2009), A Framework for Teaching Introductory Software Development, WSEAS Trans on Computers, Issue 8, Vol 8, pp 1225-1234, Aug. 2009, ISSN: 1109-2750
- Mahmood Z, (2009), Students' Understanding of Plagiarism and Collusion and Recommendadtions for Academics, WSEAS Trans on Information Science and Applications, Issue 8, Vol 6, pp 1349-1358, Aug 2009, ISSN: 1790-0832
- Mahmood Z, (2009), Synergies Between SOA and Grid Computing, Comm of the IBIMA, Vol 8, No 22, pp 1164-169, ISSN: 1943-7765
- Mahmood Z, (2009), Attitudes Towards the Use of E-Banking: Result of a Pilot Survey, Comm of the IBIMA, Vol 8, No 22, pp 170-174, ISSN: 1943-7765
- Shah M, Mohsin M, Mahmood Z, R Aziz, (2009), Organizational Barriers in Offering E-Banking, Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organisations, 7(2), pp 67-82, ISSN: 1539-2937
- Mahmood Z, (2008), Software Products and Technologies for the Development and Implementation of SOA, WSEAS Transactions on Computer Research, Issue 1, Vol 3, pp 28-34, Jan 2008, ISSN: 1991-8755
- Mahmood Z, (2007), Provision of Computing Education in Pakistan: An Experience Report, NAUN Int. Journal of Education and Information Technologies, Issue 3, Vol 1, pp 157-160, ISSN: 1109-9577
- Mahmood Z, (2007), A Framework for Software Engineering Education using Group Projects Approach, NAUN Int. Journal of Education and Information Technologies, Issue 3, Vol 1, pp 153-156, ISSN: 1109-9577
- Mahmood Z, (2007), The Promise and Limitations of Service Oriented Architecture, NAUN Int. Journal of Computers, Issue 3, Vol 1, pp 74-78, ISSN: 1998-4308
- Mahmood Z, (2007), Enterprise Application Integration based on Service Oriented Architecture, NAUN Int. Journal of Computers, Issue 3, Vol 1, pp 135-139, ISSN: 1998-4308
- Mahmood Z, (2006), Modeling of Enterprise Information using Architectural Representations based on Viewpoints and Perspectives, WSEAS Trans. on Business and Economics, Issue 4, Vol. 3, pp 268-275, Apr 2006, ISSN: 1109-9526
- Ahmed H E, Hafeez M, Mahmood Z, Ansari M A, Rehman S T, (2006), Agent Based Framework for Anomaly Detection in Distributed Environment, J. Theoretical and Applied Information Technology, Vol. 2, No 2, pp 41- 49, Aug 2006, ISSN: 1817-3195
- Mahmood Z and Rehman S T, (2006), Correlation between Amount-of-Reuse Metrics and other Software Measures with respect to Programming Code in C++, Software Quality Journal, Vol 11, Issue 4, pp 301-312, Nov 2003.
** Plus several other publications **
Conference Presentations (a selection of):
- Mahmood Z, (2009), E-Government: Stage Models for Successful Development, Proc 13th Int. IBIMA Conf on Knowledge Management and Innovation in Advancing Economies, Marrakech, Morocco, pp 77-83, Nov 2009, ISBN: 978-09821489-21
- Mahmood Z, (2009), E-Government: E-Readiness Factors and Implementation Strategy, Proc. 13th Int. IBIMA Conf on Knowledge Management and Innovation in Advancing Economies, Marrakech, Morocco, pp 460-465, Nov 2009, ISBN: 97809821489-21
- Zhang K, Antonopoulos N and Mahmood Z, (2009), A Review of Incentive Mechanisms in Peer-to-Peer Systems, Proc 1st Int Conf on Advances in P2P Systems, Sliema, Malta, 11-16 Oct 2009, (Best Paper Award)
- Mahmood Z, (2009), Plagiarism: Students' Perception, Proc 5th WSEAS/IASME Int Conf of Educational Technologies, 1-3 July 2009, Tenerife, Spain, ISBN: 9789604740925
- Mahmood Z, Saeed S, (2008), Teaching Quality Assurance and Project Management to Undergraduate Computing Students in Pakistan, Proceedings of Int Conf on Business, Management and Commerce, Vol 2, pp 166-173, Cseme, Turkey, June 2008, ISBN: 978-975-6339
- Saeed S, Mahmood Z, Ayub M T, Raza M, (2008), Pracice of Software Project Planning in IT Industry in Pakistan, Proceedings of 9th IBIMA Int Conf on Information Management in Modern Organisations, Morocco, Marrakech, 4-6 Jan 2008, ISBN: 0-9753393-89
- Mahmood Z, (2008), Saeed S, Raza M, Ayub M T, Software Industry in Pakistan: An Investigation into the CMMI Practice of Project Planning, Monitoring and Control, Proceedings of 9th IBIMA Int Conf on Information Management in Modern Organisations, Morocco, Marrakech, 4-6 Jan 2008, ISBN: 0-9753393-89
- Mahmood Z, (2007), Service Oriented Architecture: A New Paradigm for Enterprise Application Integration, Proceedings of 11th Int. WSEAS Multi-Conf on Computers, Vol 4, pp 490-495, Crete, Greece, July 2007, ISBN 978-960-8457-92-8
- Mahmood Z, (2007), Service Oriented Architecture: Potential Benefits and Challenges, Proc. of 11th Int. WSEAS Multi-Conf on Computers, Vol 4, pp 496-500, Crete, Greece, July 2007, ISBN 978-960-8457-92-8
- Mahmood Z, (2007), Service Oriented Architecture: Tools and Technologies, Proceedings of 11th Int. WSEAS Multi-Conf on Computers, Vol 4, pp 484-489, Crete, Greece, July 2007, ISBN 978-960-8457-92-8
- Mahmood Z, (2006), M Shah, Frameworks for Building Enterprise Information Architectures, Proc. 17th Annual Information Resources Management Assoc (IRMA) Int Conf, May 06, in Emerging Trends and Challenges in I.T Management, ISBN: 1599040190
- Mahmood Z, (2006), Frameworks and Tools for Building Enterprise Information Architectures, Proceedings of 6th Int. IBIMA Conf on managing Information In Digital Society, pp 216-226, Bonn, Germany, June 2006, e-Book ISBN 0-9753393-5-4
- Mahmood Z, (2005), Enterprise Information Architecture: Corporate Analysis and Review, Proceedings of EMCIS Int Conf, Cairo, Egypt, June 2005, ISBN: 0-9729562-7-1
** Plus several other publications **
Faculty: Business, Computing and Law
School: School of Computing and Mathematics
- Operations Coordinator, DISYS (Computing) Research Group
- Chair, Computing Research Ethics Committee
- Member, Faculty Research and Research Degrees Committee
- Coordinator, UG final year Applied Research Project module
- Year Tutor, UG final year
Teaching responsibilities
- MSc, Service Oriented Architecture module
- BSc 3, Project Management and Implementation module
- BSc 3, Applied Research Project module
- BSc 2, Software Engineer module
- BSc 2, Website Management Issues module
Research interests
- Software Engineering, Quality, Metrics
- Project Management, Enterprise Computing
- E-Banking, E-Commerce, E-Government
- Applied Computing
Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees
- Editor-in-Chief - Journal of E-Government Studies and Best Practices
- Assoc. Editor - IBIMA Conferences since 2004
- Member Int. Conf Advisory Committees: INSPIRE, IBIMA, WSEAS, NAUN
- Special Session Organiser/Chair: WSEAS Int. Conferences, 2007 and 2009
- Session Chair: IBIMA 2004, 2009; WSEAS 2006, 2007, 2009
- Member - Review/Editorial Boards
- Int. Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
- Science Publications, NY, USA
- Scientific Journals International (SJI), USA
- Int. Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies, UK>
- Edited Book "Cases on Knowledge Management in Emerging Economies" to be published in 2010
- Edited Book "Knowledge Engineering for Software Development Life" to be published in 2010
Postgraduate qualifications
- MSc Mathematics
- MSc Computer Science
Research qualifications
- PhD Modelling of Phase Equilibria

