James Kiper Ph.D.

Referred Journal and Conference Publications

Gregory Gay, Tim Menzies, Omid Jalali, Gregory Mundy, Beau Gilkerson, Martin Feather and James Kiper, Finding robust solutions in requirements models, Automated Software Engineering, Volume 17, Number 1 / March, 2010.
Burge, J., Kiper, J. Capturing collaborative design decisions and rationale, In: Design, Computing, and Cognition ‘08, J. Gero (Ed.), Springer, pp. 221-235, 2008.
Douglas Troy, D. Steven Keller, James Kiper and Lei Kerr, “First Year Engineering: Exploring Engineering through the Engineering Design Loop,” Proceedings of Frontiers in education, October, 2008.
Martin S. Feather, Steven L. Cornford, Kenneth A. Hicks, James D. Kiper and Tim Menzies, “Application of a broad-spectrum quantitative requirements model to early-lifecycle decision making,” IEEE Software, 25(2):49-56, 2008.
Michael T. Helmick, James D. Kiper, Janet Burge, Valerie Cross, and Gerald Gannod, “Incorporating Wikis Into Software Repository Mining”, Proceedings of the Wikis for Software Engineering (Wikis4SE) Workshop, Montreal, October 21, 2007.
James Kiper, Julian Richardson, Martin Feather, “Optimizing the V&V Process for Critical Systems”, Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, July 7-11, 2007, London, UK.
Steve Cornford, Martin Feather, and James Kiper, “Measuring and Reducing Risk in Acquisition of New Technology,” Proceedings of the Eighth Science and Engineering Technology Conference, April 17-19, 2007, Charleston, SC.
Martin Feather, Steve Cornford, James Kiper, Tim Menzies, “Experiences using Visualization Techniques to Present Requirements, Risks to Them, and Options for Risk Mitigation, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Visualization, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 11, 2006.
Burge Janet, Valerie Cross, James Kiper, Pedrito Maynard-Zhang, and Steve Cornford, “Enhanced Design Checking Involving Constraints, Collaboration, And Assumptions,” Proceedings of the Design, Computing, and Cognition Conference, July 10-12, 2006, Einhoven, Netherlands.
Pedrito Maynard-Zhang, James D. Kiper, Martin S. Feather, Modeling Uncertainty in Requirements Engineering Decision Support, Proceedings of Workshop on Requirements Engineering Decision Support, Paris, August 29, 2005.
J.D. Kiper and M.S. Feather, A Risk-based Approach to Strategic Decision-Making for Software Development, Proceedings of HICSS-38: Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2005.
Scott Campbell and James D. Kiper, A Risk-aware Approach to Knowledge Management of Security Choices, Proceedings of First NSF/ NSA/ AFRL Workshop on Secure Knowledge Management, September 23-24, 2004, Buffalo, NY.
J.D. Kiper and M.S. Feather, Mining Complex Requirements Specifications to Mitigate Risk via Clustering; WITSE'04 - Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Software Engineering; Linz, Austria, Sep 20 2004.
M.S. Feather, J.D. Kiper & S. Kalafat; Combining Heuristic Search, Visualization and Data Mining for Exploration of System Design Space; INCOSE 2004 - 14th Annual International Symposium Proceedings; Toulouse, France, Jun 20-24 2004.
Shukla, A., Bailey Van Kuren, M., Almquist, C., Coffin, D., Kiper, J., and Noble, C., Integrating skills and transforming culture: reforming all engineering curricula in SEAS, ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2004.
J.D. Kiper, B. Auernheimer, and M.S. Feather; Assessing Usability of a Risk-based Requirements and Design Tool; Proceedings of the 7th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications (SEA 2003); Marina del Rey, CA. Nov. 2003.
J.D. Kiper and M.S. Feather; From Requirements through Risks to Software Architecture for Plan-based and Agile Processes; Proceedings of the Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Adaptive Architectures; Monterey Bay, CA, Sept. 2003.
Tim Menzies, James Kiper and Martin Feather; Improved software engineering decision support through automatic argument reduction tools; SEDECS’2003: the 2nd International Workshop on Software Engineering Decision Support (part of SEKE2003); 2003; June; 20.
James Kiper and Martin Feather; Requirements, Architectures and Risks; Proceedings of the Second International Workshop “From Software Requirements to Architectures” (STRAW’03) at the International Conference on Software Engineering, May 2003, pp. 100-106.
Tim Menzies and James D. Kiper; Better Reasoning about Software Engineering Activities, Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, November 26-29, 2001, Coronado Island, CA. pp. 391-394.
Steven Cornford, Martin Feather, Timothy Larson, Burton Sigal, and James Kiper; Design and Development Assessment; Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Software Specification and Design, November, 2000, San Diego, CA. pp. 105-112.
James Kiper, Ken Abernethy, John Kelly, John Powell, and Ann Sobel; Technology Transfer Issues for Formal Methods of Software Specification; Proceedings of the Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, March 2000.
Martin Feather, John Kelly, and James Kiper; Prototype Tool Support for SEI Process and Risk Knowledge; Proceedings of the Workshop on Risk Management, Morgantown WV, October 1999.
James Kiper; An Undergraduate Course in Object-Oriented Software Design; Proceedings of Foundations in Engineering Conference, Tempe Arizona, November 1998, pp. 38-41.
James Kiper, Brent Auernheimer, and Chuck Ames; Visual Depiction of Decision Statements: What's Best for Programmers and Non-Programmers; Empirical Software Engineering: Vol. 2 No. 4, 1997.
James Kiper, Elizabeth Howard and Chuck Ames; Characteristics for a Complete Visual Programming Language; Journal of Visual Languages, Vol. 8, No. 2, April 1997, pp. 175-192.
James Kiper; Improving the Maintenance Process: Making Software More Accessible; Proceedings of Workshop on Empirical Studies of SW Maintenance (WESS'96), Monterey, California, November, 1996, pp. 55-57.
James Kiper, Valerie Cross, Diane Delisio, Ann Sobel, and Doug Troy; Perspectives on Assessment through Teaching Portfolios in Computer Science; Proceedings of the SIGCSE Symposium, Feb. 1996.
"Language Choice Dilemma for CS1 and CS2: Experience from Two Universities; James Kiper and Ken Abernethy; Journal of Computer Science Education Volume 7, Number 1 (1996), pp. 35-52.
James Kiper, Chuck Ames and Lizz Howard; Using Program Visualization to Enhance Maintainability and Promote Reuse; Proceedings of Computing in Aerospace, March 1995, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
James Kiper and Cathy Bishop-Clark; Abstraction, Design, and Theory in Computer Science: A Liberal Arts Course; Journal of Computer Science Education, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1995, pp. 93-110.
James D. Kiper, A Framework for Characterization of the Degree of Integration of Software Tools; International Journal of Systems Integration, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1994.
James Kiper and Cathy Bishop Clark, Laboratories for a Liberal Education Computer Course; Proceedings of the 1994 National Education Computing Conference, Boston, Ma. June 13-15. 1994, pp. 236-239.
James Kiper, Mike Lutz and Hank Ettinger, A Comparison of SE Laboratories at Two Universities: A Progress Report; Proceedings of Computer Science Education Conference, March 1992.
James Kiper; Structured Testing of Rule-based Expert Systems; ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. Vol.1, No. 2, April 1992, pp. 168-187.
James Kiper; Structural Testing of Rule-Based Expert Systems; Preliminary Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Workshop on Verification, Validation and Testing of Knowledge-based Systems, July, 1989.
James Kiper, Doug Troy and Bill Rouse, Inservice Training of High School Computer Science Teachers; Proceedings of Computer Science Education Conference, February 1989, pp. 199 - 203.