ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 28

Volume 28, Number 1, January 2003

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  Matthew B. Dwyer, Jens Palsberg:
  Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis For Software Tools and Engineering, PASTE'02, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, November 18-19, 2002. ACM 2002 [contents]

Volume 28, Number 2, March 2003

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  Will Tracz:
  Front matter (letters and notices). 1-10

Software engineering education

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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education (SEEd). 10-12

Risks to the public

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public in computers and related systems. 12-17

Surfing the net for software engineering notes

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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 18-23

Principles of survey research part 6: data analysis

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  Barbara A. Kitchenham, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger:
  Principles of survey research part 6: data analysis. 24-27

Workshop and conference summaries

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  Tom Mens, Roel Wuyts, Kris De Volder, Kim Mens:
  Declarative Meta Programming to Support Software Development: Workshop Report. 1
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  Yingxu Wang:
  On the Latest Development in Cognitive Informatics: Conference Summary of the First IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI '02). 2

Article abstracts with full text online

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  K. K. Aggarwal, Yogesh Singh, Jitender Kumar Chhabra:
  A dynamic software metric and debugging tool. 1
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  Mikael Berndtsson, Bengt Calestam:
  Graphical notations for active rules in UML and UML-A. 2
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  Barry W. Boehm:
  Value-based software engineering: reinventing. 3
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  Barry W. Boehm:
  Value-based software engineering. 4
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  Hans Konrad Buhrer:
  Software development: what it is, what it should be, and how to get there. 5
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  Luiz Fernando Capretz:
  A brief history of the object-oriented approach. 6
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  Guangchun Luo, Yanhua Wang, Xianliang Lu, Hong Han:
  A novel web application frame developed by MVC. 7
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  Gang Huang, Hong Mei, Qianxiang Wang:
  Towards software architecture at runtime. 8
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  Alan A. Jorgensen:
  Testing with hostile data streams. 9
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  Mei Lin, YongSen Xu:
  An adaptive dependability model of component-based software. 10
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  Juan Lloréns, Rubén Prieto-Díaz:
  Is KS=(D+I+S+K)*E + KM? 11
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  Marco Torchiano, Giorgio Bruno:
  Enterprise modeling by means of UML instance models. 12
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  Abd-El-Kader Sahraoui, T. Blum:
  Using object-oriented methods in a system lifecycle process model. 13
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  Takao Shimomura, Muneo Takahashi, Kenji Ikeda, Yoshio Mogami:
  Web application generator by image-oriented design. 14
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  Baomin Xu, Weimin Lian, Qiang Gao:
  A general framework for constructing application cooperating system in Windows environment. 15
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  Zhang You-Sheng, He Yu-Yun:
  Architecture-based SW process model. 16
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  G. Zayaraz, P. Thambidurai, S. Kuppuswami, Paul Rodrigues:
  New approach to software architecture. 17
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  Muthu Ramachandran:
  Testing reusable software components from object specification. 18

Book reviews

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  Ken Frazer:
  Review of "C# primer: a practical approach by Stanley B. Lippman." Addison-Wesley 2001. 33-34
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  Dave Benson:
  Review of "Software for your head: core protocols for creating and maintaining shared vision by Jim and Michele McCarthy." Addison-Wesley 2002. 33
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  Gregory H. Harris:
  Review of "Algorithms in C++, third edition by Robert Sedgewick." Addison-Wesley 2002. 34-35
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  Jim Law:
  Review of "Flexible pattern matching in strings: practical on-line algorithms for text and biological sequences by Gonzolo Navarro and Mathieu Raffinot." Cambridge University Press 2002. 35
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  Jim Law:
  Review of "The boost graph library: user guide and reference manual by Jeremy G. Siek, Lie-Quan Lee, and Andrew Lumsdaine." Addison-Wesley 2002. 35-36
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  Jim Law:
  Review of "Numerical recipes in C++: the art of scientific computing, second edition by William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, and Brian P. Flannery." Cambridge University Press 2002. 36
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  Brian A. Lawler:
  Review of "XML and Java: developing web applications, 2nd edition by Hiroshi Maruyama, et. al." Addison-Wesley 2002. 37
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  Dragos Manolescu:
  Review of "Metadata solutions: using metamodels, repositories, XML, and enterprise portals to generate information on demand by Adrienne Tannenbaum." Addison-Wesley 2002. 38
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  Joe Saur:
  Review of "The people capability maturity model: guidelines for improving the workforce by Bill Curtis, William E. Hefley, and Sally Miller." Addison-Wesley 2002. 38-39

Volume 28, Number 3, May 2003

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  Will Tracz:
  Front matter (letters and notices). 1-8

Risks to the public

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public in computers and related systems. 5-9

Software engineering education

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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education (SEEd). 11-12

Surfing the net for software engineering notes

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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 13-21

Article abstracts with full text online

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  Rakesh Agarwal, Ajit Sarangi, Swati Das:
  Reengineering of database intensive application. 1
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  Coskun Bayrak, Chad Davis:
  The liquid architecture: a non-linear peer-to-peer distributed architecture with polymorphic message passing. 2
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  Edward A. Billard:
  Language-Dependent performance of design patterns. 3
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  Paul Brebner, Jeffrey Gosper:
  How scalable is J2EE technology? 4
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  Jorge Enrique Pérez-Martínez:
  Heavyweight extensions to the UML metamodel to describe the C3 architectural style. 5
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  Jan Heering:
  Quantification of structural information: on a question raised by Brooks. 6

Book reviews

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  Mordechai Ben-Menachem:
  Software for your head. 24
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  Isaac Pentinmaki:
  Object modeling and user interface design designing interactive systems. 24
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  Isaac Pentinmaki:
  IT measurement: practical advice from the experts. 25

Volume 28, Number 4, July 2003

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  Will Tracz:
  Front matter (letters and notices). 1-4

Software engineering education

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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education (SEEd). 3-5
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public in computers and related systems. 6-10
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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 11-20

Workshop and conference summaries

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  J. Barrie Thompson, Helen M. Edwards:
  Report on the 2^nd international summit on software engineering education, co-located with ICSE2003. 21-26
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  Leon J. Osterweil:
  Report on new software engineering faculty symposium (NSEFS 03) a full-day symposium held in conjunction with ICSE 2003 5 May 2003 Portland, OR, USA. 27-35
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  Dick Hamlet:
  Report on the ICSE 2003 doctoral symposium. 27-28

Invited papers

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  Barbara G. Ryder, Mary Lou Soffa:
  Influences on the design of exception handling ACM SIGSOFT project on the impact of software engineering research on programming language design. 29-35

Article abstracts with full text online

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  P. V. Bhansali:
  A systematic approach to identifying a safe subset for safety-critical software. 1
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  Charles Cowan:
  An XML vocabulary for error message documentation. 2
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  Offer Drori:
  Template for a system design file using OODPM version 5.0. 3
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  Nasib Singh Gill:
  Reusability issues in component-based development. 4
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  Sanya Liu, Hongwei Wang:
  Agent architecture for agent-based supply chain integration & coordination. 5

Book reviews

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  Will Tracz:
  Review of "Dr. Peeling's principles of management: practical advice for the front-line manager by Nic Peeling." Dorset House 2003. 37

Volume 28, Number 5, September 2003

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  Jukka Paakki, Paola Inverardi:
  Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering 2003 held jointly with 9th European Software Engineering Conference, ESEC/FSE 2003, Helsinki, Finland, September 1-5, 2003. ACM 2003, ISBN 978-1-58113-743-9 [contents]

Volume 28, Number 6, November 2003

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  Will Tracz:
  Front matter (letters and notices). 1-2

Columns

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  Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education. 3-4
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  Paul De Palma:
  A tale of two cultures. 4-5
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public in computers and related systems. 6-14
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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 15-24

Workshop and conference summaries

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  Alessandro Garcia, José Alberto R. P. Sardinha, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena, Jaelson Brelaz de Castro, Julio César Sampaio do Prado Leite, Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Alexander B. Romanovsky, Martin L. Griss, Rogério de Lemos, Anna Perini:
  Software engineering for large-scale multi-agent systems: SELMAS 2003: workshop report. 1
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  Filippo Lanubile, Daniela E. Damian, Heather L. Oppenheimer:
  Global software development: technical, organizational, and social challenges. 2
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  Bernhard Westfechtel:
  SCM-11: 11th workshop on software configuration management workshop report. 3
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  Jonathan E. Cook, Michael D. Ernst:
  Summary: ICSE workshop on dynamic analysis (WODA 2003). 4
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  Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott A. Hissam, Karim R. Lakhani:
  Taking stock of the bazaar: the third workshop on open source software engineering. 5
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  Günther Ruhe:
  Second international workshop on software engineering decision support: (SEDECS'2003). 6
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  Rick Kazman:
  Report from the ICSE workshop: bridging the gaps between software engineering and human-computer interaction. 7
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  Rogério de Lemos, Cristina Gacek, Alexander B. Romanovsky:
  ICSE 2003 workshop on software architectures for dependable systems. 8
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  Ingolf Krüger, Sebastián Uchitel, Jon Whittle, Albert Zündorf:
  A summary of the second ICSE 2003 workshop on: "scenarios and state machines: models, algorithms, and tools". 9
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  Alessandro Orso, Adam A. Porter:
  ICSE workshop on remote analysis and measurement of software systems (RAMSS). 10

Papers

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  Mariela I. Cortés, Marcus Fontoura, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena:
  Using refactoring and unification rules to assist framework evolution. 1
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  Maulik A. Dave:
  Compiler verification: a bibliography. 2
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  José Miguel Fuentes, Víctor Quintana, Juan Lloréns, Gonzalo Génova, Rubén Prieto-Díaz:
  Errors in the UML metamodel? 3
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  Nasib Singh Gill, P. S. Grover:
  Component-based measurement: few useful guidelines. 4
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  Magne Jørgensen:
  How much does a vacation cost?: or what is a software cost estimate? 5
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  S. Kuppuswami, Kalimuthu Vivekanandan, Prakash Ramaswamy, Paul Rodrigues:
  The effects of individual XP practices on software development effort. 6
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  Sheldon X. Liang, Valdis Berzins, Luqi:
  Quantifiable architecting of dependable systems of embedded systems. 7
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  Clive Rosen:
  10 impossible things to do before breakfast. 8
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  Xiangjun Sun, Fengyu Liu, Manwu Xu:
  Research on interoperability of intelligent mobile agent for DIS. 9

Book reviews

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  Joe Saur:
  Review of "Professional Software Development: Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, Enhanced by Steve McConnell." Addison Wesley 2004. 30-31
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  Joe Saur:
  Review of "Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide by David Astels." Prentice-Hall 2003. 31
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  Joe Saur:
  Review of "Five Core Metrics: The Intelligence Behind Successful Software Management by Lawrence H. Putnam & Ware Myers." Dorset House 2003. 31-32
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  Will Tracz:
  Review of "Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Projects by Tom DeMarco & Timothy Lister." Dorset House 2003. 32