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  23rd International Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC '99), 27-19 October 1999, Phoenix, AZ, USA. IEEE Computer Society 1999 ISBN 0-7695-0368-3

Legacy System

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  Alok Mehta, George T. Heineman: Architectural Evolution of Legacy Systems. 4-12
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  Helen M. Edwards, Gillian M. Mallalieu, J. Barrie Thompson: Some Insights into the Maintenance of Legacy Systems within Small Manufacturing and Distribution Organizations in the UK. 13-20
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  Hongji Yang, Zhan Cui, Paul O'Brien: Extracting Ontologies from Legacy Systems for Understanding and Re-Engineering. 21-26

Database Systems

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  Ju-Won Song, Kyu-Young Whang, Young-Koo Lee, Sang-Wook Kim: The clustering Property of Corner Transformation for Spatial Database Applications. 28-35
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  Raimund K. Ege: Object-Oriented Database Access via Reflection. 36-41
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  James B. Crigler, Ali Orooji: ORR: Object-Relational Rapprochement. 42-48

Panel - Network Security

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  Elisa Bertino: Protecting Information in the Web - Position Paper. 50-51

Formal Verification

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  Maha Boughdadi, Robert Busser: An Industrial Application of an Integrated UML and SDL Modeling Technique. 54-60
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  Taeho Kim, Yeong-Tae Song, Lawrence Chung, Dung T. Huynh: Dynamic Software Architecture Slicing. 61-66
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  Xiaoping Jia, Sotiris Skevoulis: A Generic Approach of Static Analysis for Detecting Runtime Errors in Java Programs. 67-72

Network Security

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  Robert N. Smith, Sourav Bhattacharya: A Protocol and Simulation for Distributed Communicating Firewalls. 74-79
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  Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari, Cesare Stefanelli: Mobile Agents Protection in the Internet Environment. 80-85
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  Stephen S. Yau, Xinyu Zhang: Computer Network Intrusion Detection, Assessment And Prevention Based on Security Dependency Relation. 86-91

Panel - Can Generic Software Be Assured?

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  Jeffrey M. Voas: Can Generic Software Be Assured? 94-95
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  John C. Dean: Ensuring the Capability of COTS Products. 96-97
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  Ronald J. Kohl: Establishing Guidelines for Suitability of COTS for a Mission Critical Application. 98-99
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  Norman F. Schneidewind: Cost Framework for COTS Evaluation. 100-101

Software Testing

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  Chia-Chu Chiang, Joseph E. Urban: Validating Software Specifications against User Claims. 104-109
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  Anneliese von Mayrhauser, Michael Scheetz, Eric Dahlman: Generating Goal-Oriented Test Cases. 110-115
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  Hwan Wook Sohn, David Chenho Kung, Pei Hsia: CORBA Components Testing with Perception-Based State Behavior. 116-121
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  Ji-Tzay Yang, Jiun-Long Huang, Feng-Jian Wang, William C. Chu: An Object-Oriented Architecture Supporting Web Application Testing. 122-127

Reliable Distributed Computing

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  K. H. Kim, Juqiang Liu, Masaki Ishida, Inho Kim: Distributed Object-Oriented Real-Time Simulation of Ground Transportation Networks with the TMO Structuring Scheme. 130-138
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  Ing-Ray Chen, Ding-Chau Wang, Chih-Ping Chu: Response Time Behavior of Voting Schemes for Managing Replicated Data. 139-144
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  Yongdong Tan, Isao Kaji, Kinji Mori: Autonomous Coordination for Atomicity of Transaction in Heterogeneous Systems. 145-150
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  Antonio Mendes da Silva Filho: Toward More Reliable Telecom Systems. 151-156

Software Design and Development

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  Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Jing Dong, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena: A Pattern-Based Approach to Structural Design Composition. 160-165
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  Wei-Tek Tsai, Yongzhong Tu, Weiguang Shao, Ezra Ebner: Testing Extensible Design Patterns in Object-Oriented Frameworks through Scenario Templates. 166-171
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  Michael L. Nelson: A Design Pattern for Autonomous Vehicle Software Control Architectures. 172-177

Information Systems and Information Retrieval

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  David C. Ni, J. Martinez, J. Wang: System Scaling for Large-scale Internet-Based Online Services. 180-185
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  Giovanni Felici, Fushing Sun, Klaus Truemper: A Method for Controlling Errors in Two-Class Classification. 186-191
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  Yong S. Choi, Suk I. Yoo, Jaeho Lee: Hierarchically Organized Neural Net Agents for Distributed Web Information Retrieval. 192-197

Panel - Software Engineering Licensing

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  Donald J. Bagert: Licensing Software Engineers: The Computer Society Must Continue to Lead. 200-201
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  J. Barrie Thompson: It's Different on the Other Side of the Pond. But Should It Be That Way? 202-203

Software Process and Management

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  Akira Abeta, Ken'ichi Kakizaki: Implementation and Evaluation of an Automatic Personal Workflow Extraction Method. 206-212
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  Douglas M. Sycamore, James S. Collofello: Using System Dynamics Modeling to Manage Projects. 213-217
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  Kevin A. Gary, Timothy E. Lindquist: Cooperating Process Components. 218-223

Network and Mobile Systems

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  Sourav Bhattacharya, Srihari Palangala, Tolety Siva Perraju: Multimedia Tools and Applications in the Development of a Large Complex Network System. 226-231
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  Keith Knauber, Biao Chen: Supporting Preemption in Wormhole Networks. 232-238
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  Hakki C. Cankaya, David W. Matula, Mihaela Iridon: Performance Analysis of a Graph Model for Channel Assignment in a Cellular Network. 239-240

Panel - Here, There and Everywhere: The Future of Software Engineering Education

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  J. Barrie Thompson: Here, There and Everywhere: The Future of Software Engineering Education. 242
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  Helen M. Edwards: Software Engineering Education from a UK Academic's Perspective. 243-244
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  Bart J. Nigro: Here, There and Everywhere: The Future of Software Engineering Education: Corporate View. 245
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  T. H. Tse: One System, Two Ideologies: Integrating the Two Worlds of Software Engineering Education. 246-247

Software Architecture

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  Kent Wreder, Yi Deng: Architecture-Centered Enterprise System Development and Integration Based on Distributed Object Technology Standard. 250-258
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  Rakesh Agarwal, Giorgio Bruno, Marco Torchiano: Object-Oriented Architectural Support for Developing Complex Systems. 259-264
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  Wen-Li Wang, Mei-Huei Tang, Mei-Hwa Chen: Software Architecture Analysis-A Case Study. 265-270

Storage System and Caching

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  B. Sonah, Mabo Robert Ito: Merging Interval Caching with Adaptive Viewers' Bias Based Caching Strategy. 272-277
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  Joo-Yong Kim, Kyoungwoon Cho, Kern Koh: A Proxy Server Structure and its Cache Consistency Mechanism at the Network Bottleneck. 278-283
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  Han-joon Kim, Sang-goo Lee: A New Flash Memory Management for Flash Storage System. 284-289

Application of Special Interests

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  Chung-Shyan Liu, Wei Kuo, Lan-Yang Ch'ang, Wen-Chang Lin: The Design of Agent-Based Tools for Bio-Informatics. 294-295
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  Anil Khatri: Validation of a Patient Headache Care Education System (PHCES) Developed from a Unified Modeling Language (UML) Domain Model. 296-298
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  Peter S. Heck: Steps Toward a Theory of Coordination for Intelligent Agent Societies. 299-300
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  Xiaoqing Liu, Ravi Viswanathan: A WWW Based Software Metrics Environment for Software Process Management and Software Product Quality Improvement. 301-304
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  Hideaki Hirayama, Hiroki Honda, Toshitsugu Yuba: Distributed Shared Memory with Log Based Consistency for Scalable Data Mining. 305-308
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  Huan Liu, Hongjun Lu: Mining Weak Rules. 309-310

Software Development

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  Michael Duell: Looking Beyond Software to Understand Software Design Patterns. 312-313
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  Linda Rising: Patterns in Postmortems. 314-315
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  Stephanie D. Crouch, Dick B. Simmons: The Unique Reference NCSLOC Metric. 316-317
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  Hoh In, Ana Erendira Flores-Mendoza: Initial Design of the "Plug-n-Analyze" Framework for Architecture Tradeoff Analysis. 318-319
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  Shikun Zhou, Hongji Yang, Paul Luker, Xudong He: A Useful Approach to Developing Reverse Engineering Metrics. 320-321
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  Tsuneo Yamaura, Tohru Kikuno: A Framework for Top-Down Cost Estimation of Software Development. 322-323

Software Frameworks and Systems Engineering

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  Serge Lubenec: Venice - a Toolkit/Framework for Integration and Component-Based Computing. 326-327
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  Garfield Hamilton: CataLogger: A Framework for Building Asset Management Solutions. 328-329
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  Colin J. Hardy, Helen M. Edwards, J. Barrie Thompson: The MEA Framework: A New Perspective for the Development of Situation-Specific Methods. 330-331
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  W. Feng: Dynamic Client-Side Scheduling in a Real-Time CORBA System. 332-333
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  Michael L. Nelson, Guillermo Flores Jr.: Failure Planning in STESCA. 334-335
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  Marion G. Ceruti, Ray C. Trout, Tse Lee: Effect of Complementary Processing on Navy Command and Control Software. 336-337

Plenary Panel - Supply and Demands of Information Technology Workers

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  Stephen S. Yau: Supply and Demands of Information Technology Workers. 342-

Software Reuse

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  Hee Beng Kuan Tan, Hua Koon Tan: Software Reuse through a Novel Representation that Supports Factorization. 344-349
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  Hanxiong Chen, Toshiro Ohno, Nobuo Ohbo: Processing Queries with Expensive Predicates by Filtering. 350-356
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  Hewijin Christine Jiau, Kuo-Feng Ssu, Jim-Min Lin, Yu-Ping Ko: Reusing CAD Tools in Object Oriented Based Framework. 357-362

Project Management

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  Ly Danielle Sauer, Timothy E. Lindquist, Jeremy Cairney: Tracking Personal Processes in Group Projects. 364-369
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  Pei Hsia, Chih-Tung Hsu, David Chenho Kung: Brooks' Law Revisited: A System Dynamics Approach. 370-375
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  Ioana Rus, James S. Collofello: A Decision Support System for Software Reliability Engineering Strategy Selection. 376-381

Panel - Computers as Partners: A Technology Forecast for Decision-making in the 21st Century

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  Joseph P. Cavano: Computers as Partners: A Technology Forecast for Decision-Making in the 21st Century. 384-385
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  E. Coupey, Pamplin Hall: Developing Dynamic Decision Support: Opportunities, Issues and Approaches. 386-387
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  John de Oliveira: Talking with Computers about the Future We Shall Share. 388-389
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  Elizabeth D. Liddy: NLP-Supported Decision-Making. 390-391
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  Daniela Rus: Mobile Information Agents for Processing under Information Overload: A Position Statement. 392-393

Software System Development

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  Carl K. Chang, Seongwoon Kim: I3: A Petri-Net Based Specification Method for Architectural Components. 396-402
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  Amy Sundermier, Suzanne W. Dietrich, Vandana Shah: An Active Database Approach to Integrating Black-Box Software Components. 403-409
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  Tae-Hoon Kim, Yeong-Gil Shin: Role-based Decomposition for Improving Concurrency in Distributed Object-Oriented Software Development Environments. 410-415
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  Teresa G. Sparkman: Lessons Learned Applying Software Engineering Principles to Visual Programming Language Application Development. 416-421

E-Business and Application Systems

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  Karl R. P. H. Leung, Lucas Chi Kwong Hui: Signature Management in Workflow Systems. 424-429
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  Kimio Kuramitsu, Ken Sakamura: Digiket: Decentralized Architecture for Worldwide Electronic Market. 430-435
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  Jiacun Wang, Chun Jin, Yi Deng: Performance Analysis of Traffic Control System Based on Stochastic Timed Petri Net Models. 436-441
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  Neng-Fa Zhou: Building Java Applets by Using DJ - A Java-based Constraint Language. 442-447

Software Verification and Analysis

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  Kuangnan Chang, David Chenho Kung, Pei Hsia: OBL: A Formal Deduction Method for Object-Oriented Systems. 450-455
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  Xiaoping Jia, Sushant Sawant, Jiangyu Zhou, Sotiris Skevoulis: Detecting Null Pointer Violations in Java Programs. 456-461
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  Xudong He, William C. Chu, Hongji Yang, Stephen J. H. Yang: A New Approach to Verify Rule-Based Systems Using Petri Nets. 462-467
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  Chin-Yu Huang, Sy-Yen Kuo, Michael R. Lyu: Optimal Software Release Policy Based on Cost and Reliability with Testing Efficiency. 468-473