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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 | ||||
| Workshop on Self-Healing Systems | 2 | ||||
| The Center for National Software Studies | 2 | ||||
| IEEE Working Conference on Reverse Engineering | 4 | ||||
| SEI Tutorial on Building Systems from Commercial Components | 4 | ||||
| SIGSOFT 2002 / FSE 10 Announcement | 4 | ||||
COLUMNS: | |||||
| Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors | 5 | ||||
| Principles of Survey Research Part 4: Questionnaire Evaluation, Barbara A. Kitchenham and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger | 20 | ||||
| Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer | 25 | ||||
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE SUMMARIES: | |||||
| Issues of Dependability in Open Source Software Development, Tony Lawrie and Cristina Gacek | 34 | ||||
| The SALADIN Project: Summary Report, Tony Lawrie and Cristina Gacek | 38 | ||||
| Research Directions in RAIC, Chang Liu and Debra J. Richardson | 43 | ||||
| Component-Based Software Engineering: Building systems from Components, Ivica Crnkovic Malardalen, Stig Larsson, and Judith Stafford | 49 | ||||
| Invited Papers: ICSE 2002 Window On the World, Hal Hart and contributors | 53 | ||||
PAPERS: | |||||
| Admission Control and Resource Reservation on the Internet, Christian Vogt | 80 | ||||
| Virtual Interface Machine: a Design Pattern to Solve the Problem of Coupling and Efficiency in Software Design, Hong Han, Jun Lu, Chen Bo, and Xianliang Lu | 88 | ||||
BOOK REVIEWS: | James Law, Joe Saur, Meyer Tanuan and Debora Weber-Wulff | 93 | |||
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: | Frank H. Young | 95 | |||
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION: | |||||
| ACM SIGSOFT 2002 (FSE - 10) | 97 | ||||
| Principles, Logics and Implementations of High-Level Programming Languages (PLI2002) | 99 | ||||
| Requirements Engineering (RE'02) | 101 | ||||
| ICSE 2003 | 102 | ||||