Software Metrics have become essential in software engineering for several reasons, among which quality assessment and reengineering. In the context of the European Esprit Project FAMOOS, whose main goal was to provide methodologies for the reengineering of large industrial software systems, we have developed the Moose Reengineering Environment, based on the language independent FAMIX metamodel...

This paper examines the incentives that generation firms have in restructured electricity markets for supporting long-term transmission investments. In particular, we study whether generation firms, which arguably play a dominant role in the restructured electricity markets, have the incentives to fund or support social-welfare-improving transmission investments. We examine this question and ex...

This paper examines the incentives that generation firms have in restructured electricity markets for supporting long-term transmission investments. In particular, we study whether generation firms, which arguably play a dominant role in the restructured electricity markets, have the incentives to fund or support incremental social-welfare-improving transmission investments. We examine this que...

This paper discusses a plan that addresses how the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) may assist the Department of Defense (DoD) in reengineering its large software-intensive systems. This plan is based on a view of reengineering as an engineering problem to improve the cost-effective evolution of large software-intensive systems. This view of reengineering, which takes the whole software eng...

Different software reengineering projects often perform similar reengineering tasks. This paper presents an industrial case study about an architecture recovery of a batch system using generic reengineering services. The case study is evaluated to identify key concerns for a generic approach.

Zusammenfassung: Architekturen stellen prinzipiell ein mächtiges Mittel zur Unterstützung von Reengineering-Aktivitäten dar. In der Praxis scheitert dies allerdings häufig, da Architekturen nicht präzise definiert und sich insbesondere im völlig qualitätssicherungsfreien Raum befinden. In diesem Papier werden diejenigen qualitätssichernden Maßnahmen beschrieben, die VOR dem Einsatz von Architek...

This paper studies the impact of a restructured patent regime on the R&D expenditure and the patenting activity of Indian pharmaceutical companies. The results indicate that there is an increase in both R&D investment and measured inventive output in the form of patents. The firms, which have paid very little attention to research and innovation in the past, are responding to the restructured I...

This paper provides a new approach for object-oriented reengineering. One of the difficulty in software testing and maintenance has been identified as caused by the convention that code and its tests are developed and described separately. This paper develops a method of built-in test (BIT) for OO reengineering. The advantage of this method is that the BITs in reengineered OO software (OOS) can...

This paper is an attempt to define what software reengineering is and what it has accomplished in the light of 20 years of practical application. The paper points out that reengineering is one of the many software maintenance activities, i.e. everything done with software once it has been put to use. Reengineering actions are devoted to improving the technical quality of existing software. By a...

Better understanding manual reverse engineering can make it and any associated systems reengineering more effective. We reverse engineered a version of a system (referred to as "BOS/X") in support of a broader reengineering effort. System reengineering goals and other circumstances dictated a focused, limited duration, manual reverse engineering exercise. This presented an opportunity to study ...