Travis D. Breaux Travis D. Breaux
Doctoral Candidate

Department of Computer Science
College of Engineering
North Carolina State University
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Acceptance Rates: For peer-reviewed papers, the formula F+S/T presents the total numbers for accepted full papers (F), accepted short papers (S), and submissions (T). The acceptance rate, in parenthesis, is calculated from F/T if our paper is an accepted full paper or (F+S) /T if it is an accepted short paper.


Refereed Journal Publications:

Analyzing Regulatory Rules for Privacy and Security Requirements
Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Special Issue on Software Engineering for Secure Systems (TSE), v. 34, n. 1, pp. 5-20, January/February 2008.
Acceptance Rate: 7/41 (17%)
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Semantic Parameterization: A Conceptual Modeling Process for Domain Descriptions
Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón, Jon Doyle
(In Press) ACM Transactions on Software Engineering Methodologies
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Refereed Conference, Symposia and Workshop Proceedings:

Legal Requirements, Compliance and Practice: An Industry Case Study in Accessibility
Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón, Kent Boucher, Merlin Dorfman
(September 2008) IEEE 16th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'08)
Acceptance Rate: 18+19/164 (11%)
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A Systematic Method for Acquiring Regulatory Requirements: A Frame-Based Approach
Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón
(September 2007) 6th Int'l Workshop on Requirements for High Assurance Systems (RHAS-6)
Acceptance Rate: 2/2 (100%)
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Extracting Rights and Obligations from Regulations: Towards a Tool-Supported Process
Nadzeya Kiyavitskaya, Nicola Zeni, Luisa Mich, Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón, John Mylopoulos
(November 2007) IEEE/ACM 22nd Int'l Conf. Automated Software Engineering (ASE'07)
Acceptance Rate: 37+40/312 (25%)
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Compliance Engineering: Aligning Software Requirements with Policies and Regulations
Travis D. Breaux
(November 2006) Doctoral Symposium at the ACM/SIGSOFT 14th Symp. on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE-14)
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Towards Compliance: Extracting Rights and Obligations to Align Requirements with Regulations
Travis D. Breaux, Matthew W. Vail, Annie I. Antón
(September 2006) IEEE 14th Int'l Conf. on Requirements Engineering (RE'06)
Acceptance Rate: 25+17/181 (14%)
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Enforceability vs. Accountability in Electronic Policies
Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón, Clare-Marie Karat and John Karat
(June 2006) IEEE 7th Int'l Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'06)
Acceptance Rate: 18+12/~59 (51%)
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Mining Rule Semantics to Understand Legislative Compliance
Travis D. Breaux and Annie I. Antón
(November 2005) ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES'05)
Acceptance Rate: 9+6/40 (38%)
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Analyzing Goal Semantics for Rights, Permissions and Obligations
Travis D. Breaux and Annie I. Antón
(August 2005) IEEE 13th Int'l Conf. on Requirements Engineering (RE'05)
Acceptance Rate: 35/175 (20%)
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Deriving Semantic Models from Privacy Policy Goals
Travis D. Breaux and Annie I. Antón
(June 2005) IEEE 6th Int'l Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'05)
Acceptance Rate: 20+9/~90 (22%)
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Hierarchical Information Clustering Using Ontology Languages
Travis D. Breaux and Joel Reed
(January 2005) 38th Hawaii Int'l Conf. on System Sciences (HICSS-38)
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Technical Reports and Thesis:

Identifying Legal Vulnerabilities and Critical Requirements Using Criminal Court Proceedings
Travis D. Breaux, Jonathan D. Lewis, Paul N. H. Otto, Annie I. Antón
(February 2008) Computer Science Technical Report TR-2008-6, North Carolina State University
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Impalpable Constraints: Framing Requirements for Formal Methods
Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón
(February 2007) Computer Science Technical Report TR-2007-6, North Carolina State University
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Acquiring Software Compliance Artifacts from Policies and Regulations
Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón
(September 2006) Computer Science Technical Report TR-2006-27, North Carolina State University
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A Distributed Requirements Management Framework for Compliance and Accountability
Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón, Eugene H. Spafford
(June 2006) Computer Science Technical Report TR-2006-14, North Carolina State University
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An Algorithm to Generate Compliance Monitors from Regulations
Travis D. Breaux, Annie I. Antón
(March 2006) Computer Science Technical Report TR-2006-9, North Carolina State University
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Requirements for a Policy-Enforceable Agent Architecture
Travis D. Breaux and James M. Niehaus
(March 2005) NCSU Computer Science Technical Report TR-2005-17, North Carolina State University
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Policy-Parametric Software
Travis D. Breaux
(November 2004) Computer Science Technical Report TR-2004-30, North Carolina State University
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BABEL: The Semantic Web in Open Systems
Travis D. Breaux
(December 2003) Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Adviser: Dr. Stephen Fickas, University of Oregon
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