Warren's Publications

Digital Forensics

• W. Harrison, G. Heuston, W. Harrison, S. Mocas, M. Morrissey and J. Richardson, "High Tech Forensics: Serving as a Police Reserve Specialist", Communications of the ACM, Volume 47, #7, pp 48-52, July 2004.
• W. Harrison, "The Digital Detective: An Introduction to Digital Forensics", in Advances in Computers, Volume 60, edited by M. Zelkowitz, Academic Press, 2004.
• W. Harrison, D. Aucsmith, G. Heuston, S. Mocas, M. Morrissey, S. Russelle, "A Lessons Learned Repository for Computer Forensics", the International Journal of Digital Evidence, Fall 2002.

Software Measurement

• W. Harrison, "A flexible method for maintaining software metrics data: a universal metrics repository", Journal of Systems and Software, 72 (2004) pp. 225-234.
• W. Harrison, "Software Measurement: a Decision Process Approach", in Advances in Computers, Volume 39, edited by Marshall Yovits, Academic Press, 1994, pp 51-105.
• W. Harrison, "An Entropy-Based Measure of Software Complexity", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , November 1992, pp 1025-1029.
• W. Harrison, "Software Measurement and Metrics", Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Volume 26, edited by A. Kent and J. Williams, Marcel Dekker, Inc., 1992, pp 363-373.
• W. Harrison, "Towards Well-Defined, Shareable Product Data", in Experimental Software Engineering Issues: Critical Assessment and Future Directions, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. #706 (1993), pp 107-110, edited by H. Dieter Rombach, Victor R. Basili and Richard W. Selby, Springer-Verlag.
• W. Harrison, K. Magel, R. Kluczny and A. DeKock, "Applying Software Complexity Metrics to Program Maintenance", IEEE Tutorial on Software Re-Structuring, edited by B. Arnold, 1988. Originally appeared in IEEE Computer, September 1982, pp 65-79
• W. Harrison, "Using Software Metrics to Allocate Testing Resources", the Journal of Management Information Systems, Spring 1988, pp 93-105.
• W. Harrison, "MAE: A Syntactic Metric Analysis Environment", Journal of Systems and Software, January 1988, pp 57-62.
• W. Harrison, K. Magel, R. Kluczny and A. DeKock, "Applying Software Complexity Metrics to Program Maintenance", IEEE Computer, September 1982, pp 65-79. Also reprinted in IEEE Tutorial on Software Re-Structuring, edited by B. Arnold, 1988.
• W. Harrison and C. Cook, "A Macro/Micro Measure of Software Complexity", The Journal of Systems and Software, September 1987, pp 213-219.
• W. Harrison and C. Cook, "Are Deeply Nested Conditionals Less Readable?", the Journal of Systems and Software, November 1986, pp 335-341.
• W. Harrison and C. Cook, "A Note on the Style Metric of Berry and Meekings", Communications of the ACM, February 1986, pp 123-125.
• W. Harrison, "Applying McCabe's Complexity Measure to Multiple-Exit Programs", Software - Practice & Experience, October 1984, pp 28-30.
• W. Harrison, "Software Complexity Metrics", Journal of Systems Management, July 1984, pp 28-30.

Software Engineering Economics

• W. Harrison. "Mitigating Risk Using Portfolios in Software Development Projects" , the Fourth International Economics Driven Software Engineering Workshop, co-lo cated w/ICSE. May, 2002. Orlando, Florida.
• W. Harrison, Using the Economic Value of the Firm as a Basis for Assessing the Value of Process Improvements, Proceedings of the 2001 NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Workshop, November 2001, College Park Maryland, 2001.
• W. Harrison, Process Improvement as a Capital Investment: Risks and Deferred Paybacks, Proceedings of Quality Week, 2001, May 29 - June 1, 2001, San Francisco, California
• W. Harrison, What Does a Software Engineer Need to Know about Economics and Finance, and Why?, Third International Workshop on Economics-Driven Software Engineering Research, co-Located with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2001, May 14 - May 15, 2001, Toronto, Canada
• W. Harrison, J. Settle and D. Raffo, Assessing the Value of Improved Predictability due to Process Improvements , Third International Workshop on Economics-Driven Software Engineering Research, co-Located with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2001, May 14 - May 15, 2001, Toronto, Canada
• D. Raffo, W. Harrison, J. Settle and N. Eickelmann, "The Role of Defect Potential in Understanding the Economic Value of Process Improvements", Proceedings of the American Conference on Information Systems, Long Beach, CA, August, 2000.
• D. Raffo and W. Harrison, "Moving Toward CMM Levels 4 and 5: Combining Models and Metrics to Achieve Quantitative Process Management", Proceedings of the American Conference on Information Systems, Long Beach, CA, August, 2000.
• D. Raffo and W. Harrison, "Combining Process Feedback with Discrete Event Simulation Models to Support Software Project Management", Proceedings of the International Workshop on Feedback and Evolution in Software and Business Processes, London, UK, July 2000.
• D. Raffo, W. Harrison, J. Settle and N. Eickelmann, "Understanding the Role of Defect Potential in Assessing the Economic Value of Process Improvements" Proceedings of the Workshop on Economics Driven Software Engineering Research, International Conference on Software Engineering, Limerick, Ireland, June 2000.
• D. Raffo, W. Harrison, and J. Vandeville, "Coordinating Models and Metrics to Ma nage Software Projects, International Journal of Software Process Improvement an d Practice, 5:2/3, June/September, 2000, pages 159-168.
• W. Harrison, D. Raffo, J. Settle, and N. Eickelmann, "Adapting Financial Measure s: Making a Business Case for Software Process Improvement", Software Quality Jo urnal, Volume 8, Number 3, 1999.
• W. Harrison, D. Raffo, and J. Settle, "Process Improvement as a Capital Investme nt: Risks and Deferred Paybacks", Proceedings of the Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference, Portland, Oregon, October, 1999.

Other Software Engineering

• W. Harrison, "A Software Engineering Lessons Learned Repository", the Proceedings of the 2002 NASA/IEEE Software Engineering Workshop, December 2002, College Park Maryland.
• W. Harrison, "Using Service Specific Proxies to migrate web services to the 'Wireless Web': an illustrative case study of Adaptive Maintenance", Proceeding of the IEEE international Conference on Software Maintenance, October 2002, Montreal Canada.