Volume 22, Number 2 March 1997

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LETTERS:
Letter from the Executive Committee, John Gannon 1
Letter from the Editor, Will Tracz 1

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:
Re: Parnas' and Reifer Remarks, Peter Martin 2
Re: Parnas' and Reifer Remarks, Harold K. Resnick 3
National Software Council Notes, Lawrence Bernstein 4
Symposium on Software Reuse Information, Jeff Poulin 5
ICECCS'97 System and Software Architecture Track, Robert Nord 5
Software Technology Conference Information, Dana Dovenbarger 6

COLUMNS:
ESI: SW Process in the Organizational Context: More Data on European Practices, Santiago Rementeria 6
Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer 8
Evaluating SW Eng. Methods and Tool -- Part 6: Identifying and Scoring Features, Barbara Ann Kitchenham and Lindsay Jones 16
Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors 19

PAPERS:
Issues in Designing an Information Model for Application Development, Gary H. Sockut, Helen P. Arzu, Robert W. Matthews, and David E. Shough 25
Process Reuse Using a Template Approach: A Case-Study for Avionics, Wing Lam 35
A Behaviorally-Based Methodology for Modeling System Specs, Sigal Mathalone 39
An Overview of Debugging Tools, Rob Law 43
Use of Domain Analysis to Implement the DOTSS Systems Acquisition Approach, S.S. Gulu Gambhir 48
A Tool for the Collection of Industrial Software Metrics Data, K.K. Aggarwal and Yogesh Singh 54
A Document-centered Approach for an Open CASE WWW Env., Frederic Blanqui 58
Integrating a Defect Typology with Containment Metrics, Robert Bruce Kelsey 64
Software Development Environment Based on HyperNet, Nenad Marovac 68
An Object-based Model for Prototyping User Interfaces in Cooperative Systems, Mao Bing and Xie Li 72
Lessons Learned with ACME: an Environment Integration Experiment John W. Gintell and Gerard Memmi 74
Plunge DA: A ~Case Study (Transcript of Defect Analysis Meeting), Clive Rosen 82
The ARIANE 5 Software Failure, Mark Dowson 84
Issues Arising from Medical System's Failure, Andrew Blyth 85
Analysis of Techniques in the Assessment of Ultra-Reliable Computerized Systems, Angelo Morzenti and Fabio A. Schreiber 87
So Many Algorithms. So Little Time, Garrison W. Greenwood 92
From Manufacturing Document Requirements to Customized Authoring and Automated Publishing Framework, Marc Le Bissonnais and Francois Prunet 94

BOOK REVIEWS:
Mark Doernhoefer, Michael Ayers, Ronald B. Finkbine, Robert Bruce Kelsey, Peter Raynham, Manjunath M. Suryanarayana, and Will Tracz 99

CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Malcolm Slovin
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