Volume 26, Number 6 November 2001

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LETTERS:
Letter from the Chair, Alexander L. Wolf1
Notice to Contributing Authors to SIG Newsletters 1
Letter from the Editor, Will Tracz4
ICCBS Announcement4
WISCA 2002 Announcement4
Requirements Engineering Conference Announcement5
Photos from FSE/ESEC, Judith Stafford5
Notice to Past Authors of ACM-Published Articles 6

COLUMNS:
Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors6
Principles of Survey Research Part 1: Turning Lemons into Lemonade, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Barbara A. Kitchenham16
Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer19

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE SUMMARIES:
4th ICSE Workshop on "Software Engineering over the Internet", Frank Maurer and Carmen Zannier29
Process Support for Distributed Team-based Software Development Workshop (PDTSD'00), Pierre F. Tiako, Tim Lindquist and Volker Gruhn31
4th ICSE Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering, Ivica Crnkovic, Heinz Schmidt, Judith Stafford and Kurt Wallnau33
Workshop to Consider Global Aspects of Software Engineering Professionalism, J. Barrie Thompson40
From Software Requirements to Architectures Workshop (STRAW01), Jaelson Castro and Jeff Kramer49
Making Sense of the Bazaar: 1st Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering, Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald and Andre van der Hoek51
Metrics 2001: The Science and Practice of Software Metrics Conference, Annabella Loconsole, Daniel Rodriguez, Jurgen Borstler and Rachel Harrison52
Workshop on Software Configuration Management (SCM-10), Andre van der Hoek57
1st ICSE Workshop on XML Technologies and Software Engineering, Cecilia Mascolo, Wolfgang Emmerich and Anthony Finkelstein57
Spiral Development and Evolutionary Acquisition: The SEI-CSE Workshop, W.J. Hansen, J.T. Foreman, C.C. Albert, E. Axelband, L.L. Brownsword and E.C. Forrester59
The SEMINAL Workshop: Reformulating Software Engineering as a Metaheuristic Search Problem, Mark Harman and Bryan F. Jones62
Workshop on Software Engineering and Mobility, Gruia-Catalin Roman and Gian Pietro Picco67
Workshop on Customer Involvement in Extreme Programming, Arie van Deursen70
Workshop on Generative Techniques for Product Lines, Greg Butler74
2nd International Workshop on Living with Inconsistency (IWLWI01), Steve Easterbrook and Marsha Chechik76
Workshop on Describing Software Architecture with UML, Phillippe Kruchten, Wojtek Kozaczynski and Bran Selic78

PAPERS:
Connotations of Problem Solving, Srinath Srinivasa80
Dimensional Modeling for a Data Warehouse Ashiss Kumar Dash and Rakesh Agarwal83

BOOK REVIEWS:
Mark Stalica 85

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
Arnulf Mester 85

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION:
ISSTA 200290
Working Conference on Component Deployment (CD2002)91
PLDI92
ACM SIGSOFT 2002 (FSE-10)94
Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE '02)95
ICSE 200296

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