Thomas Ball
Impact in
- Software top 0.02%
- Software Testing and Debugging Techniques
- Hardware and Architecture top 0.2%
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
Papers in
- Software 41
- Software Testing and Debugging Techniques 39
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- Formal Methods in Verification 50
- Co-authors
- Sriram K. Rajamani (29 shared papers)James R. Larus (14 shared papers)Nachiappan Nagappan (6 shared papers)Shuvendu K. Lahiri (6 shared papers)Andreas Zeller (2 shared papers)Carlos Pacheco (2 shared papers)Vladimir Levin (13 shared papers)Michael D. Ernst (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- ACM SIGPLAN Notices (12 papers)Lecture notes in computer science (32 papers)ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (3 papers)Communications of the ACM (3 papers)Bell Labs Technical Journal (2 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesUnited KingdomFrance
In The Last Decade
Thomas Ball
143 papers receiving 10.5k citations
Thomas Ball's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 80
- Software 4k
- Hardware and Architecture 1.5k
- Computational Theory and Mathematics 3k
- Artificial Intelligence 3.4k
- Information Systems 1.8k
Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Ball
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Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Ball
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Co-authors
The 25 scholars most cited alongside Thomas Ball, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.
All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 146 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Feedback-Directed Random Test Generation Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 707 |
| 2 | The S LAM project Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 705 |
| 3 | Mining metrics to predict component failures Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 633 |
| 4 | Efficient Path Profiling Hit paper breakdown → | 1996 | 466 |
| 5 | Automatically Validating Temporal Safety Properties of Interfaces Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 459 |
| 6 | Finding and Reproducing Heisenbugs in Concurrent Programs Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 439 |
| 7 | 2001 | 397 | |
| 8 | 1997 | 373 | |
| 9 | 2000 | 314 | |
| 10 | 2006 | 292 | |
| 11 | 1994 | 280 | |
| 12 | 2001 | 250 | |
| 13 | 2003 | 238 | |
| 14 | 1993 | 232 | |
| 15 | 2001 | 208 | |
| 16 | 2004 | 208 | |
| 17 | 2001 | 206 | |
| 18 | 1997 | 185 | |
| 19 | 2011 | 163 | |
| 20 | 2012 | 158 |
About Thomas Ball
Thomas Ball is a scholar working on Software, Computational Theory and Mathematics, Computer Science Applications, Artificial Intelligence and Hardware and Architecture, having authored 146 papers that have together received 11.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Formal Methods in Verification (50 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (43 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (39 papers), Teaching and Learning Programming (19 papers), Software Engineering Research (16 papers), Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (16 papers), Mobile and Web Applications (6 papers) and Web Applications and Data Management (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Software (4k citations), Hardware and Architecture (1.5k citations), Computational Theory and Mathematics (3k citations), Artificial Intelligence (3.4k citations) and Information Systems (1.8k citations). Thomas Ball has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include Sriram K. Rajamani, James R. Larus, Nachiappan Nagappan, Shuvendu K. Lahiri, Andreas Zeller, Carlos Pacheco, Vladimir Levin, Michael D. Ernst, Todd D. Millstein and Rupak Majumdar. Their work appears in journals such as ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Lecture notes in computer science, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Communications of the ACM and Bell Labs Technical Journal.
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