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If you're a member of SIGSOFT and would like to see your name in print, check out the list of available books, have the editor send you a book, read it, write up your review and send it in.
Papers, Reviews and Columns in the July Issue
The July issue of SEN includes reports and papers on:
- SCORE: the First Student Contest on Software Engineering, by Dino Mandrioli, Stephen Fickas, Carlo A. Furia, Mehdi Jazayeri, Matteo Rossi, and Michal Young
- Identification of Aspect Candidates by Inspecting Use Cases Descriptions, by Juliana Pinheiro Campos, José Luis Braga, Antônio Maria Pereira de Resende, and Carlos Henrique Osório Silva
- Optimizing IT Process Management, by Tony Lee
- Model Driven Development Approach to Natural Language Generation Systems, by Hendrik Macedo
- A Mathematical Reusability Model for Quantifying the Reduction in Development Effort, by Dipankar Majumdar, Sabnam Sengupta, Ananya Kanjilal, Swagata Kundu, and Swapan Bhattacharya
- A Soft Computing Based Approach to Estimate Reusability of Software Components, by N.W. Nerurkar, Arun Sharma, and Shrddha Sagar
- CRAYSE : Design and Implementation of Efficient Text Search Algorithm in a Web Crawler, by V. Radhakishan, Yaser Farook, and S. Selvakumar
- Dependence Analysis of Software Component, by Ratneshwer and A. K. Tripathi
- Test Case Prioritization using Ant Colony Optimization, by Yogesh Singh, Arvinder Kaur, and Bharti Suri
- Method Efficiency Model Based on Value Relevancy, by Sim-Hui Tee
The book reviews in the July issue include the following:
- Characterizing People as Non-linear, Firstorder Components in Software Development Written by Alistair A.R. Cockburn, Reviewed by Larry Bernstein
- Managing and Leading Software Projects Written by Richard E. (Dick) Fairley, Reviewed by Mordechai Ben-Menachem
- Reactive Systems: Modelling, Specification and Verification Written by Aceto, Luca, Anna Ingolfsdottir, Kim Guldstrand Larsen, and Jiri Srba
- Geometric Spanner Networks Written by Giri Narasimhan and Michael Smid, Reviewed by David S. Rogers
The letters and columns in the July issue include the following:
- From the Chair - David S. Rosenblum
- From the Editor - Will Tracz
- Doctoral Candidate in Search of Research Subjects - Betty Carden
- ACM President Names 2009 Presidential Award Winners
- Doctoral Dissertation Award Announced
- Connect with SIGSOFT via Social Media
- SEN Reviewers Wanted
- Pithy Quotes Off Topic/Rebuttal - Conrad Weisert/Larry Bernstein
- Pithy Software Engineering Quotes - Larry Bernstein and Hákon Ágústsson
- Burt Doesn't Manage - Mike Wing
- Software Engineering Education (SEEd) - Mark A. Ardis and Peter B. Henderson
- Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes - Mark Doernhoefer
- Risks to the Public - Peter G. Neumann and contributors
Software Engineering Education
Mark Ardis and Peter Henderson's July Software Engineering Education (SEEd) column covers software engineering for automobiles and other safety-critical systems, and the need to work with other engineering domains that build them. Read Mark and Peter's column in Software Engineering Notes online.
Multicore and Multithreaded Programming
In his July Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes column, Mark Doernhoefer reviews CPU manufacturers' web sites as well as those on API standards, debugging, C++ and Java, Clojure and others related to multicore and multithreaded programming. Check it out in Software Engineering Notes online.
ICSE 2010
The 32nd Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010, was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 2-8 May. There were tracks on aspect-orientation and feature interaction, engineering for mobile, ubiquitous and pervasive systems, engineering secure software, components and reuse, policy and ethics, requirements engineering and many more topics. Check the conference website for more information.
FSE 2010
FSE 2010 will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico from 7-11 November. Here's the conference website.
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.