The third paper, by Sant´Anna, Garcia, Kulesza, Lucena, and von Staa, was chosen as the best paper of the 2004 Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES04). It presents a quantitative study that compares aspect-based and object-oriented solutions for a representative set of design patterns. They have used stringent software engineering attributes as the assessment criteria and found that most aspect-oriented solutions improve separation of pattern-related concerns, although some specific aspect-oriented implementations of specific patterns resulted in higher coupling and more lines of code.
The fourth and fifth papers have been submitted to the JBCS and recommended for publication by Dr. Azzedine Boukerch, who handled their review process. The paper by Cavalli, Mederreg, and Zaidi presents the application of a comprehensive, formal testing method to protocols and services for wireless telephony networks. They focus on telecommunications and mobility applications and present two case studies to illustrate the method's use. The paper by A. Melo, Walter, Santana, and Batista propose and evaluate a parallelization strategy for implementing a sequence alignment algorithm for long sequences. This strategy has been implemented in JIAJIA, a scope consistent Distributed Shared Memory System and the results on an eight-machine cluster showed good speedups.
I would like to finish this letter expressing my thanks to the many anonymous reviewers that dedicated their time to the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society this year and to the invited editors that helped us to prepared this issue, as well as to the program committee of the SBES04.
Paulo C. Masiero
Letter from the editor-in-chief
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Date of issue
Nov 2004
