understanding the genetic regulatory networks, the discovery of interactions between genes, and understanding regulatory processes in a cell at the gene level, is one of the major goals of system biology and computational biology. modeling gene regulatory networks, describing the actions of the cells at the molecular level and is used in medicine and molecular biology applications such as metab...

Reverse engineering has been a standard practice in the hardware community for some time. It has only been within the last ten years that reverse engineering, or “program comprehension,” has grown into the current sub-discipline of software engineering. Traditional software engineering is primarily focused on the development and design of new software. However, most programmers work on software...

Software reverse engineering is a subdiscipline of software engineering, striving to provide support for the comprehension of software systems by creating suitable representations of the system in another formor higher level of abstraction. In order to be effective, reverse engineering needs tool support, which provides functionality to extract low-level facts from the systems, to analyze and g...

Data reverse engineering is a rapidly growing field which is sometimes misunderstood. In our effort to promote the realization that data reverse engineering is a valuable and essential part of reverse engineering and is now finding its place in software engineering, we present a summary of the history of data reverse engineering. In this paper, a definition of data reverse engineering, a summar...

The Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) recognized reverse engineering as an essential competence and thus has been active in the field since 1996, which is right from its beginning. The role of reverse engineering, however, within the institute changed over time. Since Fraunhofer IESE is an applied research institute its competencies are tailored to the market to ...

This paper motivates and describes a research program in the area of reverse engineering being w conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Reverse engineering is an emerging interest area ithin the software engineering field. Software engineering itself is concerned with improving the pro-c ductivity of the software development process and the quality of the systems it produces. However...

NOTE: This position paper has been coordinated among the software specialists of certification authorities from the United States, Europe, and Canada. However, it does not constitute official policy or guidance from any of the authorities. This document is provided for educational and informational purposes only and should be discussed with the appropriate certification authority when consideri...

Software Reverse Engineering is the process of extracting (usually more abstract) information from software artifacts. Graph-based engineering tools work on fact repositories that keep all artifacts as graphs. Hence, information extraction can be viewed as querying this repository. This paper describes the graph query language GReQL and its use in reverse engineering tools. GReQL is an expressi...

This paper considers simultaneous fitting of multiple curves and surfaces to 3D measured data captured as part of a reverse engineering process, where constraints exist between the parameters of the curves or surfaces. Enforcing such constraints may be necessary (i) to produce models to sufficiently accurate tolerances for import into a CAD system, and (ii) to produce models which successfully ...