Professional Activities

Tutorials at International Conferences

• Rajapakse, D. C., "Theory and Practice of Porting Mobile Applications," accepted for The Second International ICST Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications (Mobilware'09).

• Rajapakse, D. C., "Porting Mobile Applications: Theory and Practice," accepted for International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'09).

• Rajapakse, D. C., "Customizing mobile applications for multiple environments", accepted for 2nd International Conference on Systems and Informatics Engineering, Peru, Oct 2008

• Jarzabek, S. and Rajapakse, D. C., "Pragmatic Reuse: Building Web Application Product Lines," 5th Intl Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'05), Sydney, Australia,2005

Program/Review Committees

• [Program Committee] 7th International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations  - Software Engineering Education Track, Las Vegas, ITNG '10.

• [Review Committee] Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Digital Economy, 2009.

• [Program Committee] 21st International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE'09

• [Program Committee] 4th International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability, ICIAfS'08

• [Project Review Committee] Singapore Israel Industrial R&D Foundation (SIIRD), 2008, 2009

Review Participation

• International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSI'10)

• ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Partial Evaluation and Program Manipulation (PEPM'09)

• International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM'04, ICSM'05, ICSM'06, ICSM'07)

• World Wide Web conference (WWW'07, WWW'09)

• International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR'04)

• IEEE International Symposium on Web Site Evolution (WSE'05, WSE'06, WSE'07 )

• International Workshop on System/Software Architectures (IWSSA'05)

• World Conference for Software Quality (3WCSQ'05)

• Journal of Software and Systems Modeling (JSSM)

• International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE)

• International Conference on Generative Programming and Component Engineering (GPCE'07, GPCE'08)

• Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'07)

• International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM'08)

• IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA'05, SEA'06)

• India Software Engineering Conference (ISEC'08, ISEC'09)

Books

• Wadhwa, B., and Rajapakse, D. C., Java Essentials for Beginners, Pearson Education,  2007

• Rajapakse, D. C., A Student's Guide to Software Engineering Projects, Online at http://StudentProjectGuide.info

Seminars/ Invited Talks

• "Mobile applications of tomorrow: trends, opportunities, challenges, and solutions", to be given in 2nd International Conference on Systems and Informatics Engineering, Peru, Oct 2008

• “Exploiting Similarity Patterns in Web Applications for Enhanced Genericity and Maintainability”, University of Melbourne, 2006

• “Web Engineering: an Introduction”, Lincoln University, 2006

• “Reuse That Works: New Techniques to Boost Development and Maintenance Productivity / Quality,” Microsoft Business Executive Forum, 2005, Singapore

• “Beyond Templates: a Study of Clones in the STL and Some General Implications” – December 2004, Departmental seminar

Student Projects

current projects

• [UROP] Wang Yong - Innovative uses of cloud-based spreadsheets.

• [FYP] Eniwati - A cloud-based SaaS tool for peer-evaluating in student team projects.

• [FYP] Fazli Mansor - Suitability of existing online project management tools for student team projects.

• [FYP] Eugene - Conceptualizing a cloud-based SaaS project management tool for student team projects.

Past Projects

• [CS3106 (Independent Project), 2009] Abdelkarim Lajmi - A study to estimate the development effort for a file synchronization software.

• [HYP, 08/09] Wong Kit Yee - A study of variability in fragmented mobile applications.

• [HYP, 08/09] Teh Hui Yi - A survey of tools used for managing fragmented mobile applications.

• [HYP, 08/09] Xie Wangyang - A survey of mobile application de-fragmentation tools.

• [HYP, 08/09] Chan Cheng Lai - A study of fragmentation-causing diversity in mobile devices.

• [HYP, 08/09] Lu ZhongWei - Managing highly fragmented mobile applications.

• [HYP, 08/09] Bernard Loh - Implementing and porting a mobile application on a fragmented platform: a case study.

• Before 2008 (co-supervision): Ahmed Aljunied, Yong Zhen Hoe, Ng Ming Yeow, Loh Kai-en, Fok Yew Hoe, Li Meixuan, Michelle Nguyen, Ngo Dzung, Nitesh Goel, Tiana Ranaivojoelina

Collaborations

• Academia: Andrea De Lucia and Giuseppe Scanniello (Università di Salerno, Italy), Katsuro Inouea, Shinji Kusumoto, and Higo Yoshiki (Osaka Uni. Japan), Toshihiro Kamiya (PRESTO, Japan)

• Industry: ST Engineering Pte Ltd. (Singapore), SriLogic Pvt Ltd (Sri Lanka), Retive Pte Ltd (Singapore), Mobile Distillery (France)

Memberships/Certifications

• ACM, IEEE

• CS&ES (Computer Sc. and Engineering Society, Sri Lanka)

• Australian Computer Society – Certified Software Designer

• Sun Microsystems – Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)

• Chartered Inst. of Management Accountancy (UK) – Part I,II,III

• Sun Academic Initiative, IBM Academic Initiative

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