My Publications

This page outlines my publications and documents chronologically in the following categories:

  • Models and Standards
  • Books
  • Articles
  • Conferences (Keynotes, Presentations, and Tutorials)
  • Invited speaker to professional organizations
  • Reports

Models and Standards

  • International Standard: ISO/IEC 33071 Information Technology- Process assessment – An integrated process capability assessment model for Enterprise Processes, (project leader), ISO/IEC 2016, Published in Switzerland 2016
  • Enterprise SPICE® An Integrated Model for Enterprise-wide Assessment and Improvement, Technical Report – Issue 1, September 2010.The Enterprise SPICE Project Team (project leader) (available at www.enterprisespice.com )
  • The Federal Aviation Administration Integrated Capability Maturity Model®(FAA-iCMM®) Appraisal Method (FAM), v2.0, (lead author, with E. Harwell, B. Howard, K. Johnson, J. Meeker, M. Virga, C. Wells), FAA, August 2006
  • Safety and Security Extensions for Integrated Capability Maturity Models, (lead authors Ibrahim and J. Jarzombek, with M. Ashford, R. Bate, P. Croll, M. Horn, L. LaBruyere and C. Wells), Federal Aviation Administration, September 2004.
  • The Federal Aviation Administration Integrated Capability Maturity Model® (FAA-iCMM®), Version 2.0. (lead author, with B. Bradford, D. Cole, L. LaBruyere, H. Leinneweber, D. Piszczek, N. Reed, M. Rymond, D, Smith, M. Virga, C. Wells), FAA September 2001
  • The Federal Aviation Administration integrated Capability Maturity Model® Appraisal Method (FAM), v1.0, Federal Aviation Administration, April 1999, (lead author, with L. LaBruyere, P. Malpass, J. Marciniak, A. Salomon, C. Weigl)
  • The Federal Aviation Administration integrated Capability Maturity Model® (FAA-iCMM®), v1.0, Federal Aviation Administration, November 1997, (lead author, with R. Deloney, D. Gantzer, L. LaBruyere, B. Laws, P. Malpass, J. Marciniak, N. Reed, R. Ridgeway, A. Scott, S. Sheard)

Books

  • Software Engineering Education (editor), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 895, Springer-Verlag, 1995.
  • Software Engineering in Qatar: Status and Prospects for Cooperation, Proceedings of the First Software Engineering Workshop, March 1992, Al Ahleia Press, Doha, Qatar, 1993. (co-editor with Ahmed A. Alem)

Articles

  • “Using Enterprise SPICE in Very Small Entities” (with E. Wallmueller and W. Daschner), Software Quality Professional, Vol 19, Issue 2, March 2017. (Selected as a best paper in the industry track of SPICE 2016, for further publication)
  • “Enterprise SPICE® – Ready For Your Enterprise Now!”, CORE Magazine, No. 3, April 2011
  • “Process Improvement Commentary”, Crosstalk 20th Anniversary Edition, August 2008  This commentary provides some observations regarding process improvement (PI) throughout the past 20 years, offering views related to process models and standards, organizational change, and the PI practitioner.
  • “Using Process Standards to Improve Business Performance”, Business Process Management Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 12, June 12, 2008
  • “Enterprise Process Improvement Community of Practice (EPIC)”. INCOSE Insight, April 2007
  • “Safety and Security Standards Harmonization”, INCOSE Insight, April 2007
  • “Single Appraisal – Multiple Standards”. (with C. Wells), INCOSE Insight April 2007
  • “Enterprise SPICE”. INCOSE Insight, April 2007
  • “Focus on IT: Enterprise Process Improvement”, IT Magazine, FAA, March 2007.
  • “Sixteen Standards-Based Practices for Safety and Security”, Crosstalk, October 2005
  • “A Single Model for Process Improvement. Lessons Learned at the US Federal Aviation Administration”, (with A. Pyster), May ❘ June 2004 IT Professional, IEEE
  • “There Is More to Process Improvement Than Just CMM”, (with J. Weszka), Crosstalk, June 2004
  • “A New Approach to Generic Attributes”, C. Wells, L. Ibrahim and L. LaBruyere. Systems Engineering, Vol 6, 301-308, 2003
  • Integrated Process Models, Rosalind (Linda) Ibrahim, in Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, Second Edition, John J. Marciniak Editor-In-Chief, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2002
  • For the FAA, Software Process Improvement is Not Enough, Linda Ibrahim, DoD Software Tech News, vol. 4, no. 3. August 2001
  • “Smart Buying with the Federal Aviation Administration’s Integrated Capability Maturity Model”, Crosstalk, Vol. 11, No. 11, November 1998, pp. 15-20.
  • “Computer Usage in Developing Countries: Case Study Kuwait,” Information & Management 08 (1985), pp. 103-112.
  • “Some Perspectives on Energy Data,” Oil and Arab Cooperation, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1985, pp. 26-46. (translated into Arabic).
  • “A Computer-based System to Support Industrial Project Preparation and Evaluation,” Industrial Cooperation in the Arabian Gulf, (with M.I. Dessouky and R.D. Omar), No. 11, 1983, pp 4-20.
  • “A Computer System for Axiomatic Investigation,” International Journal of Man-machine Studies, Vol. 15, 1981, pp. 179-200.
  • “Software Development Information System,” Journal of Systems Management, December 1978, pp. 34-39.

Conferences – (works published in conference proceedings)

Keynotes

  • “SPICE’ing Up Your Enterprise”, Keynote address, SPICE 2008, Nuremberg, Germany, May 2008
  • “Process Improvement: Status and Challenges”, Keynote Address, International Conference on Software Process Improvement (ICSPI), 2008, Washington DC
  • “Enterprise Process Improvement”, Track Keynote, Business Process Management Conference, Washington DC – 19 September 2006
  • “An Integrated Approach to Quality Improvement”, Keynote, Third World Congress on Software Quality Munich, Germany – 29 September 2005
  • A Single Model for Process Improvement, Keynote address at SIMPROS 2004 Sao Paulo, Brazil – 26 November 2004
  • SPICE’ing up the iCMM, Keynote Address, SPICE 2004, Estoril, Portugal – 29 April 2004
  • “Why Integrated Process Improvement Makes Sense”, Keynote Address, Software Engineering Australia Annual Conference (SEA 2000), Canberra, Australia 28 April 2000
  • “Integrated Process Improvement – What, Why, How”, Keynote address, The European Conference on Software Process Improvement, (SPI 99), Barcelona, Spain, Nov-Dec 1999.

Presentations

  • “An Enterprise SPICE Capability Profile for an ISO 9001:2015 Compliant Organization”, (with A. Mitasiunas and R. Vickroy), SPICE 2018, Springer.
  • “Towards a Strategy for Process Improvement Education and Training”, (with A. Mitasiunas), SPICE 2017, Springer.
  • “Using Enterprise SPICE in Very Small Entities”, (with E. Wallmueller and W. Daschner), SPICE 2016, Springer
  • “Let’s Bring Together Process Improvement Knowledge, IWSPEPT 2015, First International Workshop – Software Process Education, Training and Professionalism, Gottenburg, Sweden, 2015
  • “Developing the Enterprise SPICE Strategy Using Enterprise SPICE”, SPICE 2013, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
  • “Enterprise SPICE® A Domain Independent Integrated Model for Enterprise-wide Assessment and Improvement”, (with A. Mitasiunas), Bonita Event, Latvia, November 2011
  • “SPICE Up Your Enterprise Now!” (with W. Menezes), Software Engineering Process Group. SEPG NA 2011, Portland, Oregon, March 2011
  • “Enterprise SPICE – Good To Go!”, SPICE 2010, Pisa, Italy, May 2010.
  • “Assessing Investment Management Processes in the US Department of Transportation using Enterprise SPICE” (with H.G. Carnaroli), May 2010, SPICE Conference 2010. Springer.
  • “Improving Business Services in the Department of Transportation”, Ibrahim and Jones, Project Management Institute, Washington DC, February 2010
  • “Enterprise SPICE Update – Status and Lessons Learned”, (with W. Menezes) SPICE 2009, Turku, Finland, June 2009, Springer.
  • “Improving Process Capability Across Your Enterprise”, 4th World Congress for Software Quality – Bethesda, Maryland, USA – September 2008
  • “An Introduction to ITIL V3 Service Management Practices”, FAA IT/ISS Conference, Atlanta, GA, February 2008
  • “Enterprise SPICE Workshop”, SPICE 2008, Nuremberg, Germany, May 2008
  • “Improving Process Capability across the Enterprise with Enterprise SPICE”, Business Process Management Conference, BrainStorm DC, June 2008
  •  “Improving Process Capability Across Your Enterprise”, 4th World Congress on Software Quality (4WCSQ), Bethesda, Maryland, September 2008
  • “A Proposed Exemplar Enterprise process reference model for ISO/IEC 15504”, SPICE 2006, Luxembourg, May 2006.
  • “Enterprise Process Improvement”, Business Process Management Conference Washington DC – 19 September 2006
  • “An Integrated Approach to Quality Improvement”, Third World Congress on Software Quality, Munich, Germany – 29 September 2005
  • “Single Appraisal – Multiple Certification”, (with C. Wells and B. Vickroy), Systems and Software Technology Conference (STC) – April 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • “Extending Systems Engineering Frameworks for Special Application Areas: Case Study Safety and Security”, (with C. Wells and R. Bate), INCOSE 2005, Rochester, New York
  • “Extending Systems Engineering Frameworks for Special Application Areas: Case Study Safety and Security” (with C. Wells, and R. Bate), INCOSE (local) 2005.
  • “Single Appraisal – Multiple Certification”, (with C. Wells and B. Vickroy), Systems and Software Technology Conference (STC), April 2005, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • “Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Process Improvement” (with C. Wells and R. Bate), INCOSE (local) 2004
  • “Safety and Security Extensions to Integrated CMMs”, (with J. Jarzombek) European Software Engineering Process Group SEPG (ESEPG) London, 2004
  • “Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Process Improvement”, (with C. Wells and R. Bate), INCOSE 2004, Toulouse, France
  • “Extending iCMM® and CMMI® for Safety and Security”, (with J. Jarzombek), SEPG 2004
  • “Town Meeting:  Integrating for Enterprise Improvement”, Panel member, Software Engineering Process Group SEPG 2003.
  • “Single Appraisal – Multiple Achievements/Certifications”, BOF, (with W. Sherer, L. LaBruyere, J. Weszka, and J. Morin) Software Engineering Process Group SEPG 2003
  • “Integrating Beyond Capability Maturity Models”, INCOSE, 2002
  • “Integrating Beyond Capability Maturity Models”, Software Engineering Process Group SEPG 2002, February 2002, Phoenix, Arizona
  • “Integrating Systems, Software, and More …FAA’s Approach to Integrated Process Improvement”, Software Productivity Consortium Member Forum, February 2002
  • “New Approach to Generic Attributes”, (with C. Wells and L. LaBruyere) INCOSE 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada (best paper in Measurement Category)
  • “Integrating Beyond Capability Maturity Models”, INCOSE 2002, Las Vegas Nevada
  • “Integrating Beyond Capability Maturity Models”, Software Technology Conference 2002, May 2002, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • “Appraisal Using the Federal Aviation Administration’s Integrated Capability Maturity Model (FAA-iCMM)”. Software Engineering Process Group SEPG 2001
  • “Integrated Process Improvement at the Federal Aviation Administration”, Software Engineering Symposium, Pittsburgh, 1 September1999
  • “Enterprise-Wide Process Improvement”, Software Technology Conference (STC), 1999
  • “Integrated Process Improvement and Acquisition Reform at the FAA”, (with A. Pyster) , INCOSE 1999, Brighton, England
  • “Integrating Process Improvement across the Enterprise”, Software Technology Conference STC), 1999
  •   “Integrated Process Improvement at the Federal Aviation Administration”, SEI Software Engineering Symposium, Pittsburgh, September 1999.
  • “The Federal Aviation Administration integrated Capability Maturity Model (FAA-iCMM)”, 1999 FAA Regional Configuration Management Workshop, Arlington, July 1999
  • “Integrated Process Improvement and Acquisition Reform at the FAA”, 9th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Brighton, England, June 1999.
  • “Enterprise-wide Process Improvement”, Software Technology Conference (STC), Salt Lake City, May 1999.
  • “CMM Integration at the Federal Aviation Administration”, Software Engineering Process Group SEPG 1998
  • “The Federal Aviation Administration’s Integrated Capability Maturity Model”, Systems Engineering and Software Symposium, May 13-15, 1998, New Orleans, Louisiana
  • “Two Approaches to CMM Integration”, Proceedings of the 8th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Vancouver, Canada, July 1998, pp. 605-612 (with S. Sheard, S. Rose, W. Makhlouf).
  • “CMM Integration at the Federal Aviation Administration,” Software Engineering Process Group SEPG 98 Proceedings, March 1998, Chicago, Illinois
  • “Improving the Acquisition of Software Intensive Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach”, Software Technology Conference (STC), 1996
  • “The Federal Aviation Integrated Capability Maturity Model”, SEI Software Engineering Symposium, Pittsburgh, September 1998.
  • “The Federal Aviation Administration’s Integrated Capability Maturity Model”, Lockheed Martin Systems Engineering and Software Symposium, New Orleans, LA, May 1998.
  • “Process Improvement at the Federal Aviation Administration for the Acquisition of Software Intensive Systems”, 43rd Annual Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA) Conference Proceedings, November 1998, pp. 50-54. (with L. LaBruyere)
  • “CMM Integration at the Federal Aviation Administration”, 1998 Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) Conference, Chicago, March, 1998.
  • “The Federal Aviation Administration integrated Capability Maturity Model,” Special Colloquium sponsored by MAP, AFNOR, AIR & COSMOS, AFIS, Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci, Paris, November, 1998.
  • “CMM Integration at the Federal Aviation Administration”, The European Conference on Software Process Improvement, (SPI 97), Barcelona, Spain, Dec 1997.
  • “Integrating CMMs for FAA Process Improvement”, Software Productivity Consortium (SPC) Member Forum, Herndon, Virginia, October 1997.
  • “CMM Integration Initiative at the FAA”, Electronic Industries Association (EIA) Workshop, Virginia, June, 1997.
  • “Knowledge and Skills for Process Improvement – A Guided Tour,” 1995 Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) Conference, Boston, 1995.
  • Position Paper on Process Improvement as part of Graduate Software Engineering Education, IEEE Software Engineering Education Workshop, Seattle, 1995.
  • “Software Process Improvement Curriculum,” Birds-of-a-feather presentation, 7th Conference on Software Engineering Education (CSEE), January 1994, San Antonio, Texas (with R. Radice and N. Mead).
  • “Context: Software Engineering and the Software Engineering Research Group,” Software Engineering in Qatar: Status and Prospects for Cooperation, 1993, pp. 22-28.
  • “Recommendations for a Program of Applied Research in Software Engineering,” Software Engineering in Qatar: Status and Prospects for Cooperation, 1993, pp. 29-47.
  • “Software Engineering in Qatar: Infrastructure, Methods, Concerns, and Recommendations,” Software Engineering in Qatar: Status and Prospects for Cooperation, 1993, pp. 86-121.
  • “Should Concurrency be Specified?” BCS-FACS Workshop on Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems, (with J.A. Ogden and S.A. Williams), July 1988, University of Sterling, Scotland. (Also published as Specification and Verification of Concurrent Systems (C. Rattray, ed,) Springer-Verlag, 1990.
  • “Using SAS for the Management of Research Resources,” Proceedings of the Eighth Annual SAS Users Group International Conference, 1983, New Orleans, LA, pp 341-346.
  • “Characteristics of OAPEC’s Proposed Energy Information System,” Colloquium of Arab Experts on Energy Information and Data Banks, OAPEC, Kuwait, 1982.
  • “Computer-assisted Instruction in Kuwait – A Pilot Study,” Computers in Education (R. Lewis and D. Tagg, eds), North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1981, pp. 569-573. (Proceedings of IFIP tc-3 Third World Conference on Computers in Education – WCCE 81).
  • “Computer Usage in the Gulf – Case Study Kuwait,” Computers: Application and Impact, Bahrain, 1981 (with M.A. Elgayar and F.A. Ja’far) (KISR 464, Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research).
  • “Towards the Development of an Information System for Information System Development,” Eleventh Hawaiian International Conference on System Sciences (W. Remus and R. Sprague, eds), Western Periodicals Co., USA, 1978, pp 24-28.

Tutorials

  • “Process Improvement with Enterprise SPICE” (with E. Walllmueller), SPICE 2013, Bremen, Germany, June 2013.
  •  “Process Improvement with Enterprise SPICE” (with E. Wallmueller), SPICE 2012, Mallorca, Spain.
  • “Getting Started with Enterprise SPICE” (with E. Wallmueller and W. Menezes), SPICE 2011, Dublin, Ireland.
  • “Integrated Process Improvement using the FAA integrated Capability Maturity Model”, tutorial, The European Conference on Software Process Improvement, (SPI 99), Barcelona, Spain, Nov-Dec 1999.
  • “Integrated Process Improvement using the FAA integrated Capability Maturity Model”, tutorial, 9th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), Brighton, England, June 1999.
  • “Integrated Process Improvement using the FAA integrated Capability Maturity Modelsm (FAA-iCMM®),” Tutorial, 12th Software Engineering Process Group SEPG Conference (SEPG 2k) Seattle, Washington, 23 March 2000
  • “Integrated Process Improvement using the FAA integrated Capability Maturity Model® (FAA-iCMM®),” Tutorial, INCOSE 2000, International Council on Systems Engineering 10th Annual International Symposium, Minneapolis, Minnesota – 17 July 2000

Invited speaker to professional organizations

  • Federal CIO Council Best Practices Committee, “Process Standards, Models, and Best Practices”, 6 September 2011.
  • Association for Business Process Management Professionals (ABPMP), “Enterprise Process Improvement Community of Practice and Center of Excellence”, Washington DC, November 2007
  • Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) Meetings:
    • “Enterprise SPICE: Improving Process Capability across the Enterprise – Update”, DC SPIN, June 2008 
    •  “Enterprise SPICE: Improving Process Capability across the Enterprise”, DC SPIN, December 2007
    • “The Federal Aviation Administration integrated Capability Maturity Model”, Greater Maryland SPIN, 1999.
    • “CMM Integration at the Federal Aviation Administration”, DC SPIN, 1998
    •  “CMM Integration at the FAA”, South Jersey SPIN, 1997
    •  “Process Improvement Obstacles, Needs, and Recommendations”, Pittsburgh SPIN, 1995
  • Configuration Management Working Group, “The Federal Aviation integrated Capability Maturity Model,” Tyson’s Corner, Virginia, 1999.
  • FAA Technical Women’s Organization (TWO) Forum, “Capability Maturity Models”, 1997
  • Federal Software Process Improvement Working Group (FED-SPI-WG) “Process Improvement at the FAA”, 1997

Reports

  • “Guide to Applying the Enterprise SPICE Model” (with W. Daschner, E. Wallmueller and W. Henschelchen), www.enterprisespice.com, June 2013
  • “OneIT Strategy 2013-2015”, S. Cooper(lead), with L. Ibrahim P. Johnston, T. Madden, M. Miskowich, R. Roberts, J. Tom, C. Weigl, FAA, 2012
  • “Enterprise SPICE Quick Reference Guide”, SPICE 2011, Dublin Ireland
  • “Building a Process Improvement Culture in AFN”, FAA, 2011
  • “AFN Policy Recommendations”, FAA, 2011
  • “Promoting AFN Values in the Culture”, FAA, 2011
  • IT Performance Measures”, FAA, 2011
  • “Process Improvement in AFN – Recommendations”, FAA, 2011
  • “One-IT Strategy Development Process”, FAA, 2011
  • “One-IT Strategy Development Project Management Plan”, FAA, 2011
  • “Process improvement for NextGen Support”, FAA, June 2011
  • “FAA Shared Services and Governance”, FAA, March 2011
  • “Shared Services Management: Templates for Selected Artifacts”, FAA, June 2011
  • “Common Measures for Business Results – A Menu of Measures for Process Improvement”, Continuous Performance Improvement Steering Team. FAA, June 2011.
  •  “Prioritization Process and Tool Guidance” Continuous Performance Improvement Steering Team, FAA, June 2011
  • “FAA Shared Services and Governance”, FAA, March 2011
  • “Shared Services Management:  Templates for Selected Artifacts”, FAA, June 2011
  • “Checklist of ITIL Best Practice Requirements”, FAA, 2011
  •  “IT Performance Measures – Shared Services”, FAA, September 2011
  • “Process improvement for NextGen Support”, FAA, June 2011
  • “AIO Improvement Areas” FAA, November 2010
  •  “ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Systems – Costs and Benefits”, FAA, December 2007
  • “Guidelines for Using FAA-iCMMâ 0 and ISO 9001:2000 in Process Improvement”, (with C. Wells), FAA, February 2004
  • “An Analysis of Three Capability Maturity Models and their Relationship to the Acquisition Management System”, Federal Aviation Administration, December 1996.
  • “Improving Processes across Three CMMs – Case Study: Requirements Processes,” Federal Aviation Administration, November 1996.
  • “Safety, Quality and Environment Information Technology / Business Architecture Study”, Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 1996. (with P. Lapworth)
  • “Overview of ISO9000 International Standards and Their Relevance to ICS”, Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 1996.
  • “Quality and Process Improvement at ICS – An Introduction”, Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 1996.
  • “ICS Improvement Projects in Context of Selected Process Improvement Standards”, Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 1996.
  • “Project Management Improvement Plan”, Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 1996.
  • “Groundrules for Project Management Improvement Team”, Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 1996.
  • “The Current Project Management Process”, Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 1996.
  • “Project Initiation Analysis – Problems and Recommendations”, Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 1996.
  • “A Project Commitment Checklist”, Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 1996.
  • “Agreed Measures for Project Initiation Process”, and “Project Initiation Measures for Active IT Planning Projects”, Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 1996.
  • A series of reports that launched the process improvement initiative including: “Project Initiation Report”, “Interview Results”, “Proposed Improvement Projects”, “Project Scoring and Ranking”, “Action Plan”, Qatar General Petroleum Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 1995.
  • “The Subject Matter of Process Improvement: A Topic and Reference Source for Software Engineering Educators and Trainers”, Software Engineering Institute, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-95-TR-003, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995. (with I. Hirmanpour).
  • “The Dimensions of Culture,” Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1995.
  • “Changing SEI Cultural Dimensions: What Does It Mean and How Will We Do It?” Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1995.
  • “Changing the Competitive Dimension: Analysis of Behaviors, Inhibitors, and Reinforcements,” Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1995.
  • “SEI Culture – Baseline and Desired States,” Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1994.
  • “Conflict Resolution Guide”, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1994 (with Culture Change Team).
  • “Survey on Capability Maturity Model (CMM)-based Education and Training – Summary of Preliminary Results,” Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993.
  • “Process Improvement Obstacles, Needs, and Recommendations,” Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993.
  • “Survey on CMM Based Education and Training – Free-form Responses,” Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993.
  • “The ACES (Agents for Change in Engineering Software) Education Program for Defense Information Systems Agency – Center for Information Management (DISA-CIM),” Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1993.
  • “Computing Profiles of Qatar and Kuwait at Age 20,” University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar, 1992.
  • “The Software Engineer Crisis,” University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar, 1991. (presented at Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991)
  • “Research Management at the Scientific and Applied Research Center (SARC), Phase 1: Prefunding Activities,” (with G.F. AlNoami), University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar, 1991.
  • “Library Information System: Project Plan; Requirements Document; User Documentation” (with project team), University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar, 1990, 1991.
  • “Software Engineering Views,” series of articles appearing in Computer Horizons, Newsletter published by the University of Qatar Computer Center, 1990-1991.
  • “Recommendations for a Program of Applied Research in Software Engineering,” University of Qatar, Doha, Qatar, 1989 (also published in Software Engineering in Qatar: Status and Prospects for Cooperation, 1993).
  • “Evaluation of the First Implementation Method,” ESPRIT Project 890, (PANGLOSS/120), Editor, June 1988.
  • “A First Design of the PANGLOSS Gateway,” ESPRIT Project 890, (PANGLOSS/120) (D. Fosberry, editor), (with implementation team), March 1988.
  • “Proposal to Formulate Strategic Plan for Software Engineering Activities at Rand Information Systems Ltd (RISL)”, Rand Information Systems Ltd., Henley-upon-Thames, England, 1987.
  • “Energy Information System for the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries,” Vol. I – Vol. III, (KISR 1182), Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, 1983.
  • “Information Resources at KISR: Assessment, Analysis, and Recommendations,” (with S. Alfadaghy), Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, 1983.
  • “Industrial Project Preparation and Evaluation System,” (KISR 1172), (with M.I. Dessouky and R.D. Omar) Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, 1983.
  • “Computer-assisted Instruction at Kuwait University – A Prefeasibility Study,” (KISR 196), Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, 1981.
  • “An Introduction to Data Base Systems and their Potential Use for Energy Data in Kuwait,” Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, 1981.
  • “Resource Management Support System,” Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, 1981.
  • “Usage of Computer-assisted Instruction at KISR,” Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, 1980.
  • “Recommendations Toward Developing a Charge-out System for Computer Center Services,” Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, 1980.
  • “KISR Computer Evaluation and Selection,” (with K.T. Ali, S. Kotob, and A.Alfadel), Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research, Kuwait, 1980.
  • “LR(0) CFSM Generation and Resolution of Inadequacies Via Lane Tracing,” Program Documentation, Information and Computer Sciences Department, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1973.
  • “System for Integrated Model Analysis: Requirements and General Design,” The Service Bureau Corporation, IBM, New York, 1970.