Elissa Newman

I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. The program is part of the Institute for Software Research, International in the School of Computer Science. My advisor is Bill Scherlis. I work on the FLUID project.

Research

I am interested in the area of Aspect-Oriented Software Development, that includes such notable projects as AspectJ and Hyper/J. My research utilizes semantic code queries to enable the specification of semantic source code views (aka patterns, although not in the Gang-of-Four style).

Future work will include:

A query language for both Fluid's annotation-enabled analyses and other types of static program analysis
Visualizations for creating and maintaining source code views
Facilities for recording and persisting both the view creation sessions and the views
Defining semantic relationships between views and between view fragments

Publications

Elissa Newman and William L. Scherlis. “Toward Query-based Constraints” (Position Paper) Software engineering Properties for Languages for Aspect Technologies (SPLAT) 2003, at AOSD 2003, March 2003. Also available in .pdf and .ps formats.

Elissa Newman, Aaron Greenhouse, and William L. Scherlis. Annotation-Based Diagrams for Shared-Data
Concurrency. Presented at Workshop on Concurrency Issues in UML at <<UML 2001>>.

Elissa Newman. Localizing Views for Separation of Concerns (Position Paper). Workshop on Advanced
Separation of Concerns in Software Engineering at ICSE 2001, 15 May 2001.

Classes

Currently, I am working on my thesis proposal and am not taking any classes.

In Spring 2003 I took Jim Herbsleb's Empirical Methods in Software Engineering Research (17-810).

In Spring 2002 I took Mary Shaw and Richard Florida's Software Business Models course (17-910).

In Fall 2001 I took Mary Shaw's What Makes Good Software Engineering Research course (17-939A).

Teaching Assistantships

In Fall 2002, I co-taught Software Engineering for IT (15-383/11-791) with Eric Nyberg
Blackboard access for this course is available here.

In Fall 2001, I was a TA for Eric Nyberg's Software Engineering for IT course (15-383/11-791).

Schedule

Generally, I will try to be in my office 10 AM - 5 PM Monday through Friday, and elsewhere as noted below (and lunch in the SCS lounge, of course). Making appointments to see me, however, is advisable.

Day of the Week	Time	What	Where
Monday	10 am – 12 pm	Fluid meeting	Wean 5216
Thursday	2 pm – 3:30 pm	SSSG	Wean 8220

Contact

Office:
Wean 8101
412-268-3060
elissa@cs.cmu.edu

Mailing Address:
Elissa Newman
Carnegie Mellon University
Institute for Software Research International
Wean Hall 4604
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

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