Research Stays

IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

From May 1, 1987 till April 30, 1988

One year Post-Doctoral-Fellowship-Assignment with the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights/USA. Manager: Tom Corbi.

Focus in Research

1. Applying software metrics in the Project PUNDIT (Program Understanding Investigation Tool) to old-code software (Assembly Programs).

2. Development of the System METRICS in order to demonstrate the applications of software complexity metrics.

  3. Preparation of talks and presentations at many universities in US and in IBM.

Produced Papers

Zuse, Horst; Bollmann, Peter:

Software Metrics:

Using Measurement Theory to Describe the Properties and Scales of

Static Software Complexity Metrics,

IBM RC 13504, 1988, 23 pages.

Zuse, Horst:

A New Set of Static Software Metrics to Measure the Control Flow Complexity

of Programs,

IBM RC13692, 1988, 92 pages.

Zuse, Horst:

METRICS,

Hawthorne, April 4, 1988, 28 pages.

Invited Researcher at GMD

August 1, 1994 till March 31, 1995:

Invited Researcher (Gastforscher) with the Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH (GMD) in the Institut für Anwendungsorientierte Software- und Systemtechnik, Forschungsbereich Softwaretechnik (ISA.ST). Support of the Project SCOPEINT by quantitative assessment of software quality attributes.

Produced Papers

Dumke, R.; Zuse, H. (Editors):

Theorie und Praxis der Softwaremessung,  

Deutsche Universitätsverlag DUV, Gabler - Vieweg - Westdeutscher Verlag,

1994. (Theory and Practice of Software Measurement)

Zuse, Horst; Fetcke, Thomas:

Properties of Object-oriented Software Measures.

Proceedings of the 7th Annual Oregon Workshop on Software Metrics,

June 3-5, 1995, Silver State Park, Oregon, USA.

Visiting-Professor with the University of South-Western Louisiana

February 1, 1998 till May 18, 1998:

Visiting-Professor with the University of South-Western Louisiana (USL), Lafayette, Louisiana, USA.