><) The Journalo f Svstems and Software Contents Volume 43 Contents Editor’s Corner Expert systems: failure or success? R.L. Glass A criticism on the capture-and-recapture method for software reliability assurance S Isoda Reverse engineering of software threads: A design recovery technique for large multi-process systems N. Wilde, C. Casey, J. Vandeville, G. Trio and D. Hotz How well do experienced software developers predict software change? M. Lindvall and K. Sandahl A study of atomic action schemes intended for standard Ada A. Romanovsky Exploiting and-or parallelism in Prolog: The OASys computational model and abstract architecture I. Viahavas An assessment of systems and software engineering scholars and institutions (1993-1997) R.L. Glass Editorial Anecdote corner R.L. Glass A narrative history and description of MOSIS software R. Ayres Editorial Editor’s corner: A success/failure story R.L. Glass A case study of evolution in object oriented and heterogeneous architectures V. Rajlich and S. Ragunathan Tarilan: an embedded functional data processing language K. De Bosschere Human-computer interaction: Interdisciplinary roots and trends H. Rex Hartson F-metric: a WWW-based framework for intelligent formulation and analysis of metric queries C.L. Chee, S. Jarzabek and R. Paul 246 Contents Volume 43 Comparative study and categorization of high-level petri nets V.C. Gerogiannis, A.D. Kameas and P.E. Pintelas Editor’s Corner Cleaning up the trash after Y2K gets "solved" Robert L. Glass User cognitive representations: The case for an object oriented model R. Krovi and A. Chandra Combining OMT with a prototyping approach W. Hasselbring and A. Krober The ProSet-Linda approach to prototyping parallel systems W. Hasselbring On heuristics for optimal configuration of hierarchical distributed monitoring systems J. Cao, K. Zhang and O. de Vel A taxonomy of distributed termination detection algorithms J. Matocha and T. Camp On using similarity for concurrency control in real-time database systems K. Lam and W. Yau An effective model for composition of secure systems Q. Shi and N. Zhang Contents volume 43