The Journal of Systems and Software is a computer science

Computer science

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 journal

Scientific journal

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 in the area of software systems, established in 1979 and published by Elsevier

Elsevier

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The journal publishes research papers, state-of-the-art surveys

Survey article

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, and practical experience report

Report

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s. It includes papers covering issues of programming methodology, software engineering

Software engineering

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, and hardware

Hardware

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/software system

System

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s. Topics include: "software systems, prototyping issues, high-level specification techniques, procedural

Procedural programming

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 and functional programming

Functional programming

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 techniques, data-flow concepts, multiprocessing

Multiprocessing

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, real-time

Real-time computing

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, distributed, concurrent, and telecommunications systems, software metrics, reliability

Reliability engineering

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 models for software, performance

Performance

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 issues, and management

Management

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 concerns."

Impact factor

According to the 2008 Journal Citation Reports

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the Journal of Systems and Software has an impact factor of 1.241.

Notable articles

A few of the most notable (downloaded) articles are:

• A distributed server architecture supporting dynamic resource provisioning for bpm-oriented workflow management systems.
• Per-flow Optimal Service Selection for Web Services Based Processes.
• Requirement-based approach for groupware environments design.