Refereed Publications

• D. Poplawski, Z. Kurmas. "JLS/JLSCircuitTester: A Comprehensive Logic Design and Simulation Tool." 8th Koli Calling International Conference On Computing Education Research, November 2008.
• 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. 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. 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 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

• D. Poplawski, Z. Kurmas. "JLS: a pedagogically targeted logic design and simulation tool." (Tools and Tips presentation) 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.