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Editorial Pointers
DEPARTMENT: News track
News Track
DEPARTMENT: Forum
Forum
DEPARTMENT: ACM call for nominations
Call For Nominations For ACM General Election
COLUMN: Digital village
Better-Than-Nothing Security Practices
Security for general audiences.COLUMN: Viewpoint
Software Copyright and Role Models
Our words, ideas, and behavior profoundly influence our children and students to do good and not so good when using technology.DEPARTMENT: Practical programmer
A Deja-Vu Look at Software Engineering Researchers Who Care About Practice
Reflections on institutes performing practice-relevant research.Privacy-Enhanced Personalization
Multi-pronged strategies are needed to reconcile the tension between personalization and privacy.Dealing with Change: Components Versus Services
Understanding the philosophy behind components and services is necessary before choosing a solution to deal with change in software design.Modeling the IT Value Paradox
Assessing the value of IT investments has stumped managers and academics for years. If viewed as a commodity input, however, IT should be measured in the context in which the investment takes place.Theoretical and Practical Complexity of Modeling Methods
Highlighting the importance of taking into account typical usage when estimating the complexity of a systems development method.Involving Top Management in IT Projects
Aligning business needs and IT solutions with the problem-mapping technique.Designing Large-Scale Supply Chain Linear Programs in Spreadsheets
Developing techniques to create a complete supply chain model across an entire product line.A Classification of Product Comparison Agents
Using the ecological food chain as an analogy for agent classification.Unintended Invitation: Organizational Wi-Fi Use By External Roaming Users
Unauthorized users risk civil and criminal liability; Wi-Fi network providers risk system intrusion and disruption.Testing Object-Oriented Industrial Software Without Precise Oracles or Results
TACCLE tests an automated assembly system in which the expected outcomes cannot be precisely defined and the actual results cannot be directly observed.Dynamic Decision Support Through Instantiation of UEML Representations
The resulting system inherits (on demand) from representations developed and maintained by partners engaged in business alliances.Corporate Governance of IT: A Framework For Development
Boards of directors are beginning to look beyond the accounting roots of IT governance toward the risk of legal liability and harm to product brand and corporate reputation.DEPARTMENT: Hot Links
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COLUMN: Technical opinion
Offshore Outsourcing: The Risk of Keeping Mum
Breaking the code of silence.COLUMN: Inside risks
