John Homer Promotion Portfolio

September 10, 2012

Publications and Presentations

Filed under: — John Homer @ 10:20 pm

Scholarly works are listed in descending chronological order, with titles linking to abstracts. Impact data is shown where possible, and several works also have links to full texts.


Decision field theory with learning: Learning through experience to choose in an uncertain world.” Ryan Jessup, Alison Phillips, John Homer, Jerome Busemeyer. Presented at Society for Judgment and Decision Making conference, November 2018.

Metacognitive Difficulties Faced By Novice Programmers in Automated Assessment Tools.” James Prather, Ray Pettit, Kayla Holcomb McMurry, Alani Peters, John Homer, Maxine Cohen. In International Computing Education Research, August 2018.
h5-index: 19

On Novices’ Interaction with Compiler Error Messages: A Human Factors Approach.” James Prather, Ray Pettit, Kayla Holcomb, Alani Peters, John Homer, Nevan Simone, Maxine Cohen. In International Computing Education Research, August 2017.
h5-index: 19
citation: 8

Do Enhanced Compiler Error Messages Help Students? Results Inconclusive.” Ray Pettit, John Homer, Roger Gee. In SIGCSE Technical Symposium, March 2017.
h5-index: 32
citation: 10
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Risk Analysis with Execution-Based Model Generation.” Jaime Acosta, Edgar Padilla, John Homer. In Journal of Cyber Security and Information Systems, Volume 5, No. 1, December 2016.

Augmenting Attack Graphs to Represent Data Link and Network Layer Vulnerabilities.” Jaime Acosta, Edgar Padilla, John Homer. In IEEE Military Communications Conference, November 2016.
h5-index: 20
citation: 3
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Are Automated Assessment Tools Helpful in Programming Courses?” Ray Pettit, John Homer, Kayla Holcomb, Nevan Simone, Susan Mengel. In ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 2015.
h5-index: 8
citation: 11

An Empirical Study of Iterative Improvement in Programming Assignments.” Ray Pettit, John Homer, Susan Mengel, Roger Gee and Adam Starbuck. In SIGCSE Technical Symposium, March 2015.
h5-index: 32
citation: 10

Can There Be Too Much Choice? Empirical Explorations of Theoretical Predictions.” Ryan Jessup, Levi Ritchie and John Homer. In Society for Judgment and Decision Making 2014 Conference, November 2014.
h5-index: 27

Aggregating Vulnerability Metrics in Enterprise Networks using Attack Graphs.” John Homer, Su Zhang, Xinming Ou, David Schmidt, Yanhui Du, S. Raj Rajagopalan, and Anoop Singhal. In Journal of Computer Security, Volume 21, No. 4, September 2013.
h5-index: 17
citation: 58
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Testing Test-First First.” John Homer, Dwayne Towell and David Reynolds. In 2012 Association for Computer Educators in Texas Conference, November 2012.

Characterization of CS1 Student Programming.” Nigel Bosch, Dwayne Towell, and John Homer. In 2012 International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, July 2012.
citation: 2
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An Empirical Study of a Vulnerability Metric Aggregation Model.” Su Zhang, Xinming Ou, Anoop Singhal, and John Homer. In 2011 International Conference on Security and Management, special track on Mission Assurance and Critical Infrastructure Protection, July 2011.
citation: 12

Effective Network Vulnerability Assessment through Model Abstraction.” Su Zhang, Xinming Ou, and John Homer. In Eighth Conference on Detection of Intrusions and Malware & Vulnerability Assessment, July 2011.
citation: 20
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A Sound and Practical Approach to Quantifying Security Risk in Enterprise Networks.” John Homer, Xinming Ou, and David Schmidt. Technical report, Kansas State University, August 2009.
citation: 62

A Comprehensive Approach to Enterprise Network Security Management.” John Homer. Ph.D. dissertation, Kansas State University, May 2009.
citation: 8

SAT-Solving Approaches to Context-Aware Enterprise Network Security Management.” John Homer and Xinming Ou. In IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, special issue on Network Infrastructure Configuration, Volume 27, No. 3, April 2009.
h5-index: 83
citation: 51
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Improving Attack Graph Visualization through Data Reduction and Attack Grouping.” John Homer, Ashok Varikuti, Xinming Ou, and Miles McQueen. In 5th International Workshop on Visualization for Cyber Security, Sept. 2008.
citation: 74

“SAT-Solving Approaches to Context-Aware Enterprise Network Security Management.” Presented at 5th Midwest Security Workshop, April 2008.

From Attack Graphs to Automated Configuration Management – an Iterative Approach.” John Homer, Xinming Ou, and Miles McQueen. Technical report, Kansas State University, January 2008.
citation: 7


Sources for impact data

The significance of each work is shown, where possible, in the following data taken from Google Scholar in August 2018:

  • h5-index ratings (for each conference or journal)
  • citation counts (specific to my paper or article)

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