Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 48, 2005

Volume 48, Number 1, January 2005

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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

The business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  The unconscious art of software testing. 15-18

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 19-20

Staying connected

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  Meg McGinity:
  Let your fingers do the talking. 21-23

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Minority-minority and minority-majority technology transfer. 25-26

Viewpoint

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  Deborah Anderson:
  Global linguistic diversity for the internet. 27-28
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  Chris Stephenson:
  Creating a national K-12 computer science community. 29-31

Interaction design and children

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  Allison Druin, Juan Pablo Hourcade:
  Introduction. 32-34
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  David Kestenbaum:
  The challenges of IDC: what have we learned from our past? 35-38
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  Mona Leigh Guha, Allison Druin, Gene Chipman, Jerry Alan Fails, Sante Simms, Allison Farber:
  Working with young children as technology design partners. 39-42
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  Johanna Höysniemi, Perttu Hämäläinen, Laura Turkki, Teppo Rouvi:
  Children's intuitive gestures in vision-based action games. 44-50
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  Michael Eisenberg:
  The material side of educational technology. 51-54
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  Yvonne Rogers, Sara Price, Cliff Randell, Danae Stanton Fraser, Mark J. Weal, Geraldine Fitzpatrick:
  Ubi-learning integrates indoor and outdoor experiences. 55-59
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  Judy Robertson, Judith Good:
  Story creation in virtual game worlds. 61-65
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  RadhaKanta Mahapatra, Vincent S. Lai:
  Evaluating end-user training programs. 66-70
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  Andreas Holzinger:
  Usability engineering methods for software developers. 71-74
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  John Tillquist, Waymond Rodgers:
  Using asset specificity and asset scope to measure the value of IT. 75-80
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  Rodrigo C. Fonseca, Virgílio A. F. Almeida, Mark Crovella:
  Locality in a web of streams. 82-88
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  Ganesh Vaidyanathan:
  A framework for evaluating third-party logistics. 89-94
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  Michael Ettredge, John Gerdes Jr.:
  Timeliness of investor relations data at corporate web sites. 95-100
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  Ines Herrero, Jose L. Salmeron:
  Using the DEA methodology to rank software technical efficiency. 101-105

Technical opinion

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  Stuart J. Barnes:
  Assessing the value of IS journals. 110-112

Inside risks

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  George Ledin Jr.:
  Not teaching viruses and worms is harmful. 144

Volume 48, Number 2, February 2005

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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

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Why join ACM? 14

Technology strategy and management

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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  Google: what it is and what it is not. 15-17

Viewpoint

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  Jon Crowcroft:
  On the nature of computing. 19-20

SIGs elections

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  SIGs announce candidates for election. 21-22

Hot links

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

Medical image modeling tools and applications

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  Dimitris N. Metaxas:
  Introduction. 26-29
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  Hervé Delingette, Nicholas Ayache:
  Hepatic surgery simulation. 31-36
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  Arie E. Kaufman, Sarang Lakare, Kevin Kreeger, Ingmar Bitter:
  Virtual colonoscopy. 37-41
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  Kyoungju Park, Albert Montillo, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Leon Axel:
  Volumetric heart modeling and analysis. 43-48
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  Celina Imielinska, Pat Molholt:
  Incorporating 3D virtual anatomy into the medical curriculum. 49-54
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  Terry S. Yoo, Michael J. Ackerman:
  Open source software for medical image processing and visualization. 55-59
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  Notice of intent to de-charter professional chapters. 61-62
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  Notice of intent to de-charter student chapters. 63-65
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  J. Roberto Evaristo, Kevin C. Desouza, Kevin Hollister:
  Centralization momentum: the pendulum swings back again. 66-71
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  Al Farooq Salam, Lakshmi S. Iyer, Prashant Palvia, Rahul Singh:
  Trust in e-commerce. 72-77
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  Lawrence Bodin, Lawrence A. Gordon, Martin P. Loeb:
  Evaluating information security investments using the analytic hierarchy process. 78-83
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  Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Keng Siau, Hong Sheng:
  The value of mobile applications: a utility company study. 85-90
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  R. Kelly Rainer Jr., Mark D. Miller:
  Examining differences across journal rankings. 91-94
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  Yufei Yuan, Brian Detlor:
  Intelligent mobile crisis response systems. 95-98

Technical opinion

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  Chenglie Hu:
  Dataless objects considered harmful. 99-101
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  Shirley Ann Becker:
  E-government usability for older adults. 102-104

Inside risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Responsibilities of technologists. 128

Volume 48, Number 3, March 2005

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

ACM Fellows

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  ACM Fellows. 14

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  20^th century vs. 21^st century C&C: the SPUR manifesto. 15-16

The business of software

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  Phillip G. Armour:
  Project portfolios: organizational management of risk. 17-20

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 21-22

Viewpoint

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  Gregory J. Conti:
  Why computer scientists should attend hacker conferences. 23-24

Practical programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  The first business application: a significant milestone in software history. 25-26

Legally speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Legislative challenges to the Sony safe harbor rule. 27-31

The disappearing computer

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  Norbert A. Streitz, Paddy Nixon:
  Introduction. 32-35
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  Gaetano Borriello, Matthew Chalmers, Anthony LaMarca, Paddy Nixon:
  Delivering real-world ubiquitous location systems. 36-41
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  Daniel M. Russell, Norbert A. Streitz, Terry Winograd:
  Building disappearing computers. 42-48
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  Joëlle Coutaz, James L. Crowley, Simon Dobson, David Garlan:
  Context is key. 49-53
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  Steve Benford, Carsten Magerkurth, Peter Ljungstrand:
  Bridging the physical and digital in pervasive gaming. 54-57
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  Saadi Lahlou, Marc Langheinrich, Carsten Röcker:
  Privacy and trust issues with invisible computers. 59-60
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  Liam J. Bannon, Steve Benford, John Bowers, Christian Heath:
  Hybrid design creates innovative museum experiences. 62-65
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  Hans Gellersen:
  Smart-Its: computers for artifacts in the physical world. 66
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  Spyros Lalis, Alexandros Karypidis, Anthony Savidis:
  Ad-hoc composition in wearable and mobile computing. 67-68
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  Achilles Kameas, Irene Mavrommati:
  Extrovert gadgets. 69
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  Joseph A. Paradiso:
  Sensate media. 70
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  Anatole Gershman, Andrew E. Fano:
  Examples of commercial applications of ubiquitous computing. 71
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  Jacques Cohen:
  Computer science and bioinformatics. 72-78
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  Arun Sen, Atish P. Sinha:
  A comparison of data warehousing methodologies. 79-84

SIGs elections

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  SIGs announce candidates for election. 85
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  Trevor T. Moores:
  Do consumers understand the role of privacy seals in e-commerce? 86-91
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  Bonnie Rubenstein-Montano, Victoria Y. Yoon, Stuart Lowry, Teresa Merlau:
  A multiagent system for U.S. defense research contracting. 93-97
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  William L. Hibbard, Curtis Rueden, Steve Emmerson, Tom Rink, David Glowacki, Tom Whittaker, Don Murray, David Fulker, John Anderson:
  Java distributed components for numerical visualization in VisAD. 98-104
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  Ji-Ye Mao, Karel Vredenburg, Paul W. Smith, Tom T. Carey:
  The state of user-centered design practice. 105-109
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  Xiaoni Zhang, Victor R. Prybutok:
  How the mobile communication markets differ in China, the U.S., and Europe. 111-114

Technical opinion

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  Marco Gori, Ian H. Witten:
  The bubble of web visibility. 115-117

Inside risks

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  Peter G. Neumann:
  Anticipating disasters. 128

Volume 48, Number 4, April 2005

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

Digital village

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  Hal Berghel:
  The two sides of ROI: return on investment vs. risk of incarceration. 15-20

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  The state of funding for new initiatives in computer science and engineering. 21-25

The profession of IT

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  Peter J. Denning:
  Is computer science science? 27-31

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 33-34

Viewpoint

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  Richard P. Suttmeier:
  A new technonationalism?: China and the development of technical standards. 35-37
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  Vinton G. Cerf:
  Spam, spim, and spit. 39-43

Transforming China

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  Maris G. Martinsons:
  Introduction. 44-48
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  Jonathan J. H. Zhu, Enhai Wang:
  Diffusion, use, and effect of the internet in China. 49-53
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  Xunhua Guo, Guoqing Chen:
  Internet diffusion in Chinese companies. 54-58
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  Maris G. Martinsons:
  The internet enlightens and empowers Chinese society. 59-60
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  Robert M. Davison, Douglas R. Vogel, Roger W. Harris:
  The e-transformation of western China. 62-67
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  Jing Quan, Qing Hu, Xinan Wang:
  IT is not for everyone in China. 69-72
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  Glen R. Burrows, Damon L. Drummond, Maris G. Martinsons:
  Knowledge management in China. 73-76
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  Qiang Tu, Kanliang Wang, Qin Shu:
  Computer-related technostress in China. 77-81
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  Charalambos L. Iacovou, Albert S. Dexter:
  Surviving IT project cancellations. 83-86
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  Christian S. Collberg, Stephen G. Kobourov:
  Self-plagiarism in computer science. 88-94
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  Ellen Christiaanse:
  Performance benefits through integration hubs. 95-100
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  Bettina Berendt, Oliver Günther, Sarah Spiekermann:
  Privacy in e-commerce: stated preferences vs. actual behavior. 101-106
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  Dursun Delen, Nikunj P. Dalal, Perakath C. Benjamin:
  Integrated modeling: the key to holistic understanding of the enterprise. 107-112
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  Kay Chen Tan, Mingliang Wang, Wei Peng:
  A P2P genetic algorithm environment for the internet. 113-116

Technical opinion

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  Hai Zhuge:
  Semantic grid: scientific issues, infrastructure, and methodology. 117-119

Inside risks

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  Bruce Schneier:
  Two-factor authentication: too little, too late. 136

Volume 48, Number 5, May 2005

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

Security watch

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  Rebecca T. Mercuri:
  Trusting in transparency. 15-19

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 21-22

Staying connected

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  Meg McGinity Shannon:
  It's the FCC on the line. 23-26

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Recognizing individual excellence helps us all. 27-28

Viewpoint

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  Satish Nambisan:
  How to prepare tomorrow's technologists for global networks of innovation. 29-31

Adaptive complex enterprises

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  Anand Desai:
  Introduction. 32-35
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  Joseph K. Tan, H. Joseph Wen, Neveen Awad:
  Health care and services delivery systems as complex adaptive systems. 36-44
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  Albert T. Jones, Abhijit Deshmukh:
  Test beds for complex systems. 45-50
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  Jay Ramanathan:
  Fractal architecture for the adaptive complex enterprise. 51-57
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  Rajiv Ramnath, David Landsbergen:
  IT-enabled sense-and-respond strategies in complex public organizations. 58-64

Articles

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  Ashley A. Bush, Amrit Tiwana:
  Designing sticky knowledge networks. 66-71
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  Sridhar P. Nerur, RadhaKanta Mahapatra, George Mangalaraj:
  Challenges of migrating to agile methodologies. 72-78
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  Vincent S. Lai, Bo K. Wong:
  Business types, e-strategies, and performance. 80-85
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  Suzanne D. Pawlowski, Pratim Datta, Andrea L. Houston:
  The (gradually) changing face of state IT jobs. 87-91
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  Kenneth R. Fleischmann, William A. Wallace:
  A covenant with transparency: opening the black box of models. 93-97
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  Alex Potanin, James Noble, Marcus R. Frean, Robert Biddle:
  Scale-free geometry in OO programs. 99-103
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  Baihua Zheng, Dik Lun Lee:
  Information dissemination via wireless broadcast. 105-110
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  Serge Abiteboul, Rakesh Agrawal, Philip A. Bernstein, Michael J. Carey, Stefano Ceri, W. Bruce Croft, David J. DeWitt, Michael J. Franklin, Hector Garcia-Molina, Dieter Gawlick, Jim Gray, Laura M. Haas, Alon Y. Halevy, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Yannis E. Ioannidis, Martin L. Kersten, Michael J. Pazzani, Michael Lesk, David Maier, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Hans-Jörg Schek, Timos K. Sellis, Avi Silberschatz, Michael Stonebraker, Richard T. Snodgrass, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Gerhard Weikum, Jennifer Widom, Stanley B. Zdonik:
  The Lowell database research self-assessment. 111-118

Technical opinion

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  Ben Light:
  Potential pitfalls in packaged software adoption. 119-121

Inside risks

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  Bruce Schneier:
  Risks of third-party data. 136

Volume 48, Number 6, June 2005

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:
  Sarbanes-Oxley and software projects. 15-17

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 19-20

Legally speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  The Supreme Court revisits the Sony safe harbor. 21-25

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Do you Queue? 27-28

Viewpoint

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  Jacques Cohen:
  Updating computer science education. 29-31

3d hard copy

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  Andrew Rosenbloom:
  Introduction. 32-35
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  Paul K. Wright:
  Rapid prototyping in consumer product design. 36-41
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  Mike Bailey:
  Layered manufacturing for scientific visualization. 42-48
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  Sara McMains:
  Layered manufacturing technologies. 50-56
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  Thomas A. Funkhouser, Michael M. Kazhdan, Patrick Min, Philip Shilane:
  Shape-based retrieval and analysis of 3d models. 58-64
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  Carlo H. Séquin:
  Rapid prototyping: a 3d visualization tool takes on sculpture and mathematical forms. 66-73
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  David Koller, Marc Levoy:
  Protecting 3d graphics content. 74-80

Articles

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  U. N. Umesh, Minh Q. Huynh, Leonard M. Jessup:
  Creating successful entrepreneurial ventures in IT. 82-87
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  Jo Ellen Moore, Mary Sue Love:
  IT professionals as organizational citizens. 88-93
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  James A. McHugh, Fadi P. Deek:
  An incentive system for reducing malware attacks. 94-99
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  Jennifer Jie Xu, Hsinchun Chen:
  Criminal network analysis and visualization. 100-107
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  Rahul Singh, Al Farooq Salam, Lakshmi S. Iyer:
  Agents in e-supply chains. 108-115
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  Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah, Keng Siau, Yuhong Tian:
  Knowledge management mechanisms of financial service sites. 117-123
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  Tapas Kanungo, Philip Resnik, Song Mao, Doe-Wan Kim, Qigong Zheng:
  The Bible and multilingual optical character recognition. 124-130

Technical opinion

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  Younghwa Lee:
  The CAN-SPAM Act: a silver bullet solution? 131-132

Inside risks

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  Susan Landau:
  What lessons are we teaching? 144

Volume 48, Number 7, July 2005

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

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Reflections on a programming Olympiad. 15-16

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 17-18

The profession of IT

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  Peter J. Denning:
  The locality principle. 19-24

Technology strategy and management

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  Michael A. Cusumano:
  The puzzle of Japanese software. 25-27

Viewpoint

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  Naomi S. Baron:
  Instant messaging and the future of language. 29-31

Designing for the mobile device: experiences, challenges, and methods

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  Karen Holtzblatt:
  Introduction. 32-35
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  Jan Blom, Jan Chipchase, Jaakko Lehikoinen:
  Contextual and cultural challenges for user mobility research. 37-41
• 
  Colleen Page:
  Mobile research strategies for a global market. 42-48
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  T. S. Balaji, Brian Landers, Jesse Kates, Bob Moritz:
  A carrier's perspective on creating a mobile multimedia service. 49-53
• 
  Eeva Kangas, Timo Kinnunen:
  Applying user-centered design to mobile application development. 55-59
• 
  David B. Rondeau:
  For mobile applications, branding is experience. 61-66

Articles

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  Barbara P. Heath, David J. McArthur, Marilyn McClelland, Ronald J. Vetter:
  Metadata lessons from the iLumina digital library. 68-74
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  Gun A. Lee, Gerard Jounghyun Kim, Mark Billinghurst:
  Immersive authoring: What You eXperience Is What You Get (WYXIWYG). 76-81
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  Dennis F. Galletta, Alexandra Durcikova, Andrea Everard, Brian M. Jones:
  Does spell-checking software need a warning label? 82-86
• 
  James J. Cappel, Victor R. Prybutok, Benny Varghese:
  A closer look at attention to detail. 87-92
• 
  Mike Thelwall:
  Scientific web intelligence: finding relationships in university webs. 93-96
• 
  Rudy Hirschheim:
  The internet-based education bandwagon: look before you leap. 97-101

Technical opinion

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  Robert Davis, David Yung:
  Understanding the interactivity between television and mobile commerce. 103-105

Inside risks

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  Edward W. Felten:
  DRM and public policy. 112

Volume 48, Number 8, August 2005

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

Practical programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  "Silver bullet" milestones in software history. 15-18

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 19-20

Digital village

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  Hal Berghel, Jacob Uecker:
  WiFi attack vectors. 21-28

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Does ACM support matter to conferences or journals? 29-30

Viewpoint

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  Sanjeev Arora, Bernard Chazelle:
  Is the thrill gone? 31-33

Spyware

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  Thomas F. Stafford:
  Introduction. 34-36
• 
  Steve Gibson:
  Spyware was inevitable. 37-39
• 
  Roger Thompson:
  Why spyware poses multiple threats to security. 41-43
• 
  Xiaoni Zhang:
  What do consumers really know about spyware? 44-48
• 
  Lee A. Freeman, Andrew Urbaczewski:
  Why do people hate spyware? 50-53
• 
  Neveen Farag Awad, Kristina Fitzgerald:
  The deceptive behaviors that offend us most about spyware. 55-60
• 
  Qing Hu, Tamara Dinev:
  Is spyware an Internet nuisance or public menace? 61-66
• 
  Mark B. Schmidt, Kirk P. Arnett:
  Spyware: a little knowledge is a wonderful thing. 67-70
• 
  Younghwa Lee, Kenneth A. Kozar:
  Investigating factors affecting the adoption of anti-spyware systems. 72-77
• 
  Merrill Warkentin, Xin (Robert) Luo, Gary F. Templeton:
  A framework for spyware assessment. 79-84
• 
  Sudhindra Shukla, Fiona Fui-Hoon Nah:
  Web browsing and spyware intrusion. 85-90
• 
  Kirk P. Arnett, Mark B. Schmidt:
  Busting the ghost in the machine. 92-95
• 
  Robin S. Poston, Thomas F. Stafford, Amy Hennington:
  Spyware: a view from the (online) street. 96-99

Articles

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  Indranil Bose, Raktim Pal:
  Auto-ID: managing anything, anywhere, anytime in the supply chain. 100-106
• 
  Yihua Philip Sheng, Peter P. Mykytyn Jr., Charles R. Litecky:
  Competitor analysis and its defenses in the e-marketplace. 107-112
• 
  Casey G. Cegielski, Brian J. Reithel, Carl M. Rebman:
  Emerging information technologies: developing a timely IT strategy. 113-117
• 
  Gregory W. Bond:
  Software as art. 118-124
• 
  Don Hardaway:
  Sharing research in the 21st century: borrowing a page from open source software. 125-128
• 
  Jeanette Nasem Morgan:
  Why the software industry needs a good ghostbuster. 129-133

Technical opinion

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  Harry L. Reif, Michel Mitri:
  How university professors teach project management for information systems. 134-136

Inside risks

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  Peter G. Neumann, Michael D. Byrne:
  Disability-related risks. 144

Volume 48, Number 9, September 2005

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:
  To plan, two plans. 15-19

Staying connected

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  Meg McGinity Shannon:
  Nanotechnology's shadow. 21-23

President's letter

• 
  David A. Patterson:
  Restoring the popularity of computer science. 25-28

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 29-30

Viewpoint

• 
  Frank Stajano:
  RFID is x-ray vision. 31-33

RFID: tagging the world

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  Gaetano Borriello:
  Introduction. 34-37
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  Joshua R. Smith, Kenneth P. Fishkin, Bing Jiang, Alexander V. Mamishev, Matthai Philipose, Adam D. Rea, Sumit Roy, Kishore Sundara-Rajan:
  RFID-based techniques for human-activity detection. 39-44
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  Ramesh Raskar, Paul A. Beardsley, Paul H. Dietz, Jeroen van Baar:
  Photosensing wireless tags for geometric procedures. 46-51
• 
  Trevor Pering, Rafael Ballagas, Roy Want:
  Spontaneous marriages of mobile devices and interactive spaces. 53-59
• 
  Sherry Hsi, Holly Fait:
  RFID enhances visitors' museum experience at the Exploratorium. 60-65
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  Miyako Ohkubo, Koutarou Suzuki, Shingo Kinoshita:
  RFID privacy issues and technical challenges. 66-71
• 
  Oliver Günther, Sarah Spiekermann:
  RFID and the perception of control: the consumer's view. 73-76
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  Bruce Eckfeldt:
  What does RFID do for the consumer? 77-79

Articles

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  Rajiv C. Shah, Jay P. Kesan:
  Nurturing software. 80-85
• 
  James Backhouse, Carol Hsu, Jimmy C. Tseng, John Baptista:
  A question of trust. 87-91
• 
  Zhenhui Jiang, Weiquan Wang, Izak Benbasat:
  Multimedia-based interactive advising technology for online consumer decision support. 92-98
• 
  Charles A. Wood, Terence T. Ow:
  WEBVIEW: an SQL extension for joining corporate data to data derived from the web. 99-104
• 
  Ping Zhang, Na Li:
  The importance of affective quality. 105-108
• 
  Hai Zhuge:
  Exploring an epidemic in an e-science environment. 109-114
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  Deborah K. Smith, Trevor T. Moores, Jerry Cha-Jan Chang:
  Prepare your mind for learning. 115-118

Technical opinion

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  G. Anthony Gorry:
  As simple as possible, but not simpler. 119-122

Inside risks

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  Barbara B. Simons, Jim Horning:
  Risks of technology-oblivious policy. 136

Volume 48, Number 10, October 2005

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

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  The new Professional Development Centre boasts 1, 000 courses, O'Reilly Books, and CS classics. 15-16

Hot links

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  Diane Crawford:
  Top 10 downloads from ACM's digital library. 17-18

Legally speaking

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  Pamela Samuelson:
  Did MGM really win the Grokster case? 19-24

Technology strategy and management

• 
  Michael A. Cusumano:
  Software in Ireland: a balance of entrepreneurship and ... lifestyle management? 25-27

Viewpoint

• 
  Kenneth A. Ross:
  Academic dishonesty and the Internet. 29-31

The digital society

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  Abbe Mowshowitz, Murray Turoff:
  Introduction. 32-35
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  Edward N. Wolff:
  The growth of information workers in the U.S. economy. 37-42
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  Sara J. Czaja, Starr Roxanne Hiltz:
  Digital aids for an aging society. 43-44
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  Elia T. Zureik, Abbe Mowshowitz:
  Consumer power in the digital society. 46-51
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  Barry Wellman:
  Community: from neighborhood to network. 53-55
• 
  Eli M. Noam:
  Why the Internet is bad for democracy. 57-58
• 
  Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Murray Turoff:
  Education goes digital: the evolution of online learning and the revolution in higher education. 59-64
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  Hal R. Varian:
  Universal access to information. 65-66
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  Peter G. Goldschmidt:
  HIT and MIS: implications of health information technology and medical information systems. 68-74

Articles

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  Yong Jin Kim, Rajiv Kishore, G. Lawrence Sanders:
  From DQ to EQ: understanding data quality in the context of e-business systems. 75-81
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  Gediminas Adomavicius, Alexander Tuzhilin:
  Personalization technologies: a process-oriented perspective. 83-90
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  Bipin Prabhakar, Charles R. Litecky, Kirk P. Arnett:
  IT skills in a tough job market. 91-94
• 
  Dragomir R. Radev, Jahna Otterbacher, Adam Winkel, Sasha Blair-Goldensohn:
  NewsInEssence: summarizing online news topics. 95-98
• 
  Sang M. Lee, Xin Tan, Silvana Trimi:
  Current practices of leading e-government countries. 99-104
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  Arvind Malhotra, Albert H. Segars:
  Investigating wireless web adoption patterns in the U.S. 105-110

Technical opinion

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  Alan R. Peslak:
  The educational productivity paradox. 111-114

Inside risks

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  Lauren Weinstein:
  The best-laid plans: a cautionary tale for developers. 128

Volume 48, Number 11, November 2005

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5

News track

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  News track. 9-10

Forum

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

The profession of IT

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  Peter J. Denning, Andrew D. McGettrick:
  Recentering computer science. 15-19

Practical programmer

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  Robert L. Glass:
  The plot to deskill software engineering. 21-24

Hot links

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

Viewpoint

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  Maria M. Klawe, Ben Shneiderman:
  Crisis and opportunity in computer science. 27-28

President's letter

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  David A. Patterson:
  Rescuing our families, our neighbors, and ourselves. 29-31

Articles

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  Peter Kugel:
  It's time to think outside the computational box. 32-37
• 
  Alvin T. S. Chan:
  Mobile cookies management on a smart card. 38-43
• 
  Richard A. Frost:
  Call for a public-domain SpeechWeb. 45-49
• 
  Benjamin A. Kuperman, Carla E. Brodley, Hilmi Ozdoganoglu, T. N. Vijaykumar, Ankit Jalote:
  Detection and prevention of stack buffer overflow attacks. 50-56
• 
  Eric Chuan-Fong Shih, Jason L. Dedrick, Kenneth L. Kraemer:
  Rule of law and the international diffusion of e-commerce. 57-62
• 
  Rana Tassabehji, Maria Vakola:
  Business email: the killer impact. 64-70
• 
  Sridhar P. Nerur, Riyaz Sikora, George Mangalaraj, Venugopal Balijepally:
  Assessing the relative influence of journals in a citation network. 71-74
• 
  Radha V. Mookerjee:
  Maintaining enterprise software applications. 75-79
• 
  Rosemary H. Wild, Kenneth A. Griggs, Eldon Y. Li:
  An architecture for distributed scenario building and evaluation. 80-86
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  Michael Ettredge, John Gerdes Jr., Gilbert G. Karuga:
  Using web-based search data to predict macroeconomic statistics. 87-92

Technical opinion

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  Bill C. Hardgrave, Deborah J. Armstrong:
  Software process improvement: it's a journey, not a destination. 93-96

Inside risks

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  Steven M. Bellovin, Matt Blaze, Susan Landau:
  The real national-security needs for VoIP. 120

Volume 48, Number 12, December 2005

Editorial pointers

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  Diane Crawford:
  Editorial pointers. 5-6

News track

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  News track. 9-10

Forum

• 
  Diane Crawford:
  Forum. 11-13

Hot links

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

Security watch

• 
  Rebecca Mercuri:
  Challenges in forensic computing. 17-21

Digital village

• 
  Hal Berghel, David Hoelzer:
  Pernicious ports. 23-30

President's letter

• 
  David A. Patterson:
  Robots in the desert: a research parable for our times. 31-33

Viewpoint

• 
  Amy S. Bruckman:
  Student research and the internet. 35-37

The semantic e-business vision

• 
  Rahul Singh, Lakshmi S. Iyer, Al Farooq Salam:
  Introduction. 38-41
• 
  Jos de Bruijn, Dieter Fensel, Uwe Keller, Rubén Lara:
  Using the web service modeling ontology to enable semantic e-business. 43-47
• 
  JinKyu Lee, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya, H. Raghav Rao, Raj Sharman:
  Secure knowledge management and the semantic web. 48-54
• 
  Manoj A. Thomas, Richard T. Redmond, Victoria Y. Yoon, Rahul Singh:
  A semantic approach to monitor business process. 55-59
• 
  Ejub Kajan, Leonid Stoimenov:
  Toward an ontology-driven architectural framework for B2B. 60-66
• 
  Thomas P. Moran, Alex Cozzi, Stephen P. Farrell:
  Unified activity management: supporting people in e-business. 67-70
• 
  Bhavani Thuraisingham:
  Directions for security and privacy for semantic e-business applications. 71-73
• 
  Juhnyoung Lee:
  Model-driven business transformation and the semantic web. 75-77

Articles

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  Michael J. O'Donnell:
  Separate handles from names on the internet. 78-83
• 
  Sanjiv Augustine, Bob Payne, Fred Sencindiver, Susan Woodcock:
  Agile project management: steering from the edges. 85-89
• 
  Younghwa Lee, Kenneth A. Kozar, Kai R. T. Larsen:
  Does avatar email improve communication? 91-95
• 
  Torgeir Dingsøyr, Hans Karim Djarraya, Emil Røyrvik:
  Practical knowledge management tool use in a software consulting company. 96-100
• 
  Akhilesh Chandra, Thomas Calderon:
  Challenges and constraints to the diffusion of biometrics in information systems. 101-106
• 
  Stephan Kudyba, G. Brent Hamar, William M. Gandy:
  Enhancing efficiency in the health care industry. 107-110
• 
  Philip F. Musa, Victor Wacham A. Mbarika, Peter Meso:
  Calling for programmed technology transfer and adoption strategies for sustainable LDC growth. 111-116

Inside risks

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  Peter J. Denning, Jim Horning, David Lorge Parnas, Lauren Weinstein:
  Wikipedia risks. 152