Vol. 14, No. 5, September/October 1997

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Theme Articles

Security and Privacy: Promising Advances
Charles P. Pfleeger and Deborah M. Cooper

Intrusion Detection via System Call Traces
Andrew P. Kosoresow and Steven A. Hofmeyr

A Software Platform for Testing Intrusion Detection Systems
Nicholas Puketza, Mandy Chung, Ronald A. Olsson, and Biswanath Mukherjee

A Flexible Security System for Using Internet Content
Nayeem Islam, Rangachari Anand, Trent Jaeger, and Josyula R. Rao

Firewalls: An Expert Roundtable

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Special Features

A Cost-Value Approach for Prioritizing Requirements
Joachim Karlsson and Kevin Ryan

How Software Process Improvement Helped Motorola
Michael Diaz and Joseph Sligo

Rapid Prototyping for Distributed Virtual Environments
Martin R. Stytz, Terry Adams, Brian Garcia, Steven M. Sheasby, and Brian Zurita

Modeling Concurrent Software
Bo I. Sanden

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Departments

From The Editor
Al Davis
Between Scylla and Charybdis

Letters
Did Measurement Issue Miss the Mark?
A Truce? Reentering Cleanroom
Parable or Mirror? In Praise Of Beethoven
The Programmer . . . Fishing?
Is Pipe Metaphor A Wash Out?

Soapbox
Carlo Pescio
When Past Solutions Cause Future Problems

Interface
Erika Kindlund
Navigating The Applet-Browser Divide

Insider
Robert Cochran
The Mousetrap Paradigm

Quality Time
Robert V. Binder
Can A Manufacturing Quality Model Work for Software?

Manager
Christopher M. Lott
Breathing New Life Into The Waterfall Model

In The News
Will Linking Battle Unravel The Web?
Interview with Dorothy Denning
Challenges in Computer Security Education
In Brief

Bookshelf
Pitfalls of Object-Oriented Development
Programming with Threads
Threads Primer: A Guide To Multithreaded Programming
Civilizing Cyberspace
Object-Oriented Compiler Construction

Best Practices
Steve Mcconnell
Tool Support for Project Tracking

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