Teaching activities at New Bulgarian University include:

1998/1999 Academic year
Bachelor program courses - Computer Architecture, Computer tools for telecommunications
M.Sc. program courses - Object oriented programming in Internet, Visual Programming with Unified Modeling Language

1999/2000 Academic year
Bachelor program courses - Computer Architecture, Computer Networks
M.Sc. program courses - Object oriented programming in Internet, Visual Programming with Unified Modeling Language

2000/2001 Academic year
Bachelor program courses - Computer Architectures
M.Sc. program courses - Object oriented programming in Internet

2001/2002 Academic year
Bachelor program courses - Computer Architecture, Computer tools for telecommunications
M.Sc. program courses - Object oriented programming in Internet

2002/2003 Academic year
M.Sc. program courses - Object oriented programming in Internet, Visual Programming with Unified Modeling Language.

Teaching activities at Sofia University

2000/2001 Academic year
M.Sc. program courses - Distributed systems (Middleware)

2001/2002 Academic year
M.Sc. program courses - Distributed systems (Middleware), Mobile technologies

2002/2003 Academic year
Bachelor program courses - Software engineering
M.Sc. program courses - Distributed systems (Middleware), Mobile technologies

2003/2004 Academic year
M.Sc. program courses - Distributed systems (Middleware), Mobile technologies, Component Based Software Engineering

2004/2005 Academic year
M.Sc. program courses - Distributed systems (Middleware), Mobile technologies, Component Based Software Engineering, Advanced Software Engineering

2005/2006 Academic year
M.Sc. program courses - Distributed systems (Middleware), Component Based Software Engineering, Advanced Software Engineering, Agile methodologies
B.Sc program courses - Software Engineering

2006/2007 Academic year
M.Sc. program courses - Distributed systems (Middleware), Component Based Software Engineering, Advanced Software Engineering, Agile methodologies
B.Sc program courses - Software Engineering

2007/2008 Academic year
M.Sc. program courses - Distributed systems (Middleware), Component Based Software Engineering, Advanced Software Engineering
B.Sc program courses - Software Engineering

2008/2009 Academic year
M.Sc. program courses - Distributed systems (Middleware), Component Based Software Engineering, Advanced Software Engineering, Agile methodologies
B.Sc program courses - Software Engineering, Software Quality Management, Requirements Engineering

2009/2010 Academic year
M.Sc. program courses - Distributed systems (Middleware), Component Based Software Engineering, Advanced Software Engineering
B.Sc program courses - Software Engineering, Software Quality Management, Requirements Engineering, Software systems integration

Supervised MSc Theses:

Supervised PhD students:

• Alexander Dimov, Towards simplification of the development of large-scale software systems, Graduation year: 2006
• Penko Ivanov, Applying Agile Methodologies for Software Development in ISO 9001 Certified Companies Graduation year: 2006
• Iva Krasteva, Agile methodology for software development, Graduation year: 2010
• Irena Pavlova, Graduation year: 2010

1. Ilieva S., V. Lilov, I. Manova, Software Engineering – elements and implementation of software applications, Sofia University press, 2010
2. Ilieva S., A. Eskenazi, A. Dimov, I. Pavlova, “An Analysis and Forecast of Software and Services Research in Bulgaria”, Serdica Journal of Computing, 2010
3. Krasteva I., S. Ilieva, "Experience-Based Approach for Adoption of Agile Practices in Software Development Projects", 22-nd Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering CAISE-10, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6051, pp. 266-280, ISBN-13: 978-3-642-13093-9, Hammamet, Tunisia, 9-11 June, (2010)
4. Krasteva I., S. Ilieva, “A Systematic Approach for Selection and Adoption of Agile Practices in Component-Based Projects”, 11th International Conference on Agile Software Development XP2010, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming, Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Volume 48, Part 5, pp. 403-404, Trohdheim, Norway, 1-4 June, (2010), DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-13054-0_53
5. Petrova-Antonova D., I. Krasteva, S. Ilieva, Approaches Facilitating WS-BPEL Testing.,17th Conference on European Systems & Software Process Improvement and Innovation (EuroSPI 2010), Grenoble Institute of Technology, pp. 5.1-5.17, France, September 2010,
6. Pavlov V., B. Borisov, S. Ilieva, D. Petrova-Antonova. Framework for Testing Service Compositions. 12th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing Timisoara, Romania, September, (2010)
7. Ilieva S., V. Pavlov, I. Manova. A Composable Framework for Test Automation of Service-Based Applications. 7th International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC), IEEE Computer Society Washington Publisher, pp.286-291, Porto, Portugal, (2010). ISBN:978-0-7695-4241-6
8. Iliev M., I. Krasteva, S. Ilieva, “A Case Study on the Adoption of Measurable Agile Software Development Process”, International Conference SOFTWARE, SERVICES & SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES (S3T), Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2009
9. Dzhurov Y., I. Krasteva, S. Ilieva, “Personal Extreme Programming – An Agile Process for Autonomous Developers”, International Conference SOFTWARE, SERVICES & SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES (S3T), Sofia, Bulgaria, October 28-29, 2009
10. Dimov A., S. Ilieva, I. Pavlova, Eskenazi A., Software and Services – Research and Education in Bulgaria, National conference “Education in Information Society”, invited paper, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 12-13 May 2009, pp 9-16
11. Petrova-Antonova D., S. Ilieva, Towards Unified view of QoS-Enhanced Web Service Description and Discovery Approaches, YR-SOC'09, Pisa, Italy, June 2009, pp 99-113
12. Krasteva, I., I. Manova, S. Ilieva , ‘Testing Approach for SOA E-Government Application, Proceedings of International Conference on Software & Systems Engineering and their Applications (ICSSEA 2008), Paris, France, 9-11 December 2008
13. Eskenazi A., S. Ilieva, A. Dimov, I. Pavlova, “Present and Future of Bulgarian Research in Software and Services”, International Symposium on SOFTWARE AND SERVICES within International Conference AUTOMATICS AND INFORMATICS’08, September 30- October 4, 2008, Sofia
14. Dimov A., I. Pavlova, S. Ilieva, “Architectural properties of Software Components and Services”, Fourth International Bulgarian-Greek Conference - Computer Science'2008, Kavala, Greece, 18 - 19 September 2008
15. Buiu C., M. Zagar, R. Dobrin, S. Ilieva, A. Salihbegovic, T. Seceleanu, “GENESIS – A Framework for Global Engineering of Embedded Systems”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’08), SEESE workshop, Leipzig, Germany, May 2008, ISBN: 978-1-60558-194-1
16. Nikolov R., S. Ilieva,” A Model for Strengthening the Software Engineering Research Capacity”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’08), SEESE workshop, Leipzig, Germany, May 2008, ISBN: 978-1-60558-194-1
17. Krasteva I., S. Ilieva "Adopting an Agile Methodology - Why It Didn't Work" , Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE’08), APSO "Scrutinizing Agile Practices: Or Shootout at the Agile Corral" workshop, Leipzig, Germany, May 2008, ISBN: 978-1-60558-194-1
18. L. Ribarov, I. Manova, S. Ilieva, Testing in a service-oriented world, International Conference on Information technologies (Info-Tech 2007), St. Constantine and Elena resort, Bulgaria, pp. 23-32, 21-22 September 2007, ISBN:
19. A. Dimov, S. Ilieva, Modeling of Component-Based Software Systems with Generalized Nets, International Conference on Information technologies (Info-Tech 2007), St. Constantine and Elena resort, Bulgaria, pp 221-230, 21-22 September 2007
20. I. Manova, S. Ilieva, A. Lavrova, Application of classification trees in testing of automotive systems, Proceedings of the 10 International Conference on Quality Engineering in Software technology (CONQUEST 2007), Potsdam, Germany, pp 113-125, 26-28 September 2007
21. R. Nikolov, S. Ilieva, Building a Research University Ecosystem: the Case of Software Engineering Education at Sofia University, Proceedings of the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the 14th ACM SIGSOFT symposium on Foundations of software engineering, September 03 - 07, 2007, Pages: 491 – 500 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1287624.1287693
22. I. Krasteva, S. Ilieva, Rush into Agile - Analytical framework for agile practices applicability, Proceedings of the The IET International Conference on Agile Manufacturing (ICAM 2007), Durham, UK, pp229-237, 9 - 11 July 2007
23. R. Nikolov, S. Ilieva, Education in Informatics at Sofia University - current status and future plans, Electronic Journal Innovation in Teaching And Learning in Information and Computer Sciences (ITALICS), Volume 6, Issue 3, June 2007, pp.65-77, http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/italics/vol6iss3.htm
24. A. Dimov, S. Ilieva, Reliability Models in Architecture Description Language, Int. Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies - CompSysTech’07, University of Rousse, Bulgaria, II.11-1 do II.11-6, 14-15 June 2007
25. A. Dimov, S. Ilieva, “Generalized Nets model of the software architecture of ARCADE”, Serdica Journal of Computing, issue #3, pp 255-266, 2007
26. P. Ivanov, S. Ilieva, “Agile Case Study Evaluation in Middle Size Project”, Serdica Journal of Computing, issue #3, pp 241-254, 2007
27. Ilieva S., V. Lilov, I. Manova, Building software applications, Sofia University press, ISBN-13: 978-954-07-2452-2, 2006 (book)
28. I. Krasteva, I. Manova, S. Ilieva, “Methodology for Automated Functional Testing of Internet Applications”, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research (SAER’2006), pp., Varna - St. Konstantin resort, 24-26 September, 2006
29. A. Dimov, S. Ilieva, “Towards the Description of Software Architecture with Generalized Nets”, International Conference AUTOMATICS AND INFORMATICS’05, pp. 83-86, Sofia, Bulgaria, 3-5 October 2005
30. A. Dimov, S. Ilieva, “Modeling of Software Systems with generalized Nets”, First International Workshop on Intuitionistic Fuzzy sets and Generalized Nets (IWIFSGN-2005), Warsaw, Poland, september 2005, pp. 102-115, editors Kr. Atanasov, J. Kacprzyk, M. Krawczak, E. Szmidt
31. V. Lilov, S. Ilieva, “Towards Development and Use of In-house Component Framework: Results and Expectations”, Proceedings of the 31th EUROMICRO Conference, Porto, Portugal, August30-September 3, 2005
32. P. Ivanov, S. Ilieva, "Agile Software Development - Two Industry Companies Experience", International Conference on Agile Manufacturing - ICAM 2005, Helsinki, Finland, 27-28 July, 2005
33. P. Ivanov, S. Ilieva, “Gap analyses between certified SME's process and an agile approach”, International conference Software Engineering’2005, Innsbruck, Austria, February, 2005
34. A. Dimov, S. Ilieva, “Towards the distinction and classification of software component wrappers and connectors”, Proceedings of 18th International Conferen-ce on Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research (SAER’2004), pp. 142-1467, 24-26 September, Varna - St. Konstantin resort, pp., 2004
35. S. Ilieva, P. Ivanov, E. Stefanova, “Analyses of an agile methodology implementation”, Proceedings of the 30th EUROMICRO Conference, pp. 326-333, Rennes, France, August31-September 3, 2004
36. A. Dimov, S. Ilieva, “System level modeling of component-based software systems”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies - CompSysTech’2004, pp. II.7-1-II.7.6, Rousse 16-17 June, 2004
37. S. Ilieva, P. Ivanov, I. Mihaylov, E. Stefanova, A. Eskenazi, “eXPERT approach implementation in software SME”, Proceedings of the International Conference EuroSPI’2003, pp. VIII.1 – VIII.10, Graz, Austria, 10-12 December 2003
38. I. Mihaylov, P. Ivanov, E. Stefanova, A. Eskenazi, S. Ilieva, “The eXPERT approach – a case study”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies – CompSysTech, Sofia 19-29 June, 2003
39. A. Dimov, S. Ilieva, “Modern Software Development Processes”, Proceedings of International conference SAI’2002, Sofia, 5-6 November, 2002
40. E. Stefanova, S. Ilieva, eXPERT approach and framework for analyzing experiments with it, Proceedings of 16th International Conference on Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research (SAER’2002), edited by Dr. Angel Popov and Dr. Radi Romansky, 20-22 September, Varna - St. Konstantin resort, pp., 2002
41. S. Ilieva, E. Stefanova, eXPERT approach for e-business software development, международната конференция “Технически и технологични основи на новата икономика”,16-18 September, Albena, 2002
42. B. Bonchev, S. Ilieva, Middleware Service Support for Modern Application Presentations, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research (SAER’2001), edited by Dr. Angel Popov and Dr. Radi Romansky, 21-23 September, Varna - St. Konstantin resort, pp., 2001.
43. S. Ilieva, Middleware – essential component for state-of-art applications integration, Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research (SAER’2001), edited by Dr. Angel Popov and Dr. Radi Romansky, 21-23 September, Varna - St. Konstantin resort, pp., 2001.
44. S. Ilieva, I. Mihaylov, Complexity factors of application systems development, Comptes Rendus de l’Academie Bulgare des Sciences, (Technique, Automatique et Informatique), tome 54, No. 9, 2001
45. S. Ilieva, I. Mihaylov, Managing complexity of modern software systems, Proceedings of International Conference Automatics and Informatics, edited by V. Sgurev, K. Boyanov, M. Hadjiski, pp. I53-I56, 31.05-2.06 2001, Sofia, Bulgaria, ISBN 954-9641-24-4
46. D. Donchev, T. Belichki, S. Ilieva, Real Time Multimedia Related Network Protocols, Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research (SAER’2000), edited by Dr. Angel Popov and Dr. Radi Romansky, 18-20 September, Varna - St. Konstantin resort, pp.102-107, 2000. ISBN 954-8329-22-0
47. Bonchev B., S. Ilieva, V. Georgiev, The Line of Succession from OBLOG to UML, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research (SAER’99), edited by Dr. Angel Popov and Dr. Radi Romansky, 18-19 September, St. Konstantin resort, Varna, pp. 153-158, 1999. ISBN 954-438-248-8
48. Ilieva S., K. Boyanov, A Hybrid and Adaptive Total Ordering Protocol in Overlapping Groups, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Systems for Automation of Engineering and Research (SAER’99), edited by Dr. Angel Popov and Dr. Radi Romansky, 18-19 септември, Свети Константин, Варна, pp. 78-83, 1999. ISBN 954-438-248-8
49. Christova S., K. Boyanov, Basic characteristics of the adaptive total ordering protocol in overlapping groups, Comptes Rendus de l’Academie Bulgare des Sciences (Technique, Automatique et Informatique), tome 51, No. 3-4, pp. 29-32, 1998
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51. Christova S., Total Ordering Protocol in Different Communication Environments, Proceedings of the IFIP TC6 International Symposium “Network Information Processing Systems”, edited by K. Boyanov, 14-16 October Sofia, Bulgaria, pp. 34-47, 1997.
52. Christova S., Fault tolerant communications in distributed memory systems, SAER’96, 27-29 September, St. Konstantin resort, Varna, стр. 94-98, 1996.
53. Христова С., Р. Стайнов, Транзакционни отказоустойчиви разпределени системи, списание “Автоматика и Информатика”, брой 5/6, 1992
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55. Christova S., Multicast Communication in Multitransputer Systems, Proceedings of the Workshop Parallel and Distributed Processing’91, 16-19 April, Sofia, Bulgaria, North-Holland, editor K. Boyanov, pp. 215-229, 1991.
56. Stainov R., S. Christova, A naming scheme for Interconnected Distributed Systems, Proceedings of the IFIP TC6 International Conference on Computer Networking COMNET'90, edited by L.Csaba, T. Szentivanyi and K. Tarnay, Budapest, Hungary, May 8-10, 1990, Elsevier Science (soft cover)