References of Program_Transformations

    Maintenance and Porting of Software by Design Recovery, Guillermo Arango and Ira Baxter and Peter Freeman
    @InProceedings{	  arango.baxter.ea:maintenance,
      author	= {Guillermo Arango and Ira Baxter and Peter Freeman},
      title		= {Maintenance and Porting of Software by Design Recovery},
      booktitle	= {CSM'85: Proceedings of the 1985 Conference on Software
    		  Maintenance, {\rm (Washington, DC; November 11-13, 1985)}},
      year		= {November 1985},
      pages		= {42-49},
      abstract	= {DRACO paper on porting through transformation from source
    		  code to abstraction back to new code. Captures
    		  domain-specific knowledge.},
      class		= {Reengineering_in_General, Experiences, Alteration,
    		  Re-Code, Program_Transformations,
    		  Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
    		  Knowledge-Based_Concept_Assignment,
    		  Human_Oriented_Concept_Assignment_by_Informal_Reasoning },
      keywords	= {domain modeling, domain analysis, DRACO}
    }
    
    
    TMM: Software Maintenance by Transformation, Guillermo Arango and Ira Baxter and Peter Freeman and Christopher Pidgeon
    @Article{	  arango.baxter.ea:tmm*1,
      author	= {Guillermo Arango and Ira Baxter and Peter Freeman and
    		  Christopher Pidgeon},
      title		= {{TMM}: Software Maintenance by Transformation},
      journal	= {IEEE Software},
      month		= {May},
      year		= {1986},
      volume	= {3},
      number	= {3},
      pages		= {27-39},
      abstract	= { . Another DRACO-based paper. . Uses least common
    		  abstractions. },
      keywords	= {domain modeling, domain analysis, DRACO},
      class		= {Reengineering_in_General, Experiences, Alteration,
    		  Re-Code, Program_Transformations,
    		  Software_Reverse_Engineering, Reverse_Design,
    		  Knowledge-Based_Concept_Assignment,
    		  Human_Oriented_Concept_Assignment_by_Informal_Reasoning}
    }
    
    
    Design Maintenance Systems, Ira D. Baxter
    @Article{	  baxter:design,
      author	= {Ira D. Baxter},
      title		= {Design Maintenance Systems},
      journal	= {Communications of the ACM},
      month		= {April},
      year		= {1992},
      volume	= {35},
      number	= {4},
      pages		= {73-89},
      abstract	= { . DMS . Advocates a transformational approach to SM at
    		  the design level. . Maintain the design, generate the
    		  implementation. . Uses TCL (!): Transformation Control
    		  Language. . "Maintenance deltas": maintenance = applying
    		  deltas to design. },
      class		= {Alteration, Re-Code, Program_Transformations }
    }
    
    
    A transformation system for maintenance: turning theory into practice, K. Bennet and T. Bull and H. Yang
    @InProceedings{	  bennet.bull.ea:transformation,
      title		= {A transformation system for maintenance: turning theory
    		  into practice},
      author	= {K. Bennet and T. Bull and H. Yang},
      pages		= {146--155},
      booktitle	= {\cite{SM92}},
      year		= {1992},
      note		= { Describes the architecture of the Maintainer's Assistant,
    		  a reverse engineering tool based on program
    		  transformations. Discusses the role of metrics in selecting
    		  appropriate transformations. Also see~\cite{WB93}},
      class		= {Alteration, Re-Code, Program_Transformations}
    }
    
    
    A catalog of object model transformations, michael blaha and william premerlani
    @InProceedings{	  blaha.premerlani:catalog,
      author	= {michael blaha and william premerlani},
      title		= {A catalog of object model transformations},
      booktitle	= {Third Working Conference on Reverse Engineering},
      publisher	= {IEEE},
      year		= {1996},
      abstract	= {The process of software development is gradually achieving
    		  more rigor. Proficient develoeprs now construct software
    		  indirectly through the abstraction of models. Models allow
    		  a developer to focus on the essential aspects of an
    		  application and defer details. Transformations extend the
    		  power of models, as the developer can substitute refinement
    		  and optimization of models for tedious manipulation of
    		  code. This paper catalogs object modeling transformations
    		  that we have encountered in our application work.},
      keywords	= {model, reverse engineering, transformation},
      class		= {Re-Code Program_Transformations Alteration }
    }
    
    
    On project-specific languages and their application in reengineering, Dmitry Boulychev and Dmitry Koznov and Andrey A.Terekhov
    Available as
    postscript.
    @InProceedings{	  boulychev.koznov.ea:on,
      author	= {Dmitry Boulychev and Dmitry Koznov and Andrey A.Terekhov},
      title		= {On project-specific languages and their application in
    		  reengineering},
      booktitle	= {Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Software Maintenance
    		  and Reengineering},
      publisher	= {IEEE Computer Society Press},
      year		= {2002},
      pages		= {177-185},
      month		= {March},
      url		= {http://users.tepkom.ru/ddt/Articles/ProjectSpecificLanguages.ps}
    		  ,
      abstract	= {We propose an approach for tuning reengineering tools to
    		  particular projects. This approach is based on the informal
    		  knowledge of the system, consisting of specific usages of
    		  the programming language. We illustrate this process with
    		  examples from an industrial project on PL/I to Java
    		  conversion.},
      keywords	= {project-specific languages, language conversion, informal
    		  knowledge, PL/I},
      class		= {Encapsulation_and_Finding_Objects_in_Legacy_Code Re-Code
    		  Knowledge-Based_Concept_Assignment
    		  Source-to-Source-Translatio Reverse_Design
    		  Program_Transformations Alteration
    		  Human_Oriented_Concept_Assignment_by_Informal_Reasoning
    		  Software_Reverse_Engineering }
    }
    
    
    Reengineering Cobol Systems to Ada, R. Gray and T. Bickmore and S. Williams
    @TechReport{	  gray.bickmore.ea:reengineering,
      author	= {R. Gray and T. Bickmore and S. Williams},
      institution	= {InVision Software Reengineering, Software Technology
    		  Center, Lockheed Palo Alto Laboratories},
      title		= {Reengineering Cobol Systems to Ada},
      year		= {1995},
      note		= { This paper describes the reengineering of 50,000 lines of
    		  Cobol code and the translation to Ada. The goal was to do
    		  it as automatically as possible. An inferential method was
    		  used to obtain all needed information from the Cobol code
    		  itself, no external information from users or programmers
    		  was needed. The authors claim that inferential methods will
    		  be the basis of the reengineering technology of the 21th
    		  century},
      class		= {Alteration, Re-Code, Program_Transformations,
    		  Source-to-Source-Translation}
    }
    
    
    Implications of automatic restructuring COBOL, J. Miller and B. Straus III
    @Article{	  miller.straus:implications,
      title		= {Implications of automatic restructuring COBOL},
      author	= {J. Miller and B. Straus III},
      journal	= {{ACM} Sigplan Notices},
      volume	= {22},
      number	= {6},
      pages		= {76--82},
      year		= {1987},
      note		= { The question whether or not mechanical transformations of
    		  unstructured program code to a structured equivalent can
    		  provide an improvement in the understanding of that program
    		  is addressed. As an example the language COBOL is examined.
    		  The paper also discusses a tool (called Structured
    		  Retrofit) that performs such transformations for COBOL
    		  mechanically},
      class		= {Alteration, Re-Code, Control_Flow_Normalization,
    		  Program_Transformations }
    }
    
    
    The Realities of Language Conversions, Andrey A.Terekhov and Chris Verhoef
    Available as
    s6.pdf.
    @Article{	  terekhov.verhoef:realities,
      author	= {Andrey A.Terekhov and Chris Verhoef},
      title		= {The Realities of Language Conversions},
      journal	= {IEEE Software},
      year		= {2000},
      volume	= {17},
      number	= {6},
      pages		= {111-124},
      month		= {November/December},
      url		= {http://www.cs.vu.nl/~x/cnv/s6.pdf},
      abstract	= {Billions of lines of code that have been written in Cobol,
    		  PL/I, and other old programming languages are still in
    		  active use. Many commercial efforts to convert these to
    		  more modern languages have begun, but few have succeeded.
    		  These authors discuss the nuts and bolts of conversion
    		  between several pairs of languages and some of the
    		  possibilities and limitations of automating language
    		  conversion. },
      keywords	= {source-to-source translation, language conversion, COBOL},
      class		= {Re-Code Source-to-Source-Translatio
    		  Program_Transformations Alteration }
    }
    
    
    Automating Language Conversion: a Case Study, Andrey A.Terekhov
    Available as
    AutomatingLanguageConversion.pdf.
    @InProceedings{	  terekhov:automating,
      author	= {Andrey A.Terekhov},
      title		= {Automating Language Conversion: a Case Study},
      booktitle	= {IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance},
      publisher	= {IEEE Computer Society Press},
      year		= {2001},
      pages		= {654-658},
      month		= {November},
      url		= {http://users.tepkom.ru/ddt/Articles/AutomatingLanguageConversion.pdf}
    		  ,
      abstract	= {Language conversion is a laborious process. Achieving the
    		  maximum efficiency of conversion without compromising the
    		  quality of converted system is the programmers' dream. This
    		  paper illustrates the quest for this trade-off by a case
    		  study. We consider an industrial reengineering project,
    		  which included translation of a client/server system
    		  written in a proprietary language into two different
    		  programming languages. We also discuss various factors that
    		  affect the automation level of language conversions. },
      keywords	= {language conversion, automation },
      note		= {There's also an extended version of this paper; it is
    		  available on the Web at
    		  http://users.tepkom.ru/ddt/alc.pdf},
      class		= {Reengineering_in_General Re-Code
    		  Source-to-Source-Translatio
    		  The_Pros_and_Cons_and_Risks_of_Reengineering
    		  Program_Transformations Alteration Experiences }
    }
    

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