Information & Software Technology, Volume 39

Volume 39, Number 1, 1997

• Theo J. W. Renkema, Egon Berghout:
  Methodologies for information systems investment evaluation at the proposal stage: a comparative review. 1-13
  
• Paul J. M. Frederiks, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, E. Lippe:
  A unifying framework for conceptual data modelling concepts. 15-25
  
• Hee Beng Kuan Tan, Tok Wang Ling:
  A method for the recovery of inclusion dependencies from data-intensive business programs. 27-34
  
• Stephen G. MacDonell:
  Establishing relationships between specification size and software process effort in CASE environments. 35-45
  
• Vijayalakshmi Atluri, Elisa Bertino, Sushil Jajodia:
  A theoretical formulation for degrees of isolation in databases. 47-53
  
• Bill Samson, David Ellison, Pat Dugard:
  Software cost estimation using an Albus perceptron (CMAC). 55-60
  

Volume 39, Number 2, 1997

• Silvana Castano, Valeria De Antonellis:
  Engineering a library of reusable conceptual components. 65-76
  
• N. Mukherjee, P. K. Das:
  An approach towards parallelisation of sequential programs in an interactive environment. 77-89
  
• Grant Friel, David Budgen:
  Design transformation and prototyping using multiple viewpoints. 91-105
  
• Geetha Abeysinghe, Keith Phalp:
  Combining process modelling methods. 107-124
  
• Athena Vakali, Yannis Manolopoulos:
  Parallel data paths in two-headed disk systems. 125-135
  

Volume 39, Number 3, March 1997

• Hock Chuan Chan, Kwok Kee Wei, Keng L. Siau:
  A system for query comprehension. 141-148
  
• Hyeokman Kim, Sukho Lee, Hyoung-Joo Kim:
  Distributed query optimization using two-step pruning. 149-169
  
• Ranjit Bose, Stephen D. Burd:
  Control and coordination of heterogeneous transaction processing systems. 171-184
  
• K. X. Thrampoulidis, Christos Goumopoulos, Efthymios Housos:
  Rule handling in the day-to-day resource management problem: an object-oriented approach. 185-193
  
• Choon-Ling Sia, Yin-Seong Ho:
  Predictive capacity planning: a proactive approach. 195-204
  
• Chiara Francalanci, Alfonso Fuggetta:
  Integrating conflicting requirements in process modeling: a survey and research directions. 205-216
  
• Martin Neil:
  Are software failures deterministic? 217-219
  

Volume 39, Number 4, April 1997

• Lingzi Jin, Hong Zhu, Patrick A. V. Hall:
  Adequate testing of hypertext applications. 225-234
  
• J. P. Gray:
  CASE tool construction for a parallel software development methodology. 235-252
  
• Ken Deighton:
  Queries on two headed fast disks with smart track management using dynamic scans. 253-259
  
• Warren X. Li:
  Interactively extracting internal program information in language-based editing systems. 261-270
  
• Lin Lian, Shinji Kusumoto, Tohru Kikuno, Ken-ichi Matsumoto, Koji Torii:
  A new fault localizing method for the program debugging process. 271-284
  
• James Miller, John W. Daly, Murray Wood, Marc Roper, Andrew Brooks:
  Statistical power and its subcomponents - missing and misunderstood concepts in empirical software engineering research. 285-295
  
• Tzvi Raz, Alan T. Yaung:
  Factors affecting design inspection effectiveness in software development. 297-305
  

Volume 39, Number 5, 1997

• Donal J. Flynn, Enrique A. Arce:
  A CASE tool to support critical success factors analysis in IT planning and requirements determination. 311-321
  
• Stephen King:
  Tool support for systems emergence: A multimedia CASE tool. 323-330
  
• Nick Bassiliades, Ioannis P. Vlahavas:
  DEVICE: Compiling production rules into event-driven rules using complex events. 331-342
  
• Huaiqing Wang:
  SQL Tutor+: A co-operative ITS with repository support. 343-350
  
• Bryn R. Marshall, Jessie B. Kennedy, Peter J. Barclay:
  bclasses: A construct and method for modelling co-operative object behaviour. 351-361
  
• Krichnakumar Pillai, V. S. S. Nair:
  Statistical analysis of nonstationary software metrics. 363-373
  

Volume 39, Number 6, 1997

• Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Maria L. Barja, Norman W. Paton, M. Howard Williams:
  The formalisation of ROCK & ROLL: A deductive object-oriented database system. 379-389
  
• Harri Oinas-Kukkonen:
  Towards greater flexibility in software design systems through hypermedia functionality. 391-397
  
• C. S. Murali, Chetan S. Sankar:
  Issues in estimating real-time data communications software projects. 399-402
  
• R. Chattamvelli, Hossein Saiedian:
  Enhanced reusability via polymorphic additive virtual methods in C++. 403-415
  
• Michalis Nik Xenos, Dimitris Christodoulakis:
  Measuring perceived software quality. 417-424
  
• Andrew R. Gray, Stephen G. MacDonell:
  A comparison of techniques for developing predictive models of software metrics. 425-437
  
• S. Y. Liao:
  Process to identify disjoint subclasses and class life cycle information using a role analysis technique. 439-444
  

Volume 39, Number 7, 1997

• Hossein Saiedian:
  An evaluation of extended entity-relationship model. 449-462
  
• Hai Zhuge, Jian Ma, Xiaoqing Shi:
  Abstraction and analogy in cognitive space: A software process model. 463-468
  
• Gerhard E. Wittig, Gavin R. Finnie:
  Estimating software development effort with connectionist models. 469-476
  
• Thomas Schreck, Zhengxin Chen:
  Implementation of locking schemes in extended dependency graphs. 477-483
  
• Weili Yao, Xudong He:
  Mapping Petri nets to concurrent programs in CC++. 485-495
  
• Christof Ebert, Ivan J. Morschel:
  Metrics for quality analysis and improvement of object-oriented software. 497-509
  

Volume 39, Number 8, August 1997

• Timothy K. Shih, Chun-Chia Wang, Chi-Ming Chung:
  Using Z to specify object-oriented software complexity measures. 515-529
  
• Paul Beynon-Davies:
  Ethnography and information systems development: Ethnography of, for and within is development. 531-540
  
• I. M. Marshall, S. Price, P. I. Dugard, P. Hobbs, W. B. Samson:
  Code-based analysis of the development effort of a large scale courseware project. 541-549
  
• Jeremy Dick, Eoin Woods:
  Lessons learned from rigorous system software development. 551-560
  
• Chung-Ming Huang, Ye-In Chang, Chih-Hao Lin, Jhy-Shiou Chen:
  Distributed multimedia synchronization specifications using M²EST. 561-578
  

Volume 39, Number 9, 1997

• Loe M. G. Feijs:
  Synchronous sequence charts in action. 583-606
  
• Mehdi Owrang, Fritz H. Grupe:
  Database tools to acquire knowledge for rule-based expert systems. 607-616
  
• Abdulazeez S. Boujarwah, Kassem Saleh:
  Compiler test case generation methods: a survey and assessment. 617-625
  
• Prodromos D. Chatzoglou:
  Factors affecting completion of the requirements capture stage of projects with different characteristics. 627-640
  
• Daniel K. C. Chan, Philip W. Trinder:
  A processing framework for object comprehensions. 641-651
  

Volume 39, Number 10, 1997

• Hock C. Chan, Robert C. Goldstein:
  User-database interaction at the knowledge level of abstraction. 657-668
  
• Chia-Chu Chiang:
  Structured design with mathematical proofs. 669-677
  
• Harry W. Agius, Marios C. Angelides:
  Integrating logical video and audio segments with content-related information in instructional multimedia systems. 679-694
  
• Carol Britton, Sara Jones, Margaret Myers, Mitra Sharif:
  A survey of current practice in the development of multimedia systems. 695-705
  
• Derek Partridge, Wojtek J. Krzanowski:
  Software diversity: practical statistics for its measurement and exploitation. 707-717
  
• F. T. Chan, Tsong Yueh Chen, T. H. Tse:
  On the effectiveness of test case allocation schemes in partition testing. 719-726
  

Volume 39, Number 11, 1997

• Barbara Kitchenham, Pearl Brereton, David Budgen, Stephen G. Linkman, Vicki L. Almstrum, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger:
  Evaluation and assessment in software engineering. 731-734
  
• Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Dolores R. Wallace:
  Experimental validation in software engineering. 735-743
  
• Stefano De Panfilis, Barbara Kitchenham, N. Morfuni:
  Experiences introducing a measurement program. 745-754
  
• Martin Höst, Claes Wohlin:
  A subjective effort estimation experiment. 755-762
  
• Marc Roper, Murray Wood, James Miller:
  An empirical evaluation of defect detection techniques. 763-775
  
• Stephen G. Linkman, H. Dieter Rombach:
  Experimentation as a vehicle for software technology transfer-A family of software reading techniques. 777-780
  
• Oliver Laitenberger, Jean-Marc DeBaud:
  Perspective-based reading of code documents at Robert Bosch GmbH. 781-791
  

Volume 39, Number 12, 1997

• Inger V. Eriksson, Aimo A. Törn:
  Introduction to IST special issue on information system quality. 797-799
  
• Liisa von Hellens:
  Information systems quality versus software quality a discussion from a managerial, an organisational and an engineering viewpoint. 801-808
  
• Tomi Dahlberg, Janne Järvinen:
  Challenges to IS quality. 809-818
  
• H. Salmela:
  From information systems quality to sustainable business quality. 819-825
  
• Kicka Lindroos:
  Use quality and the World Wide Web. 827-836
  
• Thorbjorn Andersson, Liisa von Hellens:
  Information systems work quality. 837-844
  
• E. Burton Swanson:
  Maintaining IS quality. 845-850
  

Volume 39, Number 13, 1997

• Peretz Shoval, Opher Feldman:
  A combination of the Mk-II function points software estimation method with the ADISSA methodology for systems analysis and design. 855-865
  
• Alan R. Hevner:
  Phase containment metrics for software quality improvement. 867-877
  
• Elaine Ferneley:
  An empirical study of coupling and control flow metrics. 879-887
  
• Tsong Yueh Chen, Pak-Lok Poon:
  Construction of classification trees via the classification-hierarchy table. 889-896
  
• Sang-Wook Kim, Kyu-Young Whang, Jin-Ho Kim:
  Linearity in directory growth of the multilevel grid file. 897-908
  

Volume 39, Numbers 14-15, 1998

• Jonathan Lee, Lein F. Lai:
  Verifying task-based specifications in conceptual graphs. 913-923
  
• Motoshi Saeki:
  A meta-model for method integration. 925-932
  
• James J. Jiang, Gary Klein, Joseph L. Balloun:
  Perceptions of system development failures. 933-937
  
• Joachim Karlsson, Claes Wohlin, Björn Regnell:
  An evaluation of methods for prioritizing software requirements. 939-947
  
• Md. Mahbubur Rahim, Afzaal H. Seyal, Mohd. Noah Abd. Rahman:
  Use of software systems development methods An empirical study in Brunei Darussalam. 949-963
  
• Deron Liang, S. C. Chou, Shyan-Ming Yuan:
  A fault-tolerant object service in the OMG's object management architecture. 965-973
  
• Kassem Saleh, Khaled Al-Saqabi:
  Error detection and diagnosis for fault tolerance in distributed systems. 975-983
  
• Charlotte Jenkins, Mike Jackson, Peter Burden, Jon Wallis:
  Searching the world wide web: an evaluation of available tools and methodologies. 985-994
  
• Ilkka Tervonen, Pentti Kerola:
  Towards deeper co-understanding of software quality. 995-1003