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Re-engineering a Medical Imaging System Using Graph Transformations

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Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance (AGTIVE 2003)

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Abstract

This paper describes an evolutionary approach to reengineer a large medical imaging system using graph-transformations. The solution has been integrated into the ongoing development process within the organizational and cultural constraints of a productive industrial setting. We use graph transformations to model the original and the desired architecture, the mapping between architectural, implementation and design concepts, as well as related consistency rules. Violations are calculated every night and provided as continuous feedback to software architects and developers, so they can modify the system manually according to established procedures. With only a very limited global migration step and moderate changes and extensions to the existing procedures it was possible to improve the software architecture of the system, while new features still could be implemented and released in due time. Although this solution is dedicated to a concrete case, it is a starting point for a more generic approach.

This research was performed at Philips Medical Systems in Best, the Netherlands when the author was employee of Philips Research in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

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  1. Institut für Datentechnik, Fachgebiet Echtzeitsysteme, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Merckstraße 25, 64283, Darmstadt, Germany

    Tobias Rötschke

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Virginia, 22904-4740, Charlottesville, VA

    John L. Pfaltz

  2. Department of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen, Chair of Computer Science III, Aachen, Germany

    Manfred Nagl

  3. Department of Computer Science III, RWTH Aachen University, Ahornstrasse 55, 52074, Aachen, Germany

    Boris Böhlen

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Rötschke, T. (2004). Re-engineering a Medical Imaging System Using Graph Transformations. In: Pfaltz, J.L., Nagl, M., Böhlen, B. (eds) Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance. AGTIVE 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25959-6_14

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