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Note: the contents of this newsletter are available free online to SIGSOFT members through the ACM Digital Library. | |||||
LETTERS: | |||||
| Letter from the Chair, Alexander L. Wolf | 1 | ||||
| Letter from the Editor, Will Tracz | 1 | ||||
| ISSTA 2002 Announcement | 3 | ||||
| SIGSOFT 2002 / FSE 10 Announcement | 3 | ||||
| ICSM 2002 Announcement | 3 | ||||
| Stevens Award | 4 | ||||
| Masters of Science in Quantitative Software Engineering | 4 | ||||
| Call for Reviewers for ACM Computing Reviews | 6 | ||||
| Notice to Contributing Authors to SIG Newsletters | 6 | ||||
| Notice to Past Authors of ACM-Published Articles | 6 | ||||
COLUMNS: | |||||
| Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors | 7 | ||||
| Principles of Survey Research Part 2: Designing a Survey, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger and Barbara A. Kitchenham | 18 | ||||
| Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer | 21 | ||||
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE SUMMARIES: | |||||
| 2nd European COTS User Working Group Workshop (ECUA2001), Hyoseob Kim | 30 | ||||
PAPERS: | |||||
| Has the Pattern Emperor Any Clothes? A Controversy in Three Acts, Luciana d'Adderio, Rick Dewar, Ashley Lloyd and Perdita Stevens | 31 | ||||
| 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 Marques | 35 | ||||
| Verifying Software Requirements with XSLT, Amador Duran, Antonio Ruiz, Beatriz Bernadez and Miguel Toro | 39 | ||||
| On the Use of Connector Libraries in Distributed Software Architectures, Bharath Kumar M, Y. N. Srikant and Lakshminarayanan R | 45 | ||||
| Architectural Issues in Network-Centric Computing, Xu Xiaochun, Xu Guanghui and Xu Yongsen | 53 | ||||
| Exploiting Object-Oriented Methodologies to Model MAS on Organizations, Gao Bo, Fei Qi and Chen Xueguang | 58 | ||||
| Computing Program Weakness Using Module Coupling, K. K. Aggarwal, Yogesh Sing and Jitender Kumar Chhabra | 63 | ||||
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 2002 | 73 | ||||