My Erdos Number

Jim Bieman

My Erdos number is 3 via at least 2 paths. I co-authored several papers with Austin Melton:

  1. J. Bieman, N. Fenton, D. Gustafson, A. Melton and L. Ott. Fundamental issues in software measurement, In Software Measurement: Understanding Software Engineering. A. Melton, editor, International Thomson Publishing (ITP), pp. 39-74, 1996.
  2. A. Melton, D. Gustafson, J. Bieman, and A. Baker. A mathematical perspective for software measures research. IEE/BCS Software Engineering Journal, 5(5):246-254, 1990.
  3. J. Bieman, A. Baker, P. Clites, D. Gustafson, and A. Melton. A standard representation of imperative language programs for data collection and software measures specification. Journal of Systems and Software, 8(1):13-37, Jan. 1988.
  4. A. Baker, J. Bieman, D. Gustafson, and A. Melton. Modeling and measuring the software development process. Proc. 20th Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Sciences (HICSS-20), II:pp. 23-30, Jan. 1987.

Austin Melton is listed on the official Erdos site with an Erdos number of 2. Austin coauthored a paper with Marcel Erne, who coauthored a paper with Paul Erdos.

I co-authored two papers with Yashwant Maliaya:

  1. Y. Malaiya, N. Li, J. Bieman, R. Karcich. Software reliability growth with test coverage. IEEE Trans. Reliability, 51(4):420--426, December 2002.
  2. Y.K Malaiya, N. Li, J. Bieman, R. Karcich, and B. Skibbe. The relationship between test coverage and reliability. Proc. Int. Symp. Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE94), pp. 186-195, Nov. 1994.

Yashwant Malaiya is listed on the official Erdos site with an Erdos number of 2. Yashwant coauthored a paper with Israel Koren, who coauthored a paper with Paul Erdos.