June 2007 - Vol. 50 No. 6

Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Jun 1 2007

Sometimes the best way to beat the competition is to join it, at least when it comes to networking similar functions to work collectively rather than separately. Scientists, engineers, and IT and telecommunications experts have been working—collectively—to harness the power of business networks, embedded with intelligence, to coordinate business processes running on diverse business platforms. […]

Diane Crawford

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Forum Jun 1 2007

Forum

Jeff Kramer’s view, expressed in his article "Is Abstraction the Key to Computing?" (Apr. 2007), that abstraction is indeed a key concept in computing, especially in software design, is correct but far from new. It’s a lesson I learned from the late E.W. Dijkstra 40 years ago and underlies every software development method proposed since […]

Computing Applications

News News track Jun 1 2007

News Track

A team of 18 mathematicians and computer scientists have mapped one of the most complex objects in mathematics—E8—shown here in an eight-dimensional form projected onto two dimensions. The monstrous computer-based calculation has rekindled researchers’ hopes of solving a longstanding problem among mathematicians, reports Scientific American. The team’s calculation, which took four years to prepare and […]

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Opinion Legally speaking Jun 1 2007

Software Patents and the Metaphysics of Section 271(f)

Can shipment of one disk of software abroad give rise to worldwide liability for patent infringement? Is the Supreme Court ready to revisit the patentability of software?

Pamela Samuelson

Computing Applications

Opinion The business of software Jun 1 2007

Twenty Percent

Planning to fail on software projects.

Phillip G. Armour

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Jun 1 2007

Web Science: A Provocative Invitation to Computer Science

Here's how it can awaken computer science to the interdisciplinary possibilities of the Web's socially embedded computing technology.

Ben Shneiderman

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Jun 1 2007

Smart Business Networks: How the Network Wins

Realizing scenarios in which business is conducted through a rapidly formed network with anyone, anywhere, anytime regardless of different computer systems and business processes.

Eric van Heck and Peter Vervest

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Jun 1 2007

Evolution and Emerging Issues in Mobile Wireless Networks

Assessing the widespread deployment and increasing use of mobile services.

Sasha Dekleva, J.P. Shim, Upkar Varshney, and Geoffrey Knoerzer

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Jun 1 2007

DNSSEC: A Protocol Toward Securing the Internet Infrastructure

DNSSEC is properly understood as a component in an ecology of security protocols and measures.

Amy Friedlander, Allison Mankin, W. Douglas Maughan, and Stephen D. Crocker

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Jun 1 2007

The Four Incremental Steps Toward Advanced Mobile Service Adoption

Exploring mobile device user adoption patterns and market segmentation.

Ioanna D. Constantiou, Jan Damsgaard, and Lars Knutsen

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Jun 1 2007

Cutting Checks: Challenges and Choices in B2B E-Payments

Open network e-payment systems are the future of corporate payments, assuming they address the challenges of integration, security, and remittance standards.

Mark J. Cotteleer, Christopher A. Cotteleer, and Andrew Prochnow

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Jun 1 2007

An Empirical Investigation of the Effectiveness of Systems Modeling and Verification Tools

One reason system failure rates are not deterred by the latest best practices and tools may lie in how needs are (mis)interpreted by designers and users.

Anand Jeyaraj and Vicki L. Sauter

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Jun 1 2007

Time to Rethink Health Care and ICT?

Success for a new U.K. national health care system depends on clinical context and scale, along with the capacity to emphasize interpersonal communication.

David Avison and Terry Young

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Jun 1 2007

Design Patterns For Managing Product Life Cycle Information

Agent-based architectures, taking queues from object-oriented programming, can make product information accessible in controlled ways over the Net.

Kary Främling, Timo Ala-Risku, Mikko Kärkkäinen, and Jan Holmström

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Jun 1 2007

Automatic and Versatile Publications Ranking For Research Institutions and Scholars

Assessing both academic and industrial research institutions, along with their scholars, can help identify the best organizations and individuals in a given discipline. Assessment can reveal outstanding institutions and scholars, allowing students and researchers to better decide where they want to study or work and allowing employers to recruit the most qualified potential employees. These assessments can also assist both internal and external administrators in making influential decisions; for example, funding, promotion, and compensation.

Jie Ren and Richard N. Taylor

Computing Applications

Opinion Hot links Jun 1 2007

Top 10 Downloads from ACM’s Digital Library

Communications of the ACM Volume 50, Number 6 (2007), Pages 86-87 Hot links: Top 10 downloads from ACM’s digital library Diane Crawford Table of Contents Tables Back to Top Tables Table. The Top 10 Most Popular Papers from ACM’s Refereed Journals and Conference Proceedings Downloaded in March 2007 Table. The 10 Most Popular Courses at […]

Computing Applications

Opinion Technical opinion Jun 1 2007

Perceived Health Risks of 3G Cell Phones: Do Users Care?

Studying the perception of health risks associated with mobile phones and the implications for usage.

Mihail Cocosila, Ofir Turel, Norm Archer, and Yufei Yuan

Computing Applications

Opinion Inside risks Jun 1 2007

Risks Are Your Responsibility

In his February 2007 column, Peter Neumann mentioned some failures that resulted from inadequate attention to the architecture of the overall system when considering components. But many developers cannot influence or even comprehend the system architecture. So, how can they be held responsible in such a situation? Although many system failures can be detected and […]

Peter A. Freeman

Computing Applications

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