Marv Zelkowitz

Professor Emeritus

2160 Iribe Center

(301) 405-2690

Academic Web Page

Education:

Ph.D., Cornell University (Computer Science)

Special Awards/Honors:

IEEE Fellow

Biography:

Marvin Zelkowitz is a professor emeritus of computer science in the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.

He studies technology transfer, examining how organizations like NASA develop and adopt new technologies. Zelkowitz’s research in cybersecurity highlights the importance of correctly implementing standard algorithms and addressing security issues arising from poor programming practices.

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Publications

2012

Zelkowitz MV. 2012. What have we learned about software engineering? Communications of the ACM. 55(2):38-39.

2011

Layman L, Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV, Fisher KL. 2011. A case study of measuring process risk for early insights into software safety. Software Engineering (ICSE), 2011 33rd International Conference on. :623-632.

2010

Memon AM, Nguyen BN. 2010. Advances in Automated Model-Based System Testing of Software Applications with a GUI Front-End. Advances in ComputersAdvances in Computers. Volume 80:121-162.

Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV, Layman L, Dangle K, Diep M. 2010. Obtaining valid safety data for software safety measurement and process improvement. Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement. :46:1–46:4-46:1–46:4.

Turaga P, Chellappa R, Veeraraghavan A. 2010. Advances in Video-Based Human Activity Analysis: Challenges and Approaches. Advances in ComputersAdvances in Computers. Volume 80:237-290.

2009

Zelkowitz MV. 2009. An update to experimental models for validating computer technology. Journal of Systems and Software. 82(3):373-376.

Eaton C, Memon AM. 2009. Advances in Web Testing. Computer Performance IssuesComputer Performance Issues. Volume 75:281-306.

2008

Hochstein L, Nakamura T, Shull F, Zazworka N, Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV. 2008. An Environment for Conducting Families of Software Engineering Experiments. Software Development. Volume 74:175-200.

Basili VR, Carver JC, Cruzes D, Hochstein LM, Hollingsworth J, Shull F, Zelkowitz MV. 2008. Understanding the High-Performance-Computing Community: A Software Engineer's Perspective. Software, IEEE. 25(4):29-36.

2007

Hochstein L, Nakamura T, Shull F, Zazworka N, Voelp M, Zelkowitz MV, Basili VR. 2007. An Environment of Conducting Families of Software Engineering Experiments.

Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV. 2007. Empirical studies to build a science of computer science. Communications of the ACM. 50(11):33-37.

Lindvall M, Rus I, Donzelli P, Memon AM, Zelkowitz MV, Betin-Can A, Bultan T, Ackermann C, Anders B, Asgari S et al.. 2007. Experimenting with software testbeds for evaluating new technologies. Empirical Software Engineering. 12(4):417-444.

Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV, Sjøberg DIK, Johnson P, Cowling AJ. 2007. Protocols in the use of empirical software engineering artifacts. Empirical Software EngineeringEmpirical Software Engineering. 12:107-119.

2006

Zelkowitz MV, Bail WG. 2006. Optimization of structured programs. Software: Practice and Experience. 4(1):51-57.

Zelkowitz MV. 2006. A case study in rapid prototyping. Software: Practice and Experience. 10(12):1037-1042.

Zelkowitz MV. 2006. PIT: A macro‐implemented implementation language. Software: Practice and Experience. 2(4):337-346.

Hochstein L, Nakamura T, Basili VR, Asgari S, Zelkowitz MV, Hollingsworth J, Shull F, Carver J, Voelp M, Zazworka N et al.. 2006. Experiments to understand HPC time to development. CTWatch Quarterly.

Carver JC, Hochstein LM, Kendall RP, Nakamura T, Zelkowitz MV, Basili VR, Post DE. 2006. Observations about software development for high end computing. CTWatch Quarterly. 2(4A):33-38.

Zelkowitz MV, Tseng C-W. 2006. Advances in Computers: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

2005

Hochstein L, Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV, Hollingsworth J, Carver J. 2005. Combining self-reported and automatic data to improve programming effort measurement. Proceedings of the 10th European software engineering conference held jointly with 13th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering. :356-365.

Lindvall M, Rus I, Shull F, Zelkowitz MV, Donzelli P, Memon AM, Basili VR, Costa P, Tvedt R, Hochstein L. 2005. An evolutionary testbed for software technology evaluation. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering. 1(1):3-11.

Asgari S, Hochstein L, Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV, Hollingsworth J, Carver J, Shull F. 2005. Generating testable hypotheses from tacit knowledge for high productivity computing. Proceedings of the second international workshop on Software engineering for high performance computing system applications. :17-21.

Dangle KC, Larsen P, Shaw M, Zelkowitz MV. 2005. Software process improvement in small organizations: a case study. Software, IEEE. 22(6):68-75.

Zelkowitz MV, Basili VR, Asgari S, Hochstein L, Hollingsworth J, Nakamura T. 2005. Measuring productivity on high performance computers. 11th IEEE International Symposium on Software Metric.

2004

Asgari S, Basili VR, Costa P, Donzelli P, Hochstein L, Lindvall M, Rus I, Shull F, Tvedt R, Zelkowitz MV. 2004. Empirical-based estimation of the effect on software dependability of a technique for architecture conformance verification. Proceedings of the ICSE 2004 Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems, Edinburgh, UK.

Zelkowitz MV, Rus I. 2004. Defect evolution in a product line environment. Journal of Systems and Software. 70(1–2):143-154.

Jiwnani K, Zelkowitz MV. 2004. Susceptibility matrix: a new aid to software auditing. Security Privacy, IEEE. 2(2):16-21.

Carver J, Asgari S, Basili VR, Hochstein L, Hollingsworth J, Shull F, Zelkowitz MV. 2004. Studying code development for high performance computing: the HPCS program. First International Workshop On Software Engineering for High Performance Computing System Applications. :32-32.

Asgari S, Basili VR, Carver J, Hochstein L, Hollingsworth J, Zelkowitz MV. 2004. Challenges in Measuring HPCS Learner Productivity in an Age of Ubiquitous Computing: The HPCS Program. In Proceedings of ICSE Workshop on High Productivity Computing. May 2004.

2003

Zelkowitz MV, Wallace DR, Binkley DW. 2003. Experimental validation of new software technology. SERIES ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING. 12:229-263.

2002

Jiwnani K, Zelkowitz MV. 2002. Security Testing using a Susceptibility Matrix. International Symposioum on Software Reliability Engineering. 13

Zelkowitz MV, Wallace DR, Binkley DW. 2002. Impediments to software engineering technology transfer. Journal of Systems and Software. Forthcoming.

Basili VR, McGarry FE, Pajerski R, Zelkowitz MV. 2002. Lessons learned from 25 years of process improvement: the rise and fall of the NASA software engineering laboratory. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering. :69-79.

Jiwnani K, Zelkowitz MV. 2002. Maintaining software with a security perspective. Software Maintenance, 2002. Proceedings. International Conference on. :194-203.

Rus I, Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV, Boehm B. 2002. Empirical evaluation of techniques and methods used for achieving and assessing software high dependability. Proc. DSN Workshop on Dependability Benchmarking.

Lindvall M, Basili VR, Boehm B, Costa P, Dangle K, Shull F, Tesoriero R, Williams L, Zelkowitz MV. 2002. Empirical findings in agile methods. Extreme Programming and Agile Methods—XP/Agile Universe 2002. :81-92.

Shull F, Basili VR, Boehm B, Brown AW, Costa P, Lindvall M, Port D, Rus I, Tesoriero R, Zelkowitz MV. 2002. What we have learned about fighting defects. Software Metrics, 2002. Proceedings. Eighth IEEE Symposium on. :249-258.

2001

Zelkowitz MV, Rus L. 2001. The role of independent verification and validation in maintaining a safety critical evolutionary software in a complex environment: the NASA Space Shuttle program. Software Maintenance, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on. :118-126.

Basili VR, Costa P, Lindvall M, Mendonca M, Seaman C, Tesoriero R, Zelkowitz MV. 2001. An experience management system for a software engineering research organization. Software Engineering Workshop, 2001. Proceedings. 26th Annual NASA Goddard. :29-35.

Basili VR, Tesoriero R, Costa P, Lindvall M, Rus I, Shull F, Zelkowitz MV. 2001. Building an Experience Base for Software Engineering: A report on the first CeBASE eWorkshop. Product Focused Software Process Improvement. :110-125.

Zelkowitz MV, Rus I. 2001. Understanding IV & V in a safety critical and complex evolutionary environment: the NASA space shuttle program. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Software Engineering. :349-357.

Zelkowitz MV. 2001. Programming languages: designing and implementation. BeOing: Electronic Industry Press. 6:46-65.

2000

Shull F, Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV. 2000. The experimental validation and packaging of software technologies. ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes. 25(1):82-83.

1999

Basili VR, Seaman C, Tesoriero R, Zelkowitz MV. 1999. OSMA Software Program: Domain Analysis Guidebook. Technical Reports from UMIACS, UMIACS-TR-99-16.

Dorr BJ, Jordan PW, Benoit JW. 1999. A Survey of Current Paradigms in Machine Translation. Advances in Computers. Volume 49:1-68.

1998

Zelkowitz MV, Wallace DR. 1998. Experimental models for validating technology. Computer. 31(5):23-31.

Zelkowitz MV, Wallace DR, Binkley D. 1998. Culture conflicts in software engineering technology transfer. NASA Goddard Software Engineering Workshop. :52-52.

Zelkowitz MV, Wallace D. 1998. Validating the Benefit of New Software Technology. Software Quality Practitioner. 1

1997

Zelkowitz MV, Wallace D. 1997. Experimental validation in software engineering. Information and Software Technology. 39(11):735-743.

Morasca S, Briand LC, Basili VR, Weyuker EJ, Zelkowitz MV, Kitchenham B, Lawrence Pfleeger S, Fenton N. 1997. Comments on "Towards a framework for software measurement validation". Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. 23(3):187-189.

Kitchenham B, Brereton P, Budgen D, Linkman S, Almstrum VL, Pfleeger SL, Zelkowitz MV, Wallace D. 1997. Editorial: Evaluation and assessment in software engineering. Information and Software Technology. 39(11)

1996

Zelkowitz MV. 1996. Software engineering technology infusion within NASA. Engineering Management, IEEE Transactions on. 43(3):250-261.

Zelkowitz MV. 1996. Modeling software engineering environment capabilities. Journal of Systems and Software. 35(1):3-14.

Basili VR, Green S, Laitenberger O, Lanubile F, Shull F, Sørumgård S, Zelkowitz MV. 1996. The empirical investigation of Perspective-Based Reading. Empirical Software Engineering. 1(2):133-164.

Zelkowitz MV, Wallace D. 1996. Experimental models for software diagnosis. NIST IR. 5889

1995

Basili VR, Zelkowitz MV, McGarry F, Page J, Waligora S, Pajerski R. 1995. SEL's software process improvement program. Software, IEEE. 12(6):83-87.

Tian J, Zelkowitz MV. 1995. Complexity measure evaluation and selection. Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. 21(8):641-650.

Abrams MD, Zelkowitz MV. 1995. Striving for correctness. Computers & Security. 14(8):719-738.

Zelkowitz MV. 1995. Algebra and models (and reality). SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes. 20(2):55-57.

1994

Gannon JD, Purtilo J, Zelkowitz MV. 1994. Software Specification: A Comparison of Formal Methods.

Zelkowitz MV, Tian J. 1994. Measuring prime program complexity. Information Sciences. 77(3–4):325-350.

Zelkowitz MV. 1994. Algebra and models (and reality). SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes. 19(4):79-81.

1993

Zelkowitz MV. 1993. Role of verification in the software specification process. Advances in computers. 36:43-109.

Zelkowitz MV. 1993. Use of an environment classification model. Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Software Engineering. :348-357.

1992

Tian J, Zelkowitz MV. 1992. A formal program complexity model and its application. Journal of Systems and Software. 17(3):253-266.

Zelkowitz MV, Buckley FJ. 1992. Standards-are software engineering process standards really necessary? Computer. 25(11):82-84.

Cárdenas SR, Tian J, Zelkowitz MV. 1992. An application of decision theory for the evaluation of software prototypes. Journal of Systems and Software. 19(1):27-39.

Tian J, Porter A, Zelkowitz MV. 1992. An improved classification tree analysis of high cost modules based upon an axiomatic definition of complexity. Software Reliability Engineering, 1992. Proceedings., Third International Symposium on. :164-172.

Straub P, Zelkowitz MV. 1992. On the nature of bias and defects in the software specification process. Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1992. COMPSAC '92. Proceedings., Sixteenth Annual International. :17-24.