The paper discusses the role of process and robotics simulation in the automotive industry. Real-world applications of simulation in the body shop, paint shop and general assembly areas of a vehicle assembly plant are given in addition to Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and supply chain logistics applications. Uses of simulation during the different phases of an engineering project are add...

This paper describes the experiences of a small team of domain experts in reengineering the configuration control software for the 5ESS® switch. The project consisted of three main phases: discovery, design, and deployment. During the discovery phase the team conducted a domain analysis of configuration control software. In the design phase the team created domainspecific languages and supporti...

Software reengineering has been described as being “about as easy as reconstructing a pig from a sausage” [11]. But the development of program transformation theory, as embodied in the FermaT transformation system, has made this miraculous feat into a practical possibility. This paper describes the theory behind the FermaT system and describes a recent migration project in which over 544,000 li...

In the FAMOOS project we have developed a set of tools for reengineering object-oriented legacy systems. These tools are based on the FAMIX meta model and exchange information using CDIF, an industry standard exchange format. For several reasons XMI, an emerging standard for information exchange, has appealed to us to be used as our interchange format. In this paper we discuss why XMI is intere...

a) Summary of results This project addresses the problem of how to organize and structure software systems in such a way that they can be easily adapted to changing requirements. We focus on (1) tools and techniques for extracting architectural artifacts, i.e., for decomposing software, and (2) mechanisms and language features for flexibly constructing software from parts, i.e., for composing s...

Language conversion is a laborious process. Achieving the maximum efficiency of conversion without compromising the quality of converted system is the programmers’ dream. This paper illustrates the quest for this trade-off by a case study. We consider an industrial reengineering project, which included translation of a client/server system written in a proprietary language into two different pr...

This paper investigates some of the relationships between reengineering and knowledge management, with particular emphasis on sequencing relationships between reengineering and knowledge management. This is done using four basic approaches. First the paper explores how some knowledge management computing artifacts can be reengineered. Second, the paper traces the interaction between reengineeri...

The purpose of this research was to empirically determine what benefits were realized by organizations that have undertaken a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project. The survey’s respondents indicated that they were general& satis$ed with their BPR projects. The findings suggest that BPR enabled organizations to increase productivity+ to raise the qua@ of products and services, to increas...

In this paper it is argued that different kinds of reengineering technologies can be based on querying. Several reengineering technologies are presented as being integrated into a technically oriented reengineering taxonomy. The usefulness of querying is pointed out with respect to these reengineering technologies. To impose querying as a base technology in reengineering examples are given with...

The process of reengineering the functional elements of management information system must presented as stable, in which all the kernel functional components of the management information system should be saved. Problem statements: There is no formalized models for stabile reengineering for the functional structure (functional elements) for various information systems types, therefore the proce...