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From the Editors
Tabula Rasa: Pitfalls and Possibilities with Clean Slate Initiatives
Arnold W. Bragg, RTI International pp. 4-5
News Briefs
News Briefs  pp. 6-8
Guest Editors' Introduction
Information and Quality Assurance: An Unsolved, Perpetual Problem for Past and Future Generations  ,Jeffrey Voas, SAIC Linda Wilbanks, US Department of Energy  pp. 10-13

Information & Quality Assurance
Beyond Brute Force: Testing Financial Software  Mikhail Kharlamov,  p. 14-18

Practical Combinatorial Testing: Beyond Pairwise
Rick Kuhn, US National Institute of Standards and Technology   pp. 19-23

Toward Quality-Driven Web Service Discovery 
Eyhab Al-Masri, University of Guelph pp. 24-28

Dependability
Improving the Dependability of Web Services Integration
Yuhul Chen, Newcastle University, UK  pp. 29-35

Services Computing
Where Do You Want to Go in Your SOA Adoption Journey?
Shrikant Mulik, L&T Infotech pp. 36-39

Incident Management
Restoring Service after an Unplanned IT Outage
Katherine O'Callaghan, Australian Catholic University pp. 40-45

Services Computing
What's in a Name? Distinguishing between SaaS and SOA
Phillip A. Laplante, Penn State University pp. 46-50

Field Report
From the Office Document Format Battlefield Jirka Kosek, pp. 51-55
Perspectives
Challenges in Certification and Accreditation Ken Buszta,  pp. 56-59
Resources
Resources  pp. 60-62
CIO Corner
Need to Share vs. Need to Assure  Linda Wilbanks, US Department of Energy pp. 64, 63