Research

My research is currently related to the following two major topics . . .

Natural Language Program Analysis:

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David Shepherd, Zachary P. Fry, Emily Gibson, Kisehn Maloor, Lori Pollock, and K. Vijay-Shanker, "Introducing NLPA", a group presentation at the Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE), 2007.

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David Shepherd, Zachary P. Fry, Emily Gibson, Lori Pollock, and K. Vijay-Shanker, "Using Natural Language Program Analysis to Locate and Understand Action-Oriented Concerns", accepted for publication at the International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development, 2007.

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David Shepherd, Lori Pollock, and K. Vijay-Shanker, "Towards Supporting On-Demand Virtual Remodularization Using Program Graphs", International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development, 2006.

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David Shepherd, Tom Tourwe, and Lori Pollock, "Using Language Clues to Discover Crosscutting Concerns", Workshop on the Modeling and Analysis of Concerns at  the International Conference of Software Engineering 2005. 

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David Shepherd and Lori Pollock,  "Aspects, Views, and Interfaces" Workshop on Linking Aspect Technology and Evolution at the International Conference on Aspect Oriented Software Development 2005. 

Aspect Mining:

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David Shepherd, Lori Pollock, and K. Vijay-Shanker, "Case Study: Supplementing Program Analysis with Natural Language Analysis to Improve a Reverse Engineering Task", Workshop on Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE 2007), June 2007.

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David Shepherd, Jeffrey Palm, Lori Pollock and Mark Chu-Carroll,  "Timna: A Framework for Automatically Combining Aspect Mining Analyses",  Full length paper at the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering 2005.

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David Shepherd, Jeffrey Palm, and Lori Pollock,  "The Fast Prototyping and Evaluation of Aspect Mining Analyses via Timna",  Workshop on Aspect Reverse Engineering at the  Working Conference on Reverse Engineering 2004.

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David Shepherd, Emily Gibson, and Lori Pollock,  "Design and Evaluation of an Automated Aspect Mining Tool", Software Engineering Research and Practice, 2004.

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Ophir: A Framework for Automatic Mining and Refactoring of Aspects

Other Research:

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David Shepherd, Thomas Roper, and Lori Pollock. "Using AOP to Ease Evolution", International Conference on Software Maintenance Industrial Track, 2005. (work done as intern at Quantum Leap)

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Amie Souter, David Shepherd, and Lori Pollock. "Testing with Respect to Concerns", International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2003.

Related Workshops:

WARE - Nov 2004
LATE - March 2005, March 2006, March 2007
MACS - May 2005