Table
May 2008
of Contents
Articles
32 Web Searching in a Multilingual World
Wingyan Chung
41 How Intuitive is Object-Oriented Design? Irit Hadar
and Uri Leron
47 Words from Pictures for Dual-Channel Processing
Dov Dori
53 Emerging Trends in M-Government Silvana Trimi
and Hong Sheng
59 Improving the Change-Management Process Kannan
Mohan, Peng Xu, and Balasubramaniam Ramesh
66 Coordination in Emergency Response Management
Rui Chen, Raj Sharman, H. Raghav Rao, and
Shambhu J. Upadhyaya
75 Taming Heterogeneous Agent Architectures
Alessandro Garcia and Carlos Lucena
83 Technology-Facilitated ‘Give According to Your
Abilities, Receive According to Your Needs’
Oded Nov and Bharat Rao
89 Reducing Internet Auction Fraud Bezalel Gavish
and Christopher L. Tucci
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Columns
15 Viewpoint The Crucial Role of
Computer Science in Systems and
Synthetic Biology Jacques Cohen
19 Staying Connected This Menu Has
Changed Meg McGinity Shannon 101
98 Technical Opinion Departmental
Influences on Policy Design
Edgar A. Whitley and Ian R. Hosein
104 Inside Risks The Physical World
and the Real World Steven M. Bellovin
19
Departments
7 News Track
9 Forum
14 A.M. Turing Award
Nominations
Career Opportunities
ACM ELECTION BALLOT P. 22
COVER ILLUSTRATION: ROBERT NEUBECKER