Current Research Focus

      My research interests lie in the area of software engineering for large-scale distributed software systems. Within this area, my work has focused on two primary topics: 1) dynamic reconfiguration and 2) software architecture, particularly as it related to control integration. Both of these research topics focus on software as viewed at the level of configuration (i.e. programming-in-the-large). In addition, I have worked on various other topics, including visualization software for teaching compiler theory and in application-level protocols for Distributed Interaction Simulations (DIS). The underlying theme of my work is the study of techniques and tools for reasoning about and automating complex processes.

      • Dynamic Reconfiguration

      • Software Architecture Based Control Integration

      • Distributed Interactive Simulation
        I have also investigated interoperability issues in Distributed Interactive Simulataion.

      • Visualization tool for YACC grammars (part of CRA Distributed Mentorship program)
        "Software Visualization of LR Parsing and Synthesized Attribute Evaluation." E. White, L. Deddens, J. Ruby. in Software: Practice and Experience, January 1999.

      • I am currently affiliated with the Distributed and Parallel Computing Laboratory, the Software Engineering Research Laboratory, and the Center for Image Analysis

      • University of Maryland, Software Interconnection Laboratory (1989-1994)
        Before coming to GMU, I was a doctoral student and faculty research associate affiliated with the Software Interconnection Laboratory at University of Maryland College Park. A few of my paper are accessable through this source.

      Current Ph.D Students

      • Gerry Doyle
      • Rasheed Rabbi
      • Jaeyong Park

      Current M.S. Students

      • Stephen Hoskins

      Previous Ph.D. Students

      • Etienne Goddard

      Previous M.S. Students

      • Srikanth Bhamidipati
      • Bhavani Dulipala (GRA)
      • Matt Fischer
      • Vishal Kakkad
      • Vince Laviano
      • Ammei Lee
      • Royston McNeill
      • Vaishali Raval
      • Jeff Ruby
      • Joel VanLaven
      • Ellen (Aiqun) Wang
      • Robert Tischer
      • David Hartman

      Previous Undergrad Researchers

      • Laura Deddens - CRA DMP: UC Santa Cruz, now at UPenn CS PhD program
      • Kelly Ward - CRA DMP: Trinity College, now at UNC CS PhD program
      • Keala Chan
      • Kathy Bartley
      • Lori Jarboe