Volume 23, Number 4 July 1998

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LETTERS:
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:
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:
Who Taught Me About Software Engineering Research?, David Lorge Parnas 26
ICSE 98 Window on the World 29

PAPERS:
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:
Mark Doernhoefer, Chuck Kaib, and John Kostecki 84

CALENDAR OF EVENTS: Arnulf Mester
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