Dissertation and Thesis Students Advised:

Ph.D. Students Who Have Graduated

Dr. Jon Rogers

Advisor: Ramazan Aygun, Kennesaw State Univ.

Co-advisor: Letha Etzkorn

Semantic Deduplication of Redundant and Non-Conformant Data in Temporal Domains

Spring, 2023

Dr. Mohammad Shojaeshafiei

(co-advised with Dr. Michael Anderson, Civil Eng)

A Measurable Cybersecurity Quality Framework and Its Application to the Department of Transportation

Fall, 2020

Dr. Julien McKinney Young

Measuring Solution Intelligence: A Path Walking Simulator of Multiple Autonomous Robots on a Dynamic Graph

Spring, 2016

Dr. Zhiqiang (John) Wu

An Approach to Finding Good Anchor Nodes in Ontologies

Summer, 2015

Dr. Amr Desouky

A Qualitative Analysis of Object Oriented Runtime Cohesion and Complexity 

Summer, 2014

Dr. Matthew Beard

The Relationship of Software Quality Characteristics to Code Clones

Spring, 2013

Dr. Ruchira Mathur

Object-Oriented Runtime Software Quality Analysis

Summer, 2011

Dr. Dan Schrimpsher

Dynamic Generation of Reduced Ontologies to Support Resource Constraints of Mobile Devices

Summer, 2011

Dr. Kevin Keen

Measuring and Comparing Group Intelligence of Mobile and Intelligent Agents on a Mobile Robotics Platform

Summer 2010

Dr. Stacy K. Lukins

Source Code Retrieval for Bug Localization using Latent Dirichlet Allocation, and its Relationship with Stability of Agilely Developed Software

Spring, 2009

Dr. Patricia L. Roden

An Examination of Stability and Reusability in Highly Iterative Software

Fall, 2008

Dr. Maureen Raley

Metrics for Risk Determination in Large-Scale Distributed Systems Maintenance

Spring, 2008

Dr. Craig Eichelkraut

A Mobile Agent Based Approach For Optimizing Real-Time Geographically Distributed Control Systems Using Swarm Intelligence

Spring, 2008

Dr. Bradley L. Vinz

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

Spring, 2008

Dr. Hector Olague

Assessing Maintainability: Information Theory, Metrics and Iterative Software Processes

Fall, 2006

Dr. Haining Yao

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

Fall, 2005

Dr. Anthony M. Orme

A Measurement Oriented Approach to E-Commerce Distributed Transactions Based on a Mobile/Intelligent Agent Framework

Spring, 2005

Dr. Cara Stein

Semantic Metrics for Source Code and Design

Summer, 2004

 

MS Thesis Students Who Have Graduated

Matthew Beard

The Accuracy of Information Retrieval Based Bug Localization Techniques

MSSE

Summer, 2011

David Michal

A Comparison of Development Environments for Mobile Autonomous Robots: Player/Stage Gazebo vs. Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio

MSCS

Fall, 2010

Richard Dabney

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

MSCS

Spring, 2006

Owen Funkhouser

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

MSSE

Fall, 2004

Stephen Quattlebaum

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

MSCS

Summer, 2004

Raed Shatnawi

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

MSSE

Fall, 2003