ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 37

Volume 37, Number 1, January 2012

Columns

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  Larry Bernstein:
  Cross avoid shelf-ware by making your systems easy-to-use. 8-9
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  Michael Wing:
  Food for thought. 9-10
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  Mark A. Ardis, Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education (SEEd). 10-11
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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 12-20
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the Public. 21-26

Repots and papers

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  Jonathan L. Krein, Charles D. Knutson, Lutz Prechelt, Natalia Juristo Juzgado:
  Report from the 2nd international workshop on replication in empirical software engineering research (RESER 2011). 27-30
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  Ansuman Banerjee, Sayak Ray, Pallab Dasgupta, P. P. Chakrabarti, S. Ramesh, P. Vignesh V. Ganesan:
  A dynamic assertion-based verification platform for validation of UML designs. 1-14
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  Hewijin Christine Jiau, Feng-Pu Yang:
  Facing up to the inequality of crowdsourced API documentation. 1-9
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  Kalpana Johari, Arvinder Kaur:
  Validation of object oriented metrics using open source software system: an empirical study. 1-4
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  Vallidevi Krishnamurthy, Chitra Babu:
  Pattern based adaptation for service oriented applications. 1-6
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  Pradeep Kumar, Yogesh Singh:
  Assessment of software testing time using soft computing techniques. 1-6
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  Rajni Mohana, Deepak Dahiya:
  Approach and impact of a protocol for selection of service in web service platform. 1-6
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  Bruno F. L. Santos, Hendrik T. Macedo:
  Improving CUDA™ C/C++ encoding readability to foster parallel application development. 1-5
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  Ashish Sharma, Dharmender Singh Kushwaha:
  Applying requirement based complexity for the estimation of software development and testing effort. 1-11
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  Vinay Singh, Vandana Bhattacherjee, Sandeep Bhattacharjee:
  An analysis of dependency of coupling on software defects. 1-6
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  Bedir Tekinerdogan, Semih Cetin, Muhammad Ali Babar, Patricia Lago, Juho Mäkiö:
  Architecting in global software engineering. 1-7
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  Daniel Varona, Luiz Fernando Capretz, Yadenis Piñero, Arif Raza:
  Evolution of software engineers' personality profile. 1-5

Book reviews

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  Greg Cooper:
  DTrace: dynamic tracing in oracle Solaris, Mac OS X, and free BSD by Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro. 34
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  Robert L. Glass:
  Managing projects in trouble: achieving turnaround and success by Ralph L. Kliem. 34
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  Georgios Gousios:
  Scalability rules 50 principles for scaling web sites by Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher. 35
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  Vasile G. Teodorovici:
  The eclipse graphical editing framework (GEF) by D. Rubel, J. Wren, and E. Clayberg. 35
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  Vasile G. Teodorovici:
  Continuous testing with ruby, rails and JavaScript by Ben Rady and Rod Coffin. 36
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  Matt Mendell:
  A practical guide to Fedora and Red Hat enterprise Linux by Mark G. Sobell. 36
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  Chris Hathhorn:
  Engineering a compiler, second edition by Keith D. Cooper and Linda Torczon. 36-37
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  William Del Ra:
  The book of ruby by Huw Collingbourne. 37
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  Will Tracz:
  A bug hunter's diary: a guided tour through the wilds of software security by Tobias Klein. 37-38

Volume 37, Number 2, March 2012

Columns

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  Larry Bernstein:
  Pithy software engineering quotes. 6-7
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  Robert Schaefer:
  The secret life of academic papers. 7-8
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  Mark A. Ardis, Peter B. Henderson:
  Software Engineering Education (SEEd). 8-10
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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 11-20
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public. 21-29

Reports and papers

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  Bedir Tekinerdogan:
  Reflection on Turkish aspect-oriented software development workshop series. 30-33
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  Robert J. Eisenberg:
  A threshold based approach to technical debt. 1-6
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  Vibha Gaur, Anuja Soni:
  Analytical inference model for prediction and customization of inter-agent dependency requirements. 1-11
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  S. Harikrishnan, Rajeev Kumar:
  Space efficient non-constant time multi-method dispatch in object oriented systems. 1-6
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  Suhel Ahmad Khan, Raees Ahmad Khan:
  Integrity quantification model for object oriented design. 1-3
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  Dipankar Majumdar, Swapan Bhattacharya:
  Interoperability of constrained finite state automata. 1-8
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  Krishna Raj P. M., Srinivasa K. G.:
  Empirical studies of global volunteer collaboration in the development of free and open source software: analysis of six top ranked projects in sourceforge.net. 1-11
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  Satwinder Singh, K. S. Kahlon:
  Effectiveness of refactoring metrics model to identify smelly and error prone classes in open source software. 1-11

Book Reviews

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  William Del Ra III:
  Software systems architecture: second edition by Nick Rozanski and Eoin Woods. 36
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  Robert J. Eisenberg:
  Managing software debt building for inevitable change by Chris Sterling. 36-37
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  Terry Ngo:
  Essential app engine: building high-performance Java apps with Google app engine by Adriaan de Jonge. 37
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  Vasile G. Teodorovici:
  Work item management with IBM rational ClearQuest and Jazz: a customization guide by Shmuel Bashan and David E. Bellagio. 37-38

Volume 37, Number 3, May 2012

Columns

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  Mike Wing:
  Thank You. 7-8
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  Mark A. Ardis, Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education (SEEd). 8-9
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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 10-17
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public. 18-25

Reports and papers

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  Rakesh Shukla, Ashish Sureka, Rushikesh Joshi, Rajib Mall:
  A report on software engineering education workshop. 26-31
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  Steve Counsell, Stephen Swift:
  Issues arising from refactoring studies: an experience report. 1-5
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  Vallabh Anwikar, Ravindra Naik, Adnan Contractor, Hemanth Makkapati:
  Domain-driven technique for functionality identification in source code. 1-8
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  Manisha Tiwari, Padmaja Joshi:
  Method cohesion analysis through concept lattices. 1-4
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  Oscar Nierstrasz:
  Agile software assessment with Moose. 1-5
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  Deepak Arora, Bramah Hazela, Vipin Saxena:
  Semantics for UML model transformation and generation of regular grammar. 1-5
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  Tirimula Rao Benala, Satchidananda Dehuri, Rajib Mall:
  Computational intelligence in software cost estimation: an emerging paradigm. 1-7
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  Preeti Gulia, R. S. Chillar:
  A new approach to generate and optimize test cases for UML state diagram using genetic algorithm. 1-5
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  Daya Gupta, Rinky Dwivedi:
  Method configuration from situational method engineering. 1-11
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  Kawal Jeet, Renu Dhir, Harsh Kumar Verma:
  A comparative study of bayesian and fuzzy approach to assess and predict maintainability of the software using activity-based quality model. 1-9
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  Shujuan Jiang, Yanmei Zhang, Dandan Yi:
  Test data generation approach for basis path coverage. 1-7
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  Surender Kumar, Rajeev Kumar:
  Precise static analysis for generic programs in object oriented languages. 1-6
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  Priyanka Chawla, Inderveer Chana, Ajay Rana:
  Empirical evaluation of cloud-based testing techniques: a systematic review. 1-9
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  K. Sudheer Reddy, G. Partha Saradhi Varma, M. Kantha Reddy:
  Discovering web usage patterns by using an innovative practical approach. 1-4
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  K. Sudheer Reddy, G. Partha Saradhi Varma, I. Ramesh Babu:
  Preprocessing the web server logs: an illustrative approach for effective usage mining. 1-5
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  Shamim Ripon:
  A unified tabular method for modeling variants of software product line. 1-7

Book reviews

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  Scott Froberg:
  software testing by Yogesh Singh. 36
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  Robert Schaefer:
  Fundamentals of multicore software development by Victor Pankratius, Ali-Reza Adi-Tabatabai, Walter Tichy. 37
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  Harisankar Krishna Swamy:
  Space based technologies and commercialized development: economic implications and benefits by Stella Tkatchova. 37-38
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  William Del Ra III:
  ACM ruby learning path by David A. Black. 38

Volume 37, Number 4, July 2012

Columns

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  David Notkin:
  TOSEM news. 7-8
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  Larry Bernstein:
  Software engineering design principles for ultra-large-scale systems. 8-9
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  Robert Schaefer:
  On having a second job as an adjunct. 9-10
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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 11-19
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public. 20-29

Reports & papers

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  Andrea Herrmann, Maya Daneva, Jörg Dörr, Kurt Schneider:
  2nd international workshop on creativity in requirements engineering: CreaRE 2012. 30-31
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  Georg Herzwurm, Benedikt Krams, Wolfram Pietsch, Sixten Schockert:
  Report from the 3rd international workshop on requirements prioritization for customer oriented software development: (RePriCo'12). 32-33
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  J. Paul Gibson, Isabelle Perseil:
  Introduction to UML and Formal Methods. 32-33
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  Luciano Baresi, Angelo Morzenti, Alfredo Motta, Matteo Rossi:
  A logic-based semantics for the verification of multi-diagram UML models. 1-8
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  Kenro Yatake, Toshiaki Aoki:
  SMT-based enumeration of object graphs from UML class diagrams. 1-8
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  Étienne André, Christine Choppy, Kais Klai:
  Formalizing non-concurrent UML state machines using colored petri nets. 1-8
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  Jan Olaf Blech, Bernhard Schätz:
  Towards a formal foundation of behavioral types for UML state-machines. 1-8
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  Yoriyuki Yamagata, Weiqiang Kong, Akira Fukuda, Nguyen Van Tang, Hitoshi Ohsaki, Kenji Taguchi:
  Formal semantics of extended hierarchical state transition matrix by CSP. 1-8
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  Ning Ge, Marc Pantel, Xavier Crégut:
  Time properties dedicated transformation from UML-MARTE activity to time transition system. 1-8
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  Dan Li, Xiaoshan Li, Volker Stolz:
  Model querying with graphical notation of QVT relations. 1-8
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  Juliana Bowles, Dulani Apeksha Meedeniya:
  Strongly consistent transformation of partial scenarios. 1-8
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  Petra Brosch, Sebastian Gabmeyer, Gerti Kappel, Martina Seidl:
  On formalizing EMF modeling operations with graph transformations. 1-8
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  Jérémy Milhau, Frédéric Gervais, Régine Laleau, Marc Frappier:
  Refinement patterns for ASTD. 1-8
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  Oscar Carrillo, Samir Chouali, Hassan Mountassir:
  Formalizing and verifying compatibility and consistency of SysML blocks. 1-8
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  Bharath Cheluvaraju, Anjaneyulu Pasala, Srinivas Padmanabhuni, Sadhana Chevireddy:
  A quantitative measure for preventive maintenance in software. 1-5
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  Ajay Jain, Chandan Singh:
  "Ad you like it": advertisement sourcing and selection technique across multiple heterogeneous applications. 1-6
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  André Janus:
  Towards a common agile software development model (ASDM). 1-8
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  Kawal Jeet, Yadvirender Rana, Ruichi Xin:
  A Bayesian network based approach for software reusability prediction. 1-5
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  Deepika Kukreja, Umang Singh, B. V. R. Reddy:
  Analytical models for trust based routing protocols in wireless ad hoc networks. 1-16
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  Neeraj Kumar Sharma, Vibha Gaur, S. K. Muttoo:
  A dynamic reputation system with built-in attack resilience to safeguard buyers in e-market. 1-19

Book reviews

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  William Del Ra III:
  Service design patterns: fundamental design solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful web services by Robert Daigneau. 40
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  Scott Froberg:
  Programming perl, fourth edition by Tom Christiansen, Brian D. Foy and Larry Wall with Jon Orwant. 40
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  Vasile G. Teodorovici:
  Theory of conditional games by Wynn C. Stirling. 41

Volume 37, Number 5, September 2012

Columns

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  Larry Bernstein:
  Managing computer suppliers. 12-13
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  Mark Grechanik:
  The curse of database deadlocks: the problem with no good solution. 13-14
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  Mark A. Ardis, Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education (SEEd): is software engineering ready for MOOCs? 14
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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 17-26
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public. 27-33

Reports & papers

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  Rachel Harrison, Daniela Carneiro da Cruz, Pedro Rangel Henriques, Maria João Varanda Pereira, Shih-Hsi Liu, Tim Menzies, Marjan Mernik, Daniel Rodríguez:
  Report from the first international workshop on realizing artificial intelligence synergies in software engineering (RAISE 2012). 34-35
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  Philippe Kruchten, Robert L. Nord, Ipek Ozkaya, Joost Visser:
  Technical debt in software development: from metaphor to theory report on the third international workshop on managing technical debt. 36-38
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  P. Arun Babu, C. Senthil Kumar, Nagarajan Murali, T. Jayakumar:
  An intuitive approach to determine test adequacy in safety-critical software. 1-10
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  Anup Kumar Bandyopadhyay:
  Application of TLRO to refute an incorrect mutual exclusion algorithm. 1-5
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  Sanjay Kumar Dubey, Ajay Rana, Yajnaseni Dash:
  Maintainability prediction of object-oriented software system by multilayer perceptron model. 1-4
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  Ajay Jain:
  Optimizing feature-access time through dynamic updates to application menu layout. 1-14
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  Hemant K. Jain, Anjana Gosain:
  A comprehensive study of view maintenance approaches in data warehousing evolution. 1-8
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  Panos Louridas, Georgios Gousios:
  A note on rigour and replicability. 1-4
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  Manish Mahajan, Sumit Kumar, Rabins Porwal:
  Applying genetic algorithm to increase the efficiency of a data flow-based test data generation approach. 1-5
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  Sanjeev Patwa, Anil Kumar Malviya:
  Reusability metrics and effect of reusability on testing of object oriented systems. 1-4
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  Ekbal Rashid, Srikanta Patnayak, Vandana Bhattacherjee:
  A survey in the area of machine learning and its application for software quality prediction. 1-7
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  Alexander B. Romanovsky:
  Deployment of formal methods in industry: the legacy of the FP7 ICT DEPLOY integrated project. 1-4
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  Lakshmi Priya Sekar, Vinitha Reddy Gankidi, Selvakumar Subramanian:
  Avoidance of security breach through selective permissions in android operating system. 1-9
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  Mahesh Shirole, Rajeev Kumar:
  Testing for concurrency in UML diagrams. 1-8
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  A. D. Solomon:
  On a new masters level program in software engineering. 1-3
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  Ye-Chi Wu, Hewijin Christine Jiau:
  A monitoring mechanism to support agility in service-based application evolution. 1-10

Book reviews

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  Veit Jahns:
  Principles of data integration by Anhai Doan, Alon Halevy, Zachary Ives. 43
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  Richard St. Pierre:
  The UX book, process and guidelines for ensuring a quality user experience by Rex Hartson and Pardha S. Pyla. 43-44
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  Kwee Heong Tan:
  How Google tests software by James A. Whittaker, Jason Arbon and Jeff Carollo. 44-45
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  Holger M. Kienle:
  Personal data privacy and protection in a surveillance era: technologies and practices by Christina Akrivopoulou and Athanasios Psygkas. 45-46

Volume 37, Number 6, November 2012

Columns

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  Larry Bernstein:
  Things I learned from taming software development. 5-6
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  Mark Grechanik:
  Random benchmark application generation for evaluating program analysis and testing tools. 6-7
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  Robert Schaefer:
  Limitations of web design. 7-8
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  Mark A. Ardis, Peter B. Henderson:
  Software engineering education (SEEd). 8-9
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  Mark Doernhoefer:
  Surfing the net for software engineering notes. 10-18
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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks to the public. 19-23

Reports & papers

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  Diego Garbervetsky, Sunghun Kim:
  Report from 2nd international workshop on developing tools as plug-ins (TOPI 2012). 24-27
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  Jonathan Bell, Kendra M. L. Cooper, Gail E. Kaiser, Swapneel Sheth:
  Report from the second international workshop on games and software engineering (GAS 2012). 26-27
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  Stefan Gruner, Bernhard Rumpe:
  FormSERA workshop on formal methods in software engineering rigorous and agile approaches: 2nd of june 2012 at ICSE'2012 in Zürich (CH). 28-30
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  Bedir Tekinerdogan:
  First turkish software product line engineering workshop summary. 30-34
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  Regina Thienne Colombo, Marcelo Schneck de Paula Pessôa, Ana Cervigni Guerra, Amandio Balcão Filho, Célio Caruso Gomes:
  Prioritization of software security intangible attributes. 1-7
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  Klaus Lochmann:
  A benchmarking-inspired approach to determine threshold values for metrics. 1-8
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  Ivan do Carmo Machado, John D. McGregor, Eduardo Santana de Almeida:
  Strategies for testing products in software product lines. 1-8
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  Birgit Hofer, Franz Wotawa, Rui Abreu:
  AI for the win: improving spectrum-based fault localization. 1-8
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