The pursuit of increasing the efficiency internal combustion engines is an ongoing engineering task that requires numerous research efforts. New concepts injection or systems require preliminary investigation work using engines. These engines, usually single-cylinder, make it possible to isolate a single variable in complex mixture preparation process, thus enabling analysis changes being made....

If software metrics are useful in a forward software engineering environment, they are vital in a reverse engineering one. We are endeavouring to develop suitable metrics for software engineers who urgently need them for reverse engineering legacy systems. We propose that the metrics for reverse engineering in our re-engineering tool, the Re-engineering Assistant (RA), are developed under five ...

Since object-oriented programming is usually associated with iterative development, reverse engineering must be considered an essential facet of the object-oriented paradigm. The reverse engineering pattern language presented here summarises the reverse engineering experience gathered as part of the FAMOOS project, a project with the explicit goal of investigating reverse and reengineering tech...

Today especially large organizations are not only faced with the problem of replacing their information systems with completely new ones, but they have to maintain and to gain control over their legacy applications. Reverse engineering provides the means for this purpose supporting in recapturing lost information, restructuring complex systems or transforming old systems to a new and more maint...

One of the challenges of reverse engineering is the extraction of a specification from source code. Our work proposes a singular approach to the construction of reverse engineering tools. Using a transformation based software machine we have built two languages designed to help the construction of reverse engineering tools. Each one of these languages embodies an important domain in reverse eng...