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Papers and Columns in the May Issue
The May issue of SEN includes reports and papers on:
- An XML-Based Framework for Bidirectional Transformation in Model-Driven Architecture (MDA), by Shahid Nazir Bhatti and Asif Muhammad Malik
- Deducing the Complexity to Quality of a System using UML, by Dr. Shahid Nazir Bhatti
- Evaluation of Object-Oriented Spatial Complexity Measures, by Jitender Kumar Chhabra and Varun Gupta
- Generalized Coupling Measure for Aspect-Oriented Systems, by Avadhesh Kumar, Uttar Pradesh, Rajesh Kumar, and P.S. Grover
- Software Maintainability Assessment Based on Fuzzy Logic Technique, by Harish Mittal and Pradeep Bhatia
- A Comparative Evaluation of the Z, CSP, RSL, and VDM Languages, by Mohammad Reza Nami and Fatemeh Hassani
- Integrating EduLearn Learning Content Management System (LCMS) with Cooperating Learning Object Repositories (LORs) in a Peer To Peer (P2P) Architectural Framework, by Lakshmi Sunil Prakash, Dinesh Kumar Saini, and N.S. Kutti
- Enhanced Inquiry Method for Malicious Object Identification, by Dinesh Kumar Saini, Jabar H. Yousif, and Wail M. Omar
- A Discussion on Security Typing and Measurement for SOA, by Frank Tsui, Andy Wang, and Kai Qian
- Delegation: A Language Facility for Dynamic Software Adaptation, by Qun Yang, Man-Wu Xu, and De-Chang Pi
The letters, ads and columns in the May issue include the following:
- Letter From the SIGSOFT Educational Programs Coordinator - Laura K. Dillon
- Practical Formal Software Engineering: Wanting the Software You Get - Bruce Mills
- From the Editor - Will Tracz
- Membership Drive - William G. Griswold
- Call for Nominations: SIGSOFT Papers for CACMM Research Highlight Section
- The 12th International Symposium on Component-based Software Engineering (CBSE)
- 16th Stevens Lecture on Software Development Methods
- ACM Award Winners
- Software Engineering Education (SEEd) - Peter B. Henderson
- Software Engineering & Computer Sciences: TwoWorlds - Ewan Tempero
- Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes - Mark Doernhoefer
- Risks to the Public - Peter G. Neumann and contributors
Software and System Reliability
In his May Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes column, Mark Doernhoefer visits sites that show you how to "put some rigor into reliability assessment and help you get started with establishing processes and procedures to assess software reliability throughout your development life cycle." The sites include handbooks, a dictionary of acronyms, tools, consulting, papers from NASA and others, failure reporting, and more. Check it out in Software Engineering Notes online.
ESEC/FSE 2009
The seventh joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC) and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) will be held August 24 - 28, 2009 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Check the ESEC/FSE 2009 web site for more information.
ICSE 2009
The 31st International Conference on Software Engineering was held in Vancouver, British Columbia from May 16 to May 24, 2009. For more information check the ICSE 2009 website.
FSE 2008
The 16th ACM Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering was held November 9 through 15, 2008 at the Georgia Tech Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Check out the FSE 2008 website for more information.
SEN online in the Digital Library
The full text of the current issue and all back issues of Software Engineering Notes is now available free online for SIGSOFT members in the ACM Digital Library.


