| Volume 24, Number 4 | July 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 | 1 |
| PASTE Publicity, William Griswold and Susan Horwitz | 2 |
| Behavioral Semantics Workshop, Haim Kilov | 3 |
| Request for Comment - A Lightweight Notation on the WWW, Dick Botting | 4 |
| Mark Weiser Remembered, David Notkin | 4 |
| Flaviou Christian Remembered, Keith Marzullo | 4 |
| John Gannon Remembered, David Notkin | 5 |
| Invitation to PLoP99, Alejandra Garrido | 5 |
| SSR General Chairs' Message, Mehdi Jazayeri | 6 |
| SSR Program Co-Chairs' Message, Ali Mili and Roland T. Mittermeir | 6 |
| SSR Panel on Bridging the Gap between Practice and Research, DeWayne Perry | 7 |
| An Interview with Niklaus Wirth, Will Tracz | 8 |
| Key People Nominations Solicited | 9 |
| Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge Project - Call for Reviewers | 12 |
COLUMNS: | |
| ACM Fellow: Barbara Ryder, Nancy Eickelmann | 13 |
| Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer | 15 |
| Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors | 26 |
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE SUMMARIES: | |
| 12th Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET) and the 13th SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science (CSE), Richard Conn | 30 |
| ROSATEA: Int. Workshop on the Role of Software Architecture in Analysis & Testing, Debra Richardson and Paola Inverardi | 33 |
| Int. Workshop on Testing Distributed Component-Based Systems, Andrea Ulrich and Gunther Chrobok-Diening | 43 |
INVITED PAPERS: | |
| Parnas on Parnas: A Life of Indecision, David Lorge Parnas, P. Eng. | 47 |
| Directions for the NSF Software Engineering and Languages Program, Frank D. Anger | 50 |
| ICSE '99 Conference Daily Newspaper: Window on the World | 53 |
PAPERS: | |
| A GQM-Based Tool to Support the Development of Software Quality Measurement Plans, Janaina C. Abib and Tereza G. Kirner | 75 |
| Why Software Fails, James A. Whittaker and Alan Jorgensen | 81 |
| Roles in the Maintenance Process, Macario Polo, Mario Piattini, Francisco Ruiz and Coral Calero | 84 |
BOOK REVIEWS: | |
| David Balk, Luigi Benedicenti, Kenneth W. Boyer, Jr., Paul F. Freer, Bradley S. Green, Mario Kupries, James Law, Chung-Horng Lung, Dragos Manolescu, Srinivas Nedunuri, John F. Schlesinger, Meyer Tanuan, Will Tracz | 86 |
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: | Arnulf Mester | 98 |
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION: | |
| PASTE | 103 |
| FSE/ESEC 99 | 105 |