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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 November Issue
The November issue of SEN includes reports and papers on:
- Vector GA - A Novel Enhancement of Genetic Algorithms for Efficient Multi-variable or Multi-dimensional Search, by Indrajit Bhattacharyya1, Anup Kumar Bandypopadhyay, Bhaskar Gupta, Aloknath Chattopadhyay, Rajeswari Chattopadhyay and Kiyotoshi Yasumoto
- Barriers to the Adoption of Software Product Line Engineering, by Cagatay Catal
- Template for a System Design File Using OODPM Version 2010, by Offer Drori
- Finding Flows in Software Development, by Yu Feng
- A Layered Structure for Uniform Version Management in Component Based Systems, by Parminder Kaur and Hardeep Singh
- A Comparative Introduction to CSP and ACT-ONE Formal Languages, by Mohammad Reza Nami, Bahareh Sheikh-Abbasi and Marjaneh Khoshandam
- Exploiting Web Resources for Teaching/Learning Best Software Design Tips, by R. K. Pandey
- An Efficient Asynchronous Mobile Web Service Framework, by Ranjit Singh, Shakti Mishra, and D. S. Kushwaha
- Research on Software Design Level Security Vulnerabilities, by S. Rehman and K. Mustafa
- Slicing-Based Test Case Generation from UML Activity Diagrams, by Philip Samuel and Rajib Mall
- Component Adaptation Process and Adaptability Viewpoints, by Nasib S. Gill and Balkishan
- Eliminating Method Redundancy for the Improvement of Inner Class Design, by Sim Hui Tee
The book reviews in the November issue include the following:
- Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks Written by Brian D. Ripley, Reviewed by Thomas Heiman
- Simulation-Based Engineering of Complex Systems Written by John R. Clymer, Reviewed by Thomas Heiman
- Design, Measurement and Management of Large-Scale IP Networks: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice Written by Antonio Nucci and Kostantina Papagiannaki, Reviewed by Robert Schaefer
- Scientific Software: A Guide to Good Style Written by Suely Oliveira and David Stewart, Reviewed by Robert Schaefer
- Computing for Numerical Methods using Visual C++ Written by Shaharuddin Salleh, Albert Y. Zomaya and Sakhinah Abu Bakar, Reviewed by Craig Henderson
- Practical Text Mining With Perl Written by Roger Bilisoly, Reviewed by Igor Gvero
- Python for Software Design: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist Written by Allen B. Downey, Reviewed by Igor Gvero
The letters and columns in the November issue include the following:
- From the Chair - David S. Rosenblum
- From the Editor - Will Tracz
- SEN Should be a Blog - Ralph Johnson
- SEN Blog Could be like Lambda the Ultimate - Nels Beckman
- SIGSOFT Nominee for 2001 ACM-W Athena Lecturer
- SEN Submission Website (Beta Version)
- A Chronology of SIGSOFT - Tao Xie
- WANTED: SEN Reviewers
- Plan Your Trip to ICSE 2010
- Attracting Industry Partners to Software Engineering Research - Mark Grechanik
- Name the Column Contest
- SEN Blog Could be Like ??
- Pithy Software Engineering Quotes New <TBD> Column - Larry Bernstein and Hákon Ágústsson
- Software Engineering Education (SEEd) - Mark A. Ardis and Peter B. Henderson
- The Epistemology of Computer Security - Robert Schaefer
- Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes - Mark Doernhoefer
- Risks to the Public - Peter G. Neumann and contributors
Software Maintenance
In his November Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes column, Mark Doernhoefer visits sites that address software maintenance. There are sites devoted to standards, indices, tools, regression testing, cost models, a dissertation, the nobility of maintenance, and more. Check it out in Software Engineering Notes online.
ICSE 2010
The 32nd Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010, will be held in Cape Town, South Africa from 2-8 May. There are 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.
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) was 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.
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.