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The Journal of Systems and Software Volume 17, Number |, January 1992 SPECIAL ISSUE ON COMPUTER ETHICS Contents Readers’ Corner Editor’s Corner: Professional Computer Ethics Donald Gotterbarn, Guest Editor Professional Responsibility Human Agency and Responsible Computing: Implications for Computer System Design Batya Friedman and Peter H. Kahn, Jr. Expert Systems in Medicine and Moral Responsibility 15 Goran Collste How to Make Responsible Decisions Paramedic Ethics for Computer Professionals 23 W. Robert Collins and Keith W. Miller Broadening the Basis for Ethical Analysis 39 Michael C. McFarland, SJ Are Computer Hacker Break-ins Ethical? 41 Eugene H. Spafford Another View of Computer Science Ethics: Patterns of Responses Among Computer Scientists 49 Laura M. Leventhal, Keith E. Instone, and David W. Chilson How to Introduce Ethical Concepts Computer Professionals: Moral Autonomy and a Code of Ethics Heinz C. Luegenbiehl Developing a Code for Ethical Computer Use Ernest A. Kallman The Use and Abuse of Computer Ethics Donald Gotterbarn EDICT for Computer Ethics Education 81 Riva Wenig Bickel, Maria M. Lorrondo-Petrie, and David F. Bush Controversy Corner: Computers, Ethics, and Collective Violence 91 Craig Summers and Eric Markusen Biographies Volume 17, Number 2, February 1992 Contents Readers’ Corner 107 Editor’s Corner: The Best and Worst of Software in the 1980s 109 Robert L. Glass An Analysis of Defect Densities Found During Software Inspections 111 John C. Kelly, Joseph S. Sherif, and Jonathan Hops Software Complexity and Ada Rendezvous: Metrics Based on Nondeterminism 119 Srinivasarao Damerla and Sol M. Shatz A Flexible Program Adaptation System: Case Studies in Ada 129 James M. Purtilo and Elizabeth L. White A Model for Interconnected LANs with General Arrivals 145 William Bulgren, Victor Frost, and Chi-Shih Chang Data Base Design for Real-Time Adaptations 155 Prabha Gopinath, Rajiv Ramnath, and Karsten Schwan A Practical Assessment of Formal Specification Approaches for Data Abstractions 169 K. P. Ventouris and P. E. Pintelas Toward a Taxonomy of Software Application Domains: History 189 Robert L. Glass and Iris Vessey Biographies 201 Volume 17, Number 3, March 1992 Contents Editor’s Corner: The Importance of Software Quality in the 1990s 203 Robert L. Glass Special Section on Achieving Software Quality The Specification, Engineering, and Measurement of Information Systems Quality 205 G. P. A. J. Delen and D. B. B. Rijsenbrij Designing Software for Producibility 219 David N. Card Using Program Dependence Graphs for Information Flow Control 227 C. Samuel Hsieh, Elizabeth A. Unger, and Ramon A. Mata-Toledo 233 Optimum Software Release Time with a Given Cost Budget Yiu-Wing Leung Responding to Catastrophic Errors: A Design Technique for Fault-Tolerant Software Frank G. F. Davis and Rex E. Gantenbein Special Section on Software Complexity Measures A Formal Program Complexity Model and Its Application Jianhui Tian and Marvin V. Zelkowitz A Factor Analysis of Software Complexity Measures Ramon A. Mata-Toledo and David A. Gustafson Evaluating and Extending NPath as a Software Complexity Measure R. Beth McColl and James C. McKim, Jr. Controversy Corner: Cards, Couriers, and the Race to Correctness Robert N. Britcher Biographies