| Volume 24, Number 3 | May 1999 |
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES TABLE OF CONTENTS |
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LETTERS: |
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| Letter from the Chair, David Notkin | 1 |
| Letter from the Editor, Will Tracz | 2 |
| Parnas and Brooks to Speak at Mills Memorial Colloquium | 2 |
| Fault-Tolerant Systems with Ada, Alexander Romanovsky | 2 |
| Software Process Improvement Hotlist, Marielle Chevrier | 2 |
| On Code Reuse, David Lorge Parnas | 4 |
| On Code Reuse: a Response, Don Gotterbarn, Keith Miller, and Simon Rogerson | 4 |
| ACM Advisory Panel on Professional Licensing in Software Engineering | 6 |
| Invitation to SSR'99, Mehdi Jazayeri, Ali Mili, and Roland Mittermeir | 7 |
| ICSE 2000 Opportunity, Carlo Ghezzi | 8 |
| ??Want a Free Book?? | 8 |
COLUMNS: | |
| ACM Fellow: Larry E. Druffel, David John Leciston | 9 |
| ACM Fellow: David Lorge Parnas, Nancy Eickelmann | 10 |
| Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer | 15 |
| Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors | 25 |
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE SUMMARIES: | |
| 9th Workshop on Institutionalizing Software Reuse (WISR '9), Jeffrey S. Poulin, Don Batory, Larry Latour, and Stephen Edwards | 29 |
| The State of Reuse: Perceptions of the Reuse Community, Stephen Edwards | 32 |
| NSF Workshop on a Software Research Program For the 21st Century, Victor R. Basili, et. al. | 37 |
| NSF Workshop on Empirical Research in Software Engineering, Susan S. Brilliant and John C. Knight | 45 |
INVITED PAPERS: | |
| RIT's BS Program in Software Engineering: A Status Report, Michael J. Lutz and J. Fernando Naveda | 53 |
PAPERS: | |
| The Surprising Dynamics of a Simple Year 2000 Bug, Lutz Prechelt | 56 |
| 17,500 Software Patents to Issue in 1998, Greg Aharonian | 58 |
| Bibliography of Software Architecture Analysis, Jianjun Zhao | 61 |
| 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 |
| Multiple Downcasting Techniques, Puppydog P.O.P. and L.B.S. Raccoon | 69 |
| A Construction Approach for Software Agents Using Components, Liu Hong, Zeng Guangzhou, and Lin Zongkai | 76 |
| A Formula for the Re-Inspection Decision, Tom Adams | 80 |
| Software Engineering: To Be or What To Be?, Neville Holmes | 81 |
BOOK REVIEWS: | |
| Parasuram Anantharam, Eduardo B. Fernandez, Ronald B. Finkbine, Ken Frazer, Andy Huber, Mark Levin, Katherine Stevens, and Tathagat Varma | 84 |
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: | Arnulf Mester | 89 |
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION: | |
| SSR '99: Symposium on Software Reuse | 95 |
| ICSE 2000: International Conference on Software Engineering | 98 |
| EWSPT-7: 7th European Workshop on Software Process Technology | 100 |