Don Libes - Publications List

• Software
• Peer-Reviewed Publications
• Books
• Book Chapters and Invited Papers
• NIST Technical Reports and Publications
• Other Publications
• Presentations
  

Software

• Expect - A tool for automating interactive applications such as telnet, ftp, passwd and hundreds of others.
• Multixterm - Multixterm allows you to control multiple xterms simultaneously. We use it to ssh to multiple hosts in a cluster and do ad hoc system administration on all at the same time. But it's general purpose so you could, for example, do telnet instead of ssh. Or run vi/emacs on a bunch of different files, etc. Particularly useful with ad hoc or one-of-a-kind maintenance. Also very cool for debugging host differences.
• cgi.tcl - A comprehensive library for creating Tcl-based CGI scripts. cgi.tcl supports tables, cookies, file upload, Expect, Tcl applets, Java, etc, etc.
• tkbiff - yet another program to alert you to incoming mail. tkbiff allows arbitrary commands (play audio clip, metamail, etc) to be executed upon mail reception. If you like programs like xbiff++ but wish they were more flexible or more portable, then you'll like tkbiff.
• md5pure and sha1pure - Computes md5 and sha1 message digests using only core Tcl commands. Surprisingly fast. (Surprised me anyway.)
• Stopwatch - A little stopwatch - just right for helping you get the timing down while practicing a talk. Provided both as an applet and a standalone Tk script.
• tcl-debug - A Tcl debugger. Provides traditional debugging capabilities to any Tcl script. Built-in to Expect but it works with any Tcl extension including Tk. Can be dynamically loaded.
• I wrote a large number of tools for manipulating EXPRESS models including a compiler (with Steve Clark), a server, and a development environment (with Steve and Josh Lubell). For more information, see the EXPRESS documents below or the SC4 page.
• Implementing Software Timers (reprint provided courtesy of the late Rich Stevens) simulates multiple timers given an environment that only provides a single timer.
• As I get time, I'll document more of the things I've written...

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• Don Libes, David Flater, Evan Wallace, Micky Steves, Allison Barnard Feeney, and Ed Barkmeyer, "The Challenges of Automated Methods for Integrating Systems", SE 2004 - IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering
• Peter Denno, Don Libes, Michelle Steves, Ed Barkmeyer, "Model-Driven Integration Using Existing Models", IEEE Software, 2003.
• Nenad Ivezic, Mario Barbacci, Don Libes, Tom Potok, and John Robert "An Architecture Analysis of Agent-based Systems", accepted at ESAW'00 ("Engineering Societies in the Agents' World") workshop http://lia.deis.unibo.it/confs/ESAW00/ (and to be included in the workshop proceedings published in Springer's Lecture Notes), Aug 21, 2000.
• Nenad Ivezic, Mario Barbacci, Don Libes, Tom Potok, and John Robert, "An Analysis of a Supply Chain Management Agent Architecture", accepted at the The Fourth International Conference on MultiAgent Systems http://icmas.lania.mx, July 7, 2000.
• Nenad Ivezic, Mario Barbacci, Don Libes, Tom Potok, and John Robert, "An Architecture and COTS Analysis of Agent Systems", accepted at "The First Goddard Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems" http://fmw.gsfc.nasa.gov/ (and to be published in the proceedings in Springer's Lecture Notes), April 4, 2000.
• Schlenoff, C., Gruninger, M., Ciocoiu, M. and Libes, D., "Process Specification Language (PSL): Results of the First Pilot Implementation", ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Nashville, October, 1999.
• Craig Schlenoff, Robert Ivester, Don Libes, Peter Denno and Simon Szykman: An Analysis of Existing Ontological Systems for Applications in Manufacturing,", Engineering Information Management Symposium, Computers in Engineering Conference / ASME Design Technical Conferences, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 12-15, 1999 (also NISTIR 6301).
• Libes, D., Writing a Tcl Extension in Only ... 7 Years, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop '97, Boston, MA, July 14-7, 1997. [Received Best Paper Award.]
• Libes, D., Managing Tcl's Namespaces Collaboratively, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop '97, Boston, MA, July 14-7, 1997.
• Libes, D., "Tcl/Tk-based Agents for Mail and News Notification -- or -- A Tale of Two Biffs", Software - Practice & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, England, Vol. 27(4), p. 481-493, April 1997.
• Libes, D., "Automation and Testing of Interactive Character Graphic Programs", Software - Practice & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, England, Vol. 27(2), p. 123-137, February 1997.
• Libes, D., "How to Avoid Learning Expect -- or -- Automating Automating Interactive Programs" (PDF, PostScript), Proceedings of the Tenth USENIX System Administration Conference (LISA X), Chicago, IL, September 30 - October 4, 1996.
• Libes, D., "Writing CGI Scripts in Tcl" (PDF, PostScript), Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Tcl/Tk Workshop '96, Monterey, CA, July 10-13, 1996. [Received Best Presentation Award.]
• Libes, D., "Authentication by Email Reception", Proceedings of the Fifth System Administration, Networking, and Security Conference (SANS 96), Washington, DC, May 12-18, 1996.
• Libes, D., Clark S.N., "An Object-Oriented Tcl/Tk Binding for Interpreted Control of the NIST EXPRESS Toolkit in the NIST STEP Application Protocol Development Environment", Proceedings of the EXPRESS User Group Workshop (EUG '95), Grenoble, France, October 21-22, 1995.
• Libes, D., "Handling Passwords with Security and Reliability in Background Processes", Proceedings of the Eighth USENIX System Administration Conference (LISA VIII), pp. 57-64, San Diego, CA, September 19-23, 1994.
• Libes, D., "Concepts of the NIST EXPRESS Server" Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Services in Distributed and Networked Environments (SDNE), Prague, Czech Republic, June 27-28, 1994.
• Libes, D., "X Wrappers for Non-Graphic Interactive Programs", Proceedings of Xhibition 94, San Jose, California, June 20-24, 1994.
• Libes, D., "The NIST EXPRESS Toolkit: Design and Implementation," Seventh Annual Engineering Database Symposium - ASME Computers in Engineering Conference, San Diego, CA, August 9-11, 1993.
• Libes, D., "A Debugger for Tcl Applications," Proceedings of the 1993 Tcl/Tk Workshop, Berkeley, CA, June 10-11, 1993.
• Libes, D., "Kibitz- Connecting Multiple Interactive Programs Together ", Software - Practice & Experience, John Wiley & Sons, West Sussex, England, Vol. 23, No. 5, May 1993.
• Libes, D., Clark, S.N., "The NIST EXPRESS Toolkit - Lessons Learned," Proceedings of the EXPRESS Users Group Conference, Dallas, TX, October 1992.
• Libes, D., "Regression Testing and Conformance Testing Interactive Programs", Proceedings of the Summer 92' USENIX Conference, San Antonio, TX, June 8-12, 1992.
• O'Connell, J., Sullivan, F., Libes, D., Stella, A.L., Einstein, T.L., "Self-Avoiding Random Surfaces: Monte Carlo Study Using Oct-tree (sic) Data-Structures," Journal of Physics "A" Math, Gen. 24 (1991) pp. 4619-4635.
• Libes, D., "Modeling Dynamic Surfaces with Octrees," Published in Computers & Graphics Magazine, Pergamon Press, New York, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1991. (republished from NISTIR 89-4055)
• Libes, D., "Expect: Scripts for Controlling Interactive Processes," Computing Systems, Vol. 4, No. 2, University of California Press Journals, Spring 1991.
• Libes, D., "Using Expect to Automate System Administration Tasks," Proceedings of the Fourth USENIX Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA), Colorado Springs, CO, October 17-19, 1990.
• Libes, D., "Expect: Curing Those Uncontrollable Fits of Interaction," Proceedings of the Summer 1990 USENIX Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 1990.
• Libes, D., "Choosing a Name for your Computer," Communications of the ACM, p. 44, November 1989.
• Libes, D., Barkmeyer, E., "The Integrated Manufacturing Data Administration System (IMDAS) - An Overview," International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 1, No. 1, p. 44, 1988.
• Furlani, C., Barkmeyer, E., Mitchell, M., Libes, D., "The Distributed Data System of the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility of the National Bureau of Standards," Proceedings of COMPCON SPRING `88, Thirty-third IEEE Computer Society International Conference, San Francisco, CA, February 29-March 4, 1988.
• Furlani, C., Libes, D., Barkmeyer, Ed., Mitchell, M., "Distributed Databases on the Factory Floor", Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Computerization and Networking of Materials Property Databases, November 2-4, 1987, Phil. PA.
• Libes, D., "User-Level Shared Variables (In a Hierarchical Control Environment)," Proceedings of the 1985 USENIX Conference, Portland, OR, June 1985.

Books

• Libes, D., "Exploring Expect: A Tcl-Based Toolkit for Automating Interactive Applications", O'Reilly & Associates, pp. 602, ISBN 1-56592-090-2, January 1995.
• Libes, D., Obfuscated C and Other Mysteries, CafePress, pp. 413, ISBN 0-471-57805-3, January 1993.
• Libes, D., Ressler, S., Life With UNIX, Prentice Hall, pp. 346, ISBN 0-13-536657-7, January 1989.

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Book Chapters and Invited Papers

• Libes, D., "Using Expect to Automate System Administration Tasks", "Selected Papers in Network and System Administration, ed: Eric Anderson, Mark Burgess and Alva Couch, pub: Wiley, 2002.
• Libes, D., "Expect -- A Power Tool for System Administration Automation", System Administration Tools, ed, D. McNutt, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., to appear.
• Libes, D., "Passmass -- Changing Passwords on Many Machines Simultaneously", Internet Power Tools, ed, Valeria Quercia, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., to appear.
• Libes, D., "Vrfy -- Verifying an Internet Email Address," Internet Power Tools, ed, Valeria Quercia, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., to appear.
• Libes, D., "Expect -- A Power Tool for Interaction Automation, UNIX Power Tools, ed, J. Peek, et al, O'Reilly & Associates, to appear.
• Libes, D., "Expect", Tcl/Tk Extensions, ed, Mark Harrison, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1997.
• Libes, D., "Terminal Emulation for Automation and Testing of Character Graphic Programs: A Code Walkthrough", Proceedings of The 21st Annual Trenton Computer Festival (TCF '96), Trenton, NJ, April 21-22, 1996.
• Libes, D., "Ouch, Those Programs Are Painful", p. 9-11, ORA DOT COM, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Fall '94.
• Libes, D., "Automating Interactive Applications in the Network Environment", Journal of Proceedings, International Communications Association - 1992 Annual Conference and Exhibition, Atlanta, GA, May 17, 1992. [Invited paper to accept Innovation Award.]
• Furlani, C., Barkmeyer, Ed., Mitchell, M., Libes, D., "The Distributed Data System of the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility of the National Bureau of Standards" in: Computerization and Networking of Materials Databases, eds, Glazman, J., Rumble, J., ASTM, STP 1017, April 1989.
• Libes, D., "Multiple Programs in One UNIX Process", ;login:, pp. 7-13, Vol. 12, No. 4, USENIX Association, Berkeley, CA, July/August 1987.
• Libes, D., "UNIX in the Government's Automated Manufacturing Research Facility (AMRF)", Government Computer News, February 14, 1986.

NIST Technical Reports and Publications

• Craig Schlenoff, Robert Ivester, Don Libes, Peter Denno and Simon Szykman: "An Analysis of Existing Ontological Systems for Applications in Manufacturing and Healthcare,", NISTIR 6301, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1999.
• Don Libes, Craig Schlenoff, Demo: PSL: How Does It Work?, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1999.
• Craig Schlenof, Robert Ivester, Don Libes, "Process Specification Language: An Analyis of Existing Representations, NISTIR 6160, 1998.
• KC Morris, David Flater, Don Libes, Al Jones, "Testing of Interaction-driven Manufacturing Systems", NISTIR 6260, December 1998.
• Michelle Potts Steves and Don Libes: "Organization of MSID's On-Line information - Experience and Recommendations," NISTIR 5792, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1996.
• Libes, D., "The NIST EXPRESS Server: Usage and Implementation", NISTIR 5323, Gaithersburg, MD, May 11, 1994.
• Libes, D., "The NIST EXPRESS Toolkit: Introduction and Overview", NISTIR 5242 (NTIS PB94- 120664/AS), Gaithersburg, MD, October 25, 1993.
• Libes, D., "Exppp - An EXPRESS Pretty Printer, NISTIR 5292 (NTIS PB94-120797/AS), Gaithersburg, MD, November 8, 1993.
• Libes, D., "Shtolo - Converting STEP Short Listings to Annotated Listings," NISTIR 5291, November 1993.
• Libes, D., "The NIST EXPRESS Toolkit: Using Applications," NISTIR 5206, June 9, 1993.
• Libes, D., "The NIST EXPRESS Toolkit: Updating Existing Applications, NISTIR 5205, June 9, 1993.
• Libes, D., "The NIST EXPRESS Toolkit: Obtaining and Installing," NISTIR 5204, May 1993.
• Libes, D., "The NIST STEP Part 21 Exchange File Toolkit: An Update," NISTIR 5187, May 1993.
• Libes, D., Fowler, J.E., "NIST Express Toolkit: Requirements for Improvement," NISTIR 5212, June 9, 1993.
• Clark, S.N., Libes, D., "NIST Express Working Form Programmer's Reference," NISTIR 4814, April 3, 1992.
• Clark, S.N., Libes, D., "Fed-X: The NIST Express Translator," NISTIR 4822, April 3, 1992.
• Clark, S.N., Libes, D.,"The NIST PDES Toolkit: Technical Fundamentals," NISTIR 4815, April 3, 1992.
• Libes, D., "A Clock for the Manufacturing Systems Integration Testbed," NISTIR 4666, September 1991.
• Libes, D., "NIST Network Common Memory User Manual," NISTIR 90-4233, February 1990.
• Libes, D., "Packet-Oriented Communication using a Stream Protocol - or - Making TCP/IP on Berkeley Unix a Little More Pleasant to Use," NISTIR 90-4232, February 1990.
• Libes, D., "Modeling Dynamic Surfaces with Octrees," NISTIR 89-4055, February 1989.
• Libes, D., Magalet, J., Litcher, A., "Integrated Manufacturing Data Administration System (IMDAS)", videotape, NBS, September 1988.
• Rybczynski, S., Barkmeyer, E.J., Wallace, E.K, Strawbridge, M.L., Libes, D.E., Young, C.V., , "AMRF Network Communications," NBSIR 88-3816, June 1988.
• Libes, D., " The State of State Tables in the AMRF", AMRF Technical Report #1, NBSIR 87-3541, March 1987.

Other Publications

• Libes, D., "Obfuscated C", Proceedings of The 17th Annual Trenton Computer Festival (TCF '92), Trenton, NJ, April 11-12, 1992.
• Libes, D., "Obfuscated C 1990", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 9, No. 5, May 1991.
• Libes, D., "Implementing a trap command", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 9, No. 3, March 1991.
• Libes, D., "Expect", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 9, No. 1, January, 1991.
• Libes, D., "Implementing Software Timers", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 8, No. 11, November 1990.
• Libes, D., "Tcl - Tool Command Language", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 8, No. 9, September 1990.
• Libes, D., "Using Yacc and Lex Twice in One Program", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 8, No. 7, July 1990.
• Libes, D., "The Far Side of C", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 8, No. 5, May, 1990.
• Libes, D., "Life With Static Buffers, Part II", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 8, No. 3, March 1990.
• Libes, D., "Life With Static Buffers", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 8, No. 1, January 1990.
• Libes, D., "Updating Environment Variables", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 7, No. 7, October 1989.
• Libes, D., "Real Life Story: Writing a book with FrameMaker, The Story of Life With UNIX", Frame User's Network (F.U.N.) Newsletter, Vol 1., No. 2, August 1989.
• Libes, D., "Obfuscated C 1988", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 7, No. 5, July 1989.
• Libes, D., "Faster Than Malloc", The C Users Journal, R & D Publications, Inc., Vol. 7, No. 4, May 1989.
• Libes, D., "The State of C", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 12, December 1988.
• Libes, D., "Threads", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 11, November 1988.
• Libes, D., "Portability", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 10, October 1988.
• Libes, D., "Register", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 9, September 1988.
• Libes, D., "Optimizing Strcpy", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 8, August 1988.
• Libes, D., "x = x++;", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 7, July 1988.
• Libes, D., "Rmifdef", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 6, June 1988.
• Libes, D., "More Obfuscated C", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 5, May 1988.
• Libes, D., "Obfuscated C 1987", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 4, April 1988.
• Libes, D., "Function Pointers", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 3, March 1988.
• Libes, D., "Dump", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 2, February 1988.
• Libes, D., "Longjmp", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 4, No. 1, January 1988.
• Libes, D., "Varying Arguments", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 3, No. 6, November/December 1987.
• Libes, D., "Doubles", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 3, No. 5, September/October 1987.
• Libes, D., "Byte Ordering", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 3, No. 4, July/August 1987.
• Libes, D., "Updating Time", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 3, No. 3, May/June 1987.
• Libes, D., Libes, S., "Editor's Page: DOS is Getting to Look a Lot Like UNIX", Micro/Systems Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, May/June 1987.
• Libes, D., "Obfuscated C 1986", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 3, No. 2, March/April 1987.
• Libes, D., "cdecl - A Program to Explain C Declarations", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 3, No. 1, January/February 1987.
• Libes, D., "Keeping Track of malloc()", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 2, No. 6, November/December 1986.
• Libes, D., "Garbage In", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 2, No. 5, September/October 1986.
• Libes, D., "All about Casts", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 2, No. 4, July/August 1986.
• Libes, D., "Obfuscated C 1985", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 2, No. 3, May/June 1986.
• Libes, D., "getopt() - A Subroutine for Parsing Command-Line Arguments", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 2, No. 2, March/April 1986.
• Libes, D., Morris, G., "C Interpreters", Micro/Systems Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, March/April 1986.
• Libes, D., "C Interpreters", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 2, No. 1, January/February 1986.
• Libes, D., "Context-Independent Macros", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 1, No. 5, November/December 1985.
• Libes, D., "Obfuscated C 1984", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 1, No. 4, September/October 1985.
• Libes, D., "Implementing Sets with Bit Operations", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 1, No. 3, July/August 1985.
• Libes, D., "Writing a Translation Program", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 1, No. 2, May/June 1985.
• Libes, D., "Implementing Variably-Sized Arrays", Micro/Systems Journal, M&T Publishing, Vol. 1, No. 1, March/April 1985 .

Presentations