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Ms Kanwal Mahmud

Lecturer (MS )

Ms Kanwal Mahmud

Lecturer (MS )

Research Area: Cloud Computing, Web Services
About Me

Kanwal Mahmud received the BS degree in Software Engineering from International Islamic University, Pakistan in 2009 and MS in Information Sciences and Technology with research from Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan in 2017. She has been serving University of Poonch Rawalakot, AJ&K, Pakistan, as a Lecturer since 2012. She conducted research with Dr. Muhammad Usman on Trustworthiness of cloud services, during 2016-17. From her research work, She has been able to publish an article named as “Trust Establishment and Estimation in Cloud Services: A Systematic Literature Review” in prestigious Journal of Network and Systems Management. She published another paper in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, which is named as “Closing the Loop in Feedback Driven Learning Environments Using Trust Decision Making and Utility Theory”. Her research interests include Cloud Computing, Service Computing, Web services and Software Engineering. Her paper titled as, “Dynamic Trust Evaluation of Learning Objects” has won the Best Paper Award in the IEEE ComTech 2017 conference.

Degree Major University Start Date End Date
MS Software Engineering, Cloud Computing Services Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan January 2015 January 2017
BS Software Engineering International Islamic University, Islamabad September 2005 August 2009
Designation Organization Duration
Lecturer University of Poonch, Rawalakot March 2012 - November -0001
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Designation Department Organization From Date To Date
Lecturer University of Poonch, Rawalakot
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Kanwal Mahmud; Muhammad Usman; Muddassar Azam Sindhu; Alireza Jolfaei; Gautam Srivastava Closing the Loop in Feedback Driven Learning Environments Using Trust Decision Making and Utility Theory A comprehensive trust evaluation model for decision making is required to utilize feedback ratings along with other key parameters such as previous course result percentage, active participation and reputation of learners. 2021 10.1109/TETCI.2020.2991452
Kanwal Mahmud, Muhammad Usman Trust Establishment and Estimation in Cloud Services: A Systematic Literature Review A systematic literature review has been performed in this study with an aim to identify and classify the existing research on trust establishment and estimation in cloud services. 2018 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-018-9475-y
Kanwal Mahmud; Muhammad Usman Dynamic trust evaluation of learning objects A trust model as a solution to uncertainty problem in the selection of learning objects. A user preferred utility computation method is proposed to facilitate the students in decision making about the selection of learning objects. 2017 10.1109/COMTECH.2017.8065773
k. Mahmud and M. Usman, "Dynamic Trust Evaluation of Learning Objects", IEEE International Conference on Communications Technologies(ComTech), 2017
Mahmud, K., Usman, M. Trust Establishment and Estimation in Cloud Services: A Systematic Literature Review. J Netw Syst Manage 27, 489–540 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-018-9475-y
K. Mahmud, M. Usman, M. A. Sindhu, A. Jolfaei and G. Srivastava, "Closing the Loop in Feedback Driven Learning Environments Using Trust Decision Making and Utility Theory," in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 6-18, Feb. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TETCI.2020.2991452.