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

Volume 49, Number 1, January 2006

• Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5-7
  

• News track. 9-10
  

• Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
  

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

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

• ACM annual report for FY05. 21-30
  

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

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

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

• Jaime Teevan, William Jones, Benjamin B. Bederson:
  Introduction. 40-43
  
• 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
  
• Wanda Pratt, Kenton T. Unruh, Andrea Civan, Meredith M. Skeels:
  Personal health information management. 51-55
  
• Clare-Marie Karat, Carolyn Brodie, John Karat:
  Usable privacy and security for personal information management. 56-57
  
• Edward Cutrell, Susan T. Dumais, Jaime Teevan:
  Searching to eliminate personal information management. 58-64
  
• Catherine C. Marshall, William Jones:
  Keeping encountered information. 66-67
  
• Steve Whittaker, Victoria Bellotti, Jacek Gwizdka:
  Email in personal information management. 68-73
  
• Thomas Erickson:
  From PIM to GIM: personal information management in group contexts. 74-75
  
• David R. Karger, William Jones:
  Data unification in personal information management. 77-82
  
• Diane Kelly:
  Evaluating personal information management behaviors and tools. 84-86
  

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

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

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

Volume 49, Number 2, February 2006

• Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
  

• News track. 9-10
  

• Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
  

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

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

• Pamela Samuelson:
  Regulating technical design. 25-30
  

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

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

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

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

• Brajendra Panda, Joseph Giordano, Daniel Kalil:
  Introduction. 44-47
  
• Eoghan Casey:
  Investigating sophisticated security breaches. 48-55
  
• Brian D. Carrier:
  Risks of live digital forensic analysis. 56-61
  
• Frank Adelstein:
  Live forensics: diagnosing your system without killing it first. 63-66
  
• The Common Digital Evidence Storage Format Working Group: Standardizing digital evidence storage. 67-68
  
• Chet Hosmer:
  Digital evidence bag. 69-70
  
• Sheldon Teelink, Robert F. Erbacher:
  Improving the computer forensic analysis process through visualization. 71-75
  
• Golden G. Richard III, Vassil Roussev:
  Next-generation digital forensics. 76-80
  
• Rahul Bhaskar:
  State and local law enforcement is not ready for a cyber Katrina. 81-83
  
• Simson L. Garfinkel:
  AFF: a new format for storing hard drive images. 85-87
  

• Ganesan Shankaranarayanan, Adir Even:
  The metadata enigma. 88-94
  
• Pak-Lok Poon, Amy H. L. Lau:
  The present B2C implementation framework. 96-103
  
• Jan Damsgaard, Mihir A. Parikh, Bharat Rao:
  Wireless commons perils in the common good. 104-109
  

• Student de-charter notice. 110
  

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

• Peter G. Neumann:
  Trustworthy systems revisited. 152
  

Volume 49, Number 3 , March 2006

• Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
  

• News track. 9-10
  

• Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
  

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

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

• 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. 25-26
  

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

• Jeannette M. Wing:
  Computational thinking. 33-35
  

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

• ACM fellows. 74-75
  

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

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

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

• Marc Rotenberg:
  Real id, real trouble? 128
  

Volume 49, Number 4 , April 2006

• Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
  

• News track. 9-10
  

• Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
  

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

• Hal Berghel:
  Phishing mongers and posers. 21-25
  

• Statewide databases of registered voters. 26-28
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Lauren Weinstein:
  Fake ID: batteries not included. 120
  

Volume 49, Number 5, May 2006

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

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

• Meg McGinity Shannon:
  Private lives. 23-26
  

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

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

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

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

• Stephen B. Jenkins:
  Musings of an "old-school" programmer. 124-126
  

• Peter G. Neumann, Lauren Weinstein:
  Risks of RFID. 136
  

Volume 49, Number 6, June 2006

• Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
  
• News track. 9-10
  
• Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
  

• David A. Patterson:
  Farewell address: the growing and graying of ACM. 15-18
  

• Phillip G. Armour:
  The learning edge. 19-22
  

• Ronald F. Boisvert, Mary Jane Irwin:
  Plagiarism on the rise. 23-24
  

• Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 25-26
  

• Pamela Samuelson:
  Copyrighting standards. 27-31
  

• Gregory J. Conti:
  Introduction. 32-36
  
• Tom Cross:
  Academic freedom and the hacker ethic. 37-40
  
• Stephen Bono, Aviel D. Rubin, Adam Stubblefield, Matthew Green:
  Security through legality. 41-43
  
• Joe Grand:
  Research lessons from hardware hacking. 44-49
  
• Bruce Potter:
  Wireless hotspots: petri dish of wireless security. 50-56
  
• Felix F. X. Lindner:
  Software security is software reliability. 57-61
  
• Dan Kaminsky:
  Explorations in namespace: white-hat hacking across the domain name system. 62-69
  

• Kallol Kumar Bagchi, Peeter Kirs, Robert Cerveny:
  Global software piracy: can economic factors alone explain the trend? 70-76
  
• Christopher L. Carr:
  Reciprocity: the golden rule of IS-user service relationship quality and cooperation. 77-83
  
• Timothy Paul Cronan, C. Bryan Foltz, Thomas W. Jones:
  Piracy, computer crime, and IS misuse at the university. 84-90
  
• David Kang, Roger Chiang:
  A systematic approach in managing post-deployment system changes. 91-96
  
• Bonnie Brinton Anderson, James V. Hansen, Paul Benjamin Lowry, Scott L. Summers:
  The application of model checking for securing e-commerce transactions. 97-101
  
• Barry Shore:
  Enterprise integration across the globally disbursed service organization. 102-106
  

• Thomas W. Jackson, Anthony Burgess, Janet Edwards:
  A simple approach to improving email communication. 107-109
  

• Robert N. Charette:
  EHRs: Electronic Health Records or Exceptional Hidden Risks? 120
  

Volume 49, Number 7, July 2006

• Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
  
• News track. 9-10
  
• Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
  
• Diane Crawford:
  ACM's 2006 general elections. 13
  

• Peter J. Denning:
  Infoglut. 15-19
  

• Michael A. Cusumano:
  What road ahead for Microsoft and Windows? 21-23
  

• Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 25-26
  

• Peter Wegner, Dina Q. Goldin:
  Principles of problem solving. 27-29
  

• Jim Spohrer, Doug Riecken:
  Introduction. 30-32
  
• Henry Chesbrough, Jim Spohrer:
  A research manifesto for services science. 35-40
  
• Jerry R. Sheehan:
  Understanding service sector innovation. 42-47
  
• John Zysman:
  The algorithmic revolution---the fourth service transformation. 48
  
• Roland T. Rust, Carol Miu:
  What academic research tells us about service. 49-54
  
• Amit P. Sheth, Kunal Verma, Karthik Gomadam:
  Semantics to energize the full services spectrum. 55-61
  
• Brenda Dietrich:
  Resource planning for business services. 62-64
  
• William B. Rouse, Marietta L. Baba:
  Enterprise transformation. 66-72
  
• Mary Jo Bitner, Stephen W. Brown:
  The evolution and discovery of services science in business schools. 73-78
  
• Walter Ganz:
  Germany: service engineering. 79
  
• Christof Weinhardt, Dirk Neumann, Carsten Holtmann:
  Germany: computer-aided market engineering. 79
  
• Paul P. Maglio, Savitha Srinivasan, Jeffrey T. Kreulen, Jim Spohrer:
  Service systems, service scientists, SSME, and innovation. 81-85
  
• Stuart I. Feldman, Krishna S. Nathan, Thomas Li, Kazuyoshi Hidaka, Corinna Schulze:
  The Clarion Call for modern services: China, Japan, Europe, and the U.S. 86-87
  

• David E. Avison, Shirley Gregor, David Wilson:
  Managerial IT unconsciousness. 88-93
  
• Lance J. Hoffman, Kim Lawson-Jenkins, Jeremy J. Blum:
  Trust beyond security: an expanded trust model. 94-101
  
• Ernst Bekkering, J. P. Shim:
  Trust in videoconferencing. 103-107
  
• Narasimha Bolloju, Felix S. K. Leung:
  Assisting novice analysts in developing quality conceptual models with UML. 108-112
  

• Fred Martin:
  Toy projects considered harmful. 113-116
  

• Peter G. Neumann:
  Risks relating to system compositions. 120
  

Volume 49, Number 8, August 2006

• Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
  
• News track. 9-10
  
• Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
  

• Robert L. Glass:
  The Standish report: does it really describe a software crisis? 15-16
  

• Hal Berghel, David Hoelzer:
  Disk wiping by any other name. 17-21
  

• Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 23-24
  

• Dan B. Goldman:
  Blockbusters and blackboards. 25-27
  

• Bryan Pardo:
  Introduction. 28-31
  
• Daniel P. W. Ellis:
  Extracting information from music audio. 32-37
  
• Roger B. Dannenberg, Christopher Raphael:
  Music score alignment and computer accompaniment. 38-43
  
• Avery Wang:
  The Shazam music recognition service. 44-48
  
• William P. Birmingham, Roger B. Dannenberg, Bryan Pardo:
  Query by humming with the VocalSearch system. 49-52
  
• Jon W. Dunn, Donald Byrd, Mark Notess, Jenn Riley, Ryan Scherle:
  Variations2: retrieving and using music in an academic setting. 53-58
  

• Alexander P. Pons:
  Biometric marketing: targeting the online consumer. 60-66
  
• Václav Rajlich:
  Changing the paradigm of software engineering. 67-70
  
• G. Daryl Nord, Tipton F. McCubbins, Jeretta Horn Nord:
  E-monitoring in the workplace: privacy, legislation, and surveillance software. 72-77
  
• J. Drew Procaccino, June M. Verner, Steven J. Lorenzet:
  Defining and contributing to software development success. 79-83
  
• Eugenia Y. Huang:
  Tightening access policy: the hidden trade-off. 85-89
  
• Charlie McDowell, Linda L. Werner, Heather E. Bullock, Julian Fernald:
  Pair programming improves student retention, confidence, and program quality. 90-95
  

• Mikko T. Siponen:
  Information security standards focus on the existence of process, not its content. 97-100
  

• Deirdre K. Mulligan, Ari Schwartz, Indrani Mondal:
  Risks of online storage. 112
  

Volume 49, Number 9, September 2006

• Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
  
• News track. 9-10
  
• Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
  

• Phillip G. Armour:
  Software: hard data. 15-17
  

• Meg McGinity Shannon:
  Home turf. 19-21
  

• Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 Downloads from ACM's Digital Library. 23-24
  

• Dennis Adams:
  Wireless laptops in the classroom (and the Sesame Street syndrome). 25-27
  

• Günter Müller:
  Introduction. 28-31
  
• Stefan Sackmann, Jens Strüker, Rafael Accorsi:
  Personalization in privacy-aware highly dynamic systems. 32-38
  
• Alexander Pretschner, Manuel Hilty, David A. Basin:
  Distributed usage control. 39-44
  
• Arvind Seshadri, Mark Luk, Adrian Perrig, Leendert van Doorn, Pradeep K. Khosla:
  Externally verifiable code execution. 45-49
  
• Johannes Buchmann, Alexander May, Ulrich Vollmer:
  Perspectives for cryptographic long-term security. 50-55
  
• Brian Subirana, Malcolm Bain:
  Legal programming. 57-62
  

• Mark D. Hill, Jean-Luc Gaudiot, Mary W. Hall, Joe Marks, Paolo Prinetto, Donna Baglio:
  A Wiki for discussing and promoting best practices in research. 63-64
  - link: wiki.acm.org/healthcc
• Gio Wiederhold:
  What is your software worth? 65-75
  
• Weiguo Fan, Linda Wallace, Stephanie Rich, Zhongju Zhang:
  Tapping the power of text mining. 76-82
  
• Marc Stiegler, Alan H. Karp, Ka-Ping Yee, Tyler Close, Mark S. Miller:
  Polaris: virus-safe computing for Windows XP. 83-88
  
• Se-Joon Hong, Kar Yan Tam, Jinwoo Kim:
  Mobile data service fuels the desire for uniqueness. 89-94
  
• Bongsug Chae, Roger McHaney:
  Asian trio's adoption of Linux-based open source development. 95-99
  

• Peter G. Neumann:
  The foresight saga. 112
  

Volume 49, Number 10, October 2006

• Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
  
• News track. 9-10
  
• Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
  

• Michael A. Cusumano:
  Envisioning the future of India's software services business. 15-17
  

• Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
  

• Pamela Samuelson:
  IBM's pragmatic embrace of open source. 21-25
  

• Pär J. Ågerfalk, Brian Fitzgerald:
  Introduction. 26-34
  
• Gwanhoo Lee, William H. DeLone, J. Alberto Espinosa:
  Ambidextrous coping strategies in globally distributed software development projects. 35-40
  
• Balasubramaniam Ramesh, Lan Cao, Kannan Mohan, Peng Xu:
  Can distributed software development be agile? 41-46
  
• One-Ki Daniel Lee, Probir Banerjee, Kai H. Lim, Kuldeep Kumar, Jos van Hillegersberg, Kwok Kee Wei:
  Aligning IT components to achieve agility in globally distributed system development. 48-54
  
• Patrick Wagstrom, James D. Herbsleb:
  Dependency forecasting in the distributed agile organization. 55-56
  
• Nick V. Flor:
  Globally distributed software development and pair programming. 57-58
  

• Jiming Liu, Kwok Ching Tsui:
  Toward nature-inspired computing. 59-64
  
• Ray Giguette:
  Building objects out of Plato: applying philosophy, symbolism, and analogy to software design. 66-71
  
• Casey G. Cegielski, Dianne Hall:
  What makes a good programmer? 73-75
  
• Tamara Dinev:
  Why spoofing is serious internet fraud. 76-82
  
• Il-Horn Hann, Kai Lung Hui, Yee-Lin Lai, Sang-Yong Tom Lee, Ivan P. L. Png:
  Who gets spammed? 83-87
  
• Pratyush Bharati, Abhijit Chaudhury:
  Studying the current status of technology adoption. 88-93
  

• Steven M. Bellovin:
  Virtual machines, virtual security? 104
  

Volume 49, Number 11, November 2006

• Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
  
• News track. 9-10
  
• Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 19-20
  

• Robert L. Glass:
  Looking into the challenges of complex IT projects. 15-17
  

• Peter J. Denning, Frederick Hayes-Roth:
  Decision making in very large networks. 19-23
  

• Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's Digital Library. 25-26
  

• Christof Teuscher:
  Biologically uninspired computer science. 27-29
  

• Cormac J. Sreenan, Jacobus E. van der Merwe:
  Introduction. 30-33
  
• Kuan-Ta Chen, Polly Huang, Chin-Laung Lei:
  How sensitive are online gamers to network quality? 34-38
  
• Mark Claypool, Kajal T. Claypool:
  Latency and player actions in online games. 40-45
  
• Jeremy Brun, Farzad Safaei, Paul Boustead:
  Managing latency and fairness in networked games. 46-51
  
• Zefir Kurtisi, Xiaoyuan Gu, Lars C. Wolf:
  Enabling network-centric music performance in wide-area networks. 52-54
  
• Reza Rejaie:
  Anyone can broadcast video over the internet. 55-57
  
• Verena Kahmann, Jens Brandt, Lars C. Wolf:
  Collaborative streaming in heterogeneous and dynamic scenarios. 58-63
  

• Dijiang Huang, Qing Cao, Amit Sinha, Marc J. Schniederjans, Cory C. Beard, Lein Harn, Deep Medhi:
  New architecture for intra-domain network security issues. 64-72
  
• Hazel Taylor:
  Critical risks in outsourced IT projects: the intractable and the unforeseen. 74-79
  
• Dinah Payne, Brett J. L. Landry:
  A uniform code of ethics: business and IT professional ethics. 81-84
  
• Arun Sen, Peter A. Dacin, Christos Pattichis:
  Current trends in web data analysis. 85-91
  

• Rebecca T. Mercuri, Vincent J. Lipsio, Beth Feehan:
  COTS and other electronic voting backdoors. 112
  

Volume 49, Number 12, December 2006

• Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5
  
• News track. 9-10
  
• Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13
  

• Hal Berghel:
  Fungible credentials and next-generation fraud. 15-19
  

• ACM honors distinguished members for contributions to computing. 20-21
  

• Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 23-24
  

• Douglas S. Blank:
  Robots make computer science personal. 25-27
  

• Vijayan Sugumaran, Sooyong Park, Kyo Chul Kang:
  Introduction. 28-32
  
• Paul C. Clements, Lawrence G. Jones, John D. McGregor, Linda M. Northrop:
  Getting there from here: a roadmap for software product line adoption. 33-36
  
• Charles W. Krueger:
  New methods in software product line practice. 37-40
  
• Jan Bosch:
  The challenges of broadening the scope of software product families. 41-44
  
• Don S. Batory, David Benavides, Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
  Automated analysis of feature models: challenges ahead. 45-47
  
• Magnus Eriksson, Jürgen Börstler, Kjell Borg:
  Software product line modeling made practical. 49-54
  
• Jaejoon Lee, Dirk Muthig:
  Feature-oriented variability management in product line engineering. 55-59
  
• Krzysztof Czarnecki, Michal Antkiewicz, Chang Hwan Peter Kim:
  Multi-level customization in application engineering. 60-65
  
• Andreas Helferich, Klaus Schmid, Georg Herzwurm:
  Product management for software product lines: an unsolved problem? 66-67
  
• Kannan Mohan, Balasubramaniam Ramesh:
  Change management patterns in software product lines. 68-72
  
• Tomoji Kishi, Natsuko Noda:
  Formal verification and software product lines. 73-77
  
• Klaus Pohl, Andreas Metzger:
  Software product line testing. 78-81
  
• Joaquín Peña, Michael G. Hinchey, Antonio Ruiz Cortés:
  Multi-agent system product lines: challenges and benefits. 82-84
  
• Hoh Peter In, Jongmoon Baik, Sangsoo Kim, Ye Yang, Barry W. Boehm:
  A quality-based cost estimation model for the product line life cycle. 85-88
  

• Ian Angell, Jan Kietzmann:
  RFID and the end of cash? 90-96
  
• Zakaria Maamar, Djamal Benslimane, Nanjangud C. Narendra:
  What can context do for web services? 98-103
  
• Martin Bichler, Jayant Kalagnanam:
  Software frameworks for advanced procurement auction markets. 104-108
  
• Ali R. Montazemi:
  How they manage IT: SMEs in Canada and the U.S. 109-112
  

• France Belanger, Weiguo Fan, L. Christian Schaupp, Anjala S. Krishen, Jeannine Everhart, David Poteet, Kent Nakamoto:
  Web site success metrics: addressing the duality of goals. 114-116
  

• Wilhelm Hasselbring, Matthias Rohr, Jürgen Taeger, Daniel Winteler:
  Liability risks in reusing third-party software. 144