The Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) recognized reverse engineering as an essential competence and thus has been active in the field since 1996, which is right from its beginning. The role of reverse engineering, however, within the institute changed over time. Since Fraunhofer IESE is an applied research institute its competencies are tailored to the market to ...

This paper motivates and describes a research program in the area of reverse engineering being w conducted at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Reverse engineering is an emerging interest area ithin the software engineering field. Software engineering itself is concerned with improving the pro-c ductivity of the software development process and the quality of the systems it produces. However...

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Software Reverse Engineering is the process of extracting (usually more abstract) information from software artifacts. Graph-based engineering tools work on fact repositories that keep all artifacts as graphs. Hence, information extraction can be viewed as querying this repository. This paper describes the graph query language GReQL and its use in reverse engineering tools. GReQL is an expressi...

This paper considers simultaneous fitting of multiple curves and surfaces to 3D measured data captured as part of a reverse engineering process, where constraints exist between the parameters of the curves or surfaces. Enforcing such constraints may be necessary (i) to produce models to sufficiently accurate tolerances for import into a CAD system, and (ii) to produce models which successfully ...

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 ...