Students Advised:

(in alphabetical order)

PhD Students:

Dr. Craig Eichelkraut (successfully defended, January 2008)

A Mobile Agent Based Approach for Optimizing Real-Time Geographically Distributed Control Systems using Swarm Intelligence

Dr. Hector Olague (2006)

Assessing Maintainability: Information Theory, Metrics and Iterative Software Processes

Dr. Anthony M. Orme (2005)

A Measurement Oriented Approach to E-Commerce Distributed Transactions

Based on a Mobile/Intelligent Agent Framework

Dr. Maureen Raley (successfully defended, February 2008)

Metrics for Risk Determination in Large-Scale Distributed Systems Maintenance

Dr. Cara Stein (2004)

Semantic Metrics for Source Code and Design

Dr. Bradley L. Vinz (successfully defended, January 2008)

A Synergistic Approach to Program Comprehension: Combining Code Understanding With Comment Understanding

Dr. Haining Yao (2005)

A Semantic-Based Approach for Software Reusable Component Classification and Retrieval

MS Thesis Students:

Richard Dabney (2006)

A Fault-Tolerant Approach To Test Control Utilizing Dual Redundant Processors

Owen Funkhouser (2004)

Comparing UML Use Cases to Internal Program Documentation in Object-Oriented Code

Stephen Quattlebaum (2004)

A Comparison of the Results of Object-Oriented Metrics in C++ and Java

Raed Shatnawi (2003)

A Comparison of Modern Object-Oriented Programming Languages and Compilers Using Standard Gang of Four Design Patterns