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		<title>Risk-driven approaches to dependability</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iansommerville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading a lot about cloud security today as, perhaps rather hastily, I offered to lead a discussion on my gut feeling that there is really nothing new in cloud security.  When you read articles on this topic, what &#8230; <a href="http://se9book.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/risk-driven-approaches-to-dependability/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=se9book.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11942482&amp;post=250&amp;subd=se9book&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The IEEE simply doesn&#8217;t get open access publishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that open-access publishing where research papers are freely accessible on the web is ultimately inevitably although it will take a while to break the monopoly of the big academic publishers (see this article by George Monbiot to see &#8230; <a href="http://se9book.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/the-ieee-simply-doesnt-get-open-access-publishing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=se9book.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11942482&amp;post=246&amp;subd=se9book&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Original ideas don&#8217;t get published in top conferences</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read a blog post on why papers were rejected for the ACM conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI 2012). I found this to be profoundly depressing as it came out with a list of pseudo-scientific reasons why papers &#8230; <a href="http://se9book.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/original-ideas-dont-get-published-in-top-conferences/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=se9book.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11942482&amp;post=209&amp;subd=se9book&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A research agenda for software engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written elsewhere in this blog on how I believe that reductionism as a basis for software engineering is not appropriate for the complex coalitions of systems that we are now building. This means that &#8216;more of the same&#8217; &#8230; <a href="http://se9book.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/a-research-agenda-for-software-engineering/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=se9book.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11942482&amp;post=204&amp;subd=se9book&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Science or Snake Oil:  Empirical software engineering</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my professional lifetime, I’ve seen the emergence, development and adoption into the mainstream of object-oriented development for software. Instead of functions or procedures being the principal unit of abstraction, objects that encapsulate data and operations are now seen as &#8230; <a href="http://se9book.wordpress.com/2011/08/29/science-or-snake-oil-empirical-software-engineering/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=se9book.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11942482&amp;post=201&amp;subd=se9book&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for a harder line on evaluation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iansommerville</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have written in an earlier post about my concerns that the research community is being driven by targets to publish work that clearly isn&#8217;t ready for publication. I made the point that papers are submitted to conferences that don&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="http://se9book.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/time-for-a-harder-line-on-evaluation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=se9book.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11942482&amp;post=194&amp;subd=se9book&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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