• Refereed Papers
  1. A study of methods for textual satisfaction assessment (2013) Elizabeth Ashlee Holbrook, Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Wenbin Li, Empirical Software Engineering Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 139--176.

     A copy of the article on the journal's page.

  2. Human Recoverability Index: a TraceLab Experiment, (2013) Alex Dekhtyar, Michael Hilton, in Proceedings, 7th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE'2013), May 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA.

  3. Teaching Bioinformatics in Concert: an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Project-based Experience, (2013) Alex Dekhtyar, Anya L. Goodman, Aldrin Montana, in Proceedings, American Society for Engineering Education Pacific Southwest Conference (ASEE-PSW'2013), April 2013, Riverside, CA, USA.

     Best Paper award at the conference.

• Refereed Papers
  1. Process Improvement for Traceability: A Study of Human Fallibility , (2012) Wei-Keat Kong, Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Olga Dekhtyar (2012) in Proceedings, 20th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'2012), September 2012.

     IEEE Xplore page for the article.

  2. Outage detection via real-time social stream analysis: leveraging the power of online complaints, Eriq Augustine, Cailin Cushing, Alex Dekhtyar, Kevin McEntee, Kimberly Paterson, Matt Tognetti (2012) in Proceedings, International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW'2012) , Industry Track (Companion Volume) pp. 13-22, March 2012.

  3. Pyroprinting Sensitivity Analysis on the GPU (2012) Douglas Brandt, Aldrin Montana, Bob Somers, Alex Dekhtyar, Chris Lupo, Michael Black, Anya Goodman, Chris Kitts (2012), poster, in Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'2012), October 2012, Philadelphia, PA.

     An IEEE eXplore copy of the article is available too.

  4. Microbial Source Tracking by Molecular Fingerprinting (2012) Jan Lorenz Soliman, Aldrin Montana, Kevin Webb, Alex Dekhtyar, Michael Black, Chris Kitts, Jennifer Vanderkellen, Emily Neal, Anya Goodman poster, in Proceedings ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB'2012), October 2012, Orlando, FL.

     A version from the ACM Digital Library is also available

  5. TraceLab: An experimental workbench for equipping researchers to innovate, synthesize, and comparatively evaluate traceability solutions Ed Keenan, Adam Czauderna, Greg Leach, Jane Cleland-Huang, Yonghee Shin, Evan Moritz, Malcom Gethers, Denys Poshyvanyk, Jonathan I. Maletic, Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Daria Manukian, Shervin Hossein, Derek Hearn (2012), demo, in Procedings, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2012), pp. 1375-1378, May 2012.

     An IEEE Xplore copy of the article is available too.

2011

• Refereed Papers
  1. Chronology-Sensitive Hierarchical Clustering of Pyrosequenced DNA Samples of E. coli: A Case Study, (2011), Aldrin Montana, Alex Dekhtyar, Emily Neal, Michael Black, Chris Kitts, in Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM'2011) , November 2011.

  2. On Human Analyst Performance in Assisted Requirements Tracing: Statistical Analysis, (2011), Alex Dekhtyar, Olga Dekhtyar, Jeff Holden, Jane Hayes, David Cuddeback, Wei-Keat Kong, in Proceedings, 19th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'2011), September 2011.

  3. Towards Overcoming Human Analyst Fallibility in the Requirements Tracing Process (NIER Track) , (2011), David Cuddeback, Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Hayes, Jeff Holden, Wei-Keat Kong, in Proceedings, Interantional Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'2011), May 2011.

     NIER Track page for the paper

  4. Towards a Model of Analyst Effort for Traceability Research: A Position Paper, (2011), Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Hayes, Matt Smith, in Proceedings, 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE'2011), May 2011.

  5. Grand Challenges, Benchmarks, and TraceLab: Developing Infrastructure for the Software Traceability Research Community , (2011), Jane Cleland-Huang, Adam Czaudema, Alex Dekhtyar, Olly Gotel, Jane Hayes, Ed Keenan, Greg Leach, Jonathan Maletic, Denys Poshyvanyk, Yonghee Shin, Andrea Zisman, Giulio Antoniol, Brian Berenbach, Patrick Maeder, in Proceedings, 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE'2011), May 2011.

  6. How Do We Trace Requirements? An Initial Study of Analyst Behavior in Trace Validation Tasks, (2011), Wei-Keat Kong, Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Jeff Holden, in Proceedings, 4th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE'2011), May 2011.

• Refereed Papers
  1. Automated Requirements Traceability: the Study of Human Analysts , (2010), David Cuddeback, Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Hayes, in Proceedings, 18th International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE'2010), pp. 231 - 240, September 2010.

     David's M.S. Thesis @ DigitalCommons

  2. Assessing Traceability of Software Engineering Artifacts, (2010), Senthil Sundaram , Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Ashlee Holbrook Requirements Engineering Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 313 - 335, September 2010.

     Springerlink's page for the article.

  3. On Measuring the Quality of Wikipedia Articles , (2010), Gabriel De la Calzada, Alex Dekhtyar, in Proc. 4th. Interenational Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web (WICOW 2010), pp. 11 - 18, April 2010.

     ACM Digital Libarary page for the paper

     Gabe's M.S. Thesis @ DigitalCommons

• Refereed Papers
  1. Planning for Success: the Interdisciplinary Approach to Building Bayesian Models, (2009), Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Beth Goldstein, Krol Kevin Mathias, Cynthia Isenhour, International Journal of Approximate Reasoning, vol 50, No. 3, pp. 416-428, March 2009.

  2. The Theory of Interval Probabilistic Logic Programs, (2009), Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 55 (3-4), pp. 355-388, April 2009.

     online version at Springer

     early version is available as a tech. report.

  3. Methods for Automating Requirements Satisfaction Assessment, (2009), Jane Hayes, E. Ashlee Holbrook, Alex Dekhtyar, in Proc. 17th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE'2009), pp. 149--158, September 2009.

  4. Towards Traceable Test-Driven Development, (2009) Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, David Janzen, (2009), in Proc. Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering (TEFSE'2009), May 2009, Vancouver, CA.

• Refereed Papers
  1. On the semantics of disjunctive logic programs with interval probabilities, (2008), Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar., in Proc. Russian National AI Conference, Dubna, Russia, September 2008, pp. 240--248. in Russian.

  2. JOXM: Java Object---XML Mapping, Adam Dukovich, Jimmy Hua, Jong Seo Lee, Michael Huffman, Alex Dekhtyar, (2008), poster, in Proc. International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE'08), Yorktown Heights, NY, July 2008.

• Refereed Papers
  1. Uncertainty as the Source of Knowledge Transfer Opportunity, (2007), Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Hayes, Judy Goldsmith, position paper, First International Workshop on Living with Uncertainty in Software Engineering (IWLU'2007), Atlanta, GA, November 2007

  2. Problems with Precision: A Response to "Comments on .Data Mining Static Code Attributes to Learn Defect Predictors", (2007), Tim Menzies, Alex Dekhtyar, Justin Distefano, Jeremy Greenwald, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE), Vol. 33, No. 9, September 2007.

  3. Tecchnique Integration for Requirements Assessment, (2007), Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Hayes, Senthil Sundaram, Ashlee Holbrook, Olga Dekhtyar, in Proceedings, 15th IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE-2007), October 2007, New Dehli, India.

  4. REquirements Tracing On target (RETRO): Improving Software Maintenance through Traceability Recovery, (2007) Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Senthil Sundaram,Ashlee Holbrook, Sravanthi Vadlamudi, Alain April, accepted, Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal, September, 2007.

  5. Make the Most of Your Time: How Should the Analyst Work with Automated Traceability Tools? , (2007) Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Hayes, Jody Larsen, International Workshop on Predictive Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE'07), May 20, 2007, Minneapolis, MN.

     PROMISE website also has a copy.

  6. Benchmarks for Traceability?, (2007), Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Hayes, Giuliano Antoniol, International Symposium on Grand Challenges in Traceabilty (GCT/TEFSE'07), March 22-23, 2007, Natural Bridge State Resort Park, Slade, KY.

• Technical Reports
  1. The Theory of Interval Probabilisitic Logic Programs. Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar, California State Polytechnic University (San Luis Obispo), Computer Science Department Technical Report CPSLO-CSC-07-02, August 14, 2007.

  2. But it Used to Meet the Requirements!" - Automated Satisfaction Assessment to Support Change. Ashlee Holbrook, Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar. April 2007 (TR 480-07)

  3. Planning for Success: The Social Approach to Building Bayesian Models., Krol Kevin Mathias, Cynthia Isenhour, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Beth Goldstein. April 2007 (TR 479-07).

     (believe it or not, TR479-07 and TR478-07 are actually different papers)

  4. Planning for Success: The Interdisciplinary approach to building Bayesian Models, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsimth, Beth Goldstein, Krol Kevin Mathias, Cynthia Isenhour. April 2007 (TR 478-07).

2006

• Refereed Papers
  1. When Domains Require Modeling Adaptations, (2006) Krol Kevin Mathias, Cynthia Isenhour, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Beth Goldstein, (2006), 4th Bayesian Modelling Applications Workshop at UAI06, July 2006, Boston, MA.

     A copy available from the workshop site.

  2. Factored MDP Elicitation and Plan Display (2006) Krol Kevin Mathias, Casey Lengacher, Derek Williams, Austin Cornett, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, demo, AAAI'2006, July 2006, Boston, MA.

  3. Multihierarchical XQuery for Document-Centric XML, (2006) Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, Proceedings, 3rd International Workshop on XQuery Implementation, Experience and Perspectives (XIME-P'06) at ACM SIGMOD'06, June 2006, Chicago, IL.

     A copy available from the workshop site.

  4. Structured Queries for Semistructured Probabilistic Data, (2006) Alex Dekhtyar, Krol Kevin Mathias, Praveen Gutti, Proceedings, 2nd Twente Data Management Workshop on Uncertainty in Databases (TDM06), pp. 11-18, June 2006, Enschede, The Netherlands.

     Workshop site has slides.

  5. XML Views for Electronic Editions, (2006), Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'2006), pp. 139-140, June 2006, Chapel Hill, NC.

  6. Extended XQuery for Digital Libraries, (2006), Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, Dorothy Carr Porter, software demo, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL'2006), p. 378, June 2006, Chapel Hill, NC.

  7. Advancing Candidate Link Generation For Requirements Tracing: the Study of Methods, (2006), Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Senthil Sundaram, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 32, No. 1., pp. 4-19, January 2006.

  8. Support for XML Markup of Image-based Electronic Editions, (2006), Alex Dekhtyar,Ionut E. Iacob, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Kevin Kiernan, Neil Moore, Dorothy Carr Porter, International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL), Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 55-69, February 2006.

     online version at Springer.

  9. Houston, We Have a Success Story: Technology Transfer at the NASA IV&V Facility , (2006), Ken McGill, Wes Deadrick, Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Proceedings, Workshop on Technology Transfer in Software Engineering, Shaghai, China, May 2006.

  10. Will Johnny/Joanie Make a Good Software Engineer? Are Course Grades Showing the Whole Picture?, (2006), Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Ashlee Holbrook, Olga Dekhtyar, Senthil Sundaram, Proceedings, 19th Conference on Software Engieering Education and Training (CSEET), Hawaii, April 2006.

  11. On Potential Validity of Document-Centric XML Documents, (2006), Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar, Proceedings, 3d International Workshop on XML Schema and Data Management (XSDM 2006) pp. 87-96, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2006.

• Techincal Reports
  1. Eliciting and Combining Influence Diagrams: Tying Many Bowties Together. Kevin Krol Mathias, Cynthia Isenhour, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Beth Goldstein, March 2006. (TR 453-06).

  2. Traceability of Requirements: Does it Matter How You "Slice" it?. Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Ashlee Holbrook and Senthil Sundaram, February 2006. (TR 452-06).

  3. Advances in Dynamic Generation of Traceability Links: Two Steps Closer to Full Automation?. Jany Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, and Senthil Sundaram, Februrary 2006. (TR 451-06).

• Refereed Papers
  1. Improving After-the-Fact Tracing and Mapping: Supporting Software Quality Predictions, (2005), Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Senthil Sundaram, IEEE Software, Vol. 22, No. 6 (November/December), pp. 30-37.

  2. Humans in the Traceability Loop: Can't Live with 'Em, Can't Live Without 'Em, (2005), Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, in Proceedings, 3d International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering, pp. 20-23, Long Beach, CA, November 7, 2005.

  3. On Improving Local Website Search Using Web Server Traffic Logs: A Preliminary Report, (2005), Qing Cui, Alex Dekhtyar, in Proceedings, 7th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2005) , pp. 59-66, November 5, 2005, Bremen, Germany.

  4. Tracing Requirements to Defect Reports, (2005), Suresh Yadla, Jane Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2 (September 2005), pp. 116--124..

  5. Revisiting the Semantics of Interval Probabilistic Logic Programs, Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar, Proceedings Eighth International Conference on Logic Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning, LPNMR'05, LNAI 3662, pp. 330-342. September 2005, Diamante, Italy.

  6. Searching Multi-Hierarchical XML Documents: the Case of Fragmentation, Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut E. Iacob, and Srikanth Methuku, Proceedings, 16th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA'05, LNCS 3588, pp. 576 - 585, August 2005, Copenhahen, Denmark.

  7. Towards a Query Language for Multihierarchical XML: Revisiting XPath, Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, in Proceedings, Eighth International Workshop on the Web and Databases, WebDB'05, pp. 43 - 48, June 2005, Baltimore, USA.

  8. A Framework for Processing Complex Document-centric XML with Overlapping Structures, Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, demo, Proc., ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp. 897--899, 2005, June 13-16, Baltimore, Maryland.

     Extended description is available.

  9. Interactive preferences and decision-theoretic planning, Derek Williams, Kyle Bailey, Alex Dekhtyar,Judy Goldsmith, Beth Goldstein, Raphael Finkel and Joan Mazur, short paper, Proceedings Multidisciplinary Workshop on Advances in Preference Handling at IJCAI'05, July 31 - August 1 2005, Edinburgh, UK.

  10. Text Mining for Software Engineering: How Analyst Feedback Impacts Final Results, Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar and Senthil Karthikeyan Sundaram, in Proceedings MSR'2005: Second International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, pp. 58-62, St. Louis, MO, May 2005.

  11. Baselines in Requirements Tracing, Senthil Karthikeyan Sundaram, Jane Huffman Hayes and Alex Dekhtyar, in Proceedings, PROMISE'2005: International Workshop on Predictor Models in Software Engineering , St. Louis, MO, May 2005.

  12. xTagger: a New Approach to Authoring Document-centric XML, Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, in Proceedings, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), pp. 42-43, Denver, CO, June 2005.

  13. Processing XML documents with Overlapping Hierarchies , Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, demo, in Proceedings, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), p. 409, Denver, CO, June 2005.

  14. Building Image-based Electronic Editions using the Edition Production Technology, Alex Dekhtyar,Ionut E. Iacob, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Kevin Kiernan, Neil Moore, Dorothy Carr Porter, demo, in Proceedings, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), p. 406, Denver, CO, June 2005.

  15. Concurrent Markup Hierarchies: a Computer Science Approach, Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, accepted, International ACH-ALLC Conference, 2005.

  16. Edition Production Technology: an Eclipse based platform for building Image-Based Electronic Editions, Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, Kevin Kiernan, Neil Moore, Dorothy Carr Porter, software demo, accepted International ACH-ALLC Conference, 2005.

  17. Building Tools for Image-Based Electronic Editions, Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, session paper, accepted, International ACH-ALLC Conference, 2005.

  18. A Framework for Comparing Requirements Tracing Experiments, (2005) Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE), Vol. 15, No. 5 (October 2005).

      Early version is available as a University of Kentucky technical report.

  19. A Framework For Management of Concurrent XML Markup, (2005), Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut Emil Iacob, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Vol 52, No. 2, pp. 185 - 208.

      Extended version of the XSDM'03 paper

  20. A Framework for Management of Semistructured Probabilistic Data, (2005) Wenzhong Zhao, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems,Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 293-332.

  21. The ARCHway Project: Architecture for Research in Computing for Humanities through Research, Teaching and Learning, (2005). Kevin Kiernan, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Alex Dekhtyar, Dorothy Carr Porter, Kennteh Hawley, Sandeep Bodapati, Ionut Emil Iacob, forthcoming, Literary and Linguistic Computing.

      Now, available through LLC's Advance Access.

  22. Adaptive decision support for planning under hard and soft constraints, (2005), Alex Dekhtyar, Raphael Finkel, Judy Goldsmith, Beth Goldstein and Cynthia Isenhour, AAAI Spring Symposium on "Challenges to Decision Support in a Changing World", March 21-23, 2005, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, pp. 17-22

• Invited Papers
  1. Building Image-based Electronic Editions using the Edition Production Technology (2005) Alex Dekhtyar,Ionut E. Iacob, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Kevin Kiernan, Neil Moore, Dorothy Carr Porter, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Bullutin, Vol 2, Issue 1, 2005.

     An html version of the JCDL-2005 demo.

  2. Processing XML Documents with Overlapping Hierarchies, (2005), Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Bullutin, Vol 2, Issue 1, 2005.

     An html version of the JCDL-2005 demo.

• Techincal Reports

• Refereed Papers
  1. Parsing Concurrent XML, (2004) Ionut Emil Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, Kazuyo Kaneko, Proceedings, 6th ACM International Workshop on Web Information and Data Management (WIDM 2004), pp. 23-30, November 12-13, 2004, Washington, DC.

  2. Possible Worlds Semantics for Probabilistic Logic Programs, (2004) Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar, Proceedings, International Conference on Logic Programming, pp. 137-148, St. Malo, France, September 2004.

  3. Helping Analysts Trace Requirements: An Objective Look (2004) Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, Senthil Karthikeyan Sundaram, and Sarah Howard, in Proceedings, 12th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2004), pp. 249-261, September 2004, Kyoto, Japan.

  4. Databases for Interval Probabilities (2004) Wenzhong Zhao, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, International Journal of Intelligent Systems (IJIS), Vol. 19, No. 9, pp 789-815, 2004.

  5. Database Support for Image-based Electronic Editions, Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut Emil Iacob, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Kevin Kiernan, Neil Moore, Dorothy Carr Porter, Proceedings, 10th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS 2004), August 25-27, 2004, College Park, MD.

  6. Checking Potential Validity of XML Documents ,Ionut Emil Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar, Proceedings, Seventh International Workshop on the Web and Databases, WebDB, pp. 91-96, June, 2004, Paris, France.

  7. Text is Software, Too (2004) Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Huffman Hayes, Tim Menzies, in Proceedings, MSR 2004: International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories, pp. 22-26, Edinburgh, UK, June 2004.

  8. On Semantics of Simple Logic Programs with Interval Probabilities, (2004), Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar, (In Russian), in Proceedings, 9th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (KII-2004), Tver, Russia, October 2004, Vol. 1, pp. 254 - 262, Fizmatlit.

  9. Building Bayes Nets with Semistructured Probabilistic Databases, Wenzhong Zhao, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Erik Jessup, Jiangyu Li, GI EMISA Forum, Band 24, No. 1, pp. 29-30, 2004.

     Extended version of ER 2003 poster.

• Invited Papers
  1. Recommending a Framework for Comparison of Requirements Tracing Experiments, (2005), Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, and James M. Carigan, on-line proceedings, Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance (WESS 2004), Chicago, IL, September 2004.

  2. Edition Production Technology (EPT) and the ARCHway Project, (2004), Kevin Kiernan, Alex Dekhtyar, Jerzy W. Jaromczyk, Dorothy Carr Porter, Ionut Emil Iacob, DigiCULT Newsletter, pp. 36-38. August 2004.

     Here is the the August 2005 newsletter.

• Techincal Reports
  1. Measuring the Effectiveness of Retrieval Techniques in Software Engineering, Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, and Senthil Sundaram, October 2004. (TR 422-04).

  2. A Framework for Comparing Requirements Tracing Experiments, Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, June 2004. (TR 408-04)

  3. Checking Potential Validity of XML Documents Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar. May 2004. (TR 403-04)

  4. XPath Extension for Querying Concurrent XML Markup Ionut E. Iacob, Alex Dekhtyar, Wenzhong Zhao. February 2004. (TR 394-03)

• Refereed Papers
  1. A Framework For Management of Concurrent XML Markup (2003), Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut Emil Iacob, International Workshop on XML Schema and Data Management (XSDM'03), LNCS, Vol. 2814, pp. 311-322.

     Proofs can be found in this tech. report.

  2. Improving Requirements Tracing via Information Retrieval, Jane Huffman Hayes, Alex Dekhtyar, and James Osborne, in Proceedings, 11th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2003), pp. 151-161, September 2003, Monterey Bay, CA.
     • Most Influential Paper (MIP) Award, International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE) 2013. video.

  3. Query Algebra Operations for Interval Probabilities (2003) Wenzhong Zhao, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, in Proceedings of 2003 Iternational Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 527-536.

  4. Can Probabilistic Databases Help Elect Qualified Officials? (2003) Judy Goldsmith, Alex Dekhtyar, Wenzhong Zhao, in Proceedings of 2003 Florida Atlantic Artificial Intelligence Research Symposium (FLAIRS), St. Augustine, FL, pp. 501-505.

  5. When Plans Distinguish Bayes Nets , (2003) Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Janice L. Pearce, International Journal of Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems (IJUFKS), Vol. 11 (supp), pp. 1-24.

     Article to be published concurrently in Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence. The ETAI version (same text, different layout) is here.

  6. Management of Data For Building Electronic Editions of Historic Manuscripts, (2003), Alex Dekhtyar,Ionut Emil Iacob, in Proceedings, International ALLS/ACH Conference, Athens, Georgia, May 2003, pp. 11-13.

  7. Building Bayes Nets with Semistructured Probabilistic Databases,(2003), Wenzhong Zhao, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Erik Jessup, Jiangyu Li, poster, International Conference on Conceptual Modelling (ER'2003), Chicago, IL, USA, October 2003.

     Extended version published in GI EMISA Forum.

• Techincal Reports
  1. A Framework for Management of Concurrent XML Markup Alex Dekhtyar, Ionut E. Iacob. June 2003. (TR 374-03)

  2. Representing Probabilistic Information in XML Wenzhong Zhao, Alex Dekhtyar and Judy Goldsmith. June 2003. (TR 370-03)

• Refereed Papers
  1. POET, The Online Preference Elicitation Tool. (2002) James Royalty, Robert Holland, Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, AAAI Workshop on Preferences in AI and CP: Symbolic Approaches, 2002.

  2. Conditionalization for Interval Probabilities, (2002), Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith Proc. Workshop on Conditionals, Information, and Inference, May, 2002, Hagen, Germany.

• Refereed Papers
  1. Semistructured Probabilistic Databases (2001) Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Sean R. Hawkes, in Proceedings of 2001 Conference on Statisitcal and Scientific Database Management (SSDBM), George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, pp. 36-45.

  2. Probabilistic Temporal Databases I: Algebra, Alex Dekhtyar, Robert Ross, V.S. Subrahmanian, ACM Transactions on Database Systems, Vol 26, 1, pp. 41-95.

     A somewhat extended version with proofs is available here and as a University of Maryland Tech Report.

  3. When Plans Distinguish Bayes Nets , (2001). Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith, Janice L. Pearce, in Proceedings, Workshop on Unccertain Reasoning, Joint German/Austrian Conference on Artificial Intelligence KI-2001, Vienna, Austria, pp. 21-36.

• Techincal Reports
  1. Semistructured Probabilistic Databases Alex Dekhtyar, Judy Goldsmith and Sean R. Hawkes. February 2001. (University of Kentucky TR 318-01)

  2. Designing Markup Languages for Probabilistic Information , Sean Hawkes, Alex Dekhtyar. February 2001. (University of Kentucky TR 319-01)

  3. Probabilistic Temporal Databases, II: Calculus and Query Processing,(2001), Alex Dekhtyar, Fatma Ozcan, Robert Ross and V.S. Subrahmanian. (University of Maryland CS-TR-4301)

• Refereed Papers
  1. Hybrid Probabilistic Programs, (2000) Alex Dekhtyar, V.S. Subrahmanian , Journal of Logic Programming, Volume 43, Issue 3, June 2000, pp 187 - 250.

     Extends the content of ICLP'97 and ESLLI'98, contains proofs.

• Ph. D. Thesis
  • Reasoning with Probabilities and Time, Alex Dekhtyar, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, July, 2000.

• Refereed Papers
  1. Temporal Probabilistic Logic Programs, (1999) Alex Dekhtyar, Michael I. Dekhtyar, V.S. Subrahmanian, Proceedings, International Conference on Logic Programming, pp 109-123, Las Cruces, NM, USA, December 1999.

  2. Hybrid Probabilistic Programs: Algorithms and Complexity, (1999), Michael I. Dekhtyar, Alex Dekhtyar, V.S. Subrahmanian, in Proceedings of Uncertainty in AI'99 conference, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 160 -169.

     Extends JLP paper with algorithms and complexity results. A full version (with proofs) is available here and as a University of Maryland Tech Report.

• Techincal Reports
  1. Probabilistic Temporal Databases, I: Algebra Alex Dekhtyar, Robert Ross and V. S. Subrahmanian . (CS-TR-3987)

  2. Hybrid Probabilistic Programs: Algorithms and Complexity Michael Dekhtyar, Alex Dekhtyar and V. S. Subrahmanian. (CS-TR-3969)

• Refereed Papers
  1. Proof Procedures for Hybrid Probabilistic Programs, (1998) Alex Dekhtyar, V.S. Subrahmanian , Workshop on Probabilistic Logic and Randomized Computation, European Summer School on Logic, Language and Information'99, Saarbrueken, Germany.

• Refereed Papers
  1. Hybrid Probabilistic Programs, (1997) Alex Dekhtyar, V.S. Subrahmanian, in Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on Logic Programming, Leuven, Belgium, pp. 391-405.

• Techincal Reports
  1. Hybrid Probabilistic Programs Alex Dekhtyar and V. S. Subrahmanian. (CS-TR-3883)

• Refereed Papers
  1. Multiplicative Linear Logic for Resource Transformation Nets, Alexander M. Dekhtyar , in Proceedings of 1994 International Conference on Logic Foundations of Computer Science, St. Petersburg, Russia, LNCS, vol 620, pp. 81--88.

     A copy is available on the Springer's LNCS website.