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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com The Journalof science @oinecr, Svstems and ele Software ELSEVIER The Journal of Systems and Software 74 (2005) 3: www.elsey ier.com/locate/jss Contents Volume 74 Contents Special Issue: Automated Component-Based Software Engineering Automated Component-Based Software Engineering I. Crnkovic, H.W. Schmidt, J. Stafford and K. Wallnau Deployed software component testing using dynamic validation agents J. Grundy, G. Ding and J. Hosking Towards automatic monitoring of component-based software systems M. Zulkernine and R. Seviora A data-centric approach to composing embedded, real-time software components R. Wuyts, S. Ducasse and O. Nierstrasz Performance prediction of component-based applications S. Chen, Y. Liu, I. Gorton and A. Liu A formal approach to component adaptation A. Bracciali, A. Brogi and C. Canal “Computer, please, tell me what I have to do...”: an approach to agent-aided application composition M.R. Campo, J. Andres Diaz Pace and F.U. Trilnik Automated support for service-based software development and integration G.C. Gannod, S8.V. Mudiam and T.E. Lindquist Regular papers A formal software requirements specification method for digital nuclear plant protection systems J. Yoo, T. Kim, S. Cha, J.-S. Lee and H. Seong Son Some successful approaches to software reliability modeling in industry D.R. Jeske and X. Zhang Software requirement understanding using Pathfinder networks: discovering and evaluating mental models U.K. Kudikyala and R.B. Vaughn Special Issue: The new context for software engineering education and training The new context for software engineering education and training H. Saiedian and B.W. Weide Developing and using a web-based project process throughout the software engineering curriculum D.J. Bagert and S.A. Mengel eXtreme Programming—helpful or harmful in educating undergraduates? J.-G. Schneider and L. Johnston Teaching extreme programming to large groups of students G. Hedin, L. Bendix and B. Magnusson doi: 10.1016/S0164-1212(04)00161-X Contents Volume 74 / The Journal of Systems and Software 74 (2005 ) 337-338 Integrating formalism into undergraduate software engineering P. Alexander Regular papers A maturity model for the implementation of software process improvement: an empirical study M. Niazi, D. Wilson and D. Zowghi Product derivation in software product families: a case study S. Deelstra, M. Sinnema and J. Bosch Modification of standard Function Point complexity weights system M.A. Al-Hajri, A.A. Abdul Ghani, M.N. Sulaiman and M.H. Selamat Characterizing a data model for software measurement L. Chirinos, F. Losavio and J. Boegh Erratum to “An empirical study of maintenance and development estimation accuracy” {The Journal of Systems and Software 64 (2002) 57—77| B. Kitchenham, S. Lawrence Pfleeger, B. McColl and S. Eagan ECEM: an event correlation based event manager for an I/O-intensive application S.S. Lim and K.H. Park Measurement-based end to end latency performance prediction for SLA verification C.M. Leung and J.A. Schormans Simulating autonomous agents in augmented reality E. Gelenbe, K. Hussain and V. Kaptan An empirical study of system design instability metric and design evolution in an agile software process M. Alshayeb and W. Li Software failure prediction based on a Markov Bayesian network model C.G. Bai, Q.P. Hu, M. Xie and S.H. Ng Static and dynamic distance metrics for feature-based code analysis W.E. Wong and S. Gokhale On the security of some proxy blind signature schemes H.-M. Sun, B.-T. Hsieh and S.-M. Tseng Improving the performance of client Web object retrieval A.P. Pons Adaptive index management for future location-based queries H.K. Park, J.H. Son and M.H. Kim An investigation of software engineering curricula B. Kitchenham, D. Budgen, P. Brereton and P. Woodall Contents Volume 74