Volume 23, Number 1 January 1998

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LETTERS:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Brian O'Laughlin, Peter Raynham, and Will Tracz 109

CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Arnulf Mester
111

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