Jakob Axelsson: A Hardware/Software Codesign Methodology and Workbench for Predictable Developm ent of Hard Real-Time Systems. Accepted for a "work in progress" session of the 9th Euromicro Workshop on real -time systems, to be held in Toledo in June. Jakob Axelsson: Architecture Synthesis and Partitioning of Real-Time Systems: A Comparison of T hree Heuristic Search Strategies. Accepted to the 5th International Workshop on Hardware/Software Codesign (Codes /CASHE 97), to be held in Braunschweig, Germany, in March. Mikael Lindvall, Kristian Sandahl: How Well do Experienced Software Developers Predict Software Change? Accepted for publication in the Journal of Systems and Software. Joachim Karlsson, Claes Wohlin, Björn Regnell: An Evaluation of Methods for Prioritizing Software Requirements. Accepted for publication in the journal Information and Software Technology.