Volume 27, Number 1
January 2002

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING NOTES

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Note: the contents of this newsletter are available free online to SIGSOFT members
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LETTERS:
Letter from the Chair, Alexander L. Wolf1
Letter from the Editor, Will Tracz1
ISSTA 2002 Announcement3
SIGSOFT 2002 / FSE 10 Announcement3
ICSM 2002 Announcement3
Stevens Award4
Masters of Science in Quantitative Software Engineering4
Call for Reviewers for ACM Computing Reviews6
Notice to Contributing Authors to SIG Newsletters6
Notice to Past Authors of ACM-Published Articles6

COLUMNS:
Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors7
Principles of Survey Research Part 2: Designing a Survey, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Barbara A. Kitchenham18
Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer21

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE SUMMARIES:
2nd European COTS User Working Group Workshop (ECUA2001), Hyoseob Kim30

PAPERS:
Has the Pattern Emperor Any Clothes? A Controversy in Three Acts, Luciana d'Adderio, Rick Dewar, Ashley Lloyd and Perdita Stevens31
Product Line Variability Support by FORM and Mecano Model Integration, Francisco Jose Garcia, Juan-Antonio Barras, Castilla y Leon Council, Miguel Angel Laguna and Jose Manuel Marques35
Verifying Software Requirements with XSLT, Amador Duran, Antonio Ruiz, Beatriz Bernadez and Miguel Toro39
On the Use of Connector Libraries in Distributed Software Architectures, Bharath Kumar M, Y. N. Srikant and Lakshminarayanan R45
Architectural Issues in Network-Centric Computing, Xu Xiaochun, Xu Guanghui and Xu Yongsen53
Exploiting Object-Oriented Methodologies to Model MAS on Organizations, Gao Bo, Fei Qi and Chen Xueguang58
Computing Program Weakness Using Module Coupling, K. K. Aggarwal, Yogesh Sing and Jitender Kumar Chhabra63

BOOK REVIEWS:
Luigi Benedicenti 67

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
Arnulf Mester 67

WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION:
ACM SIGSOFT 2002 (FSE - 10)71
Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering (PASTE '02)72
ICSE 200273

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