James Kiper |
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EDUCATION:
Ph.D. - Ohio State University - 1985, Computer and Information Science
M.S. - Ohio State University - 1978, Computer and Information Science
M.S. - Ohio State University - 1978, Mathematics
B.S. - Olivet Nazarene College - 1975, Mathematics and Psychology
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:
Professor, Miami University, 1998 - present
Associate Professor, Miami University, 1992 - 1998
Assistant Professor, Miami University, 1986 - 1992
Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University, 1985 - 1986
Assistant Professor, Chairman, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science,
Mt. Vernon Nazarene College, 1982- 1984
Lecturer, Ohio State University, Summer 1982
Instructor, Mt. Vernon Nazarene College, 1978- 1982
CONSULTING/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Visiting Instructor, Computer Science Department, Waikato University NSF Review team member for the College Science Instrumentation Program, Washington, D.C., January, 1986
NASA Summer Faculty Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena, California, 1986- 1987, 1994 - 1995
Programmer, Marathon Oil Company, Summer 1981
PROFESSIONIAL ORGANIZATIONS:
Association for Computing Machinery, ACM
Special Interest Group in Software Engineering, and Computer Science Education
IEEE Computing Society
PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS:
Pedrito Maynard-Zhang, James D. Kiper, Martin S. Feather, "Modeling Uncertainty in Requirements Engineering Decision Support", to appear in Proceedings of Workshop on Requirements Engineering Decision Support, Paris, August 29, 2005.
J.D. Kiper and M.S. Feather, "A Risk-based Approach to Strategic Decision-Making for Software Development", Proceedings of HICSS-38: Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Hawaii, January 3-6, 2005.
Scott Campbell and James D. Kiper, "A Risk-aware Approach to Knowledge Management of Security Choices", Proceedings of First NSF/ NSA/ AFRL Workshop on Secure Knowledge Management, September 23-24, 2004, Buffalo, NY
J.D. Kiper and M.S. Feather, "Mining Complex Requirements Specifications to Mitigate Risk via Clustering", WITSE'04 - Workshop on Intelligent Techniques for Software Engineering, Linz, Austria, Sep 20 2004.
M.S. Feather, J.D. Kiper and S. Kalafat, "Combining Heuristic Search, Visualization and Data Mining for Exploration of System Design Space", INCOSE 2004 - 14th Annual International Symposium Proceedings; Toulouse, France, Jun 20-24 2004.
Shukla, A., Bailey Van Kuren, M., Almquist, C., Coffin, D., Kiper, J., and Noble, C., "Integrating skills and transforming culture: reforming all engineering curricula in SEAS", ASEE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2004.
T. Menzies, E. Chiang, M. Feather, Y. Hu, J.D. Kiper, "Condensing Uncertainty via Incremental Treatment Learning", Software Engineering with Computational Intelligence, editor Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar; 2003; 1-4020-7427-1, The Kluwer International Series In Engineering And Computer Science: Volume 731, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, April 2003.
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MAJOR INTEREST AREAS:
Software engineering, software risk management and assessment, probabilistic risk assessment, software design methodology, experimental verification of software design methodology effectiveness, and visual programming languages.
