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MacEwen, Glenn
Queens University
Kingston, Canada
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  Robert Slade’s guide to computer viruses (2nd ed.)
Slade R., Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 1996.  Type: Book (9780387946634)

Material on computer viruses can become quickly dated, as this second edition of Slade’s book attests. This is simply an inherent problem with producing a practical book on a topic that depends so much on current technical de...

Nov 1 1996  
  Abstractions for Software Architecture and Tools to Support Them
Shaw M., DeLine R., Klein D., Ross T., Young D., Zelesnik G. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 21(4): 314-335, 1995.  Type: Article

Software architecture is a topic of considerable current interest. Although the term has been used for many years, and software designers have consciously thought about the architectures of the software systems that they create, the ge...

Feb 1 1996  
  Robert Slade’s guide to computer viruses
Slade R., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., New York, NY, 1994.  Type: Book (9780387943114)

Slade’s book on computer viruses is well written, entertaining, thorough, complete, and practical. It starts with an introductory chapter in which the nature of viruses is introduced along with some terminology and some fasci...

Sep 1 1995  
  Challenging Universal Truths of Requirements Engineering
Siddiqi J. IEEE Software 11(2): 18-19, 1994.  Type: Article

Siddiqi asserts that two widely held views of the requirements engineering process should be challenged. The two views are that requirements describe only the “what” of a system’s behavior and not the &...

Dec 1 1994  
  Software requirements analysis and specifications
Sodhi J., McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1992.  Type: Book (9780071578790)

Software requirements analysis has recently been receiving increased and deserved attention, of which this book is a part. The author, who appears to have considerable relevant practical experience, has produced a readable and useful ...

Nov 1 1993  
  Developing safety systems
Pyle I., Prentice-Hall, Inc., Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1991.  Type: Book (9780132042987)

The construction of software for critical systems is addressed in three sections covering requirements analysis, design principles, and quality assurance. The first section considers requirements analysis, which the author calls &#...

Jul 1 1992  
  Amoeba: A Distributed Operating System for the 1990s
Mullender S., van Rossum G., Tanenbaum A., van Renesse R., van Staveren H. Computer 23(5): 44-53, 1990.  Type: Article

The Amoeba operating system is designed for a distributed architecture that provides workstations, specialized servers, gateways, and compute servers connected by a local area network. It uses an object-based software architecture to r...

Apr 1 1991  
  The Specification and Modeling of Computer Security
McLean J. Computer 23(1): 9-16, 1990.  Type: Article

The Bell and LaPadula definition of security for computer systems has been widely used for some years as the model followed in the National Computer Security Center’s evaluation process for trusted computer systems. This pape...

Oct 1 1990  
  An Approach to Experimental Evaluation of Real-Time Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing Schemes
Kim K. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 15(6): 715-725, 1989.  Type: Article

This paper describes a testbed approach to the experimental evaluation of fault-tolerant distributed computing schemes....

Apr 1 1990  
  The workshop system: a practical knowledge-based software environment
Clemm G. ACM SIGPLAN Notices 24(2): 55-64, 1989.  Type: Article

This paper describes an experimental software engineering environment that appears to have two particularly interesting aspects. First, the environment provides a new rule-based language (called SE-KRL) for specifying information about...

Dec 1 1989  
 
 
 
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