Function Points are generally used for measuring software functional size from a user perspective. This paper is concerned with the problem of counting function points from source code using the Function Point Analysis proposed by the International Function point User Group (IFPUG) 1994 standards. This paper presents the Automated FP counting scope and objective, the presentation of an existing...

While short training courses in reverse engineering are frequently offered at meetings like Blackhat and through training organizations such as SANS, there are virtually no reverse engineering courses offered in academia. This paper discusses possible reasons for this situation, emphasizes the importance of teaching reverse engineering (and applied computer security education in general), and p...

The new possibilities offered by WEB applications are pervasively and radically changing several areas. WEB applications, compared to WEB sites, offer substantially greater opportunities: a WEB application provides the WEB user with a means to modify the site status. WEB applications must cope with an extremely short development/evolution life cycle. Usually, they are implemented without produc...

TGraphs are directed graphs with typed, attributed, and ordered nodes and edges. These properties leverage the use of graphs as models for all kinds of artifacts in the context of software reengineering. TGraphs are accompanied by metamodel based technologies to define, manipulate, analyze, query, visualize, and transform graphs. This paper summarizes the work accomplished around TGraphs and gr...

The new possibilities offered by WEB applications are pervasively and radically changing several areas. WEB applications, compared to WEB sites, offer substantially greater opportunities: a WEB application provides the WEB user with a means to modify the site status. WEB applications represent a competitive advantage: they are critical and strategically relevant resources, not only to communica...

A Web application is a software system which provides its functionalities through the Web. Understanding, maintaining and re-engineering legacy Web applications requires a reverse-engineering process. In a previous work, an ontology based Web application reverse-engineering approach has been proposed for recovering data models presenting static aspect of the Web application. In this paper we ex...

A method for reverse engineering user interfaces based on their structural and behavioural representations is presented. The interface structure is represented using an object oriented approach while interface behaviour is described using Milner's process algebra (CCS). A speciication language for user interfaces has been designed for the multiple purposes of serving as a target language for th...

Reverse engineering of large legacy software systems is widely recognized to be a difficult problem. How bad is it? By an argument that identifies key underlying sources of the difficulty, reverse engineering of legacy code is shown to be intractable in the usual computational complexity sense. This conclusion implies that we should not be too enthusiastic about the ultimate value of reverse en...

for more than three decades, oxidative coupling of methane (ocm) process has been comprehensively investigated as an attractive alternative for the commercially available ethylene production technologies such as ethane and naphtha cracking. developing a suitable catalyst and proper reactor feeding policy, reviewing and deploying the efficient methods in the separation and purification of the un...