The problem is that programs have a purpose; their job is to compute something. And for the computat t tion to be of value, the program must model or approximate some aspect of the real world. To the extent tha he model is accurate, the program will succeed in accomplishing its purpose. To the extent that the model is comprehended by the reverse engineer, the process of understanding the progra...

This is an abstract of a revision of the original paper (ER'93 pre-proceedings2) that presents a DBMS-independent database reverse engineering (DBRE) methodology based on a generic process model and on transformation techniques. DBRE is proposed as a twophase process consisting in recovering the DBMS-dependent data structures (data structure extraction) then in recovering their semantics (data ...

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...

Microcode is an abstraction layer on top of the physical components of a CPU and present in most generalpurpose CPUs today. In addition to facilitate complex and vast instruction sets, it also provides an update mechanism that allows CPUs to be patched in-place without requiring any special hardware. While it is well-known that CPUs are regularly updated with this mechanism, very little is know...

The aim of Reverse Engineering is to convert an unstructured representation of a geometric object, emerging e.g. from laser scanners, into a natural, structured representation in the spirit of CAD models, which is suitable for numerical computations. Therefore we present a user-controlled, as isometric as possible parameterization technique which is able to prescribe geometric features of the i...

Reverse Engineering is focused on the challenging task of understanding legacy program code without having suitable documentation. Using a transformational forward engineering perspective, the much of difficulty is caused by design decisions made during system development. Such decisions “hide” the program functionality and performance requirements in the final system by applying repeated refin...

This paper discusses the relevance and potential impact of both RFID and reverse engineering of RFID technology, followed by a discussion of common protocols and internals of RFID technology. The focus of the paper is on providing an overview of the different approaches to reverse engineering RFID technology and possible countermeasures that could limit the potential of such reverse engineering...

Java applets have been used increasingly on web sites to perform client-side processing and provide dynamic content. While many web site analysis tools are available, their focus has been on static HTML content and most ignore applet code completely. This paper presents a system that analyzes and tracks changes in Java applets. The tool extracts information from applet code about classes, metho...

Building systems from existing applications and mats and types. Different data formats and languages have data sources is common practice. Semi-structured data sources (such as XML, HTML, and databases) and programming languages (such as C# and Java) conform to welldefined, albeit different, type systems, each with their own unique underlying representations. As a consequence, reverse engineeri...

Database reverse engineering mainly deals with schema extraction, analysis and transformation. In the same way as for any other database engineering process, it must rely on a rich set of models. These models must be able to describe data structures at different levels of abstraction, ranging from physical to conceptual, and according to various modeling paradigms. In addition, statically descr...