Richard A. DeMillo

7.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
61 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Richard A. DeMillo is a scholar working on Software, Artificial Intelligence and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. DeMillo has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Software, 17 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 14 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Richard A. DeMillo's work include Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (19 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (15 papers) and Software Engineering Research (8 papers). Richard A. DeMillo is often cited by papers focused on Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (19 papers), Software Reliability and Analysis Research (15 papers) and Software Engineering Research (8 papers). Richard A. DeMillo collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Richard A. DeMillo's co-authors include Frederick Sayward, R.J. Lipton, Richard J. Lipton, Eugene H. Spafford, Hiralal Agrawal, Dan Boneh, A. Jefferson Offutt, David Dobkin, Anita K. Jones and Wendy McCracken and has published in prestigious journals such as Communications of the ACM, ACM Computing Surveys and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. DeMillo

58 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Hints on Test Data Selection: Help for the Practicing Programmer

1978 1.4k citations Richard A. DeMillo, R.J. Lipton et al. Computer profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Richard A. DeMillo United States	24	2.3k	1.6k	1.0k	610	525	61	3.7k
R.J. Lipton United States	19	1.3k 0.6×	878 0.5×	664 0.6×	562 0.9×	387 0.7×	50	2.5k
Paul Ammann United States	31	2.7k 1.2×	2.5k 1.5×	709 0.7×	1.8k 3.0×	1.1k 2.1×	113	4.6k
Mauro Pezzè Italy	34	2.4k 1.0×	2.1k 1.3×	908 0.9×	1.2k 1.9×	394 0.8×	184	3.6k
Sriram K. Rajamani United States	33	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	2.0k 1.9×	798 1.3×	626 1.2×	115	3.9k
Brenda S. Baker United States	22	570 0.2×	831 0.5×	671 0.6×	700 1.1×	459 0.9×	44	3.0k
Atanas Rountev United States	36	1.6k 0.7×	1.6k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	1.7k 2.8×	1.0k 1.9×	133	3.7k
Yannis Smaragdakis United States	35	2.0k 0.9×	2.4k 1.5×	2.0k 1.9×	1.4k 2.3×	1.0k 2.0×	128	4.4k
Todd Millstein United States	36	987 0.4×	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.8×	1.5k 2.5×	564 1.1×	115	3.5k
Jens Palsberg United States	31	828 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	2.5k 2.4×	1.1k 1.8×	383 0.7×	202	3.6k
Gregor von Bochmann Canada	28	1.7k 0.7×	865 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	1.2k 1.9×	227 0.4×	225	3.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Barenji, Ali Vatankhah, et al.. (2023). An Agent-Based Simulation Platform for a Safe Election: From Design to Simulation. Information. 14(10). 529–529.

Appel, Andrew W., Richard A. DeMillo, & Philip B. Stark. (2020). Ballot-Marking Devices Cannot Ensure the Will of the Voters. Election Law Journal Rules Politics and Policy. 19(3). 432–450. 11 indexed citations

DeMillo, Richard A.. (2012). Keeping technology promises. Communications of the ACM. 55(11). 37–39.

DeMillo, Richard A.. (2011). Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities. 27 indexed citations

DeMillo, Richard A., et al.. (2003). An extended overview of the Mothra software testing environment. 142–151. 99 indexed citations

Boneh, Dan, Richard A. DeMillo, & Richard J. Lipton. (2000). On the Importance of Eliminating Errors in Cryptographic Computations. Journal of Cryptology. 14(2). 101–119. 254 indexed citations

DeMillo, Richard A.. (1998). The Internet as a Telephone Network.. 33(1). 12–16. 1 indexed citations

Rice, John & Richard A. DeMillo. (1994). Studies in computer science: in honor of Samuel D. Conte. Plenum Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations

Agrawal, Hiralal, Richard A. DeMillo, & Eugene H. Spafford. (1993). Debugging with dynamic slicing and backtracking. Software Practice and Experience. 23(6). 589–616. 224 indexed citations

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DeMillo, Richard A.. (1991). Progress toward automated software testing. International Conference on Software Engineering. 180–183. 4 indexed citations

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Agrawal, Hiralal, Richard A. DeMillo, & Eugene H. Spafford. (1988). An Execution Backtracking Approach to Program Debugging. 4 indexed citations

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DeMillo, Richard A., George I. Davida, David Dobkin, Michael R. Harrison, & Richard B. Lipton. (1983). Applied Cryptology, Cryptographic Protocols, and Computer Security Models. 5 indexed citations

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DeMillo, Richard A.. (1980). Mutation Analysis as a Tool for Software Quality Assurance.. Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). 19 indexed citations

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Davida, George I., Richard A. DeMillo, & Richard J. Lipton. (1980). Protecting Shared Cryptographic Keys. 100–100. 5 indexed citations

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DeMillo, Richard A. & Richard J. Lipton. (1979). A constructive generalization of the borel-cantelli lemma with application to the complexity of infinite strings. Theory of Computing Systems. 13(1). 95–104. 1 indexed citations

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Budd, Timothy A., Richard J. Lipton, Richard A. DeMillo, & Frederick Sayward. (1978). The design of a prototype mutation system for program testing.. 623–629. 59 indexed citations

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DeMillo, Richard A., Stanley C. Eisenstat, & Richard J. Lipton. (1978). Preserving average proximity in arrays. Communications of the ACM. 21(3). 228–231. 33 indexed citations

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DeMillo, Richard A., R.J. Lipton, & Frederick Sayward. (1978). Hints on Test Data Selection: Help for the Practicing Programmer. Computer. 11(4). 34–41. 1403 indexed citations breakdown →

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DeMillo, Richard A., Richard J. Lipton, & Alan J. Perlis. (1977). Social processes and proofs of theorems and programs. 206–214. 33 indexed citations

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DeMillo, Richard A., Stanley C. Eisenstat, & R.J. Lipton. (1976). Can structured programs be efficient?. ACM SIGPLAN Notices. 11(10). 10–18. 6 indexed citations

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