Michael R. Lyu: Research Papers

Web Technologies

• ``Bringing Software Tools to the Web - Architecture Issues and Porting Experience,'' M.R. Lyu and J. Schoenwaelder, in Proceedings International Symposium on Internet Technologies, Taipei, Taiwan, April 1998.
• ``Web-Based Education Techniques: Workflow, Collaboration, and Quality of Service,'' M.R. Lyu, Y.S. Moon, W.K. Kan, and M.A. Vouk, 1998 Quality in Teaching and Learning Conference (QTL98), Hong Kong, December 11-12 1998.
• Special Issue on Web Technologies, M.R. Lyu (ed.), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering , to be published in March 1999.

Distributed Systems: Wireless Systems

• ``Quality of Service Guarantees in a Wireless Network,'' T.-W. Chen, P. Krzyzanowski, M.R. Lyu, C. Sreenan, and J.A. Trotter, in Proceedings Lucent Technologies Wireless Workshop, Holmdel, New Jersey, November 1996.
• ``Renegotiable Quality of Service -- A New Scheme for Fault Tolerance in Wireless Networks,'' T.-W. Chen, P. Krzyzanowski, M.R. Lyu, C. Sreenan, and J.A. Trotter, in Proceedings FTCS-27, Seattle, Washington, June 1997, pp. 21-30.
• ``A VC-based API for Renegotiable QoS in Wireless ATM Networks,'' T. Chen, P. Krzyzanowski, M. R. Lyu, C. Sreenan, and J. Trotter, in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC'97), San Diego, California, October 1997.
• ``A Summary of QoS Support in SWAN ,'' T. Chen, P. Krzyzanowski, M. R. Lyu, C. Sreenan, and J. Trotter, in Proceedings 6th IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS'98), Napa, California, May 18-20 1998.

Distributed Systems: Fault Tolerant Systems

• ``Software Fault-Tolerance by Design Diversity; DEDIX: A Tool for Experiments,'' A. Avizienis, P. Gunningberg, J.P.J. Kelly, M.R. Lyu, L. Strigini, P.J. Traverse, K.S. Tso, and U. Voges, in Proceedings IFAC Workshop SAFECOMP'85, Como, Italy, October 1985, pp. 173-178.
• ``Dedix87 - A Supervisory System for Design Diversity Experiments at UCLA,'' A. Avizienis, M.R. Lyu, W. Schuetz, K. Tso, and U. Voges, in Software Diversity in Computerized Control Systems, U. Voges ed., Springer-Verlag, Wien, New York, 1988, pp. 129-168.

Software Reliability Engineering: Techniques

• ``Research and Development Issues in Software Reliability Engineering,'' M.R. Lyu, H. Hecht, H. Kopetz, D. Miller, J. Musa, M. Ohba and D. Siefert, in SigSoft Newsletter, April 1991, pp. 23-30; reprint from Proceedings 1991 International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Austin, Texas, May 17-18 1991, pp. 80-87.
• ``On the Development of Highly Reliable Software for Critical Applications,'' M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 7-8 1991.
• ``Software Reliability: To Use or Not To Use?'' M.R. Lyu, F. Buckley, R. Tausworthe, T. Keller, and J. Musa, in Proceedings of ISSRE'94, Monterey, California, November 6-9 1994, pp. 66-73.
• ``Reliability of Safety-Critical Systems,'' N. Schneidewind, F. Bastani, and M.R. Lyu, Proceedings of ISSRE'95, Toulouse, France, October 1995.
• ``Software Reliability,'' S. Dalal, M.R. Lyu, and C. Mallow, Chapter in Encyclopedia on Biostatistics, Wiley, 1998.
• ``Dependable Computing Systems Keynote Speech: Design, Testing, and Evaluation Techniques for Software Reliability Engineering,'' M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings 24th Euromicro Conference, Vasteras, Sweden, August 25-27 1998, pp. xxxix-xlvi.

Software Reliability Engineering: Modeling

• ``A Heuristic Approach for Software Reliability Prediction: The Equally-Weighted Linear Combination Model,'' M.R. Lyu and A. Nikora, in Proceedings 1991 International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, Austin, Texas, May 17-18 1991, pp. 172-181.
• ``Linear Combination Software Reliability Models and a Proposed Reliability Modeling Tool,'' M.R. Lyu, A. Nikora, T. Antczak, and W. Farr, in Proceedings the 14th Minnowbrook Software Engineering Workshop, N.Y., July 1991.
• ``Software Reliability Measurements through Combination Models: Approaches, Results, and a CASE Tool,'' M.R. Lyu and A. Nikora, in Proceedings COMPSAC-91, Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 11-13 1991, pp. 577-584.
• ``A Linear Combination Software Reliability Modeling Tool with a Graphically-Oriented User Interface,'' M.R. Lyu, A. Nikora, and T. Antczak, in Proceedings Symposium on Assessment of Quality Software Development Tools, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 27-29 1992, pp. 21-31.
• ``Using Software Reliability Models More Effectively,'' M.R. Lyu and A. Nikora, in IEEE Software, July 1992, pp. 43-52.
• ``An Experiment in Determining Software Reliability Model Applicability,'' A.P. Nikora and M.R. Lyu, Proceedings of ISSRE'95, Toulouse, France, October 1995.
• ``Regression Tree Modeling for the Prediction of Software Quality,'' S.S. Gokhale and M.R. Lyu, to be published in Proceedings of the Third ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design, Anaheim, California, March 1997.

Software Reliability Engineering: Measurement

• ``An Empirical Approach Toward Software Reliability Estimation and Prediction Techniques,'' M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings the 13th Minnowbrook Software Engineering Workshop, N.Y., July 1990.
• ``Measuring Reliability of Embedded Software: An Empirical Study with JPL Project Data,'' M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings International Conference on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Management, Beverly Hills, California, February 4-7 1991, pp. 493-500.
• ``Statistical Approaches for Software Reliability Measurement,'' M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings 8th Midwest-America Chinese Science & Technology Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, June 1991.
• ``Software Reliability Study in a Large-Scale Telecommunications Software System,'' D. Carman, A. Dolinsky, M.R. Lyu, and J. Yu, Proceedings of ISSRE'95, Toulouse, France, October 1995.
• ``Software Reliability Measurement Experience,'' A. Nikora and M.R. Lyu, in McGraw-Hill Software Reliability Engineering Handbook, M.R. Lyu (ed.), April 1996.

Software Reliability Engineering: Simulation Process

• ``Software Reliability Process Simulation,'' R. Tausworthe and M.R. Lyu, in McGraw-Hill Software Reliability Engineering Handbook, M.R. Lyu (ed.), April 1996.
• ``A Generalized Technique for Simulating Software Reliability,'' R. Tausworthe and M.R. Lyu, in IEEE Software, March 1996, pp. 77-88.
• ``Simulation Techniques for Software Reliability Engineering Incorporating Software Architecture,'' S. Gokhale, M. R. Lyu, and K. S. Trivedi, in Proceedings IEEE Software Reliability Engineering Workshop, Middletown, New Jersey, June 3-4 1997.
• ``Model Validation Using Simulated Data,'' S.S. Gokhale, M.R. Lyu, and K.S. Trivedi, in Proceedings 1998 IEEE Workshop on Application-Specific Software Engineering and Technology (ASSET'98), Dallas, Texas, March 1998.
• ``Reliability Simulation of Component-Based Software Systems,'' S.S. Gokhale, M.R. Lyu, and K.S. Trivedi, in Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineer ing (ISSRE'98), Paderborn, Germany, November 4-7 1998, pp. 192-201. This paper receives the ISSRE'98 best paper award.
• ``Software Reliability Analysis Incorporating Fault Detection and Debugging Activities,'' S.S. Gokhale, M.R. Lyu, and K.S. Trivedi, in Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineer ing (ISSRE'98), Paderborn, Germany, November 4-7 1998, pp. 202-211.

Software Reliability Engineering: Tools

• ``The Design and Implementation of a Computer Aided Software Reliability Estimation Tool,'' M.R. Lyu and A. Nikora, Proceedings of Quality and Productivity Research Conference IX, Corning, New York, June 1992.
• ``CASRE - A Computer-Aided Software Reliability Estimation Tool,'' M.R. Lyu and A. Nikora, in Proceedings of 1992 Computer-Aided Software Engineering Workshop, Montreal, Canada, July 1992, pp. 264-275.
• ``Making Better Software Reliability Estimations by A Practical Tool,'' M.R. Lyu, A. Nikora and W. Farr, Proceedings of the 2nd Bellcore/Purdue Software Reliability Workshop,, October 12-13 1992, Livingston, New Jersey, pp 11-27.
• ``A CASE Tool for Software Reliability Estimation,'' A. Nikora, M.R. Lyu, and W. Farr, presented in 1992 International Simulation Technology Conference (SIMTEC'92), November 4-6 1992, Clear Lake, Texas.
• ``A Systematic and Comprehensive Tool for Software Reliability Modeling and Measurement,'' M.R. Lyu, A. Nikora, and W. Farr, in Proceedings of FTCS-23, Toulouse, France, June 22-24 1993, pp. 648-653.
• ``A Generalized Software Reliability Process Simulation Technique and Tool,'' R. Tausworthe and M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings of ISSRE'94, Monterey, California, November 6-9 1994, pp. 264-273.
• ``ARMOR: Analyzer for Reducing Module Operational Risk,'' M.R. Lyu, J.S. Yu, E. Keramidas, and S.R. Dalal, Proceedings of FTCS'25, Pasadena, California, June 27-30 1995, pp. 137-142.
• ``Web-CASRE: A Web-Based Tool for Software Reliability Modeling,'' M.R. Lyu and Jurgen Schonwalder, in Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineer ing (ISSRE'98) Industry Track, Paderborn, Germany, November 4-7 1998, pp. 151-160.

Software Fault Tolerance: Techniques

• ``Multi-Version Software Development,'' J.P.J. Kelly, A. Avizienis, B.T. Ulery, B.J. Swain, M.R. Lyu, A.T. Tai, and K.S. Tso, in Proceedings IFAC Workshop SAFECOMP'86, Sarlat, France, October 1986, pp. 43-49.
• ``Design and Evaluation of Fault-Tolerant Multi-Version Software,'' A. Avizienis and M.R. Lyu, in Annual National Joint Conference on Software Quality and Reliability, Arlington, Virginia, March 1988.
• ``In Search of Effective Diversity: A Six-Language Study of Fault-Tolerant Flight Control Software,'' A. Avizienis, M.R. Lyu, and W. Schuetz, in Proceedings the Eighteenth Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing, Tokyo, Japan, June 1988, pp. 15-22.
• ``On The Effectiveness of Multiversion Software in Digital Avionics,'' A. Avizienis and M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings the AIAA/IEEE 8th Digital Avionics Systems Conference, San Jose, California, October 1988.

Software Fault Tolerance: Process

• ``Assuring Design Diversity in N-Version Software: A Design Paradigm for N-Version Programming,'' M.R. Lyu and A. Avizienis, in Fault-Tolerant Software Systems: Techniques and Applications, H. Pham (ed.), IEEE Computer Society Press Technology Series, October 1992, pp. 45-54; reprinted from Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerant Systems, Vol. 6, J.F. Meyer, R.D. Schlichting eds., Springer-Verlag, Wien, New York, 1992, pp. 197-218; also in Proceedings Second International Working Conference on Dependable Computing for Critical Applications, Tucson, Arizona, February 18-20 1991, pp. 89-98.
• ``Improving the N-Version Programming Process Through the Evolution of a Design Paradigm,'' M.R. Lyu and Y. He, in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 42, No. 2, June 1993, pp. 179-189.
• ``Diversity in the Software Development Process,'' V. Hilford, M.R. Lyu, B. Cukic, A. Jamoussi, and F.B. Bastani, in Proceedings of WORDS'97, Newport Beach, California, February 1997.
• ``Effect of Repair Policies on Software Reliability,'' S.S. Gokhale, P.N. Marinos, K.S. Trivedi, and M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings IEEE COMPASS'97, Gaithersburg, Maryland, June 18-19 1997, pp. 105-116.

Software Fault Tolerance: Modeling

• ``System-Level Reliability and Sensitivity Analyses for Three Fault-Tolerant System Architectures,'' J.B. Dugan and M.R. Lyu, DCCA-4 Proceedings and a Springer-Verlag book, January 1994.
• ``System Reliability Analysis of an N-Version Programming Application,'' J.B. Dugan and M.R. Lyu, in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, December 1994; selected as best paper from Proceedings of ISSRE'93, Denver, Colorado, November 3-6 1993, pp. 103-111.
• ``Dependability Modeling for Fault-Tolerant Software & Systems,'' J.B. Dugan and M.R. Lyu, in Software Fault Tolerance, Wiley Trends in Software book series, Wiley, February 1995.
• ``Reliability Simulation for Fault-Tolerant Software and System,'' S.S. Gokhale, M.R. Lyu, and K.S. Trivedi, in Proceedings 1997 Pacific-Rim Fault Tolerant Systems Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1997.

Software Fault Tolerance: Measurement

• ``Software Reliability Measurements in N-Version Software Execution Environment,'' M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings 3rd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'92) , Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, October 8-10 1992, pp. 254-263.
• ``An N-Version Programming Experiment,'' M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings of the Fault and Error Models for Computer Failures, West Palm Beach, FL, January 25-26 1993.
• ``Incorporating Code Coverage in the Reliability Estimation for Fault-Tolerant Software,'' M. Chen, M.R. Lyu, and E. Wong, in Proceedings 16th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, Durham, North Carolina, October 1997.

Software Testing and Analysis

• ``Achieving Software Quality with Testing Coverage Measures,'' J.R. Horgan, S. London, and M.R. Lyu, in IEEE Computer, September 1994, Vol. 27, No. 9, pp. 60-69.
• ``A Coverage Analysis Tool for the Effectiveness of Software Testing,'' M.R. Lyu, J.R. Horgan, and S. London, in IEEE Transactions on Reliability, December 1994; selected as best paper from Proceedings of ISSRE'93, Denver, Colorado, November 3-6 1993, pp. 25-34.
• ``An Empirical Study of the Correlation between Code Coverage and Reliability Estimation,'' Proceedings of METRICS'96, M. Chen, M.R. Lyu, and E. Wong, Berlin, Germany, March 1996, pp. 133-141.

Software Metrics

• ``Some Coupling Measures for C++ Programs,'' C. Rajaraman and M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings of TOOLS USA 92 Conference, Santa Barbara, California, August 1992, pp. 225-234.
• ``Software Diversity Metrics and Measurements,'' M.R. Lyu, J. Chen and A. Avizienis, in Proceedings of COMPSAC-92, Chicago Illinois, September 1992, pp. 69-78.
• ``Reliability and Maintainability Related Software Coupling Metrics in C++ Programs,'' C. Rajaraman and M.R. Lyu, in Proceedings 3rd International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE'92) , Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, October 8-10 1992, pp. 303-311.
• ``Experience in Metrics and Measurements for N-Version Programming,'' M.R. Lyu, J. Chen and A. Avizienis, in International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1994, pp. 41-62.
• ``Issues in the Next Generation of Dependability Standards,'' N. Schneidewind, J-C. Laprie, A. Nikora, M.R. Lyu, J. Musa and W. Everett, in Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineer ing (ISSRE'98), Paderborn, Germany, November 4-7 1998, pp. 101-104.