Volume 24, Number 1 January 1999

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LETTERS:
Letter from the Chairs, David Notkin and Mary Lou Soffa 1
Letter from the Editor, Will Tracz 1
Breakthroughs -- "Make My Day!" SENsational Survey, Greg Cooper (ed.) 3
PASTE '99 Invitation, William G. Griswold and Susan Horowitz 4
ICSM '99 Announcement, Nicholas Zvegintsov 4
ACM TOSEM Special Issue on Software Engineering and Security, Premkumar Devanbu 4
IEEE TSE Special Issue on Current Trends in Exception Handling, Alexander Romanovsky 5
Call for Contributions ESEC/FSE'99 5
Announcing A Computing Research Repository, Jim Cohoon 6
International Joint Conference on Work Activities Coordination and Collaboration 7
Phantom Authors, Debora Weber-Wulff 7
Response to Dr. Weber-Wulff, L.B.S. Raccoon 8
A Positive Step Toward A Profession: The SW Eng. Code of Ethics and Professional Practice, Donald Gotterbarn 9
Update on the SEN Questionnaire, Greg Cooper (ed.) 14
??Want a Free Book?? 15
Scenes from SIGSOFT'98 17

COLUMNS:
ACM Fellow: L. Peter Deutsch, Ronald B. Finkbine 21
Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer 22
Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors 31

INVITED PAPERS:
Escaping the Software Tar Pit: Model Clashes and How to Avoid Them, Barry Boehm and Dan Port 36

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE SUMMARIES:
International Workshop on Large-Scale Software Composition, Rudolf K. Keller, Bruno Lague and Reinhard Schuer 49

PAPERS:
Object Mappings in a Software Engineering Project, Richard Casey 55
A Domain-Specific Software Architecture Style for CSCD System, Baojian Li, Guangzhou Zeng, and Zongkai Lin 59
An Object-Oriented Data Framework for Virtual Environments with Hierarchical Modeling, Zhu Xiaoguang, Wang Dongmu, and Hong Bingrong 65
Issues in Calibrating Effort Estimation Models, Petri Vesterinen 63
Extending Use Cases Throughout the Software Lifecycle, D. Kirner, R. Porter, P. Punniamoorthy, M. Schuh, D. Shoup, S. Tindall, and D. Umphress 66
An Overview of Regression Testing, Yuejian Li and Nancy J. Wahl 69
Some Reflections on Software Engineering Research, Alfonso Fuggetta 74
Integration of Text Retrieval Technology into Formatted (Conventional) Information Systems, Offer Drori 78
Measuring Formal Specifications with alpha - Metric, Peter Kokol 80
A Survey of Software Inspection Checklists, Bill Brykczynski 82

BOOK REVIEWS:
Ronald B. Finkbine, Peter Raynham, and Meyer Tanuan 90

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
Arnulf Mester 93

Workshop and Conference Information:
PASTE '99 97
WACC '99 98
ICSE '99 106
ESEC/FSE '99 125

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