In a review of existing reverse engineering literature, it became clear that there is no shared vision on key topics in reverse engineering. As a result, the many research contributions appear to lack uniformity with regard to the way results are reported. In this short paper, we present ”the Reverse Engineering wiki”1, an initiative started at ICPC 2006 in the working session on Experimental S...

INTRODUCTION: REVERSE ENGINEERING This paper motivates and describes a research program in the area of reverse engineering being conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Reverse engineering is an emerging interest area within the software engineering eld. Software engineering itself is concerned with improving the productivity of the software development process and the quality of the ...

We propose a new design for inspection and reverse engineering environments In particular we investigate the use of discrete event dynamic systems DEDS to guide and control the active exploration and sensing of mechanical parts for industrial inspection and reverse engineering We introduce dynamic recursive nite state machines DRFSM as a new DEDS tool for utilizing the recursive nature of the m...

Communication protocols determine how network components interact with each other. Therefore, the ability to derive a speci cation of a protocol can be useful in various contexts, such as to support deeper black-box testing or e ective defense mechanisms. Unfortunately, it is often hard to obtain the speci cation because systems implement closed (i.e., undocumented) protocols, or because a time...

Advanced technologies and biology have extremely different physical implementations, but they are far more alike in systems-level organization than is widely appreciated. Convergent evolution in both domains produces modular architectures that are composed of elaborate hierarchies of protocols and layers of feedback regulation, are driven by demand for robustness to uncertain environments, and ...

The process of duplicating an existing part, subassembly, or product without the aid of drawings, documentation, or a computer model is known as reverse engineering. Reverse engineering is also defined as the process of obtaining a geometric CAD model from 3D points acquired by scanning/ digitizing the existing products. The aim of this paper is to review the reverse engineering process, and it...

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State machine learning is a useful technique for automating reverse engineering. In essence, it involves fuzzing different sequences of inputs for a system. We show that this technique can be successfully used to reverse engineer hand-held smartcard readers for Internet banking, by using a Lego robot to operate these devices. In particular, the state machines that are automatically inferred by ...

One can geometrically engineer supersymmetric field theories theories by placing D-branes at or near singularities. The opposite process is described, where one can reconstruct the singularities from quiver theories. The description is in terms of a noncommutative quiver algebra which is constructed from the quiver diagram and the superpotential. The center of this noncommutative algebra is a c...

This article describes the Bauhaus tool suite as a concrete example for software visualization in reverse engineering, re-engineering, and software maintenance. Results from a recent survey on software visualization in these domains are reported. According to this survey, Bauhaus can indeed be considered a typical representative of these domains regarding the way software artifacts are visualiz...