Conservation of Information: Reverse engineering dark social systems

Conservation of Information: Reverse engineering dark social systems

A meta-model of information systems to support reverse engineering

Maintenance of large information systems typically suffers from a failure to fully understanding both the software and the broader context in which it operates. In particular, effective maintenance requires knowledge of not only the source code, but also user documentation, system design and knowledge of the business goals and objectives the system aims to support. The Esprit DOCKET project see...

Reverse Engineering Legacy Information Systems for Internet Based Interoperation

The maintenance of legacy information systems is becoming increasingly common as needs for internet based interoperation drive system changes. This paper outlines new techniques for achieving interoperability among legacy information systems, usually without making major changes to the legacy code. The techniques involved use a limited type of reverse engineering to establish a formal model of ...

Reverse Engineering Foreign Type Systems

Building systems from existing applications and mats and types. Different data formats and languages have data sources is common practice. Semi-structured data sources (such as XML, HTML, and databases) and programming languages (such as C# and Java) conform to welldefined, albeit different, type systems, each with their own unique underlying representations. As a consequence, reverse engineeri...

Requirements for Information System Reverse Engineering Support

This paper proposes a general architecture for Information systems (or data-centered applications) reverse engineering CASE environments. Recovering the specifications of such applications requires recovering first those of their data, i.e. database reverse engineering (DBRE). First, the paper describes a generic DMS-independent DBRE methodology, then it analyses the main characteristics of DBR...