Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 49, 2006

Volume 49, Number 1, January 2006

Personal information management Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5-7

News track

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  News track. 9-10

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 15-16

The business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  Counting boulders and measuring mountains. 17-20

Report

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  ACM annual report for FY05. 21-30

Staying connected

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  Meg McGinity Shannon:
  The network of life. 29-32

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  New Directions for CACM? 33-35

Viewpoint

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  Scott Campbell:
  How to think about security failures. 37-39

Personal information management

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  Jaime Teevan, William Jones, Benjamin B. Bederson:
  Introduction. 40-43
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  Mary Czerwinski, Douglas W. Gage, Jim Gemmell, Catherine C. Marshall, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Meredith M. Skeels, Tiziana Catarci:
  Digital memories in an era of ubiquitous computing and abundant storage. 44-50
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  Wanda Pratt, Kenton T. Unruh, Andrea Civan, Meredith M. Skeels:
  Personal health information management. 51-55
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  Clare-Marie Karat, Carolyn Brodie, John Karat:
  Usable privacy and security for personal information management. 56-57
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  Edward Cutrell, Susan T. Dumais, Jaime Teevan:
  Searching to eliminate personal information management. 58-64
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  Catherine C. Marshall, William Jones:
  Keeping encountered information. 66-67
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  Steve Whittaker, Victoria Bellotti, Jacek Gwizdka:
  Email in personal information management. 68-73
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  Thomas Erickson:
  From PIM to GIM: personal information management in group contexts. 74-75
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  David R. Karger, William Jones:
  Data unification in personal information management. 77-82
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  Diane Kelly:
  Evaluating personal information management behaviors and tools. 84-86

Articles

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  Jim Gemmell, Gordon Bell, Roger Lueder:
  MyLifeBits: a personal database for everything. 88-95
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  Kevin C. Desouza, Yukika Awazu, Amrit Tiwana:
  Four dynamics for bringing use back into software reuse. 96-100
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  George Pallis, Athena Vakali:
  Insight and perspectives for content delivery networks. 101-106
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  Grace J. Johnson, Paul J. Ambrose:
  Neo-tribes: the power and potential of online communities in health care. 107-113
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  Tim Chenoweth, Karen Corral, Haluk Demirkan:
  Seven key interventions for data warehouse success. 114-119
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  Lawrence A. Gordon, Martin P. Loeb:
  Budgeting process for information security expenditures. 121-125
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  Matti Tedre, Erkki Sutinen, Esko Kähkönen, Piet Kommers:
  Ethnocomputing: ICT in cultural and social context. 126-130

Technical opinion

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  Christoph Meinel, Volker Klotz:
  The first 10 years of the ECCC digital library. 131-134

Inside risks

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  John C. Knight, Nancy G. Leveson:
  Software and higher education. 160

Volume 49, Number 2, February 2006

Next-generation cyber forensics Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

News track

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  News track. 9-10

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

Technical opinion

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  Gary F. Templeton:
  Video image stabilization and registration technology. 15-18

International perspectives

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  Siri Birgitte Uldal, Muhammad Aimal Marjan:
  Computing in post-war Afghanistan. 19-24

Legally speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Regulating technical design. 25-30

Technology strategy and management

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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  Where does Russia fit into the global software industry? 31-34

Viewpoint

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  Nanda Kumar, Abbe Mowshowitz:
  Who should govern the internet? 35-37

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 39-40

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Offshoring: finally facts vs. folklore. 41-42

Next-generation cyber forensics

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  Brajendra Panda, Joseph Giordano, Daniel Kalil:
  Introduction. 44-47
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  Eoghan Casey:
  Investigating sophisticated security breaches. 48-55
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  Brian D. Carrier:
  Risks of live digital forensic analysis. 56-61
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  Frank Adelstein:
  Live forensics: diagnosing your system without killing it first. 63-66
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  The Common Digital Evidence Storage Format Working Group: Standardizing digital evidence storage. 67-68
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  Chet Hosmer:
  Digital evidence bag. 69-70
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  Sheldon Teelink, Robert F. Erbacher:
  Improving the computer forensic analysis process through visualization. 71-75
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  Golden G. Richard III, Vassil Roussev:
  Next-generation digital forensics. 76-80
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  Rahul Bhaskar:
  State and local law enforcement is not ready for a cyber Katrina. 81-83
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  Simson L. Garfinkel:
  AFF: a new format for storing hard drive images. 85-87
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  Ganesan Shankaranarayanan, Adir Even:
  The metadata enigma. 88-94
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  Pak-Lok Poon, Amy H. L. Lau:
  The present B2C implementation framework. 96-103
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  Jan Damsgaard, Mihir A. Parikh, Bharat Rao:
  Wireless commons perils in the common good. 104-109

Student de-charter notice

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  Student de-charter notice. 110
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  Henry M. Gladney:
  Principles for digital preservation. 111-116
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  Stephen Owen, Pearl Brereton, David Budgen:
  Protocol analysis: a neglected practice. 117-122
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  Deborah J. Armstrong:
  The quarks of object-oriented development. 123-128
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  Roli Varma:
  Making computer science minority-friendly. 129-134

Inside risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Trustworthy systems revisited. 152

Volume 49, Number 3 , March 2006

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

News track

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  News track. 9-10

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

The business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  The operational executive sponsor. 15-18

Practical programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  Is the crouching tiger a threat? 19-20

The European report

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  Bertrand Meyer, Willy Zwaenepoel:
  Europe's computer scientists take fate into their own hands. 21-24

Call for nominations for advanced member grades in the ACM

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  Call for nominations for advanced member grades in the ACM. 25-26

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Computer science education in the 21^st century. 27-30
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  David A. Patterson:
  Reviving your favorite CS books. 31

Viewpoint

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  Jeannette M. Wing:
  Computational thinking. 33-35

Self-managed systems and services

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  Jean-Philippe Martin-Flatin, Joseph S. Sventek, Kurt Geihs:
  Introduction. 36-39
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  Paul Robertson, Brian Charles Williams:
  Automatic recovery from software failure. 41-47
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  George Porter, Randy H. Katz:
  Effective web service load balancing through statistical monitoring. 48-54
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  Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Martin F. Arlitt, Vijay Machiraju:
  Supporting application quality of service in shared resource pools. 55-60
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  Kenji Leibnitz, Naoki Wakamiya, Masayuki Murata:
  Biologically inspired self-adaptive multi-path routing in overlay networks. 62-67
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  Atul Singh, Mads Haahr:
  Creating an adaptive network of hubs using Schelling's model. 69-73

ACM fellows

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  ACM fellows. 74-75

Articles

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  Martin Halvey, Mark T. Keane, Barry Smyth:
  Mobile web surfing is the same as web surfing. 76-81
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  Vicki R. McKinney, Mary M. Whiteside:
  Maintaining distributed relationships. 82-86
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  Zhiping D. Walter, George M. Scott:
  Management issues of internet/web systems. 87-91
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  Aldo de Moor, Mark Aakhus:
  Argumentation support: from technologies to tools. 93-98
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  Juan E. Gilbert:
  Applications quest: computing diversity. 99-104
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  Robert C. Beatty, Craig D. Williams:
  ERP II: best practices for successfully implementing an ERP upgrade. 105-109
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  Mazliza Othman, Rodziah Latih:
  Women in computer science: no shortage here! 111-114

Technical opinion

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  Brian L. Dos Santos, Andrew L. Wright:
  Using bulletin boards in an educational setting. 115-118

Hot links

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  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 126-127

Inside risks

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  Marc Rotenberg:
  Real id, real trouble? 128

Volume 49, Number 4 , April 2006

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

News track

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  News track. 9-10

Forum

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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

The profession of IT

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  Peter J. Denning:
  Hastily formed networks. 15-20

Digital village

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  Hal Berghel:
  Phishing mongers and posers. 21-25
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  Statewide databases of registered voters. 26-28

Hot links

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  Top 10 Downloads from ACM's Digital Library. 29-30

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Seven reasons to shave your head and three reasons not to: the bald truth. 31-32

Viewpoint

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  Shlomo Argamon, Mark Olsen:
  Toward meaningful computing. 33-35

Supporting exploratory search

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  Ryen W. White, Bill Kules, Steven Mark Drucker, Monica M. C. Schraefel:
  Introduction. 36-39
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  Gary Marchionini:
  Exploratory search: from finding to understanding. 41-46
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  Monica M. C. Schraefel, Max L. Wilson, Alistair Russell, Daniel A. Smith:
  mSpace: improving information access to multimedia domains with multimodal exploratory search. 47-49
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  Edward Cutrell, Susan T. Dumais:
  Exploring personal information. 50-51
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  Edward A. Fox, Fernando Adrian Das Neves, Xiaoyan Yu, Rao Shen, Seonho Kim, Weiguo Fan:
  Exploring the computing literature with visualization and stepping stones & pathways. 52-58
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  Marti A. Hearst:
  Clustering versus faceted categories for information exploration. 59-61
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  John Gersh, Bessie Lewis, Jaime Montemayor, Christine D. Piatko, Russell Turner:
  Supporting insight-based information exploration in intelligence analysis. 63-68
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  Ben Shneiderman, Benjamin B. Bederson, Steven Mark Drucker:
  Find that photo!: interface strategies to annotate, browse, and share. 69-71
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  Bernard J. Jansen:
  Using temporal patterns of interactions to design effective automated searching assistance. 72-74

Articles

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  Jiexun Li, Rong Zheng, Hsinchun Chen:
  From fingerprint to writeprint. 76-82
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  Nenad Jukic:
  Modeling strategies and alternatives for data warehousing projects. 83-88
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  Andrea Ordanini:
  What drives market transactions in B2B exchanges? 89-93
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  Moshe Zviran, Dov Te'eni, Yuval Gross:
  Does color in email make a difference? 94-99
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  Rosario Vidal, Elena Mulet:
  Thinking about computer systems to support design synthesis. 100-104
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  Harvey G. Enns, Thomas W. Ferratt, Jayesh Prasad:
  Beyond stereotypes of IT professionals: implications for IT HR practices. 105-109

Technical opinion

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  Sang M. Lee, Choong Kwon Lee:
  IT managers' requisite skills. 111-114

Inside Risks

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  Lauren Weinstein:
  Fake ID: batteries not included. 120

Volume 49, Number 5, May 2006

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
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  News track. 9-10
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  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 15-16

Security watch

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  Rebecca T. Mercuri:
  Scoping identity theft. 17-21

Staying connected

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  Meg McGinity Shannon:
  Private lives. 23-26

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Revisiting my campaign statement. 27-30

Viewpoint

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  Thomas A. Easton:
  Beyond the algorithmization of the sciences. 31-33

Two decades of the language-action perspective

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  Hans Weigand:
  Introduction. 44-46
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  Peter J. Denning, Robert Dunham:
  Innovation as language action. 47-52
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  Göran Goldkuhl:
  Action and media in interorganizational interaction. 53-57
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  Jan L. G. Dietz:
  The deep structure of business processes. 58-64
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  Dov Te'eni:
  The language-action perspective as a basis for communication support systems. 65-70
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  Terry Winograd:
  Designing a new foundation for design. 71-74
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  Mareike Schoop, Aldo de Moor, Jan L. G. Dietz:
  The pragmatic web: a manifesto. 75-76

Articles

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  Dawn G. Gregg, Steven Walczak:
  Adaptive web information extraction. 78-84
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  Stephen J. Andriole:
  The collaborate/integrate business technology strategy. 85-90
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  Brian Whitworth, Jerry Fjermestad, Edward Mahinda:
  The web of system performance. 92-99
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  Hai Zhuge:
  Discovery of knowledge flow in science. 101-107
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  Brian Dobing, Jeffrey Parsons:
  How UML is used. 109-113
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  Pairin Katerattanakul, Bernard T. Han, Alan Rea:
  Is information systems a reference discipline? 114-118
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  William E. Spangler, Kathleen S. Hartzel, Mordechai Gal-Or:
  Exploring the privacy implications of addressable advertising and viewer profiling. 119-123

Technical opinion

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