Theses & Dissertations

2007

Ryan Bradetich, "Using SE-Linux Object Type Enforcement Domains to Logically Isolate SCADA Networks," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman.  Committee Members: Robert Heckendorn & Brian Johnson.

Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, "A Methodology for Calibrating Forensic-Ready, Low Layer Network Devices," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Deborah A. Frincke. Committee Members: Jim Alves-Foss, Daniel J. Ryan, & Ivan Orton.

Stanley Phillips Gotshal, "Evolutionary Training of a Biologically Plausible Spino-Neuromuscular System Model," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Terence Soule. Committee Members: Richard Wall, Robert Rinker, & Michael O'Rourke.

Donna Meyers, "An Attribute Grammar for Alert Aggregation in Intrusion Detection Systems," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Bob Rinker & Wei Li.

Russell Thomason, "Orthogonal Evolution of Teams: A New Approach to Evolving Teams of Genetic Programs," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Terence Soule. Committee Members: Robert Heckendorn & Celeste Brown.

2006

Armand Bankhead, "Computational Modeling of Cancer Etiology and Progression Using Neural Networks and Genetic Cellular Automata," BCB PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Robert Heckendorn. Committee Members: .

Sandeep Butapati, "Critical Point Identification of Traffic Networks Using Simulations and Graph Based Analysis," MS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Paul Oman.  Committee Members:  Robert Rinker & Brian Johnson.

Daniel Conte DeLeon, "Completeness of Implementation Traceability for the Development of High Assurance and Critical Computing Systems," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Erol Barbut, Paul Oman & Terence Soule.

Jennifer Joy, "A Content Guard For Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF)," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Paul Oman & Richard Wells.

Alan Piszcz, "Towards understanding the Correlation of Problem Difficulty and Parameter Sensitivity in Genetic Programming," PhD Dissertaion.  Major Professor:  Terrance Soule.  Committee Members:  Robert Heckendorn, Robert Rinker & Jim Frenzel.

Jeffery Choi Robinson, "A High Assurance Multi-Level Secure File Server," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Terence Soule & Roger Korus.

Bei Wang, "Possibilistic Information Flow Analysis And Formal Verification of Multiple Single-Level Secure Execution Monitoring Mechanisms for High Assurance Systems," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: W. Scott Harrison & Demetrios Kazakos.

Huaqiang Wei, "Layered Decision Model for Cost Effective Network Safeguarding," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Terence Soule, Hugh Pforsich & Du Zhang.

Dong Yu, "A Novel Alert Correlation and Confidence Fusion Framework in Intrusion Detection Systems," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Roger Korus, W. Scott Harrison & Rickard Wells.

Shanyu Zheng, "A Communication-Computation Efficient Group Key Algorithm for Large and Dynamic Groups," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Sauchi Stephen Li, Paul Oman & Terence Soule.

2005

Barry Ahrens, "Genetic Algorithm Optimization of Supperresolution Paramters," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  James Foster.  Committee Members:  Robert Hiromoto & Raymond Dacey.

Matthew Wayne Benke, "On the Survivability of Transportation Systems," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: Ahmed Abdel-Rahim & Robert Rinker.

Sergio Paul Caltagirone, "Active Response," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Deborah Frincke. Committee Members: Paul Oman & Steffen Werner.

Gerard Goh, "Using Computational Tools to Interpret Protein Disorder Prediction Errors in Neural Networks," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  James Foster.  Committee Members: Robert Heckendorn & A. Keith Durker.

Stanley Phillips Gotshall, "Modeling and Hypothesis Testing in an Evolutionary Spino-Neuromuscular System," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Terence Soule. Committee Members: James A. Foster & Richard Wells.

Jonathan Graham. "Efficient Allocation in Distributed Object Oriented Databases with Capacity and Security Constraints",  PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Robert B. Heckendorn, Terence Soule, & Atsushi Inoue.

Martin Hash, "High-quality, Interactive, 3D Character Animation for the Internet," PhD Dissertation.  Major Professor: Robert Hiromoto.  Committee:  Paul Oman, Scott Harrison & Edwin Catmull.

Smitha Kara, "Using Classic Optimization to Speed Up Burn In and Mixing in Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Phylogenetic Inference," BCB MS Thesis. Major Professor: Robert Heckendorn. Committee: Jack Sullivan, Paul Joyce & Robert Hiromoto.

Xian Liu, "A Representation-Less Model for Analyzing Bloat in Artificial Evolutionary Systems," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Terence Soule. Committee Members: Robert B. Heckendorn & Kirk Steinhorst.

David Manz, "A Network Simulator For Group Key Management Algorithms", MSCS Thesis,  Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Terence Soule & Norman Pendegraft.

Paul Ortman, "Designing and Building a Rapidly Reconfigurable Attack-Defend Instructional Computing Laboratory,"  MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Paul Oman.  Committee Members:  Jim Alves-Foss & Brian Johnson.

Matthew Phillips, "Event Monitoring and Intrusion Detection in SCADA Systems,"  MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Paul Oman.  Committee Members:  Scott Harrison & Brian Johnson.

Matthew Settles, "Breeding Swarms: A GA/PSO Hybrid for Real Parameter Optimization," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Terence Soule. Committee Members: James A. Foster, Robert B. Heckendorn & James F. Frenzel.

John Waite, "A Testbed for SCADA Security and Survivability Research and Instruction,"  MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Paul Oman.  Committee Members: Scott Harrison & Brian Johnson.

F. Nathan Webber, "Communication Issues Involved in Implementing High-Level Behaviors in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Robert Hiromoto. Committee Members: Jim Alves-Foss & Murali Medidi.

Donghui Yang, "A Threat-Scenario-Driven Modeling Approach to the MMR", MSCS Thesis,  Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Terence Soule & Raymond Dacey.

2004

Wayne F. Boyer, "Efficient Scheduling Techniques and Performance Evaluation Methods for Heterogeneous Distributed Computer Systems," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Gurdeep S. Hura. Committee Members: Jim Alves-Foss, Axel W. Krings & John C. Crepeau.

Edward Harris Flowers, "Diversity in Coevolving Populations" MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Terence Soule. Committee Members: William S. Junk & Mark Nielsen.

James A. Galbraith, "A Portable Open Source Framework for a Real-Time Data Acquisition System," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Gurdeep S. Hura. Committee Members: William S. Junk & Vivek Utgikar.

Nadine Hanebutte, "Analysis of Security and Survivability As Software Quality Attributes," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Paul W. Oman. Committee Members: Axel W. Krings, John Dickinson & Reiner R. Dumke.

Michael Harrison, "Using Co-evolution to Improve the Fault Tolerance of Sorting Networks," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  James Foster.  Committee Members:  Terrence Soule & Richard Wells.

Jayasankar Kelath, "A Lightweight Survivability Architecture Implementing Real-Time Recovery," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Axel W. Krings. Committee Members: Robert Hiromoto & Curtis Dyreson.

Marc Laude, "Middleware Guard: A Security Component in the MILS Architecture with CORBA/GIOP," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: W. Scott Harrison & James Frenzel.

Ryan Leigland, "Formal Model for Computer Forensics Procedures," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Axel Krings.  Committee Members:  Gurdeep Hura & John Crepeau.

Sreekanth Malladi, "Formal Analysis and Verification of Password Protocols," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Terence Soule, John Dickinson  & Brian Johnson.

David E. Mohs, "Problem Transformation and Adaptation Based on Infrastructure Mapping," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Axel W. Krings. Committee Members: W. Scott Harrison & Richard B. Wells.

Tracy Mark Olaveson, "Group Based Access Controls", MSCS Thesis,  Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Gurdeep Hura & John Crepeau.

Jian Shen, "A New Representation Scheme for Genetic Algorithms for Solving the Phylogenetic Inference Problem," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Robert Heckendorn. Committee: Terrence Soule & Paul Joyce.

Kevin Steffenson, "Crew Vehicle Interface Requirements: Development and Maintenance for Military Aircraft," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: William S. Junk. Committee Members: Robert Hiromoto & Barry Willis.

Carol Taylor, "Techniques for the Survivability of Critical Computer Systems," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Axel W. Krings, Paul Oman & John McHugh.

Christopher Willis-Ford, "Non-Stationary Subtasks and Their Effect on Stationary-Task Genetic Algorithms," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Terence Soule. Committee Members: Robert B. Heckendorn & James F. Frenzel.

2003

Abdullah Al-Qahtani, "Formal Approaches for Specifying, Enforcing, and Verifying Security Policies," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  John Dickinson.  Committee Members: Robert Rinker, Terry Soule & Keith Prisbrey.

YingYin Chen, "Application of Neutral Networks to Character Recognition," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Terence Soule. Committee Members: John Dickinson & Richard B. Wells.

Greg Corbett, "JMX Enabled Mobile Agents for Fault Management," MSCS Thesis, Major Professor: Gurdeep Hura.  Committee Members: Scott Matthews & John Crepeu.

John M. Hall, "An Investigation into Immune-Based Intrusion Detection," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Deborah A. Frincke. Committee Members: Terence Soule & Carolyn Bohack.

Timothy M. Hill, "Exploring Scalability and Load Testing in the Lotus Domino Environment," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Gurdeep Hura. Committee Members: John Dickinson & Maxine Dakins.

Milos Manic, "Techniques in Neural Network Training with an Enhanced Robustness," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Bogan Wilamowski. Committee Members: James A. Foster, Axel W. Krings & Peter Goodwin.

Robert Morris, "Attribute Classification and Reduction for a Real-time Misuse Intrusion Detection System,"  MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Axel Krings.  Committee Members: Scott Harrison & Richard Wells.

Patrick O'Connell, "The Idaho Partitioning Machine: A MILS Partitioning Kernel Model in ACL2," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Robert Rinker & Annette Folwell.

Joseph P. Richards, "Using Very Small Population Sizes in Genetic Algorithms to Achieve Acceptable Results Using Minimal Resources," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Terence Soule. Committee Members: Robert B. Heckendorn & James F. Frenzel.

Vamshi Venapally, "Kernel Level Anomaly Detection System," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Scott Harrison.  Committee Members: Axel Krings & Richard Wells.

2002

Abdullah Al-Muhaitheef, "The Firewall Mobile Customs Agent: A Distributed Firewall Architecture," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: John Dickinson, Terence Soule & Keith Prisbrey.

Daniel Conte de Leon, "Formalizing Traceability Among Software Work Products," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: William Junk & Erol Barbut.

Chung-Tong Hu, "Policy Machine for Universal Access Control," PhD Dissertation.  Major Professor:  Deborah Frincke.  Committee Members: Scott Harrison, Jim Alves-Foss & Norman Pendegraft.

Kosuke Imamura, "N-Version Genetic Programming: A Probabilistically Optimal Ensemble Approach," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: James A. Foster. Committee Members: John Dickinson, Terrence Soule & James F. Frenzel.

Hyungjick Lee, "Securing Mobile Agents through Evaluation of Encrypted Functions,"  PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Karen Van Houten, W. Scott Harrison, Axel Krings & Jin Park.

Sreekanth Malladi, "A General Scheme to Prevent Replay Attacks on Security Protocols," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Robert Heckendorn, John Dickinson & Richard Wells.

Mark Matthew Meysenburg, "How Random Number Generator Quality Affects Simple Genetic Algorithm Performance," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: James A. Foster. Committee Members: John Dickinson, James F. Frenzel & Robert B. Heckendorn.

Rob Shepherd, "Fault Tolerance in Evolved Sorting Networks: The Search for Inherent Robustness," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: James A. Foster. Committee Members: Robert B. Heckendorn & James F. Frenzel.

Gang Wang, "How to Choose Appropriate Function Sets for Genetic Programming," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Terrence Soule.  Committee Members:  John Dickinson & Chris Williams.

2001

Jung Pil Choi, "Aspect-oriented Programming with Enterprise JavaBeans," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor: Arthur Lee. Committee Members: Amit Jain & Larry Stauffer.

Jie Dai, "Logic Based Policy Engineering in Distributed Authorization," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Paul Oman, John Dickinson & Richard Wells.

Bill Hallinan, "Improving Software Engineering Practice through Competency Based Personnel Reviews," MSCS Thesis, Major Professor:  William S. Junk.  Committee Members:  Scott Matthews & Barry Willis.

Xiaodi Lu, "Interoperability Issues Between Policy Domains in a Distributed Environment," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Deborah Frincke.  Committee Members:  Axel Krings & James Frenzel.

Bart Rylander, "Computational Complexity and the Genetic Algorithm," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: James A. Foster. Committee Members: Jim Alves-Foss, Terence Soule & Erol Barbut.

Carol Taylor, "NATE: Network Analysis of Anomalous Traffic Events, A Low-Cost Approach," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Axel Krings & Christopher Williams.

Yanping Zhang, quot;Web-based Instructional System,quot; MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Karen VanHouten & Barry Willis

2000

Michael Chapple, "Network Intrusion Detection Utilizing Classification Trees," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Deborah A. Frincke. Committee Members: Jim Alves-Foss & James F. Frenzel.

John Determan, "Automatic Expert System Rule Generation On Non Destructive Waste Assay Data," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: James A. Foster. Committee Members: Robert Heckendorn, Scott D. Matthews & Richard Wells.

Patricia Loo, "A Comparison Study of Rapid Application Development," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  William S. Junk. Committee Members: Scott Matthews & Earl Marwil.

Jason Edward Masner, "Impact of Size, Representation and Robustness in Evolved Sorting Networks," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: James A. Foster. Committee Members: John Dickinson & James F. Frenzel.

Gregory Vert, "Fuzzy Object Relational Model for the Management of Spatial Data," PhD Dissertation.  Major Professor:  Molly Stock.  Committee Members: Ashley Morris, Paul Gessler & Piotr Jankowski.

Gang Xiao, "Early Stopping Byzantine Agreement in LAN Based Network Environments," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor: Axel Krings. Committee Members: John Dickinson & Richard Wells.

Yanping Zhang, "Web-based Instructional System," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  John Dickinson.  Committee Members: Karen Van Houten & Barry Willis.

Hyun Sik Yoon, "Towards Evolvable Objects Using a Metalevel Architecture," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Arthur Lee. Committee Members: James Buffenbarger & Jacob Baker.

1999

Ambika Baburaj, "Tactical Software Project Management Using Metrics Signatures," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Paul Oman.  Committee Members:  John Dickinson & Touraj Assafi.

Sebastian G. Elbaum, "Conceptual Framework for a Software Black Box," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: John C. Munson. Committee Members: Paul Oman, Axel Krings, Deborah Frincke & John Sturgul.

Brad Harvey, "Byte Code Genetic Programming and Its Application to Data Mining," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Deborah A. Frincke & James A. Foster. Committee Member:  James F. Frenzel.

Shankar Kundala "Formal Verification of Authentication Protocols Using the Watson Theorem Prover," MSCS Thesis,  Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: John Dickinson & Randall Holmes.

Miles Penner, "The Conceptual Source Code Module: An Approach to Processing C and C++ Source Code Files," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Paul Oman.  Committee Members:  Jim Alves-Foss & Erol Barbut.

Xiaohui Wang, "Cluster Approach to Distributed Byzantine Agreement," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Axel Krings.  Committee Members: John Munson & Richard Wells.

1998

Mark A. Pokorny, "Direct Encodings for Genetic Neural Network Design," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: James A. Foster. Committee Members: John Dickinson & James F. Frenzel.

Jacqueline S. Shoaf, "Indirect Solution Representation in Genetic Algorithms with an Application to the Efficient Set Problem," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: James A. Foster. Committee Members: Deborah A. Frincke & Mario G. Reyes.

Terence Soule, "Code Growth In Genetic Programming," PhD Dissertation. Major Professor: James A. Foster. Committee Members: Jim Alves-Foss, James F. Frenzel & Deborah A. Frincke.

Ruinian Zhong, "Syntactic Approach to Audit Data Reduction and Management," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor: Deborah Frincke.  Committee Members: Karen Van Houten & Erol Barbut.

1997

William Danielson, "Evolving the Two-stroke Internal Combustion Engine Via Genetic Algorithms," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Deborah Frincke.  Committee Members:  James Foster & Dean Edwards.

Govind Deshpande, "Statistical Modeling of Software Quality Measures to Uncover Missing Metrics and Measurement Domains," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Paul Oman.  Committee Members:  Deborah Frincke & Eugene Saghi.

Surekha Ghantasala, "Multilevel Data Security for an Embedded Real-Time Operating System," MSCS Thesis,  Major Professors: Jim Alves-Foss & Deborah A. Frincke. Committee Members: James Frenzel.

Yuan He, "Partial Order State Transition Analysis for an Intrusion Detection System," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor: Deborah Frincke.  Committee Members: Jim Alves-Foss & Richard Wells.

Fong Shing Lam, "Dynamic Denotational Semantics of Java," MSCS Thesis, Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: James Foster, Randall Holmes & Gene Saghi.

Mark M. Meysenburg, "The Effect of Pseudo-Random Number Generator Quality on the Performance of a Simple Genetic Algorithm," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: James A. Foster. Committee Members: John Dickinson & Gene Saghi.

Riyaz Sadiq, "Expert System for an Indoor Tree Seeding Nursery," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor:  Molly Stock.  Committee Members: John Dickinson, James Moore & David Wenney.

Jianqiang Zhuo, "Using Relative Complexity to Allocate Resources in Gray Box Testing of Object-Oriented Code," PhD Dissertation.  Major Professor:  Paul Oman.  Committee Members:  John Dickinson, John Munson & Dean Edwards.

1996

Charles P. Cavaiani, "Mutual Authenticating Protocol in a Client/Server Environment," MSCS Thesis,  Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Deborah Frincke, Earl Marwell & Mark Oliver.

Glen Hansen, "Scalability of Preconditioners as a Strategy for Parallel Computation of Compressible Fluid Flow, quot; PhD Dissertation. Major Professors: John Dickinson & Eugene Saghi. Committee Members: Rod Douglass, Dana Knoll, & Michael Barnett.

Toni Hempstead, "Software Maintainability Index for SQL," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor:  William S. Junk. Committee Members: Scott Matthews & Brad Eldredge.

Jon Scott Jensen, "Quantitative Measurement of Software Reusability," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: William S. Junk. Committee Members: Scott D. Matthews & H. Bradley Eldredge.

Stephen Kram, "A Case Study: Implementing Software Metrics at the U. S. Air Force's Standard Systems Center," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  William S. Junk.  Committee Members: Deborah Frincke & Barry Willis.

Troy Pearse, "A Study of Software Portability to Identify Tangible Characteristics of Portable Programs," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: William Junk & Dean Edwards.

Regi John Zachariah, "Implementing and Validating a Metrics Set for Static Code Reusability Assessment," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: John Munson, Deborah Frincke & Erol Barbut.

1995

Darwin Anderson, "Designing and Implementing a Network Security Protocol for Secure Network Communications," MSCS Thesis,  Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Deborah A. Frincke & James Frenzel.

Zhijian Chen, "Static Techniques for Measuring Software Reusability," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor:  Paul Oman.  Committee Members: William Junk & Erol Barbut.

Luis A. Guillen, "A Study of the Effectiveness if Selected Software Testing Techniques in dBase Programs," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: William S. Junk. Committee Members: John Dickinson & James H. Hardcastle.

Munna, "Mechanical Verification of Authentication Protocols for Distributed Systems", MSCS Thesis,  Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Deborah A. Frincke, James Foster & James Frenzel.

Dale Swanson, "Developing Solutions for Time-Constrained Robot Path-Planning," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: John Dickinson & Erol Barbut.

Andrew Tompkins, "SIMPLAN: Finding Software Faults Through Program Simulation," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Deborah Frincke. Committee Members: Jim Alves-Foss & Norman Pendegraft.

Bradley Zheng, "A Study on Monotonicity and the Use of Halstead's Metrics," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: .

1994

Zhijian Chen, "Static Techniques for Measuring Software Reusability," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: .

Michael Coe, "Results from Verifying a Pipelined Microprocessor," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor: Phillip Windley.  Committee Members: Michael Barnett & James Frenzel.

Michael W. Cohn, "Empirical Evaluation of a Proposed Set of Complexity Metrics for Identifying Defect Prone Classes in Object–Oriented Programs," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: William S. Junk. Committee Members: James A. Foster & Erol Barbut.

Karattup Narendran, "Efficient Implementations of Communication Library Routines in Mesh Architectures," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor: Michael Barnett.  Committee Members: James Foster & James Frenzel.

Derreck Walters, "Empirical Evaluation of a Proposed Set of Complexity Metrics for Identifying Defect Prone Classes in Object-oriented Programs," MSCS Thesis.  Major Professor: Phillip Windley.  Committee Members: Michael Barnett & John Purviance.

Kurt D. Welker, "Application of Software Metrics to Object Based, Re-engineered Code Implementation in Ada," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: William S. Junk, Committee Members: Paul Oman, Scott D. Matthews & Alan G. Stephens.

Jianqiang Zhuo, "Constructing and Testing C-MAT: A C Source Code Maintainability Assessment Tool," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: William Junk & Dean Edwards.

1993

Salvador Barbosa, "The Security Confidence Index: Measuring the Security of your System," MSCS Thesis,  Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: James Foster, Jack Kulas & Erol Barbut.

Karen C. Harris, "A Critical Evaluation of Grant Management in Elected Academic Medical Centers," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Thomas Miller & Randell Byers.

Shifeng Li, "Formal Specification of a Secure Distributed Operating Systems Kernel", MSCS Thesis,  Major Professor: Jim Alves-Foss. Committee Members: Phillip Windley & Erol Barbut.

Bruce Lowther, "The Application of Software Maintainability Metric Models to Industrial Software Systems," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: William Junk & Doug Gillan.

Kimberlyn Mousseau, "Three Software Testing Techniques and Their Effectiveness for Oracle – A Fourth Generation Language," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: William S. Junk. Committee Members: David M. Barber, Scott D. Matthews & Earl S. Marwil.

Xin Yang, "Spiral Prototyping: Definition, Application, and Comparison to Specifying," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: William Junk & Erol Barbut.

1992

Linda Corder, "The Legal Protection of Software: An Examination of Alternatives to the Existing Protection Schemes," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Jack Kulas. Committee Members: Paul Oman & Barbara Hannan.

Jack Hagemeister," A Metric Approach to Assessing the Maintainability of Software," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: William Junk & Willy Brandal.

Atef Suleiman, "A Procedural Perspective on the Warren Abstract Machine for Executing Compiled Prolog," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Jack Kulas. Committee Members: John Dickinson & Erol Barbut.

Mengjin Su, "Customization of Operators for Genetic Algorithms," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members:

Kevin Twitchell, "Independent Verification and Validation of Large Software Requirement Specification Databases," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: William S. Junk. Committee Members: David M. Barber & Donald Sales.

Weiguo Zhu, "Algorithms for Binary String Tree Manipulation," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: Karen Van Houten, James Foster & James Calvert.

Fang Zhuo, "A Comparison of Software Maintainability Indices," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Karen VanHouten & Paul Oman. Committee Members: John Dickinson & Sterling Whitaker.

1991

Phyllis Crandall, "Computer Noun-Noun Interpretation," MSCS Thesis. Majaor Professor: Jack Kulas. Committee Members: John Dickinson & Gary Carden.

Leonard Hermens, "A Software Specification Tool for Increased Requirements Traceability," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: William Junk, Jack Kulas, Erol Barbut & Steve Chandler.

David Mann, "A Parallel Distributed Processing Solution to the N-Queens Problem," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Karen Van Houten & Molly Stock.

Don Moreaux, "A Formalism for the Detection and Prevention of Illicit Program Derivations," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: William Junk, Charles Nelson & William Voxman.

Grant Spencer, "Prototyping vs. Specifying: An Experimental Comparison of Complexity, Effort, and Quality," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Paul Oman. Committee Members: William Junk, John Dickinson & .

1990

Earl Capps, "The Evolution of a Training Program into the Implementation of an Automated Office System," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Fenton Tyler & Alving Nelson.

David Sherman, "Image Classification and the Relationship Between Network Architectures and Learning," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Jack Kulas. Committee Members: John Dickinson & Sallie Gordon.

1989

Scott Matthews, "A Comparison of Complexity Metrics for FORTRAN 77 and Modula-2 Programs," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: William S. Junk. Committee Members: Neldon Marshall, Fenton Tyler & Fred Tingy.

Rodney Rigby, "Using and Developing Augmented Transition Networks: Psycholinguistic Considerations and an Editor / Compiler Environment, " MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Jack Kulas. Committee Members: John Dickinson & Steve Chandler.

1988

John Adams, "A Study of Business Data Processing from 1950 through 1987 Encompassing Both Mainframe and PC Environments with a Special Section Evaluating Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Tools Using the Questionnaire Method," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: William S. Junk. Committee Members: Neldon Marshall & Alan Nelson.

1987

Roger Barga, "Variations on Cooperative Computation and Learning in Boltzmann Machines," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Karen Van Houten & Sallie Gordon.

Ilonka Evans, "TLR II: An Extended Theory of Character Recognition," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Ya Yen Wang & Sallie Gordon.

1986

Lowell Campbell, "Expert System for the iPSC Hypercube," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Ya Yen Wang & Willy Brandal.

Craig Fujiki, "An Evaluation of Holland’s Genetic Operators Applied to a Program Generator," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Karen VanHouten & Arie Bialostocki.

Joseph Hicklin, "Application of the Genetic Algorithm to Automatic Program Generation," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Terry Cline & Robert Gregory.

Fausto Pasmay, "Expert Systems Using Time," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Karen VanHouten & Paul Dierker.

1985

Stephanie August, "Analogy Recognition and Comprehension In Editorials," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: . Committee Members: .

Peter Ohler, "Implementation of Expert Systems on Microcomputers," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Karen Van Houten & Robert Gregory.

1984

Jim Conrad, "A Comparison of the Computer Programming Languages Ada and Modula-2," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Terry Cline, Martin Young & .

Lyle Dolven, "Structured Design Approach for Specifying Security Controls in Computer Applications," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Fenton Tyler & James Smiley.

Wayne Schorzman, "A Conceptual Design of a Three-layered Distributed Computer System to Provide Automated Control in a Liquid Metal Fast Breeding Reactor System,", MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Karen Van Houten & Bruce Peterson.

Jerry Tifft, "An Implementation of a Knowledge Representation Language," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Terry Cline & Gary Maki.

1983

Edward Gleason, "GP2: A Second Generation Computer Aided Graphics System," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Robert Rinker & Terry Precht.

Tung Huei Ku, "Software Science: Measurement and Evaluation of LISP and Pascal Programs," Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Ya Yen Wang & William Junk.

1982

Ramin Neshati, "Software Science: Measurement and Evaluation of PASCAL Programs," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: Charles Nelson, Karen Van Houten & Charles Nelson.

1981

N. Julian & L. Lux, "Business terminal sequrity system," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: Charles Aquilina. Committee Members: Joe Thomas & John Dickinson.

1980

Valeriu Hulubei, "Dynamic Memory Allocation Using First-fit and Best-fit Algorithms Under FIFO Release Process," MSCS Thesis. Major Professor: John Dickinson. Committee Members: James Calvert & Donald Haber.