Software architecture, as a vehicle for communication and reasoning about software systems and their quality, is becoming an area of focus in both the forwardand reverseengineering communities. In the past, we have attempted to unify these areas via a semantic model of reengineering called CORUM II. In this paper we present a concrete example of an architecturally-motivated reengineering task. ...

We present an analysis and taxonomy of the program transformation processes, identify the transformation domains in software engineering, and consider an operational view to program transformations. The taxonomy is based on the analyzed transformation approaches in HW design, as well as HW/SW co-design systems. Finally, we present a case study: the transformation (packaging, wrapping and custom...

Some quality characteristics are well defined when treated as response variables and are related to some independent variables. This relationship is called a profile. Parametric models, such as linear models, may be used to model profiles. However, in practical applications due to the complexity of many processes it is not usually possible to model a process using parametric models.In these cas...

Model transformation is one of the main issues and key elements in Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Computation Independent Model (CIM) to Platform Independent Model (PIM) transformation is the first transformation in MDA and it is very important in designing high quality software. Several CIM to PIM transformation approaches have emerged, they have not been objectively analysed yet. In this pa...