2012

Moustafa, Iman. (2012) Formal Specification and Verification of Data-Centric Web Services, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Gregory Kulczycki/M.Brian Blake.

Arendt, Dustin. (2012) In Search of Self-Organization, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Yang Cao.

Lazem, Shimaa. (2012) Analysis of the Relationships between Changes in Distributed System Behavior and Group Dynamics, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Denis Gracanin.

Alkandari, Mohammad. (2012) A Model of Multicultural Software Project Team Management applied in Requirements Engineering, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Stephen H. Edwards/Shawn Bohner.

Li, Yinan. (2012) Integrated Mobility and Service Management for Network Cost Minimization in Wireless Mesh Networks, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Ing-Ray Chen.

2011

Li, Dong. (2011) Scalable and Energy Efficient Execution Methods for Multicore Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Kirk W. Cameron.

Wahid, Shaikh. (2011) Facilitating Design Knowledge Reuse Through Relationships, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Scott McCrickard.

Belal, Nahla. (2011) Two Problems in Computational Genomics, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.

Alexe, Mihai. (2011) Adjoint-based space-time adaptive solution algorithms for sensitivity analysis and inverse problems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Adrian Sandu.

Vega, Laurian. (2011) Security in Practice: Examining the Collaborative Management of Sensitive Information in Childcare Centers and PhysiciansÕ Offices, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Steve Harrison.

Chigani, Amine. (2011) Campus Situational Awareness and Emergency Response Management System Architecture, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Osman Balci.

Murthy, Uma. (2011) Digital Libraries with Superimposed Information: Supporting Scholarly Tasks that Involve Fine Grain Information, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

Kopper, Regis. (2011) Understanding and Improving Distal Pointing Interaction, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.

Patnaik, Debprakash. (2011) Multiple Uses of Frequent Episodes in Temporal Process Modeling, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.

Kurdziolek, Margaret. (2011) Classroom resources and impact on learning, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Deborah Tatar.

Andrews, Christopher. (2011) Space to Think: Sensemaking and Large, High-Resolution Displays, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Chris L. North.

Judge, Tejinder. (2011) Patterns of Domestic Video Mediated Communication, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Steve Harrison.

Ni, Tao. (2011) A Framework of Freehand Gesture Interaction: Techniques, Guidelines, and Applications, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman/Chris L. North.

Rafique, Muhammad. (2011) An Adaptive Framework for Managing Heterogeneous Many-Core Clusters, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Ali R. Butt.

Anandakrishnan, Ramamoorthi. (2011) Speeding up electrostatic computations for molecular dynamics, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Alexey Onufriev.

Lin, Sirong. (2011) Programmer Cognition in Explicit Coordination Modeling: Understanding the Design of Complex Human Interaction and Coordination, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Deborah Tatar.

McMahan, Ryan. (2011) Exploring the Effects of Higher-Fidelity Display and Interaction for Virtual Reality Games, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.

2010

Lee, Jason. (2010) Integrating scenario-based usability engineering and agile software development, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Scott McCrickard.

Linford, John. (2010) Accelerating Atmospheric Modeling Through Emerging Multi-core Technologies, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Adrian Sandu.

Ahmed, Hussein. (2010) Context Sensitive Interaction Interoperability for Distributed Virtual Environments, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Denis Gracanin.

Oliveira, Francisco. (2010) Enabling the Blind to See Gestures, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Francis Quek.

Singh, Kumaresh. (2010) Efficient Computational Tools for Variational Data Assimilation and Information Content Estimation, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Adrian Sandu.

Boedihardjo, Arnold. (2010) Efficient Algorithms for Mining Data Streams, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Chang-Tien Lu.

Kang, Pilsung. (2010) Modular Implementation of Program Adaptation with Existing Scientific Codes, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan/Srinidhi Varadarajan.

Wang, Yi. (2010) Design and Evaluation of Contextualized Video Interfaces, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.

Korah, John. (2010) Situation Awareness: A Network Centric Approach, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Eunice E. Santos.

Sharma, Sushant. (2010) Cooperation in Wireless Networks, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Y. Thomas Hou.

Schneider, Scott. (2010) Shared Memory Abstractions for Heterogeneous Multicore Processors, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos.

Belgin, Mehmet. (2010) Structure-based Optimizations for Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiply, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Godmar Back/Cal Ribbens.

2009

Tadepalli, Sriram. (2009) Schemas of Clustering, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.

Tolentino, Matthew. (2009) Managing Memory for Power, Performance, and Thermal Efficiency, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Kirk W. Cameron.

Zheng, George. (2009) Web Service Mining, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Athman Bouguettaya/Denis Gracanin.

Mansour, Riham. (2009) Formal Analysis and Design for Engineering Security, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Shawn Bohner.

He, Weiping. (2009) Integrated Mobility and Service Management for Future All-IP Based Wireless Networks, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Ing-Ray Chen.

Phillips, Rhonda. (2009) A Probabilistic Classification Algorithm With Soft Classification Output, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Layne T. Watson.

Tungare, Manas. (2009) Mental Workload in Personal Information Management: Understanding PIM Practices Across Multiple Devices, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones.

Chafekar, Deepti. (2009) Capacity Characterization of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks- A Cross Layer Approach, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Madhav Marathe/Anil Villukanti.

Kim, Dong Kwan. (2009) Applying Dynamic Software Updates to Computationally-Intensive Applications, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Eli Tilevich.

Cheng, Haiyan. (2009) Uncertainty Quantification and Uncertainty Reduction Techniques for Large-scale Simulations, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Adrian Sandu.

Shu, Jiang. (2009) Experiment Management for the Problem Solving Environment WBCSim, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Layne T. Watson.

Turner, Scott. (2009) Peer Review in CS2: the Effects on Attitudes, Engagement, and Conceptual Learning, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones.

Dai, Jing. (2009) Efficient Concurrent Operations in Spatial Databases, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Chang-Tien Lu.

Sudarsan, Rajesh. (2009) ReSHAPE: A Framework for Dynamic Resizing of Parallel Applications, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Cal Ribbens.

Lawson, Mark. (2009) The Search for a Cost Matrix to Solve Rare-Class Biological Problems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Liqing Zhang.

Liu, Xumin. (2009) Multi-channel Mobile Access to Web Services, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Athman Bouguettaya/Denis Gracanin.

Jin, Ying. (2009) New Algorithms for Mining Network Datasets: Applications to Phenotype and Pathway Modeling, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.

2008

Guo, Donghang. (2008) Large-Scale Simulations for Complex Adaptive Systems with Application to Biological Domains, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Eunice E. Santos.

Curtis-Maury, Matthew. (2008) Improving the Efficiency of Parallel Applications on Multithreaded and Multicore Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos.

Speer, Ngoc. (2008) Design and Analysis of Adaptive Fault Tolerant QoS Control Algorithms for Query Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Ing-Ray Chen.

Kim, Seonho. (2008) Visualizing Users, User Communities, and Usage Trends in Complex Information Systems Using Implicit Rating Data, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

Pati, Amrita. (2008) Graph-Based Genomic Signatures, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.

Randhawa, Ranjit. (2008) Model Composition and Aggregation in Macromolecular Regulatory Networks, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Clifford A. Shaffer and John J. Tyson (BIO).

Ray, Andrew. (2008) The Interaction Framework For Innovation:  A Method to Create Reusable Three Dimensional Interaction Techniques, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.

Ravichandar, Ramya. (2008) Capabilities Engineering: Promoting Change-Reduction and Constructing Change-Tolerant Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: James D. Arthur.

Constantinescu, Emil. (2008) Adaptive Numerical Methods for Large Scale Simulations and Data Assimilation, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Adrian Sandu.

Blagojevic, Filip. (2008) Scheduling on Asymmetric Parallel Architectures, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos.

Yu, Qi. (2008) A Foundational Framework for Service Query Optimization, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Athman Bouguettaya/Denis Gracanin.

Rivera, Corban. (2008) Automatic Reconstruction of the Building Blocks of Molecular Interaction Networks, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: T. M. Murali.

Gabbard, Joseph. (2008) Usability Engineering of Text Drawing Styles in Augmented Reality User Interfaces, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Deborah Hix/Edward Swan.

Cho, Jin-Hee. (2008) Design, Implementation and Analysis of Wireless Ad Hoc Messenger, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Ing-Ray Chen.

Yilmaz, Okan. (2008) A Class of Call Admission Control Algorithms for Resource Management and Reward Optimization for Servicing Multiple QoS Classes in Wireless Networks and Its Applications, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Ing-Ray Chen.

Malik, Choudhry. (2008) Enforcing Trade Secrets among Competitors on the Semantic Web, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Athman Bouguettaya/Denis Gracanin.

Wingrave, Chad. (2008) A Reflection Inspired and Language Derived Formalism for Overcoming 3D Interface Design Complexity, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.

2007

Pan, Long. (2007) Effective and Efficient Methodologies for Social Network Analysis, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Eunice E. Santos.

Chen, Yuxin. (2007) A Novel Hybrid Focused Crawling Algorithm to Build Domain-Specific Collections, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

Yost, Beth. (2007) The Visual Scalability of Integrated and Multiple View Visualizations for Large, High Resolution Displays, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Chris L. North.

Howarth, Jonathan. (2007) Supporting Novice Usability Practitioners with Usability Engineering Tools, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: H. Rex Hartson.

Kumar, Deept. (2007) Redescription Mining: Algorithms and Applications in Bioinformatics, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.

Sidky, Ahmed. (2007) A Structured Approach to Adopting Agile Practices: The Agile Adoption Framework , PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: James D. Arthur.

Burge, Jamika. (2007) Communication of Emotion in Mediated and Technology-Mediated Contexts: Face-to-Face, Telephone, and Instant Messaging, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Deborah Tatar.

Richardson, William. (2007) Using Concept Maps as a Tool for Cross-Language Relevance Determination, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

Tan, Roy. (2007) Programming Language and Tools for Automated Testing, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Stephen H. Edwards.

Ge, Rong. (2007) Theories and Techniques for Efficient High-End Computing, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Kirk W. Cameron.

Pyla, Pardha. (2007) Connecting the usability and software engineering life cycles through a communication-fostering software development framework and cross-pollinated computer science courses, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: H. Rex Hartson.

He, Jian. (2007) Design and Evaluation of a Data-distributed Massively Parallel Implementation of a Global Optimization Algorithm---DIRECT, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Layne T. Watson.

Rezgui, Abdelmounaam. (2007) Service-Oriented Sensor-Actuator Networks, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Mohamed Eltoweissy.

Yang, Xu. (2007) Multi-channel Mobile Access to Web Services, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Denis Gracanin/Athman Bouguettaya.

2006

Kim, Kibum. (2006) The Effects Of Handheld Network Service "Look" on the Acquisition of Common Ground, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Deborah Tatar.

Capra, Rob. (2006) An Investigation of Finding and Refinding Information on the Web, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones.

Bazaz, Anil. (2006) A Framework for Deriving Verification and Validation Strategies to Assess Software Security, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: James D. Arthur.

Shen, Rao. (2006) Applying the 5S Framework To Integrating Digital Libraries, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

Polys, Nicholas. (2006) Display Techniques in Information-Rich Virtual Environments, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Chris L. North/Doug A. Bowman.

Xi, Wensi. (2006) Iterative Computing over a Unified Relationship Matrix for Information Integration, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Weiguo Fan.

Zhang, Baoping. (2006) Intelligent Fusion of Evidence from Multiple Sources for Text Classification, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

Saraiya, Purviven. (2006) Insight-Based Studies for Pathway and Microarray Visualization Tools, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Chris L. North.

Mukherjee, Joy. (2006) A Runtime Framework for Parallel Programs, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Srinidhi Varadarajan.

Fink, Glenn. (2006) Visual Correlation of Network Traffic and Host Processes for Computer Security, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Chris L. North.

Ball, Robert. (2006) Effects of Large, High-Resolution Displays for Geospatial Information Visualization, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Chris L. North.

Thomas, Liya. (2006) Automated Detection of Surface Defects on Barked Hardwood Logs and Stems Using 3-D Laser Scanned Data, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Clifford A. Shaffer and Lamine Mili (ECE).

Chen, Jian. (2006) Design and Evaluation of Domain-Specific Interaction Techniques in the AEC Domain for Immersive Virtual Environments, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.

Kou, Yufeng. (2006) Abnormal Pattern Recognition in Spatial Data, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Chang-Tien Lu.

Feizabadi, Shahrooz . (2006) Garbage Collection Scheduling for Utility Accrual Real-Time Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Godmar Back/Edward A. Fox.

2005

Adams, Kevin. (2005) An Approach to Real Time Adaptive Decision Making in Dynamic Distributed Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Denis Gracanin.

Snook, Jason. (2005) Socionormative Influence in Software Adoption and Usage, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Roger Ehrich/Andrea Kavanaugh.

Slotta, Douglas. (2005) Evaluating Biological Data Using Rank Correlation Methods, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.

Ali, Mir Farooq. (2005) A Transformation-based Approach to Building Multi-Platform User Interfaces Using a Task Model and the User Interface Markup Language, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones.

Rode, Jochen. (2005) Web Application Development by Nonprogrammers: User-Centered Design of an End-User Web Development Tool, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones/Mary Beth Rosson.

Chewar, Christa. (2005) User-Centered Critical Parameters for Design Specification, Evaluation, and Reuse: Modeling Goals and Effects of Notification Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Scott McCrickard.

Adams, David. (2005) Optimization Frameworks for Discrete Composite Laminate Stacking Sequences, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Layne T. Watson.

Doswell, Felicia. (2005) Improving Network Performance and Document Dissemination by Enhancing Cache Consistency on the Web Using Proxy and Server Negotiation, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Scott F. Midkiff.

Gu, Baoshan. (2005) Design and Analysis of Algorithms for Efficient Location and Service Management in Mobile Wireless Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Ing-Ray Chen.

Sioson, Allan. (2005) Multimodal Networks in Biology, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.

Allen, Nicholas. (2005) Computational Software for Building Biochemical Reaction Network Models with Differential Equations, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Clifford A. Shaffer and John J. Tyson (BIO).

2004

Lorch, Markus. (2004) PRIMA - Privilege Management and Authorization in Grid Computing Environments , PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Dennis G. Kafura.

Schafer, Wendy. (2004) Supporting Spatial Collaboration: An Investigation of Viewpoint Constraint and Awareness Techniques, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Doug A. Bowman.

Ouzzani, Mourad. (2004) Efficient Delivery of Web Services, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Athman Bouguettaya.

Medjahed, Brahim. (2004) Semantic Web Enabled Composition of Web Services, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Athman Bouguettaya.

Perugini, Saverio. (2004) Program Transformations for Information Personalization, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Naren Ramakrishnan.

Somervell, Jacob. (2004) Developing Heuristic Evaluation Methods for Large Screen Information Exhibits Based on Critical Parameters, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Scott McCrickard.

Lewis, Tracy. (2004) Design Readiness: An Exploratory Model of Object-Oriented Design Performance, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Manuel A. Perez-Quinones.

Seals, Cheryl. (2004) A framework for Learning and Reuse in Visual Programming Envirnoments: Supporting Novice Programmer Development of Educational Simulations, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Mary Beth Rosson.

Chin, George. (2004) A Case Study in the Participatory Design of a Collaborative Science-Based Learning Environment, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Mary Beth Rosson.

Das Neves, Fernando. (2004) Stepping Stones and Pathways:Improving Retrieval by Chains of Relationships between Documents, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

Goncalves, Marcos. (2004) Streams, Structures, Spaces,Scenarios, and Societies (5S): A Formal Digital Library Framework and Its Applications, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

Zwolak, Jason. (2004) Computational Tools for Molecular Networks in Biological Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: John J. Tyson.

2003

DePasquale, Peter. (2003) Implications on the Learning of Programming Through the Implementation of Subsets in Program Development Environments, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: John A.N. Lee.

2002

Yilmaz, Levant. (2002) Specifying and Verifying Collaborative Behavior in Component-Based Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Stephen H. Edwards.

Groener, Markus. (2002) Capturing Requirements Meeting Customer Intent: A Methodological Approach, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: James D. Arthur.

Suleman, Hussein. (2002) Open Digital Libraries, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

2001

Sornil, Ohm. (2001) Parallel Inverted Indices for Large-Scale, Dynamic Digital Libraries, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

Amento, Brian. (2001) User Interfaces for Topic Management of Web Sites, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Deborah Hix.

2000

Struble, Craig. (2000) Analysis and Implementation of Algorithms for Noncommutative Algebra, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.

Phanouriou, Constantinos. (2000) UIML: A Device-Independent User Interface Markup Language, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Marc Abrams.

1998

Begole, James. (1998) Flexible Collaboration Transparency: Supporting Worker Independence in Replicated Application-Sharing Systems , PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Clifford A. Shaffer.

Mateescu, Gabriel. (1998) Domain Decomposition Preconditioners for Hermite Collocation Problems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Cal Ribbens.

Challa, Siva. (1998) Improving Polymorphism and Concurrency in Common Object Models, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Dennis G. Kafura.

Stevens, Todd. (1998) The Effects of Roles and Personality Characteristics on Software Development Team Effectiveness, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Sallie Henry.

Abdulla, Ghaleb. (1998) Web Traffic Characterization: Models for Generating Synthetic Workloads and Prediction, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

1997

Nowell, Lucille. (1997) Graphical Encoding for Information Visualization: Using Icon Color, Size, and Shape to Encode Nominal and Quantitative Data, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Deborah Hix.

Ribler, Randy. (1997) Visualizing Categorical Time Series Data with Applications to Computer and Communications Network Traces, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Marc Abrams.

Vergara, John Paul. (1997) Sorting by Bounded Permutations, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.

Keller, Benjamin. (1997) Algorithms and Orders for Finding Noncommutative Grobner Bases, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.

Driver, Maria. (1997) Parallel Sparse Linear Algebra for Homotopy Methods, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Layne T. Watson.

1996

Keenan, Susan. (1996) Product Usability and Process Improvement Based on Usability Problem Classification, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Dennis G. Kafura/H. Rex Hartson.

Mathur, Anup. (1996) A Stochastic Process Model for Transient Trace Data, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Marc Abrams.

Laughton, Stuart. (1996) Design and Use of Internet-Mediated Communication Applications in Education: An Ethnographic Study, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: J.M. Carroll.

Dzikiewicz, Joseph H. (1996) Meta Models for Federated Data Base Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: C.J. Egyhazy.

Liu, Xiangdong. (1996) Analysis and Reduction of Moire Patterns in Scanned Halftone Pictures, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Roger Ehrich.

1995

Mukherji, Maribratu. (1995) Specification of Multi-Object Coordination Schemes Using Coordinating Environments, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Dennis G. Kafura.

Lattanzi, Mark. (1995) Measurement of the Effects of Reusing C++ Classes on Object-Oriented Software Development Table-Driven Quadtree Traversal Algorithms, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Sallie Henry.

Brandenburg, Jeffrey. (1995) Timetrees: A Branching-Time Structure for Modeling Activity and State in the Human-Computer Interface, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: H. Rex Hartson.

Wang, Jay. (1995) Efficient parallel simulations and their application to communication networks, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Marc Abrams.

Talbert, Michael. (1995) A Methodology for the Measurement and Evaluation of Complex System Designs, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Osman Balci.

1994

Page, Ernest. (1994) Simulation Modeling Methodology: Principles and Etiology of Decision Support, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: R.E. Nance.

Chase, Joseph. (1994) A Study to Derive a Taxonomic Model and Behavorial Representation Techniques, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: H. Rex Hartson.

Cline, Ben. (1994) Knowledge Intensive Natural Language Generation with Revision, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: T. Nutter.

Mayo, Kevin. (1994) Definition and Evaluation of a Synthesis-Oriented, User-Centered Task Analysis Technique: The Task Mapping Model, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: H. Rex Hartson.

1993

Juvvadi, Ramana. (1993) Perfect Hashing and Related Problems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.

Landry, Kenneth. (1993) Instructional Footprinting: A Basis for Exploiting Concurrency Through Instructional Decomposition and Code Motion, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: James D. Arthur.

Lavender, Greg. (1993) Polymorphic Types for Constructing Concurrent Objects and Layered Communication Protocols, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Dennis G. Kafura.

Henry, Joel. (1993) An Integrated Approach to Software Process Assessment, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Sallie Henry.

Ge, Yuzhen. (1993) Homotopy Algorithms for H2/H00 Control Analysis and Synthesis, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Layne T. Watson.

Daoud, Amjad. (1993) Efficient Data Structures for Information Storage and Retrieval , PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

Mayhew, David. (1993) Transparent Spilling and Refilling of Partitioned Overlapping Register Window Register Organizations with a Remote Instruction Pointer, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: J. Tront.

1992

Pemmaraju, Sriram. (1992) Exploring the Powers of Stacks and Queues via Graph Layouts, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Lenwood S. Heath.

Derrick, Joe. (1992) A Visual Simulation Support Environment Based on a New Conceptual Framework, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Osman Balci.

Bharat, Bhasker. (1992) Query Processing in Heterogeneous Distributed Database Management Systemsg, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: C.J. Egyhazy.

Li, Wei. (1992) Applying Software Maintenance Metrics in the Object Oriented Software Development Life Cycle, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Sallie Henry.

1991

Chen, Qi-Fan. (1991) A High-Performance Object-Oriented Database for Information Retrieval Applications, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Edward A. Fox.

Gat, Erann. (1991) Automatic Reconfiguration of Reactive Robot Controllers, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: D. Miller.

Slack, Mark. (1991) Strategic Route Planning for Mobile Robots, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: D. Miller.

Lewis, John. (1991) An Empirical Investigation of Factors Affecting Software Reuse, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Sallie Henry.

1990

Lee, Keung. (1990) Designing an Object-Oriented Concurrent Programming Language, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Dennis G. Kafura.

Chakraborty, Amal. (1990) Homotopy Methods for Nonlinear Algebraic System of Equations with Dense Jacobian Matrices on a Hypercube, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Layne T. Watson.

1989

Flannery, Kevin. (1989) Conjunctive Polymorphic Type Checking With Explicit Types, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: James D. Arthur/Martin.

He, Xudong. (1989) Integrating Formalisms in Software Development, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: John A.N. Lee.

Okie, Edward G.. (1989) Error Directed Execution History, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: James D. Arthur.

Siochi, Antonio. (1989) Empirically Based Interface Evaluation Techniques in Support of User Interface Design and Development, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Roger Ehrich.

1988

Thacker, William I.. (1988) Numerical Techniques for Some Magnetohydrodynamic Problems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Layne T. Watson.

1987

Moose, Robert L.. (1987) Analysis of Networks with Dynamic Topologies, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: R.E. Nance.

1986

Chu, Sung-Chi. (1986) System Level Fault Diagnosis by Testable Diagnosis Array, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: J. Armstrong.

1985

Canning, James T.. (1985) The Application of Structure and Code Metrics to Large Scale Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Dennis G. Kafura.

Fainter, Robert G.. (1985) AdaTAD-A Debugger for the Ada Multi-Task Environment, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: T. E. Lindquist.

Hix, Deborah. (1985) The Structure and Development of Human Computer Interfaces, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: H. Rex Hartson.

Laribi, Atika. (1985) A Protection Model for Distributed Database Management Systems, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Dennis G. Kafura.

Yunten, Tamer. (1985) Supervisory Methodology and Notation (Superman) for Human Computer Systems Development, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: H. Rex Hartson.

1984

Mulgaonkar, Prasanna. (1984) Analyzing Perspective Line Drawings Using Hypothesis Reasoning, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: L. G. Shapiro.

Noga, Mark T.. (1984) Fast Geometric Algorithms, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: D.C.S. Allison.

Pong, Ting-Chuen. (1984) Determining Intrinsic Scene Characteristics of Images, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: R.M. Haralick/L.G. Shapiro.

Wang, Shyuan. (1984) Spatial Reasoning About Remotely Sensed Data for Drainage Network Mapping, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: R.M. Haralick/R. Ehrich.

1983

Chu, Yu Hong. (1983) Analyzing Perspective Views of a Wire Frame Object Model, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: R.M. Haralick.

Overstreet, C. Michael. (1983) Model Specification and Analysis for Discrete Event Simulation, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: R.E. Nance.

1979

Lai, Peichung Forest. (1979) Texture Region Growing Based Upon a Structural Model of Texture, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: Roger Ehrich.

Trueblood, Robert P.. (1979) Multiprocessor Architectures for Supporting Secure Database Management, PhD Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech. Advisor: H. Rex Hartson.