Najam Nazar

Najam Nazar

Software Engineering researcher & educator — AI for Software Engineering, mining software repositories.

Publications

Below, you'll find my publication list including preprints. My ORCID is 0000-0003-2317-2297.

Citations 375
h-index 7
i10-index 7
Complete metrics on Google Scholar

2026

In Review Deterministic vs. Probabilistic Summarisation: An Empirical Trade-off Study in Design Pattern Centric Java Code

N. Nazar and Christoph Treude | 2026

Submitted to a top-tier empirical software engineering venue (target: ESEM 2026).

Preprint (arXiv) Manuscript under review

2025

2023

Published CodeLabeller: A web-based code annotation tool for Java Design Patterns and Summaries

N. Nazar, N. Chen, C. Y. Chong | 2023

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. SCI/E Indexed | Scopus Q3 | IF 0.6 (2024)

View publication Preprint (arXiv) Code
BibTeX
@article{nazar2023codelabeller,
  author  = {Nazar, N. and Chen, N. and Chong, C. Y.},
  title   = {CodeLabeller: A web-based code annotation tool for Java Design Patterns and Summaries},
  journal = {International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering},
  year    = {2023},
  doi     = {10.1142/S0218194023500213}
}

2022

Published Feature-based Software Design Pattern Detection

N. Nazar, A. Aleti, Y. Zheng | 2022

Journal of Systems and Software. SCI/E Indexed | Scopus Q1 | IF 3.8 (2024)

View publication Preprint (arXiv) Code (Python 2) Code (Python 3)
BibTeX
@article{nazar2022feature,
  author  = {Nazar, N. and Aleti, A. and Zheng, Y.},
  title   = {Feature-based Software Design Pattern Detection},
  journal = {Journal of Systems and Software},
  year    = {2022},
  url     = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121221002624}
}

2017

Published PRST: A pagerank-based summarization technique for summarizing bug reports with duplicates

H. Jiang, N. Nazar, J. Zhang, T. Zhang, Z. Ren | 2017

International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering. SCI/E Indexed | Scopus Q3 | IF 0.6 (2024)

View publication PDF Bug corpus Annotated corpus
BibTeX
@article{jiang2017prst,
  author  = {Jiang, H. and Nazar, N. and Zhang, J. and Zhang, T. and Ren, Z.},
  title   = {PRST: A pagerank-based summarization technique for summarizing bug reports with duplicates},
  journal = {International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering},
  year    = {2017},
  doi     = {10.1142/S0218194017500322}
}
Published Mining authorship characteristics in bug repositories

H. Jiang, J. Zhang, H. Ma, N. Nazar, Z. Ren | 2017

Science China Information Sciences. SCI/E Indexed | Scopus Q1 | IF 7.3 (2024)

View publication
BibTeX
@article{jiang2017mining,
  author  = {Jiang, H. and Zhang, J. and Ma, H. and Nazar, N. and Ren, Z.},
  title   = {Mining authorship characteristics in bug repositories},
  journal = {Science China Information Sciences},
  year    = {2017},
  doi     = {10.1007/s11432-014-0372-y}
}

2016

Published Summarizing software artifacts: A literature review

N. Nazar, Y. Hu, H. Jiang | 2016

Journal of Computer Science and Technology. SCI/E Indexed | Scopus Q2 | IF 1.2 (2024)

View publication PDF (open access)
BibTeX
@article{nazar2016summarizing,
  author  = {Nazar, N. and Hu, Y. and Jiang, H.},
  title   = {Summarizing software artifacts: A literature review},
  journal = {Journal of Computer Science and Technology},
  year    = {2016},
  doi     = {10.1007/s11390-016-1671-1}
}
Published Source code fragment summarization with small-scale crowdsourcing based features

N. Nazar, H. Jiang, G. Gao, T. Zhang, X. Li, Z. Ren | 2016

Frontiers of Computer Science. SCI/E Indexed | Scopus Q2 | IF 2.0 (2024)

View publication PDF Corpus Features Classifiers
BibTeX
@article{nazar2016source,
  author  = {Nazar, N. and Jiang, H. and Gao, G. and Zhang, T. and Li, X. and Ren, Z.},
  title   = {Source code fragment summarization with small-scale crowdsourcing based features},
  journal = {Frontiers of Computer Science},
  year    = {2016},
  doi     = {10.1007/s11704-015-4409-2}
}