Kurzfassung: Reverse and reengineering of large and complex software systems is a difficult task. As a result, many methods and tools for reverse and reengineering have been developed so far. However, the work in this field has concentrated on sequential, and untimed systems, mainly for business applications. The majority of the approaches deals with decomposing monolithic systems, decoupling u...

In reengineering an object-oriented system we want to benefit from the expertise developed in earlier efforts. It is therefore essential to have a way to communicate expertise at different levels: from knowledge about how to approach a system to be reengineered, to knowledge about improving code by eliminating ’bad’ style. In this paper we propose to use a pattern form to communicate knowledge ...

Global competition has forced firms to rethink their approach to providing products and services to their customer base. Business process reengineering has been adopted by many firms in an effort to improve their competitive position and enhance their ability to provide customer satisfaction and delight. Although many firms have implemented business process reengineering programs, approximately...

The paper analyses the reengineering concept as it comes from software engineering and management fields. We combine two viewpoints and apply them to solve a problem of reengineering of a distance study system, in general, and the unit of learning, in particular. We propose a framework for reengineering of unit of learning, based on general model of software reengineering, and present a case st...

Understanding the evolution, and managing the reengineering of a large Web site is as hard as evolving a large software system of comparable size. Evolution and maintenance of traditional legacy systems have been extensively studied by reengineering researchers. However, Web site evolution and migration is a new domain with many open questions. We propose the development of a Web site architect...

Executives are experts in managing their business systems, much in the same way Formula One drivers are experts in driving their cars. However knowing the behaviour of cars doesn’t tell one how they are constructed and could be improved with new technology. The same holds true for Reengineering Business Systems through Information Technology. If management wishes to redefine the organisation, t...

Reengineering presents a practical and feasible approach to transform legacy systems into evolvable systems. Component-based systems are evolvable and can be easily reengineered. Object-oriented software reengineering should base on component library and focus on seamlessly cooperating with component library and assembly tool to construct the whole reengineering system. So the reengineering dis...

Current research in software reengineering offers a great amount of tools specialized on certain reengineering tasks. The definition of a powerful common interchange format is a key issue to provide interoperability between tools. This paper discusses aspects of data interchange formats for exchanging reengineering related data and proposes a graphbased format to exchange both data and applicat...

The experience of reengineering a Computerized Numerical Control, CNC, is presented. In the reengineering, several new functionalities and the upgrading towards the object-oriented were included. The reengineering process was maintained under control in order to complete the process within the deadline with success. Some technical and economical lessons learned that can be useful for helping th...