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Graph-Based Reverse Engineering and Reengineering Tools

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Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance (AGTIVE 1999)

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In this paper a reengineering approach is presented which uses graph transformations as formal background. The term reengineering describes any kind of activities concerned with the renewal and improvement of existing (software) applications. For this purpose the structure of an application has to be recovered to get information about relevant components and their relations. In this context graph rewriting systems are used to specify objects and relations and to determine possible changes in order to improve the system.

This project was founded by the German Ministry for Research and Education and the companies AMI and GEZ. The dissertation of K. Cremer [4] received the Software Engineering Price 1999 from the Ernst Denert foundation.

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  1. Department of Computer Science III, Aachen University of Technology, Aachen

    Katja Cremer

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  2. Institute for Software Technology, Department of Computer Science, University of the German Federal Armed Forces Munich, Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39, 85579, Neubiberg, Germany

    Andreas Schürr

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Cremer, K. (2000). Graph-Based Reverse Engineering and Reengineering Tools. In: Nagl, M., Schürr, A., Münch, M. (eds) Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance. AGTIVE 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1779. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45104-8_8

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