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Books

"Bayesian Methods for Change-Point Detection in Long-Range Dependent Processes"
by Bonnie K. Ray, Ruey S. Tsay. To be published in the Journal of Time Series Analysis,
Blackwell Publisher, 2002

"Modeling Vector Nonlinear Time Series Using POLYMARS" by Bonnie K. Ray, Jan DeGooijer
To be published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Elsevier Publisher, 2002

"Software Engineering Economics" by Sunita Chulani, Barry Boehm
To be published as chapter in Software Management Tutorial, 6th Edition, 2002

"COCOMO II" by Sunita Chulani; Published in Wiley Software Engineering Encyclopedia, Fall 2000.
"Orthogonal Defect Classification" by R. Chillarege
Chapter 9 in the "Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering",
Michael R. Lyu, Editor
IEEE Computer Society Press
ISBN 0-07-039400-8
AQ76.76.R44H36 1995

Journal Articles

Theresa Kratschmer
"Improving Education of Software Engineers Through Use of Defect Analysis"
Submitted to IEEE Software Magazine, Sept/Oct 2002.

Sunita Chulani, P. Santhanam, Bob Leszkowicz, Anna Nowacki
"Decision Support for Software Management"
Submitted to IEEE Software.

Theresa Kratschmer, P. Santhanam
" Use of Defect Analysis in Transferring a Software Project"
Submitted to IEEE Software, Nov/Dec 2002.

B. Hailpern and P. Santhanam
"Software debugging, testing, and verification"
IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1, February 2002.

C. Williams, H. Sluiman, D. Pitcher, M. Slavescu, J. Spratley, M. Brodhun, J. McLean, C. Rankin, and K. Rosengren
"The STCL Testware Architecture"
IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1, February 2002.

Mark Butcher, Hilora Munro (IBM UK), and Theresa Kratschmer
"Improving Software Testing via ODC: Three Case Studies"
IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1, February 2002.

Kathryn Bassin, Shriram Biyani, and P. Santhanam
"New Metrics to Evaluate Vendor Developed Software Based on the Test Case Execution Results"
IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 41, No. 1, February 2002.

Hongxia Jin, Gregory F. Sullivan and Gerald M. Masson
"Certifying the Correctness of Branch-and-Bound Computations"
Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering Hongxia Jin, Gregory F. Sullivan and Gerald M. Masson
"Distributed Applet-Based Certifiable Processing"
Submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems Hongxia Jin, Gregory F. Sullivan and Gerald M. Masson
"Approximate Correctness-Checking of Computational Results"
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, December 1999, pp 338-350 Sunita Chulani, Barry Boehm and Chris Abts
"Software Development Cost Estimation Approaches: A Survey",
Published in Annals of Software Engineering, Fall 2000 Sunita Chulani, Barry Boehm, Chris Abts, Jongmoon Baik,A. Windsor Brown, Brad Clark, Ellis Horowitz, Ray Madachy, Don Reifer and Bert Steece
"Future Trends, Implications in Cost Estimation Models",
Published in Crosstalk, the Journal of Defense Engineering, April 2000 Sunita Chulani, Barry Boehm and Bert Steece
"Bayesian Analysis of Empirical Software Engineering Cost Models",
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Special Issue on Empirical Methods in Software Engineering, Vol. 25, No. 4, July/August 1999.
Amit Paradkar "Year 2000 Subroutine Testing Using Symbolic Evaluation", Submitted to IEEE IT-Professional Magazine, April 1999.
Sunita Chulani, Don Reifer and Barry Boehm
"The Rosetta Stone: Making COCOMO 81 Estimates Work with COCOMO II",
Published in Crosstalk, The Journal of Defense Engineering, February 1999
Kathryn A. Bassin, Theresa Kratschmer, and P. Santhanam "An Objective Approach to Evaluate Software Development" Published in IEEE Software Magazine, November/December 1998 Special Issue, Vol.15 No.6 pp 66-74, 1998

Ram Chillarege
"What is Software Failure?"
Published in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 45, No. 3, September 1996.

Inderpal Bhandari, Bonnie Ray, M. Y. Wong, David Choi, A. Watanable, Ram Chillarege, M. Halliday, Alan Dooley (IBM Wappingers), Jarir Chaar
"An Inference Structure for Process Feedback: Technique and Implementation"
Software Quality Journal, September 1994

Inderpal Bhandari, Michael Halliday, Jarir Chaar, Ram Chillarege, Kevin Jones (IBM Danbury), Janette Atkinson (IBM Canada), Clotilde LeporiCostell (IBM Santa Teresa Lab), Pamela Jasper (IBM Triangle Park), Eric Tarver (IBM Poughkeepsie), Cecilia Carranza Lewis (IBM San Jose), Masato Yonezawa (IBM Japan)
"In-Process Improvement through Defect Data Interpretation"
IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 33, No. 1, 1994.

Lisa Spainhower, Thomas A. Gregg, Ram Chillarege
"IBM's ES/9000 Model 982's Fault-Tolerant Design for Consolidation"
IEEE Micro, 1994.

I. Bhandari, M. Halliday, E. Tarver, D. Brown, J. Chaar, R. Chillarege
"A Case-Study of Software Process Improvement During Development"
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 12, December 1993.

Jarir K. Chaar, Michael J. Halliday, Inderpal S. Bhandari, Ram Chillarege
"In-Process Evaluation for Software Inspection and Test"
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 11, November 1993.

Ram Chillarege, Inderpal S. Bhandari, Jarir K. Chaar, Michael J. Halliday, Diane S. Moebus, Bonnie K. Ray, Man Yuen Wong
"Orthogonal Defect Classification - A Concept for In-Process Measurements"
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, November 1992

Ram Chillarege and Ravi K. Iyer
"An Experimental Study of Memory Fault Latency"
IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 38, No. 6, 1989

Conference Proceedings

Amit Paradkar
"Specifying and Selecting Small Yet Effective Set of Parameter Values for Testing"
Submitted to ACM SIGSOFT Foundations of Software Engineering - 10, November 11, 2002.

Clay Williams, Theresa Kratschmer
"A Technique for Generating Optimized System Test Suites"
Submitted to the 10th International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-10)
November 2002.

Amit Paradkar
"Automated Generation of Self-Checking Function Tests"
Submitted to ISSRE 2002, July 2002.

Hongxia Jin and P. Santhanam
"An Approach to Higher Reliability Using Software Components",
Presented and published in the Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Software Reliability (ISSRE) 2001, Hong Kong, November 27-30, 2001.

Kathryn Bassin, Shriram Biyani, and P. Santhanam
"Evaluating the Software Test Strategy for the 2000 Sydney Olympics",
Presented and published in the Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Software Reliability (ISSRE) 2001, Hong Kong, November 27-30, 2001.

Kathryn Bassin and P. Santhanam
"Managing the Maintenance of Ported, Outsourced, and Legacy Software Via Orthogonal Defect Classification",
Presented and published in the Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Maintennce (ISCE) 2001, Florence, Italy, November 6-11, 2001.

Clay Williams
"Toward a Test-Ready Meta-Model for Use Cases"
Workshop on Practical UML-Based Rigorous Development Methods -- Countering or Integrating the eXtremists (co-located with UML 2001), July 27, 2001.

Sunita Chulani, P. Santhanam, Darrell Moore, Bob Leszkowicz, Gary Davidson
"Deriving a Software Quality View from Customer Satisfaction and Service Data",
Presented and published in the Proceedings of the European Software Control and Metrics (ESCOM) Conference, London, England, April 2-4, 2001.

Amit Paradkar
"SALT - An Integrated Environment to Automate Generation of Function Tests for APIs",
Presented and published in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'00), San Jose, CA, October 2000. Sunita Chulani
"Constructive Quality Modeling for Defect Density Prediction: COQUALMO",
International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'99), Boca Raton, November 1-4, 1999. Clay E. Williams
"Software Testing and the UML",
Presented and published in the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'99), Boca Raton, November 1-4, 1999.
Clay E. Williams and Amit Paradkar
"Efficient Regression Testing of Multi-Panel Systems", 1999 International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Boca Raton, November 1999.
Sunita Chulani, Barry Boehm and Bert Steece
"From Multiple Regression to Bayesian Analysis for Calibrating COCOMO II",
Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Society of Parametric Analysts (ISPA), Spring 2000. Presented at the 8th Annual Conference of the Society of Cost Estimating and Analysis (SCEA), June 1999.
Santanu Paul and David Hutches
"Building a Peer-to-Peer Workflow Infrastructure",
Submitted to IJCAI Workshop, May 1999.
Sunita Chulani
"COQUALMO (COnstructive QUALity MOdel): A Software Defect Density Prediction Model",
Proceedings of the European Software Conference on Metrics (ESCOM), April 1999. Clay E. Williams
"Software Architecture: Implications for Computer Science Research"
A position paper at the IFIP 1999 Shriram Biyani and P. Santhanam
"Exploring Defect Data from Development and Customer Usage on Software Modules over Multiple Releases"
Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Paderborn, Germany, November 4-7, 1998, pp 316-320.
P. Santhanam and Ram Chillarege
"ODC for Software Process Measurement, Analysis and Control",
presented at the 1998 Korea-U.S. Technical Conference on Strategic Technologies, Tysons Corner,
VA, October 1998. G. Robert Malan, Jarir Chaar, Santanu Paul, and Peter Masters "eFlow: A Java-based Workflow Service" Proceedings of the OOPSLA '98 Workshop on Implementation and Application of OO Workflow Management Systems, October 1998.
Sunita Chulani, Bradford Clark and Barry Boehm
"Calibrating the COCOMO II Post-Architecture Model",
Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), April 1998. Kathryn A. Bassin, P. Santhanam "Use of Software Triggers to Evaluate Software Process Effectiveness and Capture Customer Usage Profiles" Eighth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Albuquerque, NM, Nov. 2-5, 1997 Sunita Chulani "Modeling Software Defect Introduction", Proceedings of the California Software Symposium, November 1997 J. Christmansson and P. Santhanam "Error Injection Aimed at Fault Removal in Fault Tolerant Mechanisms", Seventh International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, White Plains NY,Oct 31- Nov. 2, 1996 Ram Chillarege "Guiding Fault Injection and Broadening its Scope", Computer Aided Design, Test and Evaluation for Dependability, Beijing, China, July 1996 and Fourth International Conference on Advanced Computing, December 16-18, 1996. M. Buckley and D. Siewiorek "A Comparative Analysis of Event Tupling Schemes", Presented at the FTCS 26, Sendai, Japan June 25-27, 1996 J. Christmansson and R. Chillarege "Generation of an Error Set that Emulates Software Faults Based on Field Data" Presented at FTCS 26, Sendai, Japan, June 25-27, 1996. Jarir Chaar, Santanu Paul and Ram Chillarege "Virtual Project Management for Software" Appearing at the NSF Workshop on Workflow & Process Automation, May 8-10, 1996.

Ram Chillarege
"Challenges Facing Software Fault-Tolerance"
Invited Paper, First Conference on Fault-Tolerant Systems, IIT Madras, December 20-22, 1995.

Michael Buckley and Ram Chillarege
"Discovering Relationships Between Service and Customer Satisfaction"
International Conference on Software Maintenance, Opio (Nice), France, October 16-20, 1995. Ram Chillarege and Kathryn Bassin
"Software Triggers as a function of time - ODC on field faults"
Fifth IFIP Working Conference on Dependable Computing for Critical Applications, September 1995. Ram Chillarege, Shriram Biyani, and Jeanette Rosenthal
"Measurement of Failure Rate in Widely Distributed Software"
Proceedings of the 25th Annual Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, IEEE Computer Society, June 1995.
R. Chillarege and S. Biyani
"Identifying Risk Using ODC Based Growth Models"
Proceedings, 5th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, IEEE Computer, Nov. 1994.
Ram Chillarege
"Orthogonal Defect Classification - A Breakthrough for In-Process Measurement"
A Tutorial - Fifth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Monterey, CA, Nov 6-9, 1994.
Ram Chillarege
"Self-Testing Software Probe System for Failure Detection and Diagnosis"
Proceedings CASCON '94 CD ROM, Toronto, Canada, October 31 - November 3, 1994.
Ram Chillarege
"ODC for Process Measurement, Analysis and Control"
Fourth International Conference on Software Quality, Maryland, October 1994.
R. Chillarege, B. Ray (NJIT), A. Garrigan (IBM Poughkeepsie) and D. Ruth (IBM Poughkeepsie)
"Software Recreate Problems Estimated to Range 10-20 percent: A Case Study on Two Operating System Products" Proceedings, Fourth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, IEEE, Denver, Colorado, November 1993.

Jarir K. Chaar, Michael J. Halliday, Inderpal S. Bhandari, Ram Chillarege
"On the Evaluation of Software Inspections and Tests"
Proceedings International Test Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, October 1993.
Michael Halliday, Inderpal Bhandari, Jarir Chaar, Ram Chillarege
"Experiences in Transferring a Software Process Improvement Methodology to Production Labs"
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Achieving Quality in Software, Venice, Italy, Oct. 1993.
Ram Chillarege
"Top Five Challenges Facing the Industry in the Practice of Fault-Tolerance"
Workshop on Hardware & Software Architectures for Fault-Tolerance, June 1993.
Ram Chillarege
"A Comparison of Software Defects in Database Management Systems and Operating Systems"
The 22nd International Symposium on Fault-tolerant Computing, July 1992.
R. Chillarege, I. Bhandari, J. Chaar, M. Halliday, D. Moebus, B. Ray and M. Wong , Lisa Spainhower, Jack Isenberg, Ram Chillarege, Joseph Berding,
"Design for Fault-Tolerance in System ES/9000 Model 900"
The 22nd International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, Boston, MA, July 1992 and IBM Research Report RC 17686, February 1992.
B. K. Ray, I. Bhandari and R. Chillarege
"Reliability Growth for Typed Defects"
Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, Las Vegas, NV, January 1992.
Mark Sullivan and Ram Chillarege "Software Defects in the MVS Operating System - Understanding their Characteristics and Impact" IEEE Transactions on Reliability, January 1992.
M. Sullivan and R. Chillarege
"Software Defects and their impact on System Availability - A Study of Field Failures in Operating Systems"
Digest 21st International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, June 1991.
R. Chillarege, W-L. Kao, and R.G. Condit "Defect Type and its Impact on the Growth Curve" Proceedings, 13th International Conference on Software Engineering, Austin, Texas, May 1991.
Ram Chillarege and Nicholas S. Bowen "Understanding Large System Failures - A Fault Injection Experiment" Proceedings, International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computing, 1989.