August 2007 Table of Contents | Communications of the ACM

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DEPARTMENT: Editorial pointers

Editorial Pointers

Diane Crawford

Page 5

DEPARTMENT: News track

News Track

CACM Staff

Pages 7-8

DEPARTMENT: Forum

Forum

Pages 13-14

DEPARTMENT: ACM call for nominations

Call For Nominations For ACM General Election

Page 14

COLUMN: Digital village

Better-Than-Nothing Security Practices

Security for general audiences.

Hal Berghel

Pages 15-18

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.

Amy S. Bruckman

Pages 19-20

DEPARTMENT: Practical programmer

A Deja-Vu Look at Software Engineering Researchers Who Care About Practice

Reflections on institutes performing practice-relevant research.

Robert L. Glass

Pages 21-23

Privacy-Enhanced Personalization

Multi-pronged strategies are needed to reconcile the tension between personalization and privacy.

Alfred Kobsa

Pages 24-33

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.

Ahmed Elfatatry

Pages 35-39

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.

Matt E. Thatcher, David E. Pingry

Pages 41-45

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.

John Erickson, Keng Siau

Pages 46-51

Involving Top Management in IT Projects

Aligning business needs and IT solutions with the problem-mapping technique.

Jesper Simonsen

Pages 52-58

Designing Large-Scale Supply Chain Linear Programs in Spreadsheets

Developing techniques to create a complete supply chain model across an entire product line.

Larry J. LeBlanc, Michael R. Galbreth

Pages 59-64

A Classification of Product Comparison Agents

Using the ecological food chain as an analogy for agent classification.

Yun Wan, Satya Menon, Arkalgud Ramaprasad

Pages 65-71

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.

Janice C. Sipior, Burke T. Ward

Pages 72-77

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.

T. H. Tse, Francis C. M. Lau, W. K. Chan, Peter C. K. Liu, Colin K. F. Luk

Pages 78-85

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.

Sagnika Sen, Haluk Demirkan, Michael Goul

Pages 87-93

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.

W. "RP" Raghupathi

Pages 94-99

DEPARTMENT: Hot Links

Top 10 Downloads from ACM's Digital Library

Page 100

COLUMN: Technical opinion

Offshore Outsourcing: The Risk of Keeping Mum

Breaking the code of silence.

Sakgasit Ramingwong, A. S. M. Sajeev

Pages 101-103

COLUMN: Inside risks

Which Is Riskier: OS Diversity or OS Monopoly?

David Lorge Parnas

Page 112

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