Communications of the ACM
DEPARTMENT: Editorial pointers
DEPARTMENT: News track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
COLUMN: Legally speaking
COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
SPECIAL SECTION: Service-oriented computing
SPECIAL SECTION: Conceptual modeling and system architecting
COLUMN: Technical opinion
COLUMN: Inside risks
Editorial Pointers
DEPARTMENT: News track
News Track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
Forum
COLUMN: Legally speaking
-nsolicited Communications as Trespass?
Attempting to stretch existing laws to address previously unforeseen technological issues.COLUMN: Technology strategy and management
Company Character and the Software Business
Consumers must evaluate a software producer's company character as well as its product offerings.SPECIAL SECTION: Service-oriented computing
Introduction
The Next Step in Web Services
How three specifications support creating robust service compositions.Web Service Componentization
Developing a framework for analyzing service composition reuse and specialization.Contracts and Types
Addressing the need for a more formal account of service descriptions and service contracts with a mobile process algebra.Transactions and Web Services
Helping to realize the full potential of e-commerce.Business-Oriented Management of Web Services
Using tools and abstractions for monitoring and controlling Web services.SPECIAL SECTION: Conceptual modeling and system architecting
Introduction
How to evaluate and select the methods and tools for building conceptual models that faithfully represent the abstract concepts of a software system's architecture.System Function and Architecture: Opm-Based Definitions and Operational Templates
This framework for modeling and conceptually representing a system's specification identifies essential objects and processes while minimizing ambiguity in functional and architectural requirements.Method Engineering For Oo Systems Development
This metamodel-based framework helps distill the key ingredients in software engineering processes in ways that facilitate method engineering, along with process understanding.Evaluating Modeling Techniques Based on Models of Learning
To compare modeling techniques, combine grammar-based and cognitive-based approaches and test domain understanding.-sing Ontology to Validate Conceptual Models
Theories of ontology lead to improved conceptual models and help ensure they are indeed faithful representations of their focal domains.Robots, After All
Artificial minds for mechanical bodies capable of autonomous manual work finally seem within reach.Watermark-Based Copyright Protection System Security
Both researchers and industry players are asking: Just how easy is it to break a watermark-based copyright management system?Intelligent Web Services Moving Toward a Framework to Compose
Intelligent Web services show promise as a means of supporting cross-organizational business transactions.Objective Quality Ranking of Computing Journals
Citation analysis, which provides a clear picture of actual use of journals and their articles, is an effective way to determine a journal's influence.COLUMN: Technical opinion
On Pseudo Object-Oriented Programming Considered Harmful
Reconsidering and disentangling some fundamental relationships and issues.COLUMN: Inside risks
