Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Volume 79

Volume 79, Number 1, January 2006

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  Yanxin Wang, Smruti Ranjan Behera, Johnny Wong, Guy G. Helmer, Vasant G. Honavar, Les Miller, Robyn R. Lutz, Mark Slagell:
  Towards the automatic generation of mobile agents for distributed intrusion detection system. 1-14
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  Peter Meso, Gregory R. Madey, Marvin D. Troutt, Jens Liegle:
  The knowledge management efficacy of matching information systems development methodologies with application characteristics - an experimental study. 15-28
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  Chung-Ming Huang, Tz-Heng Hsu, Yi-Wei Lin:
  REDUP: a packet loss recovery scheme for real-time audio streaming over wireless IP networks. 29-42
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  Seungmin Rho, Eenjun Hwang:
  FMF: Query adaptive melody retrieval system. 43-56
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  Dennis Edwards, Sharon Simmons, Norman Wilde:
  An approach to feature location in distributed systems. 57-68
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  Bo Ingvar Sandén, Janusz Zalewski:
  Designing state-based systems with entity-life modeling. 69-78
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  Anthony J. T. Lee, Wan-chuen Lin, Chun-Sheng Wang:
  Mining association rules with multi-dimensional constraints. 79-92
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  Jen-Jou Hung, Yungho Leu:
  Efficient index caching for data dissemination in mobile computing environments. 93-106
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  Paolo Donzelli, Victor R. Basili:
  A practical framework for eliciting and modeling system dependability requirements: Experience from the NASA high dependability computing project. 107-119

Special section on Software Architecture

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  Henk Koning, Hans van Vliet:
  A method for defining IEEE Std 1471 viewpoints. 120-131
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  Wen-Li Wang, Dai Pan, Mei-Hwa Chen:
  Architecture-based software reliability modeling. 132-146

Volume 79, Number 2, February 2006

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  Emerson Farrugia, Robert Simon:
  An efficient and secure protocol for sensor network time synchronization. 147-162
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  Yueh-Feng Lee, Ruei-Chuan Chang:
  Hotswapping Linux kernel modules. 163-175
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  Lin-Chuan Wu, Yi-Shiung Yeh, Tsann-Shyong Liu:
  Analysis of Sun et al.'s linkability attack on some proxy blind signature schemes. 176-179
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  Young-Ho Park, Kyu-Young Whang, Byung Suk Lee, Wook-Shin Han:
  Efficient evaluation of linear path expressions on large-scale heterogeneous XML documents using information retrieval techniques. 180-190
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  Sang-Wook Kim, Jeehee Yoon, Sanghyun Park, Jung-Im Won:
  Shape-based retrieval in time-series databases. 191-203
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  Regina Braga, Cláudia Maria Lima Werner, Marta Mattoso:
  Odyssey-Search: A multi-agent system for component information search and retrieval. 204-215
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  Ge Li, Lu Zhang, Yan Li, Bing Xie, Weizhong Shao:
  Shortening retrieval sequences in browsing-based component retrieval using information entropy. 216-230
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  Benny Thörnberg, Qubo Hu, Martin Palkovic, Mattias O'Nils, Per Gunnar Kjeldsberg:
  Polyhedral space generation and memory estimation from interface and memory models of real-time video systems. 231-245
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  Xiaoqing Shi, Jingzhu Zhao, Ouyang Zhiyun:
  Assessment of eco-security in the Knowledge Grid e-science environment. 246-252
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  Chengqing Li, Shujun Li, Der-Chyuan Lou, Dan Zhang:
  On the security of the Yen-Guo's domino signal encryption algorithm (DSEA). 253-258

Special section on Software Architecture

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  Vassileios Tsetsos, Odysseas Sekkas, Ioannis Priggouris, Stathes Hadjiefthymiades:
  A scheduling framework for enterprise services. 259-272
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  Alistair G. Sutcliffe, George Papamargaritis, Liping Zhao:
  Comparing requirements analysis methods for developing reusable component libraries. 273-289

Volume 79, Number 3, March 2006

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  Xuemei Zhang, Hoang Pham:
  Software field failure rate prediction before software deployment. 291-300
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  Ernst Kesseler, Ed G. Knapen:
  Towards human-centred design: Two case studies. 301-313
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  Lerina Aversano, Thierry Bodhuin, Gerardo Canfora, Maria Tortorella:
  Technology-driven business evolution. 314-338
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  Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche, Leeshawn O'Sullivan, Michal M. Sówka:
  Automated impact analysis of UML models. 339-352
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  Juan Jose Cuadrado-Gallego, Miguel-Ángel Sicilia, Miguel Garre, Daniel Rodríguez:
  An empirical study of process-related attributes in segmented software cost-estimation relationships. 353-361
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  Steven J. Bleistein, Karl Cox, June M. Verner:
  Validating strategic alignment of organizational IT requirements using goal modeling and problem diagrams. 362-378
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  Giuseppe Della Penna, Benedetto Intrigila, Anna Rita Laurenzi, Sergio Orefice:
  An XML environment for scenario based requirements engineering. 379-403
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  Panagiotis Sentas, Lefteris Angelis:
  Categorical missing data imputation for software cost estimation by multinomial logistic regression. 404-414

Special section on Software Architecture

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  Tamer Rafla, Pierre N. Robillard, Michel C. Desmarais:
  Investigating the impact of usability on software architecture through scenarios: A case study on Web systems. 415-426
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  Manuel F. Bertoa, José M. Troya, Antonio Vallecillo:
  Measuring the usability of software components. 427-439

Volume 79, Number 4, April 2006

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  Kam-yiu Lam, Özgür Ulusoy:
  Adaptive schemes for location update generation in execution location-dependent continuous queries. 441-453
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  Richard Lai, Tony Tsang, Yong-Soo Kim, Dae Hoon Hwang, Chul Soo Lee, Yoon Kyung Han:
  A method for analysing multimedia protocol performance. 454-465
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  Yan-Xiang Deng, Chao-Jang Hwang, Jiang-Lung Liu:
  An object-oriented cryptosystem based on two-level reconfigurable computing architecture. 466-479
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  Christos Makris, Yannis Panagis, Evangelos Sakkopoulos, Athanasios K. Tsakalidis:
  Efficient and adaptive discovery techniques of Web Services handling large data sets. 480-495
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  Qiang Tang, Chris J. Mitchell:
  Cryptanalysis of a hybrid authentication protocol for large mobile networks. 496-501
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  Wei-Bin Lee, Kuan-Chieh Liao:
  Improved self-certified group-oriented cryptosystem without a combiner. 502-506
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  Shih-Chien Chou, Yuan-Chien Chen:
  Managing role relationships in an information flow control model. 507-522
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  Seng Wai Loke:
  Declarative programming of integrated peer-to-peer and Web based systems: the case of Prolog. 523-536

Special section on Software Architecture

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  Michelle Hepner, Rose F. Gamble, Manasi Kelkar, Leigh A. Davis, Daniel Flagg:
  Patterns of conflict among software components. 537-551
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  Ronny Roeller, Patricia Lago, Hans van Vliet:
  Recovering architectural assumptions. 552-573

Volume 79, Number 5, May 2006

Special section on Quality Software

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  Hans-Dieter Ehrich, Klaus-Dieter Schewe, T. H. Tse:
  Editorial. 575-576
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  Yuen-Tak Yu, Man Fai Lau:
  A comparison of MC/DC, MUMCUT and several other coverage criteria for logical decisions. 577-590
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  Tsong Yueh Chen, Fei-Ching Kuo, Robert G. Merkel:
  On the statistical properties of testing effectiveness measures. 591-601
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  W. K. Chan, M. Y. Cheng, Shing-Chi Cheung, T. H. Tse:
  Automatic goal-oriented classification of failure behaviors for testing XML-based multimedia software applications: An experimental case study. 602-612
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  Jane Zhao, Hui Ma:
  ASM-based design of data warehouses and on-line analytical processing systems. 613-629
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  Stefan Brass, Christian Goldberg:
  Semantic errors in SQL queries: A quite complete list. 630-644

Regular papers

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  Lieven Eeckhout, Koen De Bosschere:
  Yet shorter warmup by combining no-state-loss and MRRL for sampled LRU cache simulation. 645-652
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  Chin-Yu Huang, Jung-Hua Lo:
  Optimal resource allocation for cost and reliability of modular software systems in the testing phase. 653-664
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  Jung-Shian Li, Chu-Fen Li, Cheng-Pong Lo:
  Effective fair allocation using smart market label auction with CSLF and CR-CSFQ. 665-673
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  KwangJin Park, MoonBae Song, Chong-Sun Hwang:
  Adaptive data dissemination schemes for location-aware mobile services. 674-688
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  Matjaz B. Juric, Ivan Rozman, Bostjan Brumen, Matjaz Colnaric, Marjan Hericko:
  Comparison of performance of Web services, WS-Security, RMI, and RMI-SSL. 689-700
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  Sunilkumar S. Manvi, P. Venkataram:
  An agent based synchronization scheme for multimedia applications. 701-713
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  Weisong Shi, Yonggen Mao:
  Performance evaluation of peer-to-peer Web caching systems. 714-726
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  Miroslaw Staron, Ludwik Kuzniarz, Claes Wohlin:
  Empirical assessment of using stereotypes to improve comprehension of UML models: A set of experiments. 727-742

Book review

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  Ling Liu, Xue Chen:
  Book review: H. Zhuge, The Knowledge Grid, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 2004. 743-745

Volume 79, Number 6, June 2006

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  Ping-Feng Pai, Wei-Chiang Hong:
  Software reliability forecasting by support vector machines with simulated annealing algorithms. 747-755
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  Silvia Regina Vergilio, José Carlos Maldonado, Mário Jino, Inali Wisniewski Soares:
  Constraint based structural testing criteria. 756-771
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  King Sing Cheung, T. Y. Cheung, K. O. Chow:
  A petri-net-based synthesis methodology for use-case-driven system design. 772-790
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  Ganga Bishnu Mund, Rajib Mall:
  An efficient interprocedural dynamic slicing method. 791-806
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  Liguo Yu, Stephen R. Schach, Kai Chen, Gillian Z. Heller, A. Jefferson Offutt:
  Maintainability of the kernels of open-source operating systems: A comparison of Linux with FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. 807-815
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  T. H. Tse, Tsong Yueh Chen, Robert L. Glass:
  An assessment of systems and software engineering scholars and institutions (2000-2004). 816-819
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  Yuen-Tak Yu, Man Fai Lau, Tsong Yueh Chen:
  Automatic generation of test cases from Boolean specifications using the MUMCUT strategy. 820-840
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  James W. Helms, James D. Arthur, Deborah Hix, H. Rex Hartson:
  A field study of the Wheel - a usability engineering process model. 841-858

Special Section on Software Architecture

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  Hui Ma, I-Ling Yen, Jia Zhou, Kendra M. L. Cooper:
  QoS analysis for component-based embedded software: Model and methodology. 859-870
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  Anna Grimán, María A. Pérez, Luis Eduardo Mendoza, Francisca Losavio:
  Feature analysis for architectural evaluation methods. 871-888

Volume 79, Number 7, July 2006

Selected papers from the 11th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC2004)

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  Doo-Hwan Bae:
  Guest Editorial. 889-890
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  W. Eric Wong, Yu Qi:
  Effective program debugging based on execution slices and inter-block data dependency. 891-903
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  Pankaj Jalote, Gourav Jain:
  Assigning tasks in a 24-h software development model. 904-911
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  Muhammad Ali Babar, Barbara A. Kitchenham, Liming Zhu, Ian Gorton, D. Ross Jeffery:
  An empirical study of groupware support for distributed software architecture evaluation process. 912-925
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  Jintae Kim, Minseong Kim, Sooyong Park:
  Goal and scenario based domain requirements analysis environment. 926-938
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  Shinji Kawaguchi, Pankaj K. Garg, Makoto Matsushita, Katsuro Inoue:
  MUDABlue: An automatic categorization system for Open Source repositories. 939-953
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  Chanwoo Yoo, Junho Yoon, Byungjeong Lee, Chong-Won Lee, Jinyoung Lee, Seunghun Hyun, Chisu Wu:
  A unified model for the implementation of both ISO 9001: 2000 and CMMI by ISO-certified organizations. 954-961
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  Karl R. P. H. Leung, Joseph Kee-Yin Ng, Wing Lok Yeung:
  Accessing embedded program in untestable mobile environment: Experience of a trustworthiness approach. 962-968

Regular papers

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  Hai Zhuge, Xiangfeng Luo:
  Automatic generation of document semantics for the e-science Knowledge Grid. 969-983
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  Eric Jui-Lin Lu, Bo-Chan Wu, Po-Yun Chuang:
  An empirical study of XML data management in business information systems. 984-1000
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  Lars-Ola Damm, Lars Lundberg:
  Results from introducing component-level test automation and Test-Driven Development. 1001-1014
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  Ricardo Chalmeta:
  Methodology for customer relationship management. 1015-1024
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  Philip Beck, James J. Jiang, Gary Klein:
  Prototyping mediators to project performance: Learning and interaction. 1025-1035

Volume 79, Number 8, August 2006

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  Chung-Ming Huang, Chao-Hsien Lee, Yuan-Tse Yu, Chung-Yi Lai:
  Location-aware multimedia proxy handoff over the IPv6 mobile network environment. 1037-1050
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  Yusuf Hasan, J. Morris Chang:
  A tunable hybrid memory allocator. 1051-1063
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  Constandinos X. Mavromoustakis, Helen D. Karatza:
  On the efficiency and performance evaluation of the bandwidth clustering scheme for adaptive and reliable resource allocation. 1064-1078
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  Katerina Raptopoulou, Michael Vassilakopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos:
  On past-time indexing of moving objects. 1079-1091
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  Nicholas A. Kraft, Errol L. Lloyd, Brian A. Malloy, Peter J. Clarke:
  The implementation of an extensible system for comparison and visualization of class ordering methodologies. 1092-1109
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  Jyh-Horng Wen, Kuo-Ting Huang, Cheng-Ying Yang, Tzu-Chen Tsai:
  Timeslot-sharing algorithm with a dynamic grouping for WDM broadcast-and-select star networks. 1110-1119
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  Chin-Chen Chang, Tzu-Chuen Lu:
  Reversible index-domain information hiding scheme based on side-match vector quantization. 1120-1129
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  Ching-Sheng Hsu, Young-Chang Hou:
  An image size unconstrained ownership identification scheme for gray-level and color ownership statements based on sampling methods. 1130-1140
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  Martín López Nores, José Juan Pazos-Arias, Jorge García Duque, Yolanda Blanco-Fernández, Manuel Ramos Cabrer, Alberto Gil-Solla, Ana Fernández Vilas, Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo:
  Formal specification applied to multiuser distributed services: Experiences in collaborative t-learning. 1141-1155
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  Hsien-Wen Tseng, Chin-Chen Chang:
  Error resilient locally adaptive data compression. 1156-1160
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  Fuh-Gwo Jeng, Chung-Ming Wang:
  An efficient key-management scheme for hierarchical access control based on elliptic curve cryptosystem. 1161-1167
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  Ismail Ababneh:
  An efficient free-list submesh allocation scheme for two-dimensional mesh-connected multicomputers. 1168-1179

Special Section on Software Architecture

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  Jungwoo Ryoo, Hossein Saiedian:
  AVDL: A highly adaptable architecture view description language. 1180-1206
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  Rick Kazman, Len Bass, Mark Klein:
  The essential components of software architecture design and analysis. 1207-1216

Volume 79, Number 9, September 2006

Selected papers from the fourth Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2004) Workshop

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  Tom Dean, Mark Harman, Rainer Koschke, Michael L. Van de Vanter:
  Selected papers from the fourth Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2004) Workshop. 1217-1218
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  Magiel Bruntink, Arie van Deursen:
  An empirical study into class testability. 1219-1232
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  Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-Barahona, Juan Julián Merelo Guervós:
  Beyond source code: The importance of other artifacts in software development (a case study). 1233-1248
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  Jens Krinke:
  Effects of context on program slicing. 1249-1260
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  Chung-Horng Lung, Xia Xu, Marzia Zaman, Anand Srinivasan:
  Program restructuring using clustering techniques. 1261-1279
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  Jean Utke, Andrew Lyons, Uwe Naumann:
  Efficient reversal of the intraprocedural flow of control in adjoint computations. 1280-1294

Regular papers

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  Christina Hansson, Yvonne Dittrich, Björn Gustafsson, Stefan Zarnak:
  How agile are industrial software development practices? 1295-1311
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  Jung-Hua Lo, Chin-Yu Huang:
  An integration of fault detection and correction processes in software reliability analysis. 1312-1323
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  Claudio de la Riva, Javier Tuya:
  Automatic generation of assumptions for modular verification of software specifications. 1324-1340
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  Marjan Hericko, Ivan Rozman, Ales Zivkovic:
  A formal representation of functional size measurement methods. 1341-1358

Volume 79, Number 10, October 2006

Architecting Dependable Systems

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  Rogério de Lemos, Cristina Gacek, Alexander B. Romanovsky:
  Architecting dependable systems. 1359-1360
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  Ji Zhang, Betty H. C. Cheng:
  Using temporal logic to specify adaptive program semantics. 1361-1369
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  Lihua Xu, Hadar Ziv, Thomas A. Alspaugh, Debra J. Richardson:
  An architectural pattern for non-functional dependability requirements. 1370-1378
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  Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson:
  Software architecture-based regression testing. 1379-1396
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  Fernando Castor Filho, Patrick Henrique da S. Brito, Cecília M. F. Rubira:
  Specification of exception flow in software architectures. 1397-1418
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  Ludger Bischofs, Simon Giesecke, Michael Gottschalk, Wilhelm Hasselbring, Timo Warns, Stefan Willer:
  Comparative evaluation of dependability characteristics for peer-to-peer architectural styles by simulation. 1419-1432

Regular papers

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  Isabella Kotini, George Hassapis:
  Verification of rectangular hybrid automata models. 1433-1443
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  Stephan Philippi:
  Automatic code generation from high-level Petri-Nets for model driven systems engineering. 1444-1455
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  Franck Cassez, Olivier H. Roux:
  Structural translation from Time Petri Nets to Timed Automata. 1456-1468
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  Hai Zhuge:
  Semantic component networking: Toward the synergy of static reuse and dynamic clustering of resources in the knowledge grid. 1469-1482

Volume 79, Number 11, November 2006

Software Cybernetics

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  Fevzi Belli, Kai-Yuan Cai, Raymond A. DeCarlo, Aditya P. Mathur:
  Introduction to the special section on software cybernetics. 1483-1485
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  Scott D. Miller, Raymond A. DeCarlo, Aditya P. Mathur, João W. Cangussu:
  A control-theoretic approach to the management of the software system test phase. 1486-1503
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  Hong Xu, Peter Sawyer, Ian Sommerville:
  Requirement process establishment and improvement from the viewpoint of cybernetics. 1504-1513
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  Tiberiu Seceleanu, David Garlan:
  Developing adaptive systems with synchronized architectures. 1514-1526
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  Yan Liu, Bojan Cukic, Edgar Fuller, Sampath Yerramalla, Srikanth Gururajan:
  Monitoring techniques for an online neuro-adaptive controller. 1527-1540

Regular papers

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  J. Drew Procaccino, June M. Verner:
  Software project managers and project success: An exploratory study. 1541-1551
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  Xiaoqing Frank Liu, Gautam Kane, Monu Bambroo:
  An intelligent early warning system for software quality improvement and project management. 1552-1564
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  José Alberto R. P. Sardinha, Ricardo Choren, Viviane Torres da Silva, Ruy Luiz Milidiú, Carlos José Pereira de Lucena:
  A combined specification language and development framework for agent-based application engineering. 1565-1577
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  Jing Zhao, Hongwei Liu, Gang Cui, Xiao-Zong Yang:
  Software reliability growth model with change-point and environmental function. 1578-1587
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  Lu Zhang, Tao Qin, Zhiying Zhou, Dan Hao, Jiasu Sun:
  Identifying use cases in source code. 1588-1598
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  Alexander Thomasian:
  Shortcut method for reliability comparisons in RAID. 1599-1605
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  Sira Vegas, Natalia Juristo Juzgado, Victor R. Basili:
  Packaging experiences for improving testing technique selection. 1606-1618
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  Jie Liu, Hai Zhuge:
  A semantic-based P2P resource organization model R-Chord. 1619-1631
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  Onaiza Maqbool, Haroon Atique Babri:
  Automated software clustering: An insight using cluster labels. 1632-1648
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  Xiaoqing Frank Liu, Yan Sun, Chandra Sekhar Veera, Yuji Kyoya, Kunio Noguchi:
  Priority assessment of software process requirements from multiple perspectives. 1649-1660

Volume 79, Number 12, December 2006

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  Durga Prasad Mohapatra, Rajeev Kumar, Rajib Mall, D. S. Kumar, Mayank Bhasin:
  Distributed dynamic slicing of Java programs. 1661-1678
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  Antonis Sidiropoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos:
  Generalized comparison of graph-based ranking algorithms for publications and authors. 1679-1700
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  Jacob Engel, Daniel Lacks, Taskin Koçak:
  Modelling and simulation of off-chip communication architectures for high-speed packet processors. 1701-1714
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  Alexander Perez-Pons:
  Semantic prefetching objects of slower web site pages. 1715-1724
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  Suzanne W. Dietrich, Rohini Patil, Amy Sundermier, Susan Darling Urban:
  Component adaptation for event-based application integration using active rules. 1725-1734
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  Dora Souliou, Aris Pagourtzis, Nikolaos Drosinos, Panayotis Tsanakas:
  Computing frequent itemsets in parallel using partial support trees. 1735-1743
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  Wan-Chen Lu, Jen-Wei Hsieh, Wei-Kuan Shih, Tei-Wei Kuo:
  A faster exact schedulability analysis for fixed-priority scheduling. 1744-1753
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  Chin-Chen Chang, Tzu-Chuen Lu:
  A difference expansion oriented data hiding scheme for restoring the original host images. 1754-1766
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  Sanghyun Yoo, Jin Hyun Son, Myoung-Ho Kim:
  An efficient subscription routing algorithm for scalable XML-based publish/subscribe systems. 1767-1781
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  Rusty O. Baldwin, Brian S. Peterson, Robert F. Mills:
  Using playing cards to estimate interference in frequency-hopping spread spectrum radio networks. 1782-1788
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  Chengqing Li, Shujun Li, Der-Chyuan Lou, Dan Zhang:
  Erratum to "On the security of the Yen-Guo's domino signal encryption algorithm (DSEA)" [The Journal of Systems and Software 79 (2006) 253-258]. 1789

Special Section on Software Architecture

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  Nenad Medvidovic, René L. Krikhaar, Robert L. Nord, Judith A. Stafford:
  Understanding the past, improving the present, and mapping out the future of software architecture. 1790-1791
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  Antony Tang, Muhammad Ali Babar, Ian Gorton, Jun Han:
  A survey of architecture design rationale. 1792-1804