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The article focuses on the percentage of software projects failure rates. The author has seen software failure trumpeted from so many academic research papers that he had to quit counting. However, if one closely examines the citations they use to support the claims of crisis, over and over again the citations boil down to one primary source, the Standish Chaos Reports. Those academic researchers who quote those original 1994 figures have ignored the fact that Standish has updated the Chaos Report periodically. The 2000 report, for example, saw a drop in cancelled projects to 23 percent, a small drop in challenged projects to 49 percent, and a corresponding increase in successful projects to 28 percent. Looking at other research studies of software failures, they discovered something interesting. Whereas Standish reported those 189 percent overruns, three other studies reported a consistent 33 to 34 percent cost overrun. Clearly, something was at best inconsistent between what Standish was doing and what the other three studies had learned.

This paper presents a methodology for the evaluation of antenna susceptibility to various types of random physical damage. A Monte Carlo statistical method is proposed to estimate antenna parameters for different damage levels. A virtual experiment is used in order to avoid lengthy experimental trials. Antenna parameters are modeled for each randomly generated damage pattern. Statistical post processing with the Bootstrap method evaluates the parameters acquired from the antenna modeling soft- ware. To illustrate the methodology a comparative study of the Input Return Loss for the damage inflicted upon a planar dipole and a bow-tie antenna is made. The median value is estimated to describe the "typical" behavior of the antenna. With taken assumptions, Input Return Loss for the Bow-tie antenna is found more sensitive to partial damage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering (RE). Of course, the program of research papers, industrial experience reports, state-of-the-practice talks, research posters and demonstrations, panels, mini-tutorials, and keynote speakers was another fine reason to remember RE. For the first time, we included industrial-experience reports in the IEEE proceedings to give practitioners a valuable and available resource of good RE practices. State-of-the-practice talks gave practitioners informed overviews of important topics from RE industry leaders. Tutorials on topics from scenarios and creativity to traceability offered practitioners new RE skills. And the program was structured to enable academics and practitioners to break out of the traditional research and practice tracks and share ideas. RE 04's theme, "requirements for design and innovation in a changing world," reflected the increasingly complex technological and project environments in which requirements work is done.

This paper reports on a systematic study of the effect of magnetic film thickness on the recording performance of perpendicular double-layered media. We found that the signal-to- noise ratio of the media decreases with increasing film thickness. This is mainly caused by the poorer head field gradient that results from the increased gap between the pole surface of the head and the top of the soft underlayer of the media. A theoretical study confirms the experimental findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the decrease in the number of papers published in the journal "IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics". Papers published have been in review and publication process for more than a year. The editorial staff plans to reduce the review time and the backlog of papers currently in the processing cycle.

The article focuses on the issue of the journal "IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management." The journal includes nine research articles, one technical management note, one comment on the technical management note, one comment on the technical management note and one focus on practice paper. The papers published in the journal claim that concurrent engineering project management and team organization represent an important area of management research that has drawn a great deal of attention from academia and industry alike.

This article presents information about the journal "IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems," as of December 2003. From January 2002 to October 2003, the journal received about 1200 research papers. The number of papers per working day has increased continuously. The rejection ratio for the papers arriving after January 2002 , with the review completed, was about 70%. In spite of significant improvement and the efforts of more than 40 associate editors, 9% of the papers received were without the first review after 145 days. The author says that new areas introduced by the journal have not attracted too many papers. Therefore, those subject areas have been more precisely defined in the journal. Computer and computing aspects are influencing everyday work, including design and manufacturing.

This article reports that the quality of the papers presented at this year's TMRC was truly outstanding. The author says that it was his pleasure to work with writers to assemble the conference digest book and subsequently enjoy the completed papers.

The article introduces the June 6, 1989 issue of "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering," which contains a collection of papers covering a broad spectrum of research issues in the area of distributed systems. The IEEE Computer Society sponsored a workshop "Design Principles for Experimental Distributed Systems" in October 1986 at Purdue University. The workshop brought together researchers, designers and implementors of database systems. As a result of a general call for papers to publish to publish research in a special section of the "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering", 40 papers were submitted in March 1987. All papers were refereed and six papers were recommended to the Editor-in-Chief in December 1987. This issue includes these papers.

This editorial introduces the January 1985 issue of "IEEE Transactions of Software Engineering," which publication on a monthly basis. The journal will have four major sections. One will contain in-depth research and survey papers on industrial experiences and approaches. The second section will contain short concise papers which will provide a fast review and publication of emerging research ideas and contain brief discussions of research ideas and experiences. The third category will be correspondence items which will primarily be opinions, comments, and/or rebuttals on papers published in the journal or elsewhere. The fourth section, "Calls for Papers," will inform the readers of the topics of the special issues, the names and addresses of the Guest Editors, and the submission deadlines.

Based on his many years of experience, a JMEMS editor provides guidelines for authors that will, if followed, greatly reduce the risk of a devastatingly negative result from the review process. The premise is that there are certain things that rightfully anger reviewers, and, once angered, the reviewers become both negative and aggressive in their judgments—hence, the imagery of "the reviewer's axe" and how to avoid it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article announces the search for articles for the May/June 2012 issue of the journal "IEEE Micro." The issue will cover research papers featured in the computer architecture conferences of 2011. Also offered are requirements for submission, formats of research papers, and standards for eligibility.

The article presents abstracts of research papers in "IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication" in languages other than English, as well as podcasts for research papers which can be viewed at http://www.ieeepcs.org.

The article presents a response by the authors on the paper "On Some Recent Modifications of Weibull Distribution". The authors displays a feeling of gratitude for the authors of the said paper. Detailed analysis was carried out, and a paper was submitted to Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Inc. Transactions on Reliability in 1999, which appeared in print in 2003. The motivation for their research was to look at new distributions (derived from the Weibull distribution) with bathtub-shaped failure rates.

This article presents addendum to an article published in previous issues of the journal "Transactions on Computers." After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted committee, the paper "Performance Enhancements of Ad Hoc Networks With Localized Route Repair," has been found to be in violation of the IEEE's Publication Principles. The initial theorems involving analytical formulation in the paper are identical to those cited in paper 2. The first author has now admitted that he used material from 2, but did not provide due reference or credit to that paper.

The editorial is intended to serve as an introduction to a new series of Special Issues in the "IEE Transactions of Plasma Science." Beginning with this issue of selected contributed oral papers from the International Conference on Plasma Science (ICOPS) 2003. It was decided that candidates papers for the special issue would be limited to subset of all papers actually presented at ICOPS. nominations from oral contributed papers for the selection process for this Special Issue. The manuscripts represented in this Special Issue are drawn from all the disciplines of plasma science represented at ICOPS.

The article presents the author's introduction to the new developments taking place with regard to the periodical "IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering." The periodical will be changing from a bimonthly to monthly status in the 2004. In the year 2003, a total of 117 papers were published in the periodical which is 20 more than the number of papers published in the year 2002. Various efforts have been made to make publications more timely such as reducing the submission to publication time. In 2004, each issue will be available online as preprints so that readers may have access to the material sooner.

The article focuses on related literature on software architecture design. The author says that an efficient way to identify possible risks and questionable design decisions early in software development is through architectural reviews using books, journals, articles and conference papers on software architecture research and practice. The author mentions that these reviews are not exclusive to technical decisions but also several types of nontechnical decisions.

This paper reports a result concerning the relation between the best variable orderings of an FIOBDD Gj and the decomposition structure of the Boolean function f represented by Gj. It was stated in [1] that, if f has a decomposition of type f(X) = g(h1(Y1), h2(Y2), … , hk(Yk)), where (Y1), i ϵ (1, 2, … ,k), is a partition of X, then one of the orderings which keeps the variables within the sets (Yi) adjacent is a best ordering for Gj. Using a counterexample, we show that this statement is incorrect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the above paper, Nembhard and Osothsilp (2001) empirically compared several forgetting models against empirical data on production breaks. Among the models compared was the learn-forget curve model (LFCM) developed by Jaber and Bonney(1996). In previous research, several studies have shown that the LFCM is advantageous to some of the models being investigated, however, Nembhard and Osothsilp (2001) found that the LFCM showed the largest deviation from empirical data. In this commentary, we demonstrate that the poor performance of the LFCM in the study of Nembhard and Osothsilp (2001) might be attributed to an error on their part when fitting the LFCM to their empirical data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a call for research papers made by the editors of the periodical 'IEEE Communications Magazine,' regarding the proxy support for streaming on the Internet. Scope of contributions; Schedule for submissions; Feature topic editors.

Presents a call for research papers made by the editors of the periodical 'IEEE Communications Magazine,' regarding the XML-based management of networks and services. Scope of contributions; Schedule for submissions; Feature topic editors.

The article focuses on the journal "Transactions on Software Engineering," vol. 27, published as of October 1, 2001 which presents information about software engineering. Thomas Reps received the PhD degree in computer science from Cornell University in 1982. His PhD dissertation won the 1983 Association of Computing Machinery Doctoral Dissertation Award. He has also been the recipient of the US National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Packard Fellowship, a Humboldt Research Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a professor of computer science in the Computer Sciences Department at the University of Wisconsin, which he joined in 1985. He is the author or co-author of three books and more than 75 papers. Ali Mili received the PhD degree from the University of Illinois in 1980. His research interest lie in software engineering and range from managerial aspects to technical aspects. Gregg Rothermel received the BA degree in philosophy Reed College, Portland, Oregon.

The papers appearing in this special issue of the "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering" periodical are based on papers that originally appeared in the proceedings of the First International Conference on Data Engineering which was held in Los Angeles, California, on April 25-27, 1984. The paper by Braegger, Dudler, Rebsamen and Zehnder was selected as the best paper at the conference by the awards committee, and concerns a database tool called Gambit. This design tool is based on an extended relational/entity relationship model and assists the designer with a wide variety of subtools. The paper by Farmer, King, and Myers is also about a design tool which is called the Semantic Database Constructor (Sedaco). It is based on a semantic data model which buffers the designer from most low level data structuring issues.

In this day and age, we have an incredible wealth of knowledge available at our fingertips. This is also increasing the rate of new discoveries. The amount of content in our knowledge repositories such as in IEEE Xplore is growing exponentially. While the easy access to knowledge is helping to drive this growth, there are other less wondrous forces that are at play. In fact, the amount of knowledge within Xplore might be growing far less than the content, and IEEE is very concerned that many duplicative papers are in the archives. This may have a detrimental effect on the enthusiasm for subscriptions that IEEE can expect from libraries, and it is libraries that provide the critical financial support of IEEE?s scholarly operations. Furthermore, duplicative content means that the precious time of valuable volunteer editors and reviewers is being wasted. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Prospective authors are requested to submit new, unpublished manuscripts for inclusion in the upcoming event described in this call for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Describes the above-named upcoming special issue or section. May include topics to be covered or calls for papers. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article calls for papers for the special issue on pulsed power science and technology to be presented at the 2013 IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference in San Francisco, California.

The article calls for papers for the 6th special issue of the "IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science" on Z-pinch plasmas for publication in April 2015.

The article calls for papers for the 7th Triennial special issue "Images in Plasma Science" to be released in August 2014.

The article calls for papers for the 15th special issue on plasma science on high-power microwave generation to be published in June 2014.

A call for papers for the International Symposium on Technology and Society 2012 (ISTAS) to be held on October 27 to 29, 2012 is presented.

The article offers guides to the process of submitting technical papers to the journal "IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Part C: Applications and Review."

A call for papers for the special section on green computing of "IEEE Technology and Society Magazine" is presented.

The article offers instructions and guidance in the preparation of research papers, tutorial articles, teaching cases, and book reviews to be submitted to the "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) Transaction on Professional Communication" for publication.

An introduction to the special section of the issue which contains researches based on the papers of the International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM) 2007 is presented.

The article presents a profile of John Vig, candidate for the position of president-elect at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (IEEE). He was born in Hungary but emigrated in the United States in 1956. Prior to his retirement, Vig worked for the United States government as an electronics engineer, researcher and research and development manager. He has published numerous papers and book chapters and founded IEEE Sensors Council. He used to served as Environmental Commissioner and web editor in his hometown.

The article presents information about Robert J. Adams, recipient of the 2005 R. W. P. King Award. He was awarded for his paper titled "Physical and Analytical Properties of a Stabilized Electric Field Integral Equation." He worked as a Research Assistant with the ElectroMagnetic interactions Laboratory at Virginia Tech from 1994 to 1998, where he helped develop analytical models for radar altimeter returns received over penetrable terrain and numerical models for integral equation formulations of scattering from random and deterministic geometries.

This article presents information about the book "The Handbook of Ad Hoc Wireless Networks," by M. Illyas. One more book has been added to the increasing literature on ad hoc networks. As is frequently the case in areas under intense research and development, books of this type are collections of contributions from researchers in the field. The current book is no exception. Naturally, it is more likely it will appeal to researchers and students pursuing graduate studies on the topic. The 32 contributed chapters are grouped into nine major topics: Introductory, Wireless Transmission Techniques, Wireless Communication Systems and Protocols, two groups of papers on Routing Techniques, Applications, Power Management, Connection and Traffic Management and finally Security and Privacy.

This article presents the author's views on the article novel data distribution technique for host-client type parallel applications. The area of scheduling is very active with more than 3,000 papers published over this decade alone in good journals. As a consequence, it is rather difficult to get a handle on all of them. Notwithstanding, the records indicate that several aspects of our work appear to be very contemporary to the works of some of the other's work cited by the author. This goes to show that more than one person can have the similar approach to solving similar problems. Furthermore, there are several important dimensions to the issues raised by the author, which are listed below.

This article focuses on the future objectives of the Journal "IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology," as a result of succession of a new editor. To maintain and further the leading role of the journal in publishing state of the art research results in three main areas of interest--mobile communication, transportation systems and vehicular electronics, will be core focus. Further 3 initial objectives are set--to streamline the paper-submission and review process, to increase the reference value of the journal, and to promote research in the three main areas of interest for the vehicle technologists society.

Presents views on the submission of research papers to the "IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part B: Cybernetics." Increase in the number of submissions in 2002; Plans to improve the publication of submissions; Requirements for submissions to be published in the publication.