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Home/Magazine Archive/October 1996 (Vol. 39, No. 10)

Table of Contents

Seeding networks: the federal role

Larry Press
Pages 11-18

Digital politics

Hal Berghel
Pages 19-25

NSF's new program for high-performance Internet connections

Mark Luker
Pages 27-28

Software patterns

Douglas C. Schmidt, Mohamed Fayad, Ralph E. Johnson
Pages 37-39

The interaction of social issues and software architecture

Alistair Cockburn
Pages 40-46

The pros and cons of adopting and applying design patterns in the real world

Marshall P. Cline
Pages 47-49

Designing concurrent and distributed control systems

Amund Aarsten, Davide Brugali, Giuseppe Menga
Pages 50-58

Aspects of software adaptability

Mohamed Fayad, Marshall P. Cline
Pages 58-59

A training experience with patterns

Brandon Goldfedder, Linda Rising
Pages 60-64

An essential design pattern for fault-tolerant distributed state sharing

Nayeem Islam, Murthy Devarakonda
Pages 65-74

Selecting locking primitives for parallel programming

Paul E. McKenney
Pages 75-82

PICS: Internet access controls without censorship

Paul Resnick, James Miller
Pages 87-93

Why are CASE tools not used?

Juhani Iivari
Pages 94-103

How reuse influences productivity in object-oriented systems

Victor R. Basili, Lionel C. Briand, Walcélio L. Melo
Pages 104-116

Inside risks: Disinformation theory

Peter G. Neumann
Page 138