Volume 23, Number 3 May 1998

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LETTERS:
Letter from the Executive Committee, Tony Wasserman 1
Letter from the Chair, David Notkin 2
Letter from the Editor, Will Tracz 2
URLs Wanted for SIGSOFT Web Pages, Jay Corbett 4
ASE'98 in Honolulu, John Penix 4
WICSA1 -- 1st IFIP Conference on Software Architecture, Paul Clements 4
Software Architecture Workshop, Dewayne Perry 5
SIGSOFT Fellows, Greg Cooper 5
SEN Style Guidelines, Wayne Stidolph 6
SIGSOFT Questionnaire, David Notkin, Will Tracz, and Greg Cooper 6
Comments on "Inspection and `Spiral' (Evolutionary Delivery)," Michael Fagan (and friends) 6
Texas Poised to License Software Engineers, Don Bagert 8
Draft Accreditation Criteria for Software Engineering, Gerald L. Engel and Richard J. LeBlanc 11

COLUMNS:
Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer 13
Evaluating Software Eng. Methods and Tools -- Part 10: Designing and Running a Quantitative Case Study, Barbara Ann Kitchenham and Lesley M. Pickard 20
Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors 23

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE SUMMARIES:
DoD Product Line Practice Workshop, Will Tracz 29
Workshop on Software Architectures in Product Line Acquisition, Edward A. Addy 32
Workshop on Development and Evolution of Software Architectures for Product Families, Paul C. Clements and Nelson Weiderman 39
Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures, Craig Thompson 44

INVITED PAPERS:
What Makes Software Engineering Research Successful, David Parnas 64
A History of Software Engineering at the National Science Foundation (A Personal View), Bruce Barnes 68

PAPERS:
Embedded Documentation for Semi-automatic Program Construction, Nenad Marovac 70
Software Documentation and Readability: A Proposed Process Improvement, Nuzhat J. Haneef 75
Duration Calculus in COOZ, Yuan Xiaodong, Chen Jiajun, and Zheng Guoliang 78
Reasoning about Team Tracking, Fan Xiaocong, Xu Xiaocong, Xu Dianxiang Hou, and Zheng Guoliang 79
A Multi-threaded OO Programming Model, C. Jiajun, Y. Xiaodong, and Z. Guoliang 83
An Agent-Oriented Modeling Approach, L. Hong, Z. Guangzhou and L. Zongkai 87
A "Call for Answers" around the proposition of a HCI-enriched Model, Christophe Kolski 93
A New Bachelor's Degree Program in Software Engineering, Alan D. Solomon 98
Using Responsibility Modeling To Match Organizational Change To Changes In The Systems Development Process, M.R. Strens and J. Chudge 102
Toward a Tradition of Software Engineering, L.B.S. Raccoon 105
A Middle-Out Concept of Hierarchy, Puppydog P.O.P. and L.B.S. Raccoon 111
How to Improve the Quality of Software Engineering Project Management, M. Krasna, I. Rozman, and B. Stiglic 120

BOOK REVIEWS:
Mark Doernhoefer, Michael Ayers, John A. Kostecki, Marty Leisner, Jeffrey Poulin, and Peter Raynham 125

CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Arnulf Mester
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