Refereed Publications

Z. Kurmas.DLUnit: A Unit Testing Framework for Simulated Digital Logic Circuits 2023 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), October 2024.
E. Spertus, Z. Kurmas. Mastery-Based Learning in Undergraduate Computer Architecture, Proceedings of the 21st Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, June 2021.
Z. Kurmas.KielceRB: a highly customizable templating engine for course documents. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 36, Issue 4, October 2020.
C. Trefftz, H. McGuire, Z. Kurmas, J. Scripps, J. Pineda. Exhaustive Community Enumeration on a Cluster. Proceedings of the 8th Annual IEEE Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, January, 2018.
Z. Kurmas.ICOS: Support for "Bare Metal" Computer Architecture Assignments Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, June 2017.
Z. Kurmas. MIPSUnit: A Unit Testing Framework for MIPS Assembly. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March, 2017
C. Trefftz, H. McGuire, Z. Kurmas, and J. Scripps. Exhaustive Community Enumeration in Parallel. Parallel Processing Letters 26(2):1-16, 2016.
Z. Kurmas, H. McGuire, J. Scripps, and C. Trefftz. Enumerating Communities for a Deeper Understanding of Community Finding. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on Web Intelligence, August 2014.
R. Agrawal, Z. Kurmas, et al. Motivating Students to Learn Programming Using Game Assignments. 2012 ASEE Annual Conference, June 2012.
D. Poplawski, Z. Kurmas. JLS/JLSCircuitTester: A Comprehensive Logic Design and Simulation Tool. 8th Koli Calling International Conference On Computing Education Research, November 2008. (p. 105-108)
Z. Kurmas. Improving student performance using automated testing of simulated digital logic circuits. Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2008), July 2008.
Z. Kurmas, J. Zito, L. Trevino, and R. Lush Generating a Jump Distance Based Synthetic Disk Access Pattern. Proceedings of the 14th NASA Goddard - 23rd IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (MSST 06), May 2006.
Z. Kurmas and K. Keeton. Using the Distiller to direct the development of self-configuration software. Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC-04), May 2004.
Z. Kurmas and K. Keeton. Practical applications of Iterative Workload Distillation. MeasureIT (Journal of the Computer Measurement Group), February 2004 (Issue 2.02).
Z. Kurmas, K. Keeton, and K. Mackenzie. href="papers/mascots03.pdf">Synthesizing representative I/O workloads using iterative distillation. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunications Systems (MASCOTS), October 2003.
Z. Kurmas, R. Becker-Szendy, and K. Keeton. Iterative development of an I/O workload characterization . Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Computer Architecture Evaluation Using Commercial Workloads (CAECW), January 2001.
Z. Kurmas and A. Chervenak. Evaluating backup algorithms . Proceedings of the Eighth Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, March 2000
A. Chervenak, V. Vellanki, and Z. Kurmas. "Protecting file systems: A survey of backup techniques." Proceedings of the Sixth Goddard Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies, March 1998.

Technical Reports

Z. Kurmas, J. Zito, L. Trevino, and R. Lush Generating a Jump Distance Based Synthetic Disk Access Pattern (Extended Version). GVSU_CIS-2006-01, May 2006.
Z. Kurmas, K. Keeton, and K. Mackenzie. Synthesizing representative I/O workloads using iterative distillation (Extended version). GIT-CERCS-03-29, October 2003.

Posters

Z. Kurmas. Poprawa: A Gradebook Library for Alternatively-Graded Courses Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2024
Z. Kurmas and J. Rosenhauer. "MIPSUnit: A Unit Testing Framework for MIPS Assembly." (poster) Presented at SIGCSE 2015.
Z. Kurmas. "Zawilinski: helping beginning programmers conduct mediawiki-based research". (poster) (abstract) Presented at ITiCSE 2012.
Z. Kurmas. "Kielce: Configurable HTML course documents." (poster) (abstract) Presented at ITiCSE 2012.
Z. Kurmas. "Zawilinski: A library for studying grammar in Wiktionary." (poster) (abstract) Presented at WikiSym 2010.
Z. Kurmas. "Encouraging language students to contribute inflection data to Wiktionary." (poster) (abstract) Presented at WikiSym 2010.
Z. Kurmas. "Automated Testing of Simulated Digital Circuits and CPUs." (poster) Presented at SIGCSE 2008.
Z. Kurmas, J. Zito, L. Trevino, and R. Lush. Generating a Jump Distance Based Synthetic Disk Access Pattern". (poster) (paper) Presented at MSST2006.
Z. Kurmas, K. Keeton, and K. Mackenzie. "Synthesizing Representative I/O Workloads Using Iterative Distillation." (poster) Presented at SOSP03.

Sabbatical Reports

2010: Developing software at Atomic Object

Other

Z. Kurmas. "The presenter first design approach" (Tools and Tips presentation). (abstract) Proceedings of the 17th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2012), July, 2012.
Z. Kurmas. "Igel Ärgern" (Nifty assignment). (abstract) (assignment) Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2012), February, 2012.
Z. Kurmas and J. Vanderhyde "Board game project ideas for CS 1 and CS 2" (workshop). Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2012), February, 2012.
D. Poplawski, Z. Kurmas. "JLS: a pedagogically targeted logic design and simulation tool." (Tools and Tips presentation) (abstract) Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE 2008), July, 2008.
Z. Kurmas "Nifty Tools & Assignments Lab: Planet Lab." Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Volume 23, Number 1. October, 2007.
Z. Kurmas, H. Dulimarta, Y. Tao "Nifty Tools & Assignments Lab: Sudoku." Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges Volume 23, Number 1. October, 2007.

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