| Volume 23, Number 1 | January 1998 |
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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LETTERS: |
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| Letter from the Executive Committee, Wilhelm Shaefer | 1 |
| Letter from the Chair, David Notkin | 1 |
| Letter from the Editor, Will Tracz | 2 |
| FSE '98 Invitation, Leon Osterweil | 2 |
| Inspection and "Spiral", Tom Gilb | 4 |
| ICSP Conference Announcement, Dewayne Perry | 5 |
| ISAW Conference Announcement, Dewayne Perry | 5 |
| All-around Security, Gene Tsudik | 5 |
| SEKE'98 Invitation, Yi Deng | 6 |
| Software Engineering Standards Announcement | 6 |
| Meeting Summary Request (Future Column Announcement), David Leciston | 6 |
| PASTE Conference Announcement, Frank Tip | 6 |
| SEWORLD Mailing List Invitation, Alexander L. Wolf | 7 |
| ICSE PC Works Hard | 7 |
| ESEC/FSE'97 Photo Summary | 8 |
COLUMNS: |
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| ACM Fellows (Future Column Announcement) | 9 |
| Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors | 9 |
| Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer | 16 |
| Evaluating Software Eng. Methods and Tools -- Part 9: Quantitative Case Study Methodology, Barbara Ann Kitchenham and Lesley M. Pickard | 24 |
REPORTS: |
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| Report from SEKE'97, Oh Cheon Kwon | 27 |
| Report: Workshop on Object-Oriented Re-engineering (WOOR'97), Serge Demeyer and Harald Hall | 28 |
| REFSQ'97 Workshop Summary, Eric Dubois, Andreas L. Opdahl, and Klaus Pohl | 30 |
| Report: Technology Challenges at SPC, Lisa Finneran | 35 |
| 1997 Workshop on Foundations of Component-Based Systems, Gary T. Leavens, Oscar Nierstrasz, and Murali Sitaraman | 38 |
PAPERS: |
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| Why do Some (weird) People Inject Faults? Joao Carreira and Joao Gabriel Silva | 42 |
| A Framework for Encapsulating Card-Oriented, Interactive, Legacy Applications, Al Butkus and Barbara L. Mitchell | 44 |
| Making Active CASE Tools, Riri Huang | 47 |
| Overcoming Communication Obstacles in User-Analyst Interaction, S. Valenti, M. Panti, and A. Cucchiarelli | 50 |
| Integration of Complexity Metrics with the Use of Decision Trees, Peter Kokol, et al. | 56 |
| Generalization of Leaner Object-Oriented Slicing, Rob Law | 59 |
| What's Wrong with Software Engineering Research Methodology, Frank Xia | 62 |
| Interacting with Object-Oriented Program Slicing, Rob Law | 66 |
| Preliminary Design Use Cases: Combining Use Cases and Event Response Lists ... Reuse and Legacy System Enhancement, Declan Martin | 68 |
| Holistic Design of a Programming System, R. Anane | 72 |
| Partnering for Reuse, Mike Mannion and Barry Keepence | 77 |
| Two-Dimensional SW Development Model for Combining OO with Formal Methods, Yuan Xiaodong, Chen Jianjun and Zheng Guoliang | 81 |
| Integrating the Understanding of Quality in Requirements Specification and Conceptual Modeling, John Krogstie | 86 |
| The UML Rules, Radmila Juric | 92 |
| Software Agents and Intelligent Object Fusion, Cyrus F. Nourani | 98 |
| Compositional Model Checking for Real-Time Systems, Hou Jianmin, Li Xuandong, Fan Xiaocon, and Zheng Guoliang | 99 |
| Viewpoint-Centred Reuse: Bridging the Gap between Reusability and the Needs of the Reuser, Wing Lam | 100 |
| A Note on State Modeling through Inheritance, Jonathan Lee | 104 |
BOOK REVIEWS: |
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| Brian O'Laughlin, Peter Raynham, and Will Tracz | 109 |
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Arnulf Mester |
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