Research Accomplishments and Highlights

PUBLICATIONS:

At the current time, I have published or had accepted

1.       42 refereed journal articles

    • 40 fully peer-reviewed
    • 2 editorially-reviewed

2.       54 refereed conference papers

    • 47 fully peer-reviewed conference papers
    • 7 reviewed-abstract conference papers 

3.       4 technical reports

4.       6 final reports on grants or contracts

5.       1 workshop paper (invited)

6.       7 other publications, including:

    • 1 ACM Proceedings for which I was the editor (Dr. Seong-Moo Yoo from ECE was co-editor)

 



Publications:

Legend:

·         For journals, the Thomson Scientific ISI/SCI impact factors are indicated where available.

Ø       Computer Science journal Impact factors are TYPICALLY LOWER than the impact factors that are seen in other fields such as Chemistry or Biology. The impact factors in computer science journals also differ considerably by sub-research area.

·         Not all good Computer Science journals even have an impact factor.  Much major computer science work is done in good conferences.

·         To provide an approximate scale for understanding the given SCI impact factors, the impact factor in 2006 for IEEE Trans. on Softw. Eng. was 2.132, ACM T. Softw. Eng. Meth. was 1.636, for IEEE Software was 1.252, and Empirical Softw. Eng. was 1.03. 

·         Another well known rating system for Computer Science journals and conferences is the Australia and New Zealand Computing Research and Education (CORE) journal rankings and conference rankings. These rankings are provided where available. Both the 2008 and 2007 rankings are provided.

1.                   To provide an approximate scale for understanding the CORE rankings, an                 A* /A+ journal     is in the top 5% of all journals. An A journal is in the top         15%.  These are overall rankings      and do not distinguish by research area.

2.                   As new journals are added to the list, earlier journals are moved down, as the              percentage in each category is strictly maintained.

 

·         Conference acceptance rates are indicated where they are available. 

 

·         “In final preparation” means there is a draft that has been gone over many times and is close to submission.  Articles in earlier states are not listed.

·         My current and former PhD Students’ (including those already graduated) names shown in Purple.

·         My current and former MS Thesis students’ (including those already graduated) names shown in Red.

Peer Reviewed Articles in International Journals

 

SUBMITTED OR IN FINAL PREPARATION

 
  1. Raley, Maureen, Hughes, William E., Etzkorn, Letha H., “Assessing Inventory Instability and Upgrade Progress in Widely Distributed Systems Maintenance Projects,” in final preparation.

 
  1. Keen, Kevin, Mathur, Ruchira, Etzkorn, Letha H.,”Measuring Group Intelligence on a Mobile Robotics Platform,” in final preparation.

 
  1. Schrimpsher, Dan, Etzkorn, Letha H., “A Survey of Ontology Metrics,” in final preparation.
  1. Virani, S., Messimer, S., Roden, P., Etzkorn, L., "Prediction of Object-Oriented Design Quality Factors using Software Product Metrics, in final preparation.
  1. Etzkorn, L., Gholston, S., and Petty, M., “An Analysis of the Current Status of Software Quality Metric Values for Selected Fortran Simulation Software,” Simulation, under 2nd Review.

 

 

Peer Reviewed Articles in International Journals

PUBLISHED OR ACCEPTED

 

 

Publisher and/or Affiliation

Journal Impact and Ranking

Information, other Information

(where available)

1.                  Schrimpsher, D., and Etzkorn,L., “A Model to Predict Quality of a Reduced Ontology for Web Service Discovery on Mobile Devices,” The Knowledge Engineering Review, accepted.

 

Cambridge University

Press

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B),

 

SCI impact factor (2008:1.588)

2.                  Lukins, S., Kraft, N., and Etzkorn, L., “Bug Localization Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation,” Information and Software Technology, accepted.

 

Elsevier

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B;  2007: B),

SCI impact factor (2003: 0.632;  2008: 1.2)

3.                  Stein C., Etzkorn,L., Gholston, S., Farrington, P., Utley, D., Cox, G., and Fortune, J., “Semantic Metrics: Metrics Based on Semantic Aspects of Software,” Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 23, Issue 1, January 2009, pp.44-77.

 

Taylor & Francis

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B),

SCI impact factor (2003:  0.789; 2007: 0.753)

4.                  Orme, Anthony Mark, Yao, Haining, Etzkorn, Letha, “Complexity Metrics for Ontology Based Information,” International Journal of Technology Management, Vol. 47, No. 1/2/3, 2009, pp.161-173.

 

Inderscience

Publishers

 

SCI impact factor (2007: 0.356)

5.                  Cox, G., Hughes, William E., Etzkorn, Letha H., and Weisskopf, Mary E., “"Predicting Computer Science PhD Completion: A Case Study,” IEEE Transactions on Education, Vol. 52, No. 1, Feb. 2009, pp.137-143.

IEEE

Education

Society

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B),

SCI impact factor (2005: 0.644; 2007: 0.815)

6.                  Vinz, B.L, and Etzkorn, L.H.,“Improving Program Comprehension by Combining Code Understanding with Comment Understanding,” Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 21, Issue 8, December, 2008, pp. 813-825.

 

 

Elsevier

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B; 2007: A),

SCI impact factor (2003: 0.825; 2007: 0.574)

7.                  Olague, Hector M., Etzkorn, Letha H., Messimer, Sherri L., and Delugach, Harry, “An Empirical Validation of Object-Oriented Class Complexity Metrics and Their Ability to Predict Error-Prone Classes in Highly Iterative, or Agile, Software,” Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, Vol. 20, Issue 3, May/June 2008, pp. 171-197.

 

Wiley

InterScience

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B; 2007: B),

SCI impact factor (2007) 0.765

8.                  Yao, Haining, Etzkorn, L., and Virani, S., “Automated Classification and Retrieval of Reusable Software Components,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 59(4), February, 2008, pp.613-627.

Wiley

Interscience

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: A*;  2007: A),

 SCI impact factor (2006: 1.555; 2007:  1.436)

9.                  Funkhouser, O., Etzkorn, L., and Hughes, W.E., “A Lightweight Approach to Software Validation By Comparing UML Use Cases with Internal Program Documentation Selected Via Call Graphs," Software Quality Journal, Vol. 16, No. 1, March, 2008, pp. 131-156.

Springer

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: C),

 SCI impact factor (2006: 0.4; 2007: 0.543)

10.              Carter, Donna M, Aygun, Ramazan, Cox, Glenn, Weisskopf, Mary Ellen, Etzkorn, Letha, “The Effect of Uncontrolled Concurrency on Model Checking,” Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 20, No. 12, August, 2008, pp. 1419-1438.

Wiley

Interscience

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: A; 2007: A),

SCI impact factor (2007: 1.154)

11.              Gall, C. (Stein), Lukins, S., Etzkorn, L., Gholston, S., Farrington, P., Utley, D., Fortune, J., and Virani, S., “Semantic Software Metrics Computed from Natural Language Design Specifications,” IET Software (formerly IEE Proceedings Software), Vol. 2, No. 1, February, 2008, pp. 17-26.

IET (Institute for Engineering and Technology), the professional institution for engineering and technology in the UK

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B),

SCI impact factor (2006: 0.64)

12.              Olague, H., Etzkorn, L., Gholston, S., and Quattlebaum, S., “Empirical Validation of Three Software Metrics Suites to Predict Fault-Proneness of Object-Oriented Classes Developed Using Highly Iterative or Agile Software Development Processes,” IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 33, No. 6, June, 2007, pp. 402-419.

 

IEEE Computer Society

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: A*;  2007: A+),

SCI impact factor (2006: 2.132; 2007: 2.105)

13.              Dabney, Richard, Etzkorn, Letha, and Cox, Glenn, “A Fault-Tolerant Approach to Test Control Utilizing Dual Redundant Processors,” Advances in Engineering Software,Vol. 39, No. 5, May 2008, pp. 371-383.

 

Elsevier

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: C),

SCI impact factor (2006: 0.431; 2007: 0.529)

14.              Carpenter, Sandra L., Delugach, Harry S., Etzkorn, Letha H., Farrington, Phillip A., Fortune, Julie L., Utley, Dawn R., Virani, Shamsnaz S., “A Knowledge-Modeling Approach to Evaluating Student Essays in Engineering Courses,” Journal of Engineering Education,Vol. 96, No. 3, July, 2007, pp.227-238.

·         selected as one of two papers from the Journal of Engineering Education in year 2007 to be included in the Annals of Research in Engineering Education, 2008

American Society for Engineering Education

Listed as one of the core journals in the field of Advanced Learning Technologies by the TENCompetence Project;

“JEE is the mostly widely read educational research journal in engineering education with 8,000 subscribers in over 70 countries, and it is the most highly cited education journal currently ranked first in the categories of education and educational research on the Thomson ISI Science Citation Index and the Social Science Citation index.” http://www.asee.org/publications/jee/ [last accessed Dec 2008]

SCI impact factor (2006: 0.304; 2007: 0.3)

 

15.              Cox, Glenn W., Gholston, Sampson E., Utley, Dawn, Etzkorn, Letha, Stein, Cara, Farrington, Philip, Fortune, Julie, “Empirical Validation of the RCDC and RCDE Semantic Complexity Metrics for Object-Oriented Software,” Journal of Computing and Information Technology, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2007, pp. 1-10.

 

University

Computing

Centre, Zagreb, Croatia

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: C)

16.              Orme, Anthony M., and Etzkorn, Letha,” A Parallel Methodology for Reduction of Coupling in Distributed Business-to-Business E-Commerce Transactions,” Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations, Vol. 5, No 3, July-September, 2007, pp. 52-67.  (later re-published as a book chapter in Consumer Behavior, Organizational Development, and Electronic Commerce: Emerging Issues for Advancing Modern Socioeconomics, Ed. Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, published by IGI Global).

Publication of the Information Resources Management Association,

Idea Group

Publishing

 

17.              Orme, A., Yao, H., and Etzkorn, L., “Indicating Ontology Data Quality, Stability, and Completeness Throughout Ontology Evolution,” Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, Vol. 19, Issue 1, January/February 2007, pp. 49-75.

 

Wiley

InterScience

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008:B;  2007: B),

SCI impact factor (2007: 0.765)

18.              Stein, Cara, Letha Etzkorn, Sampson Gholston, Phillip Farrington, Julie Fortune. "A Knowledge-Based Cohesion Metric for Object-Oriented Software," INFOCOMP Journal of Computer Science, vol. 5, no. 4, December 2006, pp. 44-53.

Department

Of Computer Science, Federal University of Lavras, (UFLA)

Brazil

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: C)

19.              Yao, Haining, and Etzkorn, Letha, “Automated Conversion Between Different Knowledge Representation Formats,” Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 19, Issue 6, Oct. 2006, pp. 404-412.

 

Elsevier

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B; 2007: A),

SCI impact factor (2003: 0.825; 2007: 0.574)

20.              Olague, Hector M., Etzkorn, Letha H, Li, Wei, and Cox, Glenn, “Assessing Design Instability in Iterative (Agile) Object-Oriented Projects," Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution, Vol. 18, Issue 4, July/August 2006, pp.237-266

 

Wiley

InterScience

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B; 2007: B),

SCI impact factor (2006: 0.636; 2007: 0.765)

21.              Cox, Glenn, Etzkorn, Letha, and Hughes, William E., “Cohesion Metric for Object-Oriented Systems Based on Semantic Closeness from Disambiguity,” Applied Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 20, No. 5, May-June, 2006, pp. 419-436.

 

Taylor & Francis

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B),

SCI impact factor (2003: 0.789, 2007: 0.753)

22.              Orme, Anthony M., Yao, Haining, and Etzkorn, Letha, “Coupling Metrics for Ontology-Based Systems,” IEEE Software, Vol. 23, No. 2, March/April 2006, pp. 102-108.

 

IEEE Computer Society

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B),

SCI impact factor ( 2005: 1.333; 2007: 1.462)

23.              Shatnawi, Raed,  Etzkorn, Letha, and Hughes, W.E., “Comparing Object-Oriented Languages Using Design Patterns,” International Journal of Computers and Applications, Vol. 27, No. 4, 2005, pp. 228-236.

 

ACTA

Press

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: C),

This journal is a merge of 3 earlier journals: 1) Int. Journal of Mini and Microcomputers (first published in 1979); 2)  Int. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems; and 3) Journal of  Microcomputer Applications which had SCI impact factor (1994) 0.123

24.              Stein, C., Cox, G., Etzkorn,L., Gholston, S., Virani, S., Farrington, P., Utley, D., Fortune, J., “Exploring the Relationship Between Cohesion and Complexity,” Journal of Computer Science, 1(2), 2005, pp. 137-144.

 

Science

Publications

NOTE: available on amazon.com [last accessed 11/10/08]

Exploring the relationship between cohesion and complexity.: An article from: Journal of Computer Science by Cara Stein, Glenn Cox, and Letha Etzkorn (Digital - Jan 16, 2008) - HTML

Buy: $9.95

25.              Yao, Haining, Orme, Anthony M., Etzkorn, Letha, “Cohesion Metrics for Ontology Design and Application,” Journal of Computer Science, 1(1), 2005, pp. 107-113.

 

Science

Publications

 

26.              Etzkorn, Letha, Gholston, Sampson E., Fortune, Julie L., Stein, Cara E., Utley, Dawn, Farrington, P.A., and Cox, G.W., “A Comparison of Cohesion Metrics for Object-Oriented Systems,” Information and Software Technology, Vol. 46, Issue 10, August 2004, pp. 677-687.

 

Elsevier

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B;  2007: B),

SCI impact factor (2003: 0.632;  2007: 0.581)

27.              Naji, Hamid R., Wells, B. Earl, Etzkorn, Letha, “Creating An Adaptive Embedded System by Applying Multi Agent Techniques to Reconfigurable Hardware,” Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 20, Issue 6, August 2004, Pages 1055-1081.

 

Elsevier

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: A; 2007: A),

SCI impact factor (2005: 0.555;  2007: 1.095)

28.              Naji, Hamid R., Etzkorn, Letha, Wells, B. Earl “Applying MultiAgent Techniques to Reconfigurable Systems,” Advances in Engineering Software, Volume 35, Issue 7, July 2004, Pages 401-413.

 

Elsevier

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008:  C),

SCI impact factor (2006:  0.431;  2007: 0.529)

29.              Etzkorn, L.H., Gholston, S., Weisskopf, M.E., “A Study of Student Performance in Combined Courses,” Journal of Information Systems Education, Vol 15 (2),  July, 2004.

Education Special Interest Group (EDSIG) of the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)

Australia CORE Ranking:  (2008: C)

30.              Etzkorn, Letha, Gholston, Sampson, and Hughes,William E., Jr., "A Semantic Entropy Metric,"  Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution , Vol. 14, Issue 4, July/August, 2002, pp. 293-310.

 

Wiley

InterScience

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B; 2007: B),

SCI impact factor (2002: 0.722; 2007: 0.765)

31.              Etzkorn, Letha, Davis, Carl, and Bowen, Lisa," The Language of Comments in Computer Software: A Sublanguage of English," Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 33, No. 11, 2001, pp.1731-1756.

 

Elsevier

SCI impact factor (2005: 0.566; 2007: 484)

32.              Etzkorn, Letha, Hughes, William Evans, Jr., and Davis, Carl, "Automated Reusability Quality Analysis of OO Legacy Software," Information and Software Technology, Vol. 43, No. 5, April, 2001, pp. 295-308.

 

Elsevier

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B; 2007: B)

SCI impact factor (2003: 0.632; 2007: 0.581)

33.              Li, Wei, Etzkorn, Letha, Davis, Carl, and Talburt, John "An Empirical Study of Design Evolution in an Object-Oriented System, Information and Software Technology, Vol. 42, No. 6, April, 2000, pp. 373-381.

 

Elsevier

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B,  2007: B)

 SCI impact factor (2003: 0.632;  2007: 0.581)

34.              Etzkorn, Letha, Bowen, Lisa, and Davis, Carl, "An Approach to Program Understanding by Natural Language Understanding," Natural Language Engineering, Vol. 5, Issue 5, March, 1999, pp. 219-236.An Approach to Program Understanding by Natural Language Understanding 

 

Cambridge

University

Press

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: A, 2007: A)

35.              Bansiya, Jagdish, Davis, Carl, and Etzkorn, Letha, "An Entropy Based Complexity Measure for Object-Oriented Designs," Theory and Practice of Object Systems, Vol. 5, No. 2, May, 1999, pp.1-9.

 

Wiley

InterScience

Combined with Concurrency: Practice and Experience in 2000 to form Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Australia CORE Ranking: 2007: A, SCI impact factor (2003: 0.569)

36.              Etzkorn, Letha, Bansiya, Jagdish, and Davis, Carl, "Design and Complexity Metrics for OO Classes," Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, Vol. 12, No., 1, March,1999,pp. 35-40. joop2.pdf

 

SIGS Publications

Australia CORE Ranking: (2007:B),

SCI impact factor (1999: 0.306)

37.              Bansiya, J., Etzkorn, L., Davis, C., and Li, W., "A Class Cohesion Metric for Object-Oriented Design," Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, Vol. 11, No. 8, January, 1999, pp. 47-52. joop1.pdf 

 

SIGS Publications

Australia CORE Ranking: (2007: B),

SCI impact factor (1999: 0.306)

38.              Etzkorn, L., Davis, C., and Li, W., "A Practical Look at the Lack of Cohesion in Methods Metric," Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, Vol. 11, No. 5, Sept. 1998, pp.27-34. joop.pdf 

 

SIGS Publications

Australia CORE Ranking: (2007: B),

SCI impact factor (1999:  0.306)

39.              Etzkorn, L.H., and Davis, C.G., "Automatically Identifying Reusable OO Legacy Code," IEEE Computer, Vol. 30, No. 10, October, 1997, pp. 66-71.

 

IEEE Computer Society

 

Australia CORE Ranking (2008: B),

 SCI impact factor ( 2003: 1.552; 2007: 1.367)

This is the IEEE Computer Society’s Flagship Publication

40.              Etzkorn, L.H., and Davis, C.G., "Automated Object-Oriented Reusable Component Identification," Knowledge-Based Systems, Vol. 9, Issue 8, Dec. 1996, pp. 517-524.

 

Elsevier

Australia CORE Ranking: (2008: B; 2007:A)

SCI impact factor (2003: 0.825; 2007:  0.574)

 

 

Editorially Reviewed Articles

 

 

Publisher and/or Affiliation

Journal Impact and Ranking

Information

(where available)

1.      Etzkorn, Letha, Sherrill, Joel, and O’Guin, Ron, “The CORBA Notification Service: Applicability in a Real Time, Embedded Environment," Embedded Systems Programming (renamed Embedded Systems Design), Oct, 2002.

 

CMP Media LLC

 

2.      Ironside, E., Etzkorn, L, Zajac, D., "Examining CORBA Interoperability," Dr. Dobbs' Journal, June, 2001, pp. 111-122.

 

CMP Media LLC

Australia CORE Ranking: (2007: A)

SCI impact factor (2003: 0.098; 2007:  0.048)

 

 

Peer Reviewed Conference Publications

SUBMITTED OR IN FINAL PREPARATION

Mathur, Ruchira, Keen, Kevin, and Etzkorn, Letha, “Towards a Measure of Object-Oriented Runtime Cohesion Based on Number of Instance Variable Accesses,” submitted to Software Engineering and Applications Conference, submitted August 1, 2010.

 

 

Peer Reviewed Conference Publications

PUBLISHED OR ACCEPTED

 

Acceptance Rate

and Conference Ranking

(where available)
  1. Carpenter, S., Delugach, H., Etzkorn, L., Fortune, J., Utley, D., and Virani, S.,“The Effect of Shared Mental Models on Team Performance,” Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Institute of Industrial Engineers. Cancun, Mexico, June 5-9, 2010.

 
  1. Mathur, R., Keen, K.J., and Etzkorn, L.H., "Towards an Object-Oriented Complexity Metric at the Runtime Boundary based on Decision Points in Code," Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference, Oxford, MS,Apr.15-17, 2010.

 
  1. Schrimpsher, Dan, Wu, Zhijiang, Orme, Anthony M., and Etzkorn, Letha,”Dynamic Ontology Version Control,” Proceedings of the ACM Southeast Conference, Oxford, MS,Apr.15-17, 2010.

 
  1. Keen, K., Mathur, R., and Etzkorn,L., “Towards a Measure of Software Intelligence Employing a Runtime Complexity Metric,” Proceedings of the IASTED Software Engineering and Applications (SEA) Conference (SEA 2009), Cambridge, MA, Nov. 2-4, 2009.

 
  1. Schrimpsher, Dan and Etzkorn, L., “An Empirical Quality Model for Web Service Ontologies to Support Mobile Devices,” Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2009), Lake Buena Vista, FL, Oct. 15-16,2009, pp. 447-450.

Australia 2007 Conf. Ranking: A
  1. Keen, Kevin, and Etzkorn, Letha,”Predicting Students Grades in Computer Science Courses Based on Complexity Measures of Teacher’s Lecture Notes,” Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Vol. 24, No. 5, May, 2009, pp. 44-48.

 
  1. Schrimpsher, Dan and Etzkorn, L., “Sub-Graphing Web Service Ontologies to Support Resource Constraints of Mobile Devices,” Proceedings of the 47th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Clemson, SC, March 19-21, 2009

 
  1. Virani, S., Etzkorn, L., Gholston, S., Farrington, P., Utley, D., and Fortune, J., “Investigation of Domain Effects on Software,” Proceedings of the 47th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Clemson, SC, March 19-21, 2009

 
  1. Carpenter, S., Delugach, H., Etzkorn, L., Fortune, J., Utley, D., Farrington, P, and Virani, S.,”Studying Team Shared Mental Models,” Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on the Pragmatic Web (ICPW ’08), Uppsala, Sweden, Sept. 29-30, 2008, pp. 39-46.

 
  1. Lukins, Stacy, Kraft, Nicholas, and Etzkorn, Letha, “Source Code Retrieval For Bug Localization Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation,” Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE 2008), Antwerp, Belgium, Oct. 15-18, 2008, pp.155-164.

Australia 2007 Conf. Ranking: B,

 Acceptance rate 20/70 = 28.6% (full papers)
  1. Vinz, Brad, and Etzkorn, Letha, "Combined Code Understanding and Comment Understanding," Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'08), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 14-17, 2008, pp. 55-60.

 
  1. Vinz, Brad, and Etzkorn, Letha, "Comments as a Sublanguage: A Study of Comment Grammar and Purpose," Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'08), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 14-17, 2008, pp. 17-23.

 
  1. Virani, Shamsnaz, Messimer, Sherri, Roden, Patricia, and Etzkorn, Letha, “Software Quality Management Tool for Engineering Managers,” Proceedings of the Industrial Engineering Research Conference, Institute of Industrial Engineers, Vancouver, B.C.,Canada, May 17-21, 2008, pp.1401-1406.

 

14.  Keen, Kevin, and Etzkorn, Letha, “A Brief Survey of Mobile Agents on Mobile Robotic Platforms,” ACMSE 2008 poster session, Auburn, AL, March 28-29,2008.

 

15.  Vinz, Brad, and Etzkorn, Letha, “A Study of Comment Abstraction, Coupling, and Placement,” Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications,Cambridge,MA, Nov. 19-21, 2007, pp. 290-296.

Australia 2007 Conf. Ranking: C, Acceptance rate ~63%,

16.  Roden, Patricia L., Etzkorn, Letha, Virani, Shamsnaz, and Messimer, Sherri, and Vinz, B.L.,  “A Validation of the Entropy-Based SDIe Metric, Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, Cambridge,MA, Nov. 19-21, 2007, pp.57-65.

Australia 2007 Conf. Ranking: C, Acceptance rate ~63%,

17.  Roden, Patricia L., Virani, Shamsnaz, Etzkorn, Letha H., and Messimer, Sherri, “An Empirical Study of the Relationship of Stability Metrics and the QMOOD Quality Models over Software Developed Using Highly Iterative or Agile Software Processes,” Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM ‘07), Paris, France, Sept. 30-Oct 1, 2007, pp.171-179..

 

Acceptance rate 19/74 = 25.7%

18.  Etzkorn, Letha H., Messimer, Sherri L., and Olague, Hector M., “A Principal Components Analysis of Class Metrics in Three Object-Oriented Class Metrics Suites, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering  Research and Practice (SERP ’07), Las Vegas, NV, USA, June 25-28, 2007, pp. 397-406.

Acceptance rate 29% for regular/research papers.

19.  Eichelkraut, C., and Etzkorn, L.H., “Describing Agent Based Real-Time Distributed Systems using Design Patterns,” Proceedings of the 45th Annual ACM Southeast Conference,Winston-Salem, NC, March 23-24, 2007, pp. 156-161.

Acceptance rate 59%
  1. Orme, Anthony M., and Etzkorn, Letha, “A Coupling Metric for B2B e-Commerce Systems,” Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, e-Government, and Outsourcing (EEE '06), Las Vegas, NV, June 26-29, 2006, pp.85-88.

 
  1. Olague, Hector, Etzkorn, Letha, and Cox, Glenn, “An Entropy-Based Approach to Assessing Object-Oriented Software Maintainability and Degradation,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP ’06), June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA, vol. 1, pp. 642-652.

 
  1. Raley, Maureen and Etzkorn, Letha, “Management Metrics in Risk Determination During A Widely Distributed Computer System Upgrade,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP ’06), June 26-29, 2006, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 734-740.

 

23.  Vinz, Brad, and Etzkorn, Letha, “A Synergistic Approach to Program Comprehension,” Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension, Athens, Greece, June 14-16, 2006, pp. 69-73.

Acceptance rate

(for short papers) 48%
  1. Eichelkraut, Craig and Etzkorn, Letha,”Optimization of Military Distributed Control Systems Using a Mobile Agent-based Approach,” Proceedings of the Agent Directed Simulation Conference (ADS ’06), The Society For Modeling and Simulation International, Huntsville, AL, April 2-6, 2006, pp. 41 – 47.

Acceptance rate ~50%
  1. Eichelkraut, Craig and Etzkorn, Letha, “An Approach for Developing Real-Time Distributed Systems using an Agent Architecture Description Language, Proceedings of the 44th Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Melbourne, FL, March 10-12, 2006, pp. 506 – 511.

Acceptance rate (full paper)

100/244 = 41%
  1. Olague, H., and Etzkorn, L., “An Information Theory Word-Based Metric to Evaluate Software Maintainability and Reusability,” Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP ’05), Las Vegas, NV, June 27-30, 2005, pp.921-927.

 
  1. Olague, H., and Etzkorn, L., “A Simple Entropy-Based Software Complexity Metric,” Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP ’05), Las Vegas, NV, June 27-30, 2005, pp.928-934.

 
  1. Raley, Maureen, and Etzkorn, Letha, “Entropy Metrics-Based Approach to Risk Analysis in the Maintenance Phase of Large-Scale Computer Systems,” Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP ’04), Las Vegas, NV, June 21-24, 2004, pp. 883-889.

 
  1. Yao, Haining, and Etzkorn, Letha, “Conversion from Conceptual Graph Model to Resource Description Framework Model,” Conceptual Structures at Work:  Contributions of  the 12th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS ’04), Huntsville, AL, July 19-23, 2004, pp. 98-114.

Australia 2007 Conf. Ranking: A
  1. Stein, Cara, Etzkorn, Letha, Cox, Glenn, Farrington, Philip, Gholston,Sampson, Utley, Dawn, and Fortune, Julie, "A New Suite of Semantic Metrics for Object-Oriented Software." Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Software Audits and Metrics (SAM 2004), Porto, Portugal, April 13-14, 2004, pp. 49-58.

Acceptance rate = 10/16

=62%
  1. Raley, Maureen, and Etzkorn, Letha, “Case Study:  Lessons Learned During a Nationwide Computer System Upgrade,” Proceedings of the 42nd Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Huntsville, AL, April 2-3, 2004, pp.363-368.

Acceptance rate

(full paper) 73/134=55.5%
  1. Stein,Cara, Etzkorn, Letha, Utley,Dawn, Farrington,Philip, Cox,Glenn, Fortune, Julie, and Gholston, Sampson, "Computing Software Metrics from Design Documents," Proceedings of the 42nd Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Huntsville, AL, April 2-3, 2004, pp. 146-151.

Acceptance rate

(full paper) 73/134=55.5%
  1. Yao, Haining, and Etzkorn, Letha,“Towards a Semantic-based Approach for Software Reusable Component Classification and Retrieval,” Proceedings of the 42nd Annual ACM Southeast Conference, Huntsville, AL, April 2-3, 2004,  pp. 110-115.

Acceptance rate

(full paper) 73/134=55.5%

34.  Cox, Glenn, and Etzkorn, Letha, “The Effectiveness of Battery-Conserving Protocols in Wireless LANs,” IEEE Sarnoff Symposium on Advances in Wired and Wireless Communications, Princeton, NJ , April 26-27, 2004, pp.137-140.

 
  1. Orme, A.M., Etzkorn, L.H., “An Enabling Mobile/Intelligent Agent Framework for Distributed Logistics Management Solutions,” Proceedings of 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 27-30, 2003, pp. 470-479. (Winner, Best paper, Management Information Systems session)

 

36.  Cox,G.W., Etzkorn,L., and Pajnigara,Z. "On Battery Conservation Strategies for Wireless Protocols," Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN '03), Las Vegas, NV, June 23-26, 2003, CSREA Press, pp.335-340.

 

37.  Cox, G.W.,  and Etzkorn, L, "Power-Related Performance of 802.11 Protocols," Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN '03), Las Vegas, NV, June 23-26, 2003, CSREA Press, pp. 322-327.

 
  1. Naji, Hamid R.,  Etzkorn, Letha, Adhami, Reza, Wells, B. Earl, “ Parallel Image Processing with Agent-based Reconfigurable Hardware,” Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing  Systems (PDCS 2002), Louisville, KY, September 2002.

 
  1. Naji, Hamid Reza, Etzkorn, Letha, and Wells, B. Earl, “Hardware Agents: A New Approach to Support Development and Management of Information Systems,” Proceedings of  the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Orlando, FL,  July 14-18, 2002.

 
  1. Etzkorn, Letha and Delugach, Harry, "Towards a Semantic Metrics Suite for Object-Oriented Design," Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, TOOLS 34 (TOOLS USA), July 30-August 4, 2000, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 2000, pp. 71-80.

Australia 2007 Conf.  Ranking: B, Acceptance Rate ~33%

 
  1. Etzkorn, L.H., Davis, C.G., Bowen, L.L., Wolf, J.C., Wolf, R.P., Yun, M.Y., Vinz, B.L., Orme, A.M., Lewis, L.W., "The Program Analysis Tool for Reuse: Identifying Reusable Components," Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium Conference (FLAIRS '98), Sanibel Island, Florida, May 17-20, 1998, published by AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California, 1998, pp. 121-125.

Australia 2007 Conf. ranking: C
  1. Etzkorn, L.H., Davis, C.G., Bowen, L.L., Etzkorn, D.B., Lewis, L.W., Vinz, B.L., and Wolf, J.C., "A Knowledge-Based Approach to Object-Oriented Legacy Code Reuse," Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS '96), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Oct. 21-25, 1996, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1996, pp. 39-45.

Australia 2007 Conf.  Ranking: A,

Acceptance rate ~35%
  1. Etzkorn, L.H., "A Metrics-Based Approach to the Automated Identification of Object-Oriented Reusable Components: A Short Overview," ACM OOPSLA '95 Doctoral Symposium, Austin, TX, Oct. 16-19, 1995.

Australia Conf. Ranking: A+
  1. Etzkorn, L.H., and Davis, C.G., "A Metrics-Based Approach to the Automated Identification of Object-Oriented Reusable Components: A Short Overview," ACM OOPSLA '95 Poster session, Austin, TX, Oct. 16-19, 1995.

Australia Conf. Ranking: A+
  1. Etzkorn, L.H., and Davis, C.G., "Automated Object-Oriented Reusable Component Identification," Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Knowledge Acquisition, Representation, and Processing (KARP '95), Auburn, AL, Sept. 27-30, 1995 (an extended version was later published in Knowledge-Based Systems journal, see journal articles).

 
  1. Etzkorn, L.H., and Davis, C.G., "Knowledge-Based Object-Oriented Reusable Component Identification," Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Florida AI Research Symposium, Melbourne Beach, FL, April 27-29, 1995, pp. 97-101.

Australia 2007 Conf. ranking: C
  1. Etzkorn, L.H., and Davis, C.G., "A Documentation-related Approach to Object-Oriented Program Understanding," Proceedings of the IEEE Third Workshop on Program Comprehension, Washington, D.C., Nov. 14-15, 1994, pp. 39-45.

 

 

 

Workshop Papers

PUBLISHED OR ACCEPTED

1.                Etzkorn, Letha H., “Semantic Metrics, Conceptual Metrics, and Ontology Metrics: An Analysis of Software Quality Using IR-based Systems, Potential Applications and Collaborations,” position paper (invited) Information Retrieval Based Approaches in Software Evolution, International Conference on Software Maintenance, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 25-27, 2006.  Available at http://www.cs.wayne.edu/~amarcus/icsm2006/, Australia Conf. Ranking: A

 

 

Reviewed Abstract Conference Papers

PUBLISHED OR ACCEPTED

 

1.      Cox, G., Datta.A., and Etzkorn, Letha,”A Modeling Approach to Support Performance Comparison of Competing Peer-to-Peer Networks,” Huntsville Simulation Conference, 2005.

2.      Etzkorn, L.H., Stein, C., Cox, G.W., Gholston, S., Utley, D., Farrington, P., “Examining a Semantic Metrics Suite for Object-Oriented Design,” Proceedings of the 4th Annual NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance Software Assurance Symposium, OSMA SAS 2004, Morgantown, West Virginia, July 20-22, 2004.

3.      Orme, Anthony Mark, Etzkorn, Letha, “Trading Partner Logistics Management Automation and Simulation with Collaboration Protocol Agreements and Mobile/Intelligent Agents,” Huntsville Simulation Conference HSC03, Huntsville, AL, October 30-31, 2003.

4.      Etzkorn, L.H., Stein, C., Cox, G.W., Gholston, S., Utley, D., Farrington, P., “Investigating a Semantic Metrics Suite for Object-Oriented Design,” Proceedings of the 3rd Annual NASA Office of Safety and Mission Assurance Software Assurance Symposium, OSMA SAS 2003, Morgantown, West Virginia, July 30-Aug 1, 2003.

5.      Etzkorn, Letha, "A Critical Examination of Entropy Metrics," ACM Mid-Southeast Conference, Gatlinburg, TN, Nov. 11-12, 1999.

6.      Etzkorn, L.H., "An Overview of the PATRicia System: A System for Object-Oriented Reusable Component Identification," ACM Mid-Southeast Conference, Gatlinburg, TN, Nov. 9-10, 1995, (Winner, third prize, graduate student competition).

7.      Etzkorn, L.H., "Automated Object-Oriented Reusable Component Identification: An Overview," ACM Mid-Southeast Conference, Gatlinburg, TN, Nov. 10-11, 1994.

 

Final Reports on Grants and Contracts

1.      Etzkorn, L., Gholston, S., Utley, D., Farrington, P, Cox, G., Lukins, S., Fortune, J., and Virani, S., Final Report for NASA Semantic Metrics for Object-Oriented Design, 2005.

2.      Utley, D, Etzkorn, L., Farrington, P, Gholston, S., Fortune, J., and Virani, S., Final Report on NASA Advanced Engineering Environment Metrics, 2005.

3.      Cox, G., and Etzkorn, Letha H., Final Report for UAH Instructional Minigrant Web-Based Tools to Enhance the Teaching of Digital Logic Design and Computer Architecture, October, 2002.

4.      Etzkorn, Letha H., Final Report for Army Contract F/DOD/ARMY/AMCOM/CORBA Support for Missile Guidance, Jan. 2002.

5.      Etzkorn, Letha H., Final Report for UAH Research Mini-Grant, Knowledge-Bases for Program Understanding, Sept. 2001.

6.      Etzkorn, Letha H., Ironside, E., Feasibility Study on the Use of CORBA in the Environment of the U.S. Army Test, Maintenance, and Diagnostic Equipment Activity," Final report for Army Contract F/DOD/ARMY/AMCOM/Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) Interface Research and Development, Jan. 2001.

 

 

Other Publications

My dissertation

Click on Technical reports, for copies of all UAH CS department technical reports, including mine

1.      Etzkorn, Letha, and Yoo, Seong-Moo (Sam), Eds, Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Association for Computing Machinery Southeast Conference (ACMSE ’04), published by ACM, April, 2004.

2.      Etzkorn, Letha Hughes, "The Use of a Simple Methodology for Flip Flop Conversion as an Aid in Teaching Synchronous Sequential Circuits in a Digital Systems Design Course," TR-UAH-CS-1998-01, Computer Science Department, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, October, 1998.

3.      Etzkorn, Letha, Davis, Carl, and Li, Wei, "A Statistical Comparison of Various Definitions of the LCOM Metric," Technical Report TR-UAH-CS-1997-02,Computer Science Department, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, April, 1997.

  1. Etzkorn, L.H., Davis, C.G., Vinz, B.L, Wolf, R.P., Wolf, J.C., Yun, M.Y., Bowen, L.L., Orme, A.M., Lewis, L.W., and Etzkorn, D.B., "An Examination of Object-Oriented Reuse Views in the PATRicia System," Technical Report TR-UAH-CS-1997-01, Computer Science Department, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, Jan., 1997.
  2. Etzkorn, L.H., and Davis, C.G., "C++ Reusable Component Identification," poster, Sigma Xi Research Day, March 16, 1996 (Winner, first place Computational Sciences Category).

6.      Etzkorn, L.H., and Davis, C.G., "An Approach to Object-Oriented Program Understanding," Technical Report TR-UAH-CS-1995-01, Computer Science Department, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, Sept. 1995.