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Cemal Yılmaz Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Faculty Member (216) 483 9532 cemalyilmazsabanciunivedu

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http://people.sabanciuniv.edu/cyilmaz/

Jobs

Faculty Member

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, 2005. M.S. in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, USA, 2002. M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering and Information Science, Bilkent University, Ankara, 1999 and 1997, respectively.

Areas of Interest

Software Engineering; Software Security; Software Quality Assurance; Software Testing; Data-Driven Dynamic Program Analysis

Memberships

IEEE

Aktas, Ethem Utku and Cakmak, Ebru and Inan, Mete Cihad and Yılmaz, Cemal (2024) "Improving the quality of software issue report descriptions in Turkish: an industrial case study at Softtech", Empirical Software Engineering, Vol.29, No.2 (SCI)

Javeed, Arsalan and Yılmaz, Cemal and Savaş, Erkay (2023) "Microarchitectural side-channel threats, weaknesses and mitigations: a systematic mapping study", IEEE Access, Vol.11, 48945-48976 (SCI)

Azimi, Mohammad Yusaf and Elgun, Celal Cagin and Firat, Atil and Erata, Ferhat and Yılmaz, Cemal (2023) "AdapTV: a model-based test adaptation approach for end-to-end user interface testing of smart TVs", IEEE Access, Vol.11, 32095-32118 (SCI)

Aktaş, Ethem Utku and Yılmaz, Cemal (2022) "Using screenshot attachments in issue reports for triaging", Empirical Software Engineering, Vol.27, No.7 (SCI)

Mercan, Hanefi and Aytar, Atakan and Coşkun, Giray and Müstecep, Dilara and Uzer, Gülsüm and Yılmaz, Cemal (2022) "CIT-daily: a combinatorial interaction testing-based daily build process", Journal of Systems and Software, Vol.190 (SCI)

Mercan, Hanefi and Javeed, Arsalan and Yılmaz, Cemal (2022) "Flexible combinatorial interaction testing", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.48, No.3, 1030-1066 (SCI)

Javeed, Arsalan and Yılmaz, Cemal and Savaş, Erkay (2021) "Detector+: an approach for detecting, isolating, and preventing timing attacks", Computers and Security, Vol.110 (SCI)

Akyıldız, Taha Atahan and Güzgeren, Can Berk and Yılmaz, Cemal and Savaş, Erkay (2020) "MeltdownDetector: a runtime approach for detecting meltdown attacks", Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol.112, 136-147 (SCI)

Aktas, Ethem Utku and Yılmaz, Cemal (2020) "Automated issue assignment: results and insights from an industrial case", Empirical Software Engineering, Vol.25, No.5, 3544-3589 (SCI)

Ahmed, Bestoun S. and Gargantini, Angelo and Zamli, Kamal Z. and Yılmaz, Cemal and Bures, Miroslav and Szeles, Marek (2019) "Code-aware combinatorial interaction testing", IET Software, Vol.13, No.6, 600-609 (SCI)

Mercan, Hanefi and Yılmaz, Cemal and Kaya, Kamer (2019) "CHiP: a configurable hybrid parallel covering array constructor", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.45, No.12, 1270-1291 (SCI)

Külah, Yusuf and Dinçer, Berkay and Yılmaz, Cemal and Savaş, Erkay (2019) "SpyDetector: an approach for detecting side-channel attacks at runtime", International Journal of Information Security, Vol.18, No.4, 393-422 (SCI)

Koç, Uğur and Yılmaz, Cemal (2018) "Approaches for computing test-case-aware covering arrays", Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, Vol.28, No.7 (SCI)

Atıcı, Ali Can and Yılmaz, Cemal and Savaş, Erkay (2018) "Cache-timing attacks without a profiling phase", Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Vol.26, No.4, 1953-1966 (SCI)

Yenigün, Hüsnü and Yılmaz, Cemal and Ulrich, Andreas (2016) "Advances in test generation for testing software and systems", International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer, Vol.18, No.3, 245-249 (SCI)

Özçelik, Burcu and Yılmaz, Cemal (2016) "Seer: a lightweight online failure prediction approach", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.42, No.1, 26-46 (SCI)

Savaş, Erkay and Yılmaz, Cemal (2015) "A generic method for the analysis of a class of cache attacks: a case study for AES", Computer Journal, Vol.58, No.10, 2716-2737 (SCI)

Yılmaz, Cemal and Fouche, Sandro and Cohen, Myra B. and Porter, Adam and Demiröz, Gülşen and Koç, Uğur (2014) "Moving forward with combinatorial interaction testing", Computer, Vol.47, No.2, 37-45 (SCI)

Yılmaz, Cemal and Dumlu, Emine and Cohen, Myra B. and Porter, Adam (2014) "Reducing masking effects in combinatorial interaction testing: a feedback driven adaptive approach", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.40, No.1, 43-66 (SCI)

Yılmaz, Cemal (2013) "Test case-aware combinatorial interaction testing", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol.39, No.5, 684-706 (SCI)

JOURNAL AND MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS

Cemal Yilmaz, Adam A. Porter, Arvind S. Krishna, Atif M. Memon, Douglas C. Schmidt, A. S. Gokhale, B. Natarajan, "Reliable Effects Screening: A Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance Process for Monitoring Performance Degradation in Evolving Software Systems", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 33(2): 124-141, 2007.

Adam Porter, Cemal Yilmaz, Atif Memon, Douglas C. Schmidt, Bala Natarajan, "Skoll: A Process and Infrastructure for Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 33(8): 510-525, Aug. 2007.

Cemal Yilmaz, Myra Cohen, Adam Porter, "Covering Arrays for Efficient Fault Characterization in Complex Configuration Spaces", IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 32(1): 20-34, Jan. 2006.

Adam Porter, Cemal Yilmaz, Atif M. Memon, Arvind S. Krishna, Douglas C. Schmidt, A. S. Gokhale, "Techniques and processes for improving the quality and performance of open-source software", Software Process: Improvement and Practice Journal 11(2): 163-176, 2006.

Arvind S. Krishna, Douglas C. Schmidt, Atif Memon, Adam Porter, Cemal Yilmaz, "A Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance process to Manage Variability in Performance-intensive Software", Studia Informatica Universalis 4(1), 53-72, 2005.

Arvind S. Krishna, Cemal Yilmaz, Atif Memon, Adam Porter, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha Gokhale, and Balachandran Natarajan, "Preserving Distributed System's Critical Properties: A Model-Driven Approach", IEEE Software Special Issue on the Persistent Software Attributes 21(6), 32-40, 2004.

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PUBLICATIONS

Cemal Yilmaz, Amit Paradkar, and Clay Williams, "Time Will Tell: Fault Localization Using Time Spectra", Proceedings of the 30th international Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '08), pp. 81-90, Leipzig, Germany, May 10 - 18, 2008.

Matthew Kaplan, Tim Klinger, Amit M. Paradkar, Avik Sinha, Clay Williams, Cemal Yilmaz, "Less is More: A Minimalistic Approach to UML Model-Based Conformance Test Generation," International Conference on Software Testing (ICST '08), Verification, and Validation, pp. 82-91, 2008

Cemal Yilmaz and Clay Williams, "An Automated Model-Based Debugging Approach", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE '07), pp. 174-183, Atlanta, Georgia, November 5-9, 2007.

Matthew Kaplan, Tracy Kimbrel, Kevin Mckenzie, Richard Prewitt, Maxim Sviridenko, Clay Williams and Cemal Yilmaz, "Test Machine Scheduling and Optimization for z/OS", IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling (CISched '07), pp. 27-24, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1-5, 2007.

Cemal Yilmaz, Arvind S. Krishna, Atif Memon, Adam Porter, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha Gokhale, and Balachandran Natarajan, "Main Effects Screening: A Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance Process for Monitoring Performance Degradation in Evolving Software Systems", Proceedings of the 27th international Conference on Software engineering (ICSE '05), pp. 293-302, St. Louis, Missouri, 15-21 May, 2005.

Cemal Yilmaz, Cagatay Catal, Oya Kalipsiz and Adam Porter, "Dagitik Kalite Guvencesi", Turkish International Symposium on Software Engineering (UYMS '05), Ankara, Turkey, September, 2005.

Cemal Yilmaz, Myra Cohen, and Adam Porter, "Covering Arrays for Efficient Fault Characterization in Complex Configuration Spaces", International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA '04), pp. 45-54, Boston, Massachusetts, July 11-14, 2004.

Atif Memon, Adam Porter, Cemal Yilmaz, Adithya Nagarajan, Douglas C. Schmidt, and Bala Natarajan, "Skoll: Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance", Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE '04), pp. 459-468, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, May 23-28, 2004.

Cemal Yilmaz, Arvind S. Krishna, Atif Memon, Adam Porter, Douglas C. Schmidt, Aniruddha Gokhale, and Balachandran Natarajan, "A Model-based Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance Process to Enhance the Quality of Service of Evolving Performance-intensive Software Systems", Proceedings of the ICSE Workshop on Remote Analysis and Measurement of Software Systems (RAMSS), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, May 23-28, 2004.

Emre Turkay, Arvind S. Krishna, Aniruddha Gokhale, Douglas Schmidt, Bala Natarajan, Adam Porter, Cemal Yilmaz, Atif Memon, "Model-Driven Quality Assurance Techniques for Distributed Real-time and Embedded Systems", In Proceedings of the OMG Real-Time and Embedded Systems Workshop, July 2004.

Adam Porter, Atif Memon, and Cemal Yilmaz, Don Hinton, Arvind Krishna, and Douglas C. Schmidt, "Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance for Distributed and Real-time Systems", In Proceedings of the 4th Annual Workshop on TAO and CIAO, Alexandria, VA, July 2004.

Cemal Yilmaz, Adam Porter, and Douglas C. Schmidt, "Distributed Continuous Quality Assurance: The Skoll Project", Proceedings of the ICSE Workshop on Remote Analysis and Measurement of Software Systems (RAMSS), Portland, Oregon, May 3-10, 2003.

Frantisek Brabec, Hanan Samet, Cemal Yilmaz, "VASCO: visualizing and animating spatial constructs and operations", In Proceedings of the 19th Symposium on Computational Geometry, New York, NY, 2003.

W. Li, S. Candan, W. Hsiung, O. Po, D. Agrawal, Q. Luo, W. Huang, Y. Akca, Cemal Yilmaz, "Cache Portal: Technology for Accelerating Database-driven e-commerce Web Sites", Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB '01), Roma, Italy, September 11-14, 2001 (short paper).