UA Computer Scientist Co-Authors Two of Journal’s Most Downloaded Articles of Year

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Two research articles co-authored by a University of Alabama computer scientist are among 2010’s “Top 25 Hottest Articles” appearing in the scientific journal Information and Software Technology, according to an online database regularly accessed by nearly 11 million users. 

ScienceDirect lists articles written by Dr. Jeffrey Carver, assistant professor of computer science at The University of Alabama, and collaborators from Mississippi State University as the year’s sixth and 22^nd most downloaded articles from the journal. 

One of the articles, published in January 2010, is a literature survey that identifies the characteristics of software changes that can result in the undesired degradation of software architecture.   

The other article, published in July 2009, details the researchers’ efforts to improve software quality by classifying the sources of software requirement errors documented in a review of 149 scholarly articles.  

The journal’s most downloaded papers in 2010 include those published from as far back as 2003. 

Carver, who joined UA in 2008 following four years as an assistant professor at Mississippi State University, has shared in the awarding of some $1.5 million in funding for software-related research. 

UA’s department of computer science is part of the University’s College of Engineering. In 1837, The University of Alabama became one of the first five universities in the nation to offer engineering classes. Today, UA’s fully accredited College of Engineering has more than 2,700 students and more than 100 faculty. In the last eight years, students in the College have been named USA Today All-USA College Academic Team members, Goldwater scholars, Hollings scholars and Portz scholars.