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The Journal of vt Systems and Software Volume 22, Number 1, July 1993 Contents Editor’s Corner Error Detection: Which is Better, Reviews or Testing? Robert L. Glass Transaction Management in Design Databases Muruganandan Kumar and Johnny Wong A Comprehensive Methodology for Computer Family Selection 17 Moshe Zviran Ddbx-LPP: A Dynamic Software Tool for Debugging Asynchronous 27 Distributed Algorithms on Loosely Coupled Parallel Processors Mariano G. Fernandez and Sumit Ghosh DPDP: An Interactive Debugger for Parallel and Distributed Processing 45 M. Zaki, M. Y. El-Nahas, and H. A. Allam The Design and Implementation of a Distributed Program Monitor 63 Wanlei Zhou Biographies 78 Volume 22, Number 2, August 1993 Contents Editor’s Corner The Gold We’ve Failed to Mine 79 Robert L. Glass Implementing an Evolutionary Structural Software Model 81 Danny C. C. Poo A Visual Object-Oriented Concurrent LISP Multiparadigm Environment 91 K. W. Ng Using Rank Hashing Function to Develop a Data Allocating Scheme for a Two-Disk System 107 S. M. Tang and L. R. Chow Establishing Software Development Process Control: Technical Objectives, Operational 117 Requirements, and the Foundational Framework James D. Arthur, Richard E. Nance, and Osman Balci Prioritizing Software Development Productivity Factors Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process 129 Gavin R. Finnie, Gerhard E. Wittig, and Doncho I. Petkov Controversy Corner 141 How Effective Are Software Engineering Methods? Norman Fenton Biographies 147 Call for Papers 148 Volume 22, Number 3, September 1993 Contents Editor’s Corner In Defense of Adhocracy 149 Robert L. Glass A Multiproject Perspective of Single-Project Dynamics 151 Tarek K. Abdel-Hamid An Empirical Study of Iteration in Applications Software 167 Allan M. Stavely A Method for Predicting the Impact of User Interface Design on Software Design 179 W. David Hurley A Distributed Algorithm for Managing Resources in a Hierarchical Network 191 Anna Haé¢ A String Pattern-Matching Algorithm 207 Daniel K. Chang Process Clustering with an Algorithm Based on a Coupling Metric 217 Tzvi Raz and Alan Yaung Biographies 225 Call for Papers 227 Volume Contents