Elliot J. Chikofsky
Selected Bibliography
Books and Videotapes
Chikofsky. Computer-Aided Software Engineering. 2nd edition, IEEE Computer Society
Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1993
Chikofsky. Reverse Engineering. 3-hour videotape lecture, IEEE Computer Society
Press, Los Alamitos, CA, 1991
Chikofsky. AD/Cycle Information Model: Tool Builder's Guide to the Enterprise Model,
IBM Corporation, Cary, NC, 1990
The "how to" guidebook introducing the Enterprise Model of IBM's AD/Cycle initiative to
tool builders.
Chikofsky. CASE Technology. 3-hour videotape lecture, 1990, IEEE Computer Society
Press, Los Alamitos, CA
Representative Articles and Publications
Chikofsky. "Making Architecture Compliance Practical"
presentation at the 2013 IEEE/ACM Information Technology Professional Conference,
Trenton NJ, March 2013.
Chikofsky. "IT Portfolio: Managing for Capability and IT Value"
seminar notes and materials (3-day seminar), Intervista Institute, several cities, 2013+.
Chikofsky. "Using the ACART Process for Architecture Compliance"
Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering,
IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009.
Chikofsky. "IT Portfolio Management"
seminar notes and materials (2-day seminar), Intervista Institute, several cities, 2008-2012.
Chikofsky. "Understanding Architecture Compliance and ACART"
presentation at DoD Systems and Software Technology Conference, Las Vegas, NV, April 2008.
Chikofsky. "IT Investment and Portfolio Management in U.S. Government Agencies"
IEEE Equity - conference on quantifiable IT yields, 2007.
Chikofsky. "Turning Portfolio Management into Decisions"
Proceedings, DoD Software and Systems Technology Conference (SSTC), 2006.
Chikofsky. "Making Decisions on Systems"
IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2006.
Chikofsky. "Reverse Engineering: A Valuable Double-Edged Sword."
Foreword for Eldad Eilam's Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering.
Wiley, 2005.
Chikofsky. "On the Meeting of Software Architecture and Reverse Engineering"
Proceedings, IEEE/IFIP Working Conference on Software Architecture (WICSA), 2005.
Chikofsky. "Why is my Agency introducing Portfolio Management?"
Proceedings, DoD Software and Systems Technology Conference (SSTC), 2005.
Chikofsky. "Learning from Past Trial and Error: Some History of Reverse Engineering to Requirements"
Reverse Engineering to Requirements Workshop (RETR), 2005.
Chikofsky. "How Tools Kill Productivity - and What to Do About It"
Proceedings, DoD Software and Systems Technology Conference (SSTC), 2004.
Chikofsky. "Collaboration and Integration through the DFAS System Life Cycle"
Intercom magazine, U.S. Air Force, March 2003.
Chikofsky (ed.) Reengineering Forum Europe 2000 (euroREF) Proceedings.
Reengineering Forum, 29 February 2000.
Chikofsky, Rubin. "Using Metrics to Justify Investment in IT"
IT Professional magazine, IEEE Computer Society, March/April 1999.
Chikofsky. Technical Architecture and Technology Infrastructure - technical report on
Rome Laboratory's IT technical architecture developed for the Standards-Based
Architecture program, Rome NY, DMR Trecom, February 1997.
Chikofsky. "The Necessity of Data Reverse Engineering."
Foreword for Peter Aiken's Data Reverse Engineering.
McGraw Hill, 1996.
Waters, Chikofsky. "Reverse Engineering" - guest editors' introduction in
Communications of the ACM, May 1994.
Chikofsky, Norman. "Computer-Aided Software Engineering"
Encyclopedia of Software
Engineering, John Wiley, 1994.
Chikofsky, Cross. "Reverse Engineering"
Encyclopedia of Software Engineering,
John Wiley, 1994.
Selfridge, Waters, Chikofsky. "Challenges to the Field of Reverse Engineering" Proc.
Working Conference on Reverse Engineering , IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993
Chikofsky. "Why do many good tools fail in practice?"
Software Engineering Productivity Handbook, McGraw-Hill, 1993
Cross, May, Chikofsky. "Reverse Engineering"
Advances in Computers, vol. 35,
Academic Press, 1992
Chikofsky, Martin, Chang. "Assessing the State of Tools Assessment."
IEEE Software,
May 1992
Chikofsky. "Software History Should Be Required Reading."
IEEE Software, Manager
column, May 1992
Chikofsky. "Untying the Spaghetti"
Datamation, April 15, 1992
Chikofsky. "Bridging CASE and 4GL for Better Application Systems"
Profiles magazine,
Progress Software, 1991
Chikofsky. "Design Recovery: It's Not Black Magic Anymore"
Software Engineering: Tools, Techniques, Practice,
Auerbach Publishers, November/December 1991
Chikofsky. "Downsizing to the Fourth Power"
American Programmer, August 1991
Chikofsky. "Repository Etiquette"
Software magazine, March 10, 1991
Chikofsky. "Repository Wars - Can we make a repository foster cooperation?"
American Programmer, Dec 1990
Chikofsky. "Using CASE to leverage existing systems"
Computing Canada, October 25,
1990
Chikofsky. "Can CASE Save Our Aging Information Systems?"
CASE Directions magazine,
Index Technology, 1990
Chikofsky. "AD/Cycle Enterprise Model - Enterprise Model Seminar." (tutorial
presentation and notes)
Sole instructor of private 3-day tutorial seminar for CASE companies participating
in IBM's AD/Cycle initiative,
IBM Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC, August 1990
Chikofsky. "The Database as a Business Road Map - Reading Business Problems from
the Database Structure."
Database Programming & Design magazine, May 1990
Chikofsky, Cross. "Reverse Engineering and Design Recovery - a Taxonomy."
IEEE Software, January 1990
Chikofsky. "CASE & Reengineering: From Archeology to Software Perestroika."
Proc. 12th Intl. Conference on Software Engineering (Nice, France, 1990), panelist
position paper
Chikofsky. "CASE: Status and Trends."
Keynote address at 4th Sigma Project
Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, 1989
Chikofsky. "Applying Earlier Lessons Learned to Object-Oriented Databases
for Software Design."
Proc. 1989 ACM SIGMOD Workshop on Software CAD Databases (Napa, CA, 1989),
ACM, 1989
Chikofsky. "How to Make an Investment in CASE Payoff"
CIO Magazine, February
1989
Chikofsky (ed.). Advance Working Papers: Second Intl. Workshop on Computer-Aided
Software Engineering, 2 volumes,
CASE '88, Cambridge, MA, 1988
Chikofsky, Rubenstein. "CASE: Reliability Engineering for Information Systems."
IEEE Software, March 1988
Chikofsky. "Issues in the Transfer of Software Engineering Tool Technology."
Proc.
Workshop on Transferring Software Engineering Tool Technology, IEEE Computer
Society Press, 1988
Chikofsky, Teichroew. "Generating Flexible Methodology-Specific System Development
Support Environments."
Proc. Softfair II, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1985
Chikofsky, Teichroew. "Application of an Information Systems Analysis and Design Tool
to the Maintenance Effort."
IFIP TC Working Conference on System Description
Methodologies (Kecskamet, Hungary, May 1983), North-Holland, 1985
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