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ISSRE 2003 Fast Abstracts

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Session 1:
Security and Reliability: Techniques, Assurance and Modeling

An Effective Low Cost Whitebox Approach to Construct System Level Test Vectors to Detect Buffer Overflow Defects
Authors: Joe Zhou, Christopher H Pham

Marrying Software Fault Injection Technology Results with Software Reliability Growth Models
Authors: Jeffrey Voas, Cigital Norman Schneidewind, Naval Postgraduate School

System Testing Process Behavior Prediction at SUN Microsystems
Authors: Karcich, Cangussu, Earl

A measure to distinguish between a logistic curve model and a Gompertz curve model
Authors: Daisuke SATOH

A Neural Network Approach For Long-Term Software MTTF Prediction
Authors: Susanta Patra

:An Investigation of the Call Integrity of the Linux System
Authors: Dayle G. Majors

:Improving computer security through surreptitious engineering
Authors: Mark Feldman

Modeling SITAR System Security
Authors: Dazhi Wang, Bharat B. Madan, and Kishor S. Trivedi

Towards a Metric Suite for Early Software Reliability Assessment
Authors: Nachiappan Nagappan, Laurie Williams, Mladen Vouk

Automated Event Tree Analysis from Scenario Specifications
Authors: Wei-Tek Tsai, Chun Fan, Ray Paul, and Lian Yu

Session 2:
Software Reliability: Architecture, Practice and Tools

A Test Model for Software Development
Authors: József SZIRAY

Increasing Software Reliability through Use of Genericity
Authors: Thomas Schoebel-Theuer

Evaluating Competing Dependability Concern Realizations in an Aspect-Oriented Modeling Framework
Authors: Robert B. France, Sudipto Ghosh, Indrakshi Ray, James M. Bieman, Geri Georg, Roger T. Alexander


Evaluation of Fault Coverage for Digital System in Nuclear Power Plats using VHDL

Authors: Suk Joon KIM, Man Cheol Kim and Poong Hyun SEONG

Failures of GUI Tests on Different Computer Platforms
Authors: Lee White and Baowei Fei

An Alternative Software Reliability Assessment
Authors: Herbert Hecht

Less Intrusive Memory Leak Detection inside Kernel
Authors: Jun Xu, Xiangrong Wang, Christopher Pham


Performance Test Automation within IBM Tivoli PACO
Authors: Andrew Rindos, Steve Woolet, Joseph L. Carter, Carol Ames, Xuemei Wu, Yasutaka Hirasawa and Rupinder Gill

MSET Performance Optimization of Detection of Software Aging
Authors: Kalyan Vaidyanathan and Kenny Gross

Extending the Operational Profile Model
Authors: Mechelle Gittens, Hanan Lutfiyya, Michael Bauer, Curtis Gittens

Session 3:
Networked/Distributed Systems Reliability Engineering;
Validataion and Verification

Automated Source Code Verification and Policing in Complex Portable Software Development Environment
Authors: Sheng Li, Jun Xu, Lijun Deng


Handling Failures and DOS Attacks Using Network Device Groups
Authors: Ramkumar Chinchani, Suranjan Pramanik, Ashish Garg
Email: pramanik@cse.buffalo.edu

Perfectly Periodic Scheduling for Fault Avoidance in IEEE 802.11e in the Context of Home Networks
Authors: Niranjan Dhanakoti, Srividya Gopalan, Sridhar.V


Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Techniques for Object Oriented Software Systems
Authors: Khalid Lateef Ph.D. Anthony Pratt

QoS Assurance of Next Generation Network (NGN) Applications
Authors: Swapna S. Gokhale

:Efficient Mapping of Real-Time Task Graphs on a Cluster with Processor Failures
Authors: Alaa Amin, Reda A. Ammar and Swapna S. Gokhale

Reliable IP SoftPhone with Rapid Failure Detection
Authors: M. Karol, P. Krishnan, and J. Jenny Li

:Validating An Online Adaptive System Using Support Vector Machines
Authors: Yan Liu, Srikanth Gururajan and Bojan Cukic

:Performance Analysis of Voting Algorithms with Non-zero Network Delay and Site Processing Time
Authors: Yun Liu, Dongyan Chen, and Kishor S. Trivedi

MULTI-APPROACH TESTING METHODOLOGY FOR WEB APPS

Authors: Pulei Xiong and Robert L. Probert

Session 4:
Software Testing: Methodology, Effectiveness and Emperical Studies

An Improved Test Generation Algorithm for Pair-Wise Testing
Authors: Soumen Maity, Amiya Nayak, Marzia Zaman, Nita Bansal, and Alka Srivastava
Email: nayak@uottawa.ca

Automatic Test Sequences Generation from Models
Authors: Robert Busser, Mark Blackburn, Aaron Nauman


Non-deterministic Testing of Concurrent Programs
Authors: Jeff Lei

An Empirical Evaluation of Maintaining Evolving Component-based Software with the UML
Authors: Ye Wu, Jeff Offutt and Yuqin Ding


MC/DC based estimation and detection of residual faults in PLC logic networks
Authors: Peter G Bishop


An Industrial Case Study: Using CACC to Test Real-time Embedded Software
Authors: Jing Guan and Jeff Offutt

Interaction Mutation Testing
Authors: Ahyoung Sung Byoungju Choi

Increasing Software Testability with Standard Access and Control Interfaces
Authors: Allen P. Nikora, Raphael R. Some, Yuval Tamir

A Risk-based Regression Test Selection Strategy
Authors: Yanping Chen, Robert L. Probert

An Instrumentation Engine for Dynamic Program Analysis
Authors: Atul N. Nulkar Roger T. Alexander