| Volume 23, Number 4 | July 1998 |
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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LETTERS: |
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| Letter from the Executive Committee, Alexander Wolf | 1 |
| Letter from the Chair, David Notkin | 2 |
| Letter from the Editor, Will Tracz | 2 |
| SEN Style Guidelines, Wayne Stidolph | 4 |
| SIGSOFT Questionnaire, David Notkin, Will Tracz, and Greg Cooper | 4 |
| ISAW-3 Conference Announcement, Dewayne Perry | 4 |
| FSE '98 Invitation, Leon Osterweil | 5 |
| Invited Industry Presentations at ICSE99, Barry Boehm | 5 |
| IFIP World Computer Congress 1998, Gerhard Chroust | 6 |
| EDCS Demonstration Days '98, Frank S. LaMonica | 6 |
| ICSE99 Case Studies Wanted, Anthony Finkelstein and Will Tracz | 7 |
COLUMNS: |
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| ACM Fellow: Jim Horning, Arnulf Mester | 7 |
| ACM Fellow: Dennis J. Frailey, Greg Cooper (ed.) | 9 |
| Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer | 11 |
| Evaluating Software Eng. Methods and Tools -- Part 11: Analysing Quantitative Case Studies, Barbara Ann Kitchenham and Lesley M. Pickard | 18 |
| Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors | 21 |
INVITED PAPERS: |
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| Who Taught Me About Software Engineering Research?, David Lorge Parnas | 26 |
| ICSE 98 Window on the World | 29 |
PAPERS: |
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| Operating Systems Architecture Future Directions for Heterogeneous Communication Systems, Li Li and Dharma P. Agrawal | 35 |
| Evaluation of the Functional and Object Oriented Programming Paradigms: A Replicated Expiriment, L. G. Samaraweera and R. Harrison | 38 |
| Prototype = Function + Behavior + Form, Kyo C. Kang, Gerard J. Kim, Ji Y. Lee and Hye J. Kim | 44 |
| Management Complexity in Software Development, John Laws | 50 |
| Using Inconsistent Data for Software Process Improvement, Petri Vesterinen | 53 |
| A Flexible, Applet-like Software Distribution Mechanism for Java Applications, Partha pratim Pal | 56 |
| On Built-in Tests and Reuse in Object Oriented Programming, Yingxu Wang, Graham King, Dilip Pantel, Ian Court, Geoff Staples, Margaret Ross, and Shushma Patel | 60 |
| A Learning Perspective on Software Process Technology, Ernst Ellmer | 65 |
| A Language-Based Editing Process for Visual Object-Oriented Programming, Chung-Hua, and Feng-Jian Wang | 70 |
| COOZ: A Complete OO Extension to Z, Yuan Xiaodong, Hu Deqiang, Xu Hao, Li Yong, and Zheng Guoliang | 76 |
| Module Weakness: A New Measure, Yogesh Singh and Pradeep Bhatia | 82 |
| Research on Concurrent Actions in Multi-Agent Systems, Fan Xiaocong, Chen Guanling and Zheng Guoliang | 83 |
BOOK REVIEWS: |
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| Mark Doernhoefer, Chuck Kaib, and John Kostecki | 84 |
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Arnulf Mester |
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