Fusing ambiguous domain knowledge slices in a reverse engineering process

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Seventh Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'00)

Singapore

December 05-December 08

ISBN: 0-7695-0915-0

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	Y. Li, H. Yang, W. Chu, "Fusing ambiguous domain knowledge slices in a reverse engineering process," Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, pp. 266, Seventh Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'00), 2000.

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	@article{ 10.1109/APSEC.2000.896708, author = {Y. Li and H. Yang and W. Chu}, title = {Fusing ambiguous domain knowledge slices in a reverse engineering process}, journal ={Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference}, volume = {0}, year = {2000}, issn = {1530-1362}, pages = {266}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/APSEC.2000.896708}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference TI - Fusing ambiguous domain knowledge slices in a reverse engineering process SN - 1530-1362 SP EP A1 - Y. Li, A1 - H. Yang, A1 - W. Chu, PY - 2000 KW - reverse engineering; software reusability; belief maintenance; knowledge representation; ambiguous domain knowledge slices; reverse engineering; domain knowledge recovery; legacy code; information technology; program understanding; system evolution; software reuse; source code; ambiguity handling VL - 0 JA - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference ER -

Y. Li, Dept. of Comput. Sci., De Montfort Univ., Leicester, UK

H. Yang, Dept. of Comput. Sci., De Montfort Univ., Leicester, UK

W. Chu, Dept. of Comput. Sci., De Montfort Univ., Leicester, UK

DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/APSEC.2000.896708

Recovering domain knowledge from legacy code plays an important role in the new information technology era, which can be of help for program understanding, system evolution and software reuse. Traditional methods for domain knowledge recovery from source code did not sufficiently address the issue of ambiguity handling, in particular, the propagation of ambiguity among multiple domain knowledge slices recovered from source code in the software reverse engineering process. We present a novel approach to recovering unambiguous domain knowledge from legacy code, where isolated ambiguous domain knowledge slices are "fused" together in an iterative ambiguity propagation process and hence the disambiguity of these recovered knowledge slices is increased.

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reverse engineering; software reusability; belief maintenance; knowledge representation; ambiguous domain knowledge slices; reverse engineering; domain knowledge recovery; legacy code; information technology; program understanding; system evolution; software reuse; source code; ambiguity handling

Citation:

Y. Li, H. Yang, W. Chu, "Fusing ambiguous domain knowledge slices in a reverse engineering process," apsec, pp.266, Seventh Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC'00), 2000

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