Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 49, 2006

Volume 49, Number 1, January 2006

Personal information management Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5-7

News track

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  News track. 9-10

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 15-16

The business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  Counting boulders and measuring mountains. 17-20

Report

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  ACM annual report for FY05. 21-30

Staying connected

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  Meg McGinity Shannon:
  The network of life. 29-32

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  New Directions for CACM? 33-35

Viewpoint

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  Scott Campbell:
  How to think about security failures. 37-39

Personal information management

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  Jaime Teevan, William Jones, Benjamin B. Bederson:
  Introduction. 40-43
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  Mary Czerwinski, Douglas W. Gage, Jim Gemmell, Catherine C. Marshall, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Meredith M. Skeels, Tiziana Catarci:
  Digital memories in an era of ubiquitous computing and abundant storage. 44-50
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  Wanda Pratt, Kenton T. Unruh, Andrea Civan, Meredith M. Skeels:
  Personal health information management. 51-55
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  Clare-Marie Karat, Carolyn Brodie, John Karat:
  Usable privacy and security for personal information management. 56-57
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  Edward Cutrell, Susan T. Dumais, Jaime Teevan:
  Searching to eliminate personal information management. 58-64
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  Catherine C. Marshall, William Jones:
  Keeping encountered information. 66-67
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  Steve Whittaker, Victoria Bellotti, Jacek Gwizdka:
  Email in personal information management. 68-73
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  Thomas Erickson:
  From PIM to GIM: personal information management in group contexts. 74-75
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  David R. Karger, William Jones:
  Data unification in personal information management. 77-82
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  Diane Kelly:
  Evaluating personal information management behaviors and tools. 84-86

Articles

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  Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell, Roger Lueder:
  MyLifeBits: a personal database for everything. 88-95
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  Kevin C. Desouza, Yukika Awazu, Amrit Tiwana:
  Four dynamics for bringing use back into software reuse. 96-100
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  George Pallis, Athena Vakali:
  Insight and perspectives for content delivery networks. 101-106
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  Grace J. Johnson, Paul J. Ambrose:
  Neo-tribes: the power and potential of online communities in health care. 107-113
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  Tim Chenoweth, Karen Corral, Haluk Demirkan:
  Seven key interventions for data warehouse success. 114-119
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  Lawrence A. Gordon, Martin P. Loeb:
  Budgeting process for information security expenditures. 121-125
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  Matti Tedre, Erkki Sutinen, Esko Kähkönen, Piet Kommers:
  Ethnocomputing: ICT in cultural and social context. 126-130

Technical opinion

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  Christoph Meinel, Volker Klotz:
  The first 10 years of the ECCC digital library. 131-134

Inside risks

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  John C. Knight, Nancy G. Leveson:
  Software and higher education. 160

Volume 49, Number 2, February 2006

Next-generation cyber forensics Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

News track

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  News track. 9-10

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

Technical opinion

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  Gary F. Templeton:
  Video image stabilization and registration technology. 15-18

International perspectives

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  Siri Birgitte Uldal, Muhammad Aimal Marjan:
  Computing in post-war Afghanistan. 19-24

Legally speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Regulating technical design. 25-30

Technology strategy and management

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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  Where does Russia fit into the global software industry? 31-34

Viewpoint

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  Nanda Kumar, Abbe Mowshowitz:
  Who should govern the internet? 35-37

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 39-40

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Offshoring: finally facts vs. folklore. 41-42

Next-generation cyber forensics

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  Brajendra Panda, Joseph Giordano, Daniel Kalil:
  Introduction. 44-47
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  Eoghan Casey:
  Investigating sophisticated security breaches. 48-55
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  Brian D. Carrier:
  Risks of live digital forensic analysis. 56-61
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  Frank Adelstein:
  Live forensics: diagnosing your system without killing it first. 63-66
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  The Common Digital Evidence Storage Format Working Group: Standardizing digital evidence storage. 67-68
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  Chet Hosmer:
  Digital evidence bag. 69-70
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  Sheldon Teelink, Robert F. Erbacher:
  Improving the computer forensic analysis process through visualization. 71-75
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  Golden G. Richard III, Vassil Roussev:
  Next-generation digital forensics. 76-80
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  Rahul Bhaskar:
  State and local law enforcement is not ready for a cyber Katrina. 81-83
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  Simson L. Garfinkel:
  AFF: a new format for storing hard drive images. 85-87
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  Ganesan Shankaranarayanan, Adir Even:
  The metadata enigma. 88-94
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  Pak-Lok Poon, Amy H. L. Lau:
  The present B2C implementation framework. 96-103
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  Jan Damsgaard, Mihir A. Parikh, Bharat Rao:
  Wireless commons perils in the common good. 104-109

Student de-charter notice

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  Student de-charter notice. 110
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  Henry M. Gladney:
  Principles for digital preservation. 111-116
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  Stephen Owen, Pearl Brereton, David Budgen:
  Protocol analysis: a neglected practice. 117-122
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  Deborah J. Armstrong:
  The quarks of object-oriented development. 123-128
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  Roli Varma:
  Making computer science minority-friendly. 129-134

Inside risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Trustworthy systems revisited. 152

Volume 49, Number 3 , March 2006

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

News track

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  News track. 9-10

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

The business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  The operational executive sponsor. 15-18

Practical programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  Is the crouching tiger a threat? 19-20

The European report

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  Bertrand Meyer, Willy Zwaenepoel:
  Europe's computer scientists take fate into their own hands. 21-24

Call for nominations for advanced member grades in the ACM

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  Call for nominations for advanced member grades in the ACM. 25-26

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Computer science education in the 21^st century. 27-30
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  David A. Patterson:
  Reviving your favorite CS books. 31

Viewpoint

• 
  Jeannette M. Wing:
  Computational thinking. 33-35

Self-managed systems and services

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  Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, Joseph S. Sventek, Kurt Geihs:
  Introduction. 36-39
• 
  Paul Robertson, Brian Charles Williams:
  Automatic recovery from software failure. 41-47
• 
  George Porter, Randy H. Katz:
  Effective web service load balancing through statistical monitoring. 48-54
• 
  Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Martin F. Arlitt, Vijay Machiraju:
  Supporting application quality of service in shared resource pools. 55-60
• 
  Kenji Leibnitz, Naoki Wakamiya, Masayuki Murata:
  Biologically inspired self-adaptive multi-path routing in overlay networks. 62-67
• 
  Atul Singh, Mads Haahr:
  Creating an adaptive network of hubs using Schelling's model. 69-73

ACM fellows

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  ACM fellows. 74-75

Articles

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  Martin Halvey, Mark T. Keane, Barry Smyth:
  Mobile web surfing is the same as web surfing. 76-81
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  Vicki R. McKinney, Mary M. Whiteside:
  Maintaining distributed relationships. 82-86
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  Zhiping D. Walter, George M. Scott:
  Management issues of internet/web systems. 87-91
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  Aldo de Moor, Mark Aakhus:
  Argumentation support: from technologies to tools. 93-98
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  Juan E. Gilbert:
  Applications quest: computing diversity. 99-104
• 
  Robert C. Beatty, Craig D. Williams:
  ERP II: best practices for successfully implementing an ERP upgrade. 105-109
• 
  Mazliza Othman, Rodziah Latih:
  Women in computer science: no shortage here! 111-114

Technical opinion

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  Brian L. Dos Santos, Andrew L. Wright:
  Using bulletin boards in an educational setting. 115-118

Hot links

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  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 126-127

Inside risks

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  Marc Rotenberg:
  Real id, real trouble? 128

Volume 49, Number 4 , April 2006

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

News track

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  News track. 9-10

Forum

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

The profession of IT

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  Peter J. Denning:
  Hastily formed networks. 15-20

Digital village

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  Hal Berghel:
  Phishing mongers and posers. 21-25
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  Statewide databases of registered voters. 26-28

Hot links

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  Top 10 Downloads from ACM's Digital Library. 29-30

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Seven reasons to shave your head and three reasons not to: the bald truth. 31-32

Viewpoint

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  Shlomo Argamon, Mark Olsen:
  Toward meaningful computing. 33-35

Supporting exploratory search

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  Ryen W. White, Bill Kules, Steven Mark Drucker, Monica M. C. Schraefel:
  Introduction. 36-39
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  Gary Marchionini:
  Exploratory search: from finding to understanding. 41-46
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  Monica M. C. Schraefel, Max L. Wilson, Alistair Russell, Daniel A. Smith:
  mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search. 47-49
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  Edward Cutrell, Susan T. Dumais:
  Exploring personal information. 50-51
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  Edward A. Fox, Fernando Adrian Das Neves, Xiaoyan Yu, Rao Shen, Seonho Kim, Weiguo Fan:
  Exploring the computing literature with visualization and stepping stones & pathways. 52-58
• 
  Marti A. Hearst:
  Clustering versus faceted categories for information exploration. 59-61
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  John Gersh, Bessie Lewis, Jaime Montemayor, Christine D. Piatko, Russell Turner:
  Supporting insight-based information exploration in intelligence analysis. 63-68
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  Ben Shneiderman, Benjamin B. Bederson, Steven Mark Drucker:
  Find that photo!: interface strategies to annotate, browse, and share. 69-71
• 
  Bernard J. Jansen:
  Using temporal patterns of interactions to design effective automated searching assistance. 72-74

Articles

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  Jiexun Li, Rong Zheng, Hsinchun Chen:
  From fingerprint to writeprint. 76-82
• 
  Nenad Jukic:
  Modeling strategies and alternatives for data warehousing projects. 83-88
• 
  Andrea Ordanini:
  What drives market transactions in B2B exchanges? 89-93
• 
  Moshe Zviran, Dov Te'eni, Yuval Gross:
  Does color in email make a difference? 94-99
• 
  Rosario Vidal, Elena Mulet:
  Thinking about computer systems to support design synthesis. 100-104
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  Harvey G. Enns, Thomas W. Ferratt, Jayesh Prasad:
  Beyond stereotypes of IT professionals: implications for IT HR practices. 105-109

Technical opinion

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  Sang M. Lee, Choong Kwon Lee:
  IT managers' requisite skills. 111-114

Inside Risks

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  Lauren Weinstein:
  Fake ID: batteries not included. 120

Volume 49, Number 5, May 2006

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
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  News track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 15-16

Security watch

• 
  Rebecca T. Mercuri:
  Scoping identity theft. 17-21

Staying connected

• 
  Meg McGinity Shannon:
  Private lives. 23-26

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Revisiting my campaign statement. 27-30

Viewpoint

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  Thomas A. Easton:
  Beyond the algorithmization of the sciences. 31-33

Two decades of the language-action perspective

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  Hans Weigand:
  Introduction. 44-46
• 
  Peter J. Denning, Robert Dunham:
  Innovation as language action. 47-52
• 
  Göran Goldkuhl:
  Action and media in interorganizational interaction. 53-57
• 
  Jan L. G. Dietz:
  The deep structure of business processes. 58-64
• 
  Dov Te'eni:
  The language-action perspective as a basis for communication support systems. 65-70
• 
  Terry Winograd:
  Designing a new foundation for design. 71-74
• 
  Mareike Schoop, Aldo de Moor, Jan L. G. Dietz:
  The pragmatic web: a manifesto. 75-76

Articles

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  Dawn G. Gregg, Steven Walczak:
  Adaptive web information extraction. 78-84
• 
  Stephen J. Andriole:
  The collaborate/integrate business technology strategy. 85-90
• 
  Brian Whitworth, Jerry Fjermestad, Edward Mahinda:
  The web of system performance. 92-99
• 
  Hai Zhuge:
  Discovery of knowledge flow in science. 101-107
• 
  Brian Dobing, Jeffrey Parsons:
  How UML is used. 109-113
• 
  Pairin Katerattanakul, Bernard T. Han, Alan Rea:
  Is information systems a reference discipline? 114-118
• 
  William E. Spangler, Kathleen S. Hartzel, Mordechai Gal-Or:
  Exploring the privacy implications of addressable advertising and viewer profiling. 119-123

Technical opinion

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  Stephen B. Jenkins:
  Musings of an "old-school" programmer. 124-126

Inside risks

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  Peter G. Neumann, Lauren Weinstein:
  Risks of RFID. 136

Volume 49, Number 6, June 2006

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
• 
  News track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

President's letter

• 
  David A. Patterson:
  Farewell address: the growing and graying of ACM. 15-18

The business of software

• 
  Phillip G. Armour:
  The learning edge. 19-22

ACM plagiarism policy

• 
  Ronald F. Boisvert, Mary Jane Irwin:
  Plagiarism on the rise. 23-24

Hot links

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 25-26

Legally speaking

• 
  Pamela Samuelson:
  Copyrighting standards. 27-31

Hacking and innovation

• 
  Gregory J. Conti:
  Introduction. 32-36
• 
  Tom Cross:
  Academic freedom and the hacker ethic. 37-40
• 
  Stephen Bono, Aviel D. Rubin, Adam Stubblefield, Matthew Green:
  Security through legality. 41-43
• 
  Joe Grand:
  Research lessons from hardware hacking. 44-49
• 
  Bruce Potter:
  Wireless hotspots: petri dish of wireless security. 50-56
• 
  Felix "FX" Lindner:
  Software security is software reliability. 57-61
• 
  Dan Kaminsky:
  Explorations in namespace: white-hat hacking across the domain name system. 62-69

Articles

• 
  Kallol Kumar Bagchi, Peeter Kirs, Robert Cerveny:
  Global software piracy: can economic factors alone explain the trend? 70-76
• 
  Christopher L. Carr:
  Reciprocity: the golden rule of IS-user service relationship quality and cooperation. 77-83
• 
  Timothy Paul Cronan, C. Bryan Foltz, Thomas W. Jones:
  Piracy, computer crime, and IS misuse at the university. 84-90
• 
  David Kang, Roger Chiang:
  A systematic approach in managing post-deployment system changes. 91-96
• 
  Bonnie Brinton Anderson, James V. Hansen, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Scott L. Summers:
  The application of model checking for securing e-commerce transactions. 97-101
• 
  Barry Shore:
  Enterprise integration across the globally disbursed service organization. 102-106

Technical opinion

• 
  Thomas W. Jackson, Anthony Burgess, Janet Edwards:
  A simple approach to improving email communication. 107-109

Inside risks

• 
  Robert N. Charette:
  EHRs: Electronic Health Records or Exceptional Hidden Risks? 120

Volume 49, Number 7, July 2006

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
• 
  News track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  ACM's 2006 general elections. 13

The profession of IT

• 
  Peter J. Denning:
  Infoglut. 15-19

Technology strategy and management

• 
  Michael A. Cusumano:
  What road ahead for Microsoft and Windows? 21-23

Hot links

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 25-26

Viewpoint

• 
  Peter Wegner, Dina Q. Goldin:
  Principles of problem solving. 27-29

Services science

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  Jim Spohrer, Doug Riecken:
  Introduction. 30-32
• 
  Henry Chesbrough, Jim Spohrer:
  A research manifesto for services science. 35-40
• 
  Jerry R. Sheehan:
  Understanding service sector innovation. 42-47
• 
  John Zysman:
  The algorithmic revolution - the fourth service transformation. 48
• 
  Roland T. Rust, Carol Miu:
  What academic research tells us about service. 49-54
• 
  Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma, Karthik Gomadam:
  Semantics to energize the full services spectrum. 55-61
• 
  Brenda Dietrich:
  Resource planning for business services. 62-64
• 
  William B. Rouse, Marietta L. Baba:
  Enterprise transformation. 66-72
• 
  Mary Jo Bitner, Stephen W. Brown:
  The evolution and discovery of services science in business schools. 73-78
• 
  Walter Ganz:
  Germany: service engineering. 79
• 
  Christof Weinhardt, Dirk Neumann, Carsten Holtmann:
  Germany: computer-aided market engineering. 79
• 
  Paul P. Maglio, Savitha Srinivasan, Jeffrey T. Kreulen, Jim Spohrer:
  Service systems, service scientists, SSME, and innovation. 81-85
• 
  Stuart I. Feldman, Krishna S. Nathan, Thomas Li, Kazuyoshi Hidaka, Corinna Schulze:
  The Clarion Call for modern services: China, Japan, Europe, and the U.S. 86-87

Articles

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  David E. Avison, Shirley Gregor, David Wilson:
  Managerial IT unconsciousness. 88-93
• 
  Lance J. Hoffman, Kim Lawson-Jenkins, Jeremy J. Blum:
  Trust beyond security: an expanded trust model. 94-101
• 
  Ernst Bekkering, Jung P. Shim:
  Trust in videoconferencing. 103-107
• 
  Narasimha Bolloju, Felix S. K. Leung:
  Assisting novice analysts in developing quality conceptual models with UML. 108-112

Technical opinion

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  Fred Martin:
  Toy projects considered harmful. 113-116

Inside risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks relating to system compositions. 120

Volume 49, Number 8, August 2006

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
• 
  News track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

Practical programmer

• 
  Robert L. Glass:
  The Standish report: does it really describe a software crisis? 15-16

Digital village

• 
  Hal Berghel, David Hoelzer:
  Disk wiping by any other name. 17-21

Hot links

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 23-24

Viewpoint

• 
  Dan B. Goldman:
  Blockbusters and blackboards. 25-27

Music information retrieval

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  Bryan Pardo:
  Introduction. 28-31
• 
  Daniel P. W. Ellis:
  Extracting information from music audio. 32-37
• 
  Roger B. Dannenberg, Christopher Raphael:
  Music score alignment and computer accompaniment. 38-43
• 
  Avery Wang:
  The Shazam music recognition service. 44-48
• 
  William P. Birmingham, Roger B. Dannenberg, Bryan Pardo:
  Query by humming with the VocalSearch system. 49-52
• 
  Jon W. Dunn, Donald Byrd, Mark Notess, Jenn Riley, Ryan Scherle:
  Variations2: retrieving and using music in an academic setting. 53-58

Articles

• 
  Alexander Perez-Pons:
  Biometric marketing: targeting the online consumer. 60-66
• 
  Václav Rajlich:
  Changing the paradigm of software engineering. 67-70
• 
  G. Daryl Nord, Tipton F. McCubbins, Jeretta Horn Nord:
  E-monitoring in the workplace: privacy, legislation, and surveillance software. 72-77
• 
  J. Drew Procaccino, June M. Verner, Steven J. Lorenzet:
  Defining and contributing to software development success. 79-83
• 
  Eugenia Y. Huang:
  Tightening access policy: the hidden trade-off. 85-89
• 
  Charlie McDowell, Linda L. Werner, Heather E. Bullock, Julian Fernald:
  Pair programming improves student retention, confidence, and program quality. 90-95

Technical opinion

• 
  Mikko T. Siponen:
  Information security standards focus on the existence of process, not its content. 97-100

Inside risks

• 
  Deirdre K. Mulligan, Ari Schwartz, Indrani Mondal:
  Risks of online storage. 112

Volume 49, Number 9, September 2006

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
• 
  News track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

The business of software

• 
  Phillip G. Armour:
  Software: hard data. 15-17

Staying connected

• 
  Meg McGinity Shannon:
  Home turf. 19-21

Hot links

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 Downloads from ACM's Digital Library. 23-24

Viewpoint

• 
  Dennis Adams:
  Wireless laptops in the classroom (and the Sesame Street syndrome). 25-27

Privacy and security in highly dynamic systems

• 
  Günter Müller:
  Introduction. 28-31
• 
  Stefan Sackmann, Jens Strüker, Rafael Accorsi:
  Personalization in privacy-aware highly dynamic systems. 32-38
• 
  Alexander Pretschner, Manuel Hilty, David A. Basin:
  Distributed usage control. 39-44
• 
  Arvind Seshadri, Mark Luk, Adrian Perrig, Leendert van Doorn, Pradeep K. Khosla:
  Externally verifiable code execution. 45-49
• 
  Johannes Buchmann, Alexander May, Ulrich Vollmer:
  Perspectives for cryptographic long-term security. 50-55
• 
  Brian Subirana, Malcolm Bain:
  Legal programming. 57-62

Articles

• 
  Mark D. Hill, Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Mary W. Hall, Joe Marks, Paolo Prinetto, Donna Baglio:
  A Wiki for discussing and promoting best practices in research. 63-64
• 
  Gio Wiederhold:
  What is your software worth? 65-75
• 
  Weiguo Fan, Linda G. Wallace, Stephanie Rich, Zhongju Zhang:
  Tapping the power of text mining. 76-82
• 
  Marc Stiegler, Alan H. Karp, Ka-Ping Yee, Tyler Close, Mark S. Miller:
  Polaris: virus-safe computing for Windows XP. 83-88
• 
  Se-Joon Hong, Kar Yan Tam, Jinwoo Kim:
  Mobile data service fuels the desire for uniqueness. 89-94
• 
  Bongsug Chae, Roger McHaney:
  Asian trio's adoption of Linux-based open source development. 95-99

Inside risks

• 
  Peter G. Neumann:
  The foresight saga. 112

Volume 49, Number 10, October 2006

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
• 
  News track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

Technology strategy and management

• 
  Michael A. Cusumano:
  Envisioning the future of India's software services business. 15-17

Hot links

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

Legally speaking

• 
  Pamela Samuelson:
  IBM's pragmatic embrace of open source. 21-25

Flexible and distributed software processes: old petunias in new bowls?

• 
  Pär J. Ågerfalk, Brian Fitzgerald:
  Introduction. 26-34
• 
  Gwanhoo Lee, William H. DeLone, J. Alberto Espinosa:
  Ambidextrous coping strategies in globally distributed software development projects. 35-40
• 
  Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Lan Cao, Kannan Mohan, Peng Xu:
  Can distributed software development be agile? 41-46
• 
  One-Ki Daniel Lee, Probir Banerjee, Kai H. Lim, Kuldeep Kumar, Jos van Hillegersberg, Kwok Kee Wei:
  Aligning IT components to achieve agility in globally distributed system development. 48-54
• 
  Patrick Wagstrom, James D. Herbsleb:
  Dependency forecasting in the distributed agile organization. 55-56
• 
  Nick V. Flor:
  Globally distributed software development and pair programming. 57-58

Articles

• 
  Jiming Liu, Kwok Ching Tsui:
  Toward nature-inspired computing. 59-64
• 
  Ray Giguette:
  Building objects out of Plato: applying philosophy, symbolism, and analogy to software design. 66-71
• 
  Casey G. Cegielski, Dianne J. Hall:
  What makes a good programmer? 73-75
• 
  Tamara Dinev:
  Why spoofing is serious internet fraud. 76-82
• 
  Il-Horn Hann, Kai Lung Hui, Yee-Lin Lai, Sang-Yong Tom Lee, Ivan P. L. Png:
  Who gets spammed? 83-87
• 
  Pratyush Bharati, Abhijit Chaudhury:
  Studying the current status of technology adoption. 88-93

Inside risks

• 
  Steven M. Bellovin:
  Virtual machines, virtual security? 104

Volume 49, Number 11, November 2006

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
• 
  News track. 9-10
• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 19-20

Practical programmer

• 
  Robert L. Glass:
  Looking into the challenges of complex IT projects. 15-17

The profession of IT

• 
  Peter J. Denning, Frederick Hayes-Roth:
  Decision making in very large networks. 19-23

Hot links

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's Digital Library. 25-26

Viewpoint

• 
  Christof Teuscher:
  Biologically uninspired computer science. 27-29

Entertainment networking

• 
  Cormac J. Sreenan, Jacobus E. van der Merwe:
  Introduction. 30-33
• 
  Kuan-Ta Chen, Polly Huang, Chin-Laung Lei:
  How sensitive are online gamers to network quality? 34-38
• 
  Mark Claypool, Kajal T. Claypool:
  Latency and player actions in online games. 40-45
• 
  Jeremy Brun, Farzad Safaei, Paul Boustead:
  Managing latency and fairness in networked games. 46-51
• 
  Zefir Kurtisi, Xiaoyuan Gu, Lars C. Wolf:
  Enabling network-centric music performance in wide-area networks. 52-54
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  Reza Rejaie:
  Anyone can broadcast video over the internet. 55-57
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  Verena Kahmann, Jens Brandt, Lars C. Wolf:
  Collaborative streaming in heterogeneous and dynamic scenarios. 58-63

Articles

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  Dijiang Huang, Qing Cao, Amit Sinha, Marc J. Schniederjans, Cory C. Beard, Lein Harn, Deep Medhi:
  New architecture for intra-domain network security issues. 64-72
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  Hazel Taylor:
  Critical risks in outsourced IT projects: the intractable and the unforeseen. 74-79
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  Dinah M. Payne, Brett J. L. Landry:
  A uniform code of ethics: business and IT professional ethics. 81-84
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  Arun Sen, Peter A. Dacin, Christos Pattichis:
  Current trends in web data analysis. 85-91

Inside risks

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  Rebecca T. Mercuri, Vincent J. Lipsio, Beth Feehan:
  COTS and other electronic voting backdoors. 112

Volume 49, Number 12, December 2006

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
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  News track. 9-10
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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

Digital village

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  Hal Berghel:
  Fungible credentials and next-generation fraud. 15-19

ACM distinguished members

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  ACM honors distinguished members for contributions to computing. 20-21

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 23-24

Viewpoint

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  Douglas S. Blank:
  Robots make computer science personal. 25-27

Software product line engineering

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  Vijayan Sugumaran, Sooyong Park, Kyo Chul Kang:
  Introduction. 28-32
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  Paul C. Clements, Lawrence G. Jones, John D. McGregor, Linda M. Northrop:
  Getting there from here: a roadmap for software product line adoption. 33-36
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  Charles W. Krueger:
  New methods in software product line practice. 37-40
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  Jan Bosch:
  The challenges of broadening the scope of software product families. 41-44
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  Don S. Batory, David Benavides, Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
  Automated analysis of feature models: challenges ahead. 45-47
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  Magnus Eriksson, Jürgen Börstler, Kjell Borg:
  Software product line modeling made practical. 49-54
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  Jaejoon Lee, Dirk Muthig:
  Feature-oriented variability management in product line engineering. 55-59
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  Krzysztof Czarnecki, Michal Antkiewicz, Chang Hwan Peter Kim:
  Multi-level customization in application engineering. 60-65
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  Andreas Helferich, Klaus Schmid, Georg Herzwurm:
  Product management for software product lines: an unsolved problem? 66-67
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  Kannan Mohan, Balasubramaniam Ramesh:
  Change management patterns in software product lines. 68-72
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  Tomoji Kishi, Natsuko Noda:
  Formal verification and software product lines. 73-77
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  Klaus Pohl, Andreas Metzger:
  Software product line testing. 78-81
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  Joaquín Peña, Michael G. Hinchey, Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
  Multi-agent system product lines: challenges and benefits. 82-84
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  Hoh Peter In, Jongmoon Baik, Sangsoo Kim, Ye Yang, Barry W. Boehm:
  A quality-based cost estimation model for the product line life cycle. 85-88

Articles

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  Ian O. Angell, Jan Kietzmann:
  RFID and the end of cash? 90-96
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  Zakaria Maamar, Djamal Benslimane, Nanjangud C. Narendra:
  What can context do for web services? 98-103
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  Martin Bichler, Jayant Kalagnanam:
  Software frameworks for advanced procurement auction markets. 104-108
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  Ali R. Montazemi:
  How they manage IT: SMEs in Canada and the U.S. 109-112

Technical opinion

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  France Bélanger, Weiguo Fan, L. Christian Schaupp, Anjala S. Krishen, Jeannine Everhart, David Poteet, Kent Nakamoto:
  Web site success metrics: addressing the duality of goals. 114-116

Inside risks

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  Wilhelm Hasselbring, Matthias Rohr, Jürgen Taeger, Daniel Winteler:
  Liability risks in reusing third-party software. 144