Phone: (540) 231-1132
Fax: (540) 231-6075
Email: sbohner@vt.edu
Office: 3160 Torgersen Hall

Biographical Sketch

Shawn Bohner is an Associate Professor of Computer Science. His research focuses largely on engineering software systems that are change tolerant and evolve effectively with their environments. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he was Vice President of Performance Engineering at the META Group (now Gartner Group), a leading syndicated research and advisory firm where he directed the research program for the quantitative arm of the company serving Global 2000 Information Technology executives. Dr. Bohner has also held responsible positions at the MITRE Corporation, GTE Laboratories, the Software Productivity Consortium, and Ford's Western Development Laboratories. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. from George Mason University. He is active in both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Bohner is a past member of the Executive Committee for the IEEE Technical Council on Software Engineering and is past Chair of the ACM Professional Development Committee in Washington, DC. Dr. Bohner is the co-Editor and Chief for the Journal on Innovations in System and Software Engineering, ACM Computing Reviews Category Editor (Software), and a member of the editorial board for the Journal on Software Maintenance and Evolution.

A more detail version of my Curriculum Vitae.

Teaching

Research Interests

Dr. Bohner's more recent research projects include architecture dependency analysis in the UML Design Advisor (Siemens Research); IBM UIMA Innovation Grant Award (Integrating Immersive Visual Analytics with UIMA"; Visualization Systems Assessment (SAIC/RDEC) with Nick Stone; National Science Foundation (NSF) Critical Research Infrastructure (CRI) with Francis Quek, Doug Bowman, Chris North, Deborah Tatar, and Woodrow Winchester; Model-Driven architecture for agent based architectures (Cougaar/DARPA) with Denis Gracanin and Michael Hinchey; Security Impact Analysis Virtual Environment (Commonwealth Information Security Center) with Denis Gracanin.

Currently in-process: - an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) partner proposal called the Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) with University of Florida and George Washington University (See http://www.chrec.ufl.edu/).

Selected Publications

1. Bohner, S., Hartman, B., Eltoweissy, M., and Gracanin, D. "Agents in Service-Oriented Wireless Sensor Networks," International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing, February 2005.

2. Gracanin, D., Bohner, S., Hinchey, M., and Eltoweissy, M., "Model-Driven Architecture for Autonomic Systems," Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering Journal, 2006, IOS Press (To appear).

3. Bohner, S., George, B., Gracanin, D., and Hinchey, M., "Formalism Challenges of the Cougaar Model Driven Architecture," Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems (FAABS III), selected and expanded for Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag GmbH, Jan. 2005.

4. Gracanin, D., Singh, H.L., Bohner, S., and Hinchey, M., "Model-Driven Architecture for Agent-Based Systems," Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems (FAABS III), selected and expanded for Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag GmbH, January 2005.

5. George, B., Bohner, S., and He, N., Towards A Model Level Debugger for the Cougaar Model Driven Architecture System, WRAC-2005, Greenbelt, MD, IEEE Press, September 2005.

6. George, B., Singh, H., Bohner, S., and Gracanin, D., Requirements Capture for Cougaar Model-Driven Architecture System, IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-29), Greenbelt, MD, December 2004.

7. Gracanin, D. Singh, H., Hinchey, M., Eltoweissy, M., and Bohner, S., Agent Modeling Framework for Cougaar Agent-Based Architecture, Proceedings of the 12th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2005), Greenbelt, MD, Apr 4-7, 2005.

8. Smith, J. and Bohner, S., "Toward Introducing Notification Technology into Distributed Project Teams," Proceedings of the 12th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2005), Greenbelt, MD, Apr 4-7, 2005.

9. Coram, M. and Bohner, S., "Impact of Agile Methods on Software Project Management," Proceedings of the 12th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2005), Greenbelt, MD, Apr 4-7, 2005.

10. Singh, H., George, B., Gracanin, D., Bohner, S., and Hinchey, M., "A Metamodel for Requirements Transformation in a Model Driven Architecture based System," Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Integrated Design and Process Technology (IDPT), 2005.

11. Smith, J., Bohner, S., and McCrickard, S., "Toward Introducing Notification Technology into Distributed Teams: Supporting Risk Management in Collaborative Design," Association for Computing Machinery Southeast Conference (ACMSE-05), Kennesaw, Georgia, March 18-20, 2005.

12. Bohner, S., and Gracanin, D., "Software Impact Analysis in a Virtual Environment," IEEE/NASA Software Engineering Workshop, Greenbelt, MD, December 2003.

13. Gracanin, D., Bohner, S., and Hinchey, M., "A Model-Driven Architecture for Intelligent Agent-Based Systems," Third NASA/IEEE Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems (FAABS III), Greenbelt, MD, April 2004.

14. George, B., Bohner, S., and Prieto-Diaz, R., "Software Information Leaks: A Complexity Perspective," 9th IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Florence, Italy, April 2004.

15. Gracanin, D., Bohner, S., and Hinchey, M., "Towards a Model-Driven Architecture for Autonomic Systems," 11th IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems (ECBS-04), Brno, Czech Republic, May 2004.

Personal Interests

Bushin Kan at Virginia Tech - Martial Arts Program at the War Memorial Gym

Rotary Club - Service above Self in the Local Blacksburg area and Internationally.