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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 | ||||
| A Fond Farewell to Symposium on Software Reusability (SSR) | 2 | ||||
| Software Engineering Track at SAC '03 | 5 | ||||
| Plagiarism in SEN Vol. 26 #4 | 5 | ||||
| Re: Plagiarism in SEN Vol. 26 #4 | 5 | ||||
| Notice to Contributing Authors to SIG Newsletters | 5 | ||||
| Notice to Past Authors of ACM-Published Articles | 5 | ||||
COLUMNS: | |||||
| Risks to the Public, Peter G. Neumann and contributors | 6 | ||||
| Principles of Survey Research Part 5: Populations and Samples, Barbara A. Kitchenham and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger | 17 | ||||
| Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, Mark Doernhoefer | 21 | ||||
INVITED PAPERS: | |||||
| Impact of the Research Community on the Field of Software Configuration Management, Jacky Estublier, editor, David Leblang, co-editor, Geoff Clemm, Reidar Conradi, Walter Tichy, Andre van der Hoek, Darcy Wilborg-Weber | 31 | ||||
| Systems Engineering: An Essential Discipline for the 21st Century, Donna H. Rhodes | 40 | ||||
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE SUMMARIES: | |||||
| 5th Workshop on Component-Based Software Engineering: Benchmarks for Predictable Assembly, Ivica Crnkovic, Heinz Schmidt, Judith Stafford and Kurt Wallnau | 45 | ||||
| Workshop on Scenarios and State Machines: Models, Algorithms and Tools, Alexander Egyed, Tarja Systa, Sebastian Uchitel and Albert Zundorf | 49 | ||||
| 4th Workshop on Economics-Driven SW Engineering Research (EDSER-4), Warren Harrison, Hakan Erdogmus and Rick Kazman | 54 | ||||
| 5th Workshop on Principles of Software Evolution (IWPSE2002), Katsuro Inoue, Vaclav Rajlich and Mikio Aoyama | 57 | ||||
| 3rd Workshop on Software Product Lines: Economics, Architectures and Implications, Peter Knauber | 59 | ||||
| Workshop on Global Software Development, Daniela Damian | 65 | ||||
| 2nd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering: Meeting Challenges and Surviving Success, Joseph Feller, Brian Fitzgerald, Frank Hecker, Scott Hissam, Karim Lakhani and Andre van der Hoek | 69 | ||||
| Workshop on Software Quality, Kathia Marcal de Oliveira, Ana Regina Rocha and Kival Chaves Weber | 72 | ||||
| Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems, Rogerio de Lemos, Cristina Gacek and Alexander Romanovsky | 77 | ||||
| Workshop on Iterative, Adaptive and Agile Processes, Craig Larman and Frances Paulisch | 81 | ||||
| Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems (SELMAS 2002), Alessandro Fabricio Garcia and Carlos Jose Pereira de Lucena | 82 | ||||
| 3rd Workshop on Web Engineering, Yogesh Deshpande, Luis Antonio Olsina and San Murugesan | 89 | ||||
| PREA - Panel on Reverse Engineering and Architectural Evolution, Alessandro Maccari, Andrey A. Terekhov, Galal H. Galal, Derek Rayside, Claudio Riva and Arie van Deursen | 91 | ||||
PAPERS: | |||||
| Open Source Development and the World Wide Web: A Certain Tension, Chad Davis and Coskun Bayrak | 93 | ||||
| Analyzing Information-Flow in Java Program Based on Slicing Technique, Bixin Li | 98 | ||||
BOOK REVIEWS: | Larry Alexander, Ken Frazer, Meyer Tanuan and Will Tracz | 104 | |||
CALENDAR OF EVENTS: | Frank H. Young | 106 | |||
WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE INFORMATION: | |||||
| ACM SIGSOFT 2002 (FSE - 10) | 108 | ||||
| PASTE '02 | 114 | ||||
| WOSS | 115 | ||||
| ICSE 2003 | 116 | ||||