Zachary J. Oster

Graduate Student, Department of Computer Science (advisor: Dr. Samik Basu)
Research Assistant, High Performance Computing Group within IT Services
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011

Email: zjoster@iastate.edu
Workspaces: Atanasoff 116A (PDF floor plan), Durham 139C (PDF floor plan)
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I am the president of GAC, the Graduate Advisory Committee for the Iowa State CS department.

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Previous education

M.S., Computer Science, Iowa State University, December 2009 (advisor: Dr. Samik Basu)
B.S., Computer Science, South Dakota State University, May 2007
B.A., Music (clarinet performance), South Dakota State University, May 2007

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Research

Applying formal methods to develop improved solutions to problems in software engineering and Web services.

Publications:

Automating Analysis of Qualitative Preferences in Goal-Oriented Requirements Engineering: short paper with Ganesh Ram Santhanam and Samik Basu, ASE 2011
Identifying Optimal Composite Services by Decomposing the Service Composition Problem: paper with Ganesh Ram Santhanam and Samik Basu, ICWS 2011 (published version on IEEE Xplore or IEEE CS Digital Library; poster presented at conference)
Decomposing the Service Composition Problem: paper with Ganesh Ram Santhanam and Samik Basu, ECOWS 2010 (published version on IEEE Xplore or IEEE CS Digital Library)
Extending Substitutability in Composite Services by Allowing Asynchronous Communication with Message Buffers: short paper with Samik Basu, ICTAI 2009

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