📚 My Publications

Explore my contributions to software engineering and performance analysis through international conferences and journals.

For a complete list of my publications, visit my Google Scholar profile.

21. Organizational Coupling as a Leading Indicator of Microservice Architecture Degradation (To Appear)
Nariman Mani (Nutrosal Inc., Canada), Jose Sosa (The University of Arizona, United States), Xiaozhou Li (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), and Tomas Cerny (The University of Arizona, United States)
To appear at The 23rd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2026) - Acceptance Rate (Acceptance rate (full papers) 15 / 112 ≈ 13.4%)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 22–26, 2026
20. GraphQL-Aware Healing in Service-Oriented Architectures via Multi-Signal Learning - Best Paper Award
Nariman Mani, Salma Attaranasl, and Sen He (The University of Arizona, United States)
Published at IEEE Service-Oriented Systems Engineering (SOSE) 2025 Track - The IEEE International Congress on Intelligent and Service-Oriented Systems Engineering (CISOSE) - (Acceptance Rate ≈ 25%)
Tucson, AZ, USA, 2025
19. Enhancing Adaptive Test Healing with Graph Neural Networks for Dependency-Aware Decision Making
Nariman Mani, Salma Attaranasl
Published at IEEE AITest 2025 Track - The IEEE International Congress on Intelligent and Service-Oriented Systems Engineering (CISOSE) - ( Acceptance Rate ≈ 31.6% )
Tucson, AZ, USA, 2025
18. A Privacy-Preserving System for AI-Powered Dynamic Group Assignment, Behavioral Insights, and Personalized Coaching
Nariman Mani, Salma Attaranasl
Published at The 23rd IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Management and Applications (SERA 2025)
Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2025
17. Self-Healing Digital Twins: Hybrid Generative and Privacy-Preserving AI for Adaptive Wellness Platforms
Nariman Mani, Salma Attaranasl
Published CHASE '25: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies
Manhattan, New York City, USA, 2025
16. Adaptive Test Healing using LLM/GPT and Reinforcement Learning
Nariman Mani, Salma Attaranasl
18th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (ICST) 2025 - 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Software Testing (AIST 2025) - (Acceptance Rate ≈ 37.5%)
Naples, Italy, 2025
15. Reviewer for International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools - VOLUME 22 (2013)
TSITSOULIS, ATHANASIOS; BOURBAKIS, NIKOLAOS; ...
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools
2018
14. Cross-Model Traceability for Coupled Transformation of Software and Performance Models
Nariman Mani, DC Petriu, M Woodside
The Twenty-Eighth International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2016)
San Francisco Bay, CA, USA, 2016
13. PhD Thesis : Studying the Performance Impact of SOA Design Patterns via Coupled Model Transformations
Nariman Mani
Carleton University
Ottawa, ON, Canada, 2015
12. Exploring SOA Pattern Performance using Coupled Transformations and Performance Models
Nariman Mani, D Petriu, M Woodside
The Twenty-Seventh International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE 2015)
Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2015
11. Exploring synergies between bottleneck analysis and performance antipatterns
C Trubiani, A Di Marco, V Cortellessa, Nariman Mani, D Petriu
The 5th ACM/SPEC international conference on Performance engineering - ACM/SPEC ICPE 2014
Dublin, Ireland, 2014
10. Model-based approach to detect emergent behavior in multi-agent systems
M Moshirpour, Nariman Mani, A Eberlein, B Far
The 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems - AAMAS 2013
Saint Paul, MN, USA, 2013
9. Propagation of incremental changes to performance model due to SOA design pattern application
Nariman Mani, DC Petriu, M Woodside
The 4th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering - ACM/SPEC ICPE 2013
Prague, Czech Republic, 2013
8. Studying the impact of design patterns on the performance analysis of service-oriented architecture
Nariman Mani, DC Petriu, M Woodside
37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications - EUROMICRO SEAA 2011
Oulu, Finland, 2011
7. Towards studying the performance effects of design patterns for service-oriented architecture
Nariman Mani, DC Petriu, M Woodside
The 2nd ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance engineering - ACM/SPEC ICPE 2011
Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011
6. Search-based testing of multi-agent manufacturing systems for deadlocks based on models
Nariman Mani, V Garousi, BH Far
International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools - Vol. 19, No. 04, pp. 417-437 (2010)
2010
5. Runtime Monitoring of Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Deadlock Detection Based on Models
Nariman Mani, V Garousi, BH Far
21st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence - IEEE ICTAI 2009
New Jersey, USA, 2009
4. M.Sc. Thesis : Testing and Monitoring Multi-Agent Systems for Deadlock Detection Based on UML Models
Nariman Mani
University of Calgary
Calgary, AB, Canada, 2009
3. A UML-based conversion tool for monitoring and testing multi-agent systems
Nariman Mani, V Garousi, BH Far
20th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) - IEEE ICTAI 2008
Dayton, OH, USA, 2008
2. Testing Multi-agent Systems for Deadlock Detection Based on UML Models
Nariman Mani, V Garousi, BH Far
14th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems - DMS 2008
Boston, MA, USA, 2008
1. Monitoring Multi-Agent Systems for deadlock detection based on UML models
Nariman Mani, V Garousi, BH Far
Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering - CCECE 2008
Niagara Falls, Canada, 2008

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