This volume contains papers, tutorials, and workshops presented at the TOOLS 39 conference, held in Santa Barbara, CA in July and August, 2001. Contributions from information technology professionals discuss software issues such as those pertaining to e-commerce, design by contract, component-based development, frameworks and patterns, UML, and object-oriented concepts. A sampling of topics includes hacking and security, fault injection testing for distributed object systems, and automatic data mining by asynchronous parallel evolutionary algorithms. The volume is not indexed. c. Book News Inc. |