We demonstrate how the data management techniques known as On{Line Analytical Processing, or OLAP, can be used to enhance the sophistication and range of software reverse engineering tools. This is the rst comprehensive examination of the similarities and diierences in these tasks both in how OLAP techniques meet (or fail to meet) the needs of reverse engineering and in how reverse engineering ...

In this paper we present our approach to several common problems in reverse engineering that are built around the Columbus framework. Columbus defines several fundamental building blocks for the use in reverse engineering processes, and as such it can be an important player in the studies conducted at the workshop for Empirical Studies in Reverse Engineering. The Columbus framework proved its u...

Advances in the physical sciences often foster advances in the biological sciences. In this paper I deal with just one of those many contributions and describe a trail that leads from Faraday’s discovery of electromagnetic induction to a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), which can be used to temporarily prevent the brain from carrying out some of its normal functions. Th...

Many biologists believe that biological experimental techniques using gene expression with micro array enable to discover the structure and function of genetic networks in cells. Recent study interest is to use the results of the techniques and infer the biological facts such as signal pathways. In this paper, I present and compare several methodologies to explore and reconstruct genetic networ...

The Rigi environment is a mature research tool that provides functionality to reverse engineer software systems. With Rigi large systems can be analyzed, summarized, and documented. This is supported with the extraction of information from source code, an exchange format to store extracted information, analyses to transform and abstract information, and visualization of information in the form ...

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...