Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Volume 36

Volume 36, Number 1, January 1997

June M. Verner, Narciso Cerpa: Prototyping: Does Your View of its Advantages Depend on Your Job? 3-16
Yasuhiro Mashiko, Victor R. Basili: Using the GQM Paradigm to Investigate Influential Factors for Software Process Improvement. 17-32
Bob Rehder, Nancy Pennington, Adrienne Y. Lee: Scoring the Completeness of Software Designs. 33-68
Richard Lai: A Success Story of Verifying a Real Complex Protocol. 69-83
Robert L. Glass: Pilot Studies: What, Why, and How. 85-97

Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar, Edward B. Allen, David L. Lanning: An Information Theory-Based Approach to Quantifying the Contribution of a Software Metric. 103-113
Chung-Ming Huang, Jenq-Muh Hsu, L. Huei-Yang, H. Duen-Tay, P. Jao-Chiang: An Estelle-Based Incremental Protocol Design System. 115-135
Richard Lai: An Experience in Using EDT to Process the ISO Transaction Processing Estelle Specification. 137-145
R. W. Matzen, K. M. George, G. E. Hedrick: A Formal Language Model for Parsing SGML. 147-166
C. Chin-Chen, W. Chih-Hung: A Locally Adaptive Data Compression Strategy for Chinese-English Characters. 167-179
Yi-Bing Lin, Joe Geigel: A Graphical User Interface Design for Network Simulation. 181-190
Narasimhaiah Gorla, R. Ramakrishnan: Effect of Software Structure Attributes on Software Development Productivity. 191-199

Robert L. Glass: Software Reflections - A Pioneer's View of the History of the Field. 203-209
Arun Lakhotia: A Unified Framework For Expressing Software Subsystem Classification Techniques. 211-231
Achilles Kameas, Panayiotis E. Pintelas: The Functional Architecture and Interaction Model of a GENerator of Intelligent TutORing Applications. 233-245
Samir M. Koriem, Lalit M. Patnaik: A Generalized Stochastic High-Level Petri Net Model for Performance Analysis. 247-265
Carl K. Chang, H. Tsai: A Generalized Secret Sharing Scheme. 267-272
Mary Jean Harrold, A. Jefferson Offutt, Kanupriya Tewary: An Approach to Fault Modeling and Fault Seeding Using the Program Dependence Graph. 273-295
Germinal Boloix: System Evaluation and Quality Improvement. 297-311
Lionel C. Briand, William M. Thomas: Response to ``Handling Regression Subsets in Software Modeling'' by Ronald Gulezian. 313-314