Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Volume 45

Volume 45, Number 1, February 1999

• Editorial. 1-2
• Giuseppe Visaggio:
  Assessment of a renewal process experimented in the field. 3-17
  
• Bingchiang Jeng:
  Toward an integration of data flow and domain testing. 19-30
  
• Ugur Çetintemel, Jürgen Zimmermann, Özgür Ulusoy, Alejandro P. Buchmann:
  OBJECTIVE: a benchmark for object-oriented active database systems. 31-43
  
• Susan V. Vrbsky, Sasa Tomic:
  Satisfying temporal consistency constraints of real-time databases. 45-60
  
• Yi Deng, Chia-Rung Yang:
  Architecture-driven modeling of real-time concurrent systems with applications in FMS. 61-78
  

Volume 45, Number 2, March 1999

• Editorial. 79-80
• Michael Katchabaw, Stephen L. Howard, Hanan Lutfiyya, Andrew D. Marshall, Michael A. Bauer:
  Making distributed applications manageable through instrumentation. 81-97
  
• Xiaohua Jia, Jiannong Cao, Weijia Jia:
  A classification of multicast mechanisms: implementations and applications. 99-112
  
• Weijia Jia:
  Communicating object group and protocols for distributed systems. 113-126
  
• France Cheong, Richard Lai:
  QoS specification and mapping for distributed multimedia systems: A survey of issues. 127-139
  
• Jiannong Cao, Olivier Y. de Vel, Ling Shi:
  Rapid prototyping of distributed algorithms. 141-154
  
• Samir M. Koriem:
  Fast and simple decomposition techniques for the reliability analysis of interconnection networks. 155-171
  

Volume 45, Number 3, March 1999

• Editorial. 173-175
• Geoffry S. Howard, Thomas Bodnovich, Thomas Janicki, Jens Liegle, Steven Klein, Paul Albert, David Cannon:
  The efficacy of matching information systems development methodologies with application characteristics - an empirical study. 177-195
  
• Mark M. Misic, Nancy L. Russo:
  An assessment of systems analysis and design courses. 197-202
  
• Karl Brett Lloyd, David John Jankowski:
  A cognitive information processing and information theory approach to diagram clarity: A synthesis and experimental investigation. 203-214
  
• Elizabeth J. Davidson:
  Joint application design (JAD) in practice. 215-223
  
• Venkataraman Ramesh, Glenn J. Browne:
  Expressing casual relationships in conceptual database schemas. 225-232
  
• Torbjörn Näslund, Jonas Löwgren:
  Usability inspection in contract-based systems development - A contextual assessment. 233-240