William B Frakes

Position:

Associate Professor

Research Interests:

My current research interests include: Software Reuse, Domain Engineering, Empirical Methods, and Information Retrieval

Teaching

CS 5704 Software Engineering
CS 6704 Domain Engineering
CS 5014 Research Methods

Selected Publications

Tortorella, M., & Frakes, W. B. (2006). "A Computer Implementation of the Separate Maintenance Model for Complex System Reliability". Quality and Reliability Engineering International 22, pp. 757-770.

Frakes, W.B. and Kyo Kang, (2005), "Software Reuse Research: Status and Future", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 31(7), July, pp. 529-536.

Frakes, W., "A Case Study of a Reusable Component Collection in the Information Retrieval Domain", Journal of Systems and Software 2004, (Volume 72, Number 2) pp. 265-270.

Frakes. W and Fox. C.J.. "Strength and Similarity of Affix Removal Stemming Algorithms", ACM SIGIR Forum, 2003, 37(1).

Frakes, W.,Succi, G., "An Industrial Study of Reuse, Quality, and Productivity", Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 57, Issue 2, 15 June 2001, Pages 99-106.

Frakes, W., (1998). "Systematic Software Reuse". Introduction to special issue on reuseAnnals of Software Engineering, pp. 1-3.

Frakes, W., Prieto-Diaz, R., & Fox, C. (1998). "DARE: Domain Analysis and Reuse Environment". Annals of Software Engineering (5), , pp. 125-141.

Prem Devanbu and Bill Frakes, "Extracting Formal Domain Models from Existing Code for Generative Reuse", ACM Applied Computing Review, 5 (1), Autumn 1997.

Fox, C.J. and W.B. Frakes, "The Quality Approach: Is It Delivering?" CACM, 40(6) June pp. 24-29, 1997 . Introduction to Special Section on Software Quality. Reprinted in the Testing Techniques Newsletter (TTN) ON-LINE EDITION July 1997.

Frakes, William B. and Christopher J. Fox. "Quality Improvement Using A Software Reuse Failure Modes Model" IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 22(4), pp. 274-279, April, 1996.

Frakes, William and Carol Terry. "Software Reuse: Metrics and Models." ACM Computing Surveys 28(2), pp. 415-435, 1996.

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Contact Info

E- Mail: wfrakes@vt.edu

URL: http://frakes.cs.vt.edu

Address:

Professor William B Frakes,
Software Engineering Guild 
400 Drew Court 
Sterling, VA 20165 

Telephone/Fax:

Telephone: (703) 450-5954
Fax:       (703) 450-5954