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SOFTWARE REVERSE ENGINEERING

Award Information
Agency: National Science Foundation
Branch: N/A
Contract: N/A
Agency Tracking Number: 7483
Amount: $50,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N/A
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Solicitation Year: N/A
Award Year: 1988
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A
Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A
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2401 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
United States
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Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 DR NOAH S PRYWES
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Abstract

THIS IS A PROPOSAL FOR DEVELOPING A TRANSLATOR FROM PROCEDURAL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES (STARTING WITH FORTRAN) INTO THE EQUATIONAL SPECIFICATION LANGUAGE-MODEL. THIS IS CALLED "SOFTWARE REVERSE ENGINEERING" (SRE). IT IS COUPLED WITH THE EXISTING MODEL SYSTEM THAT TRANSLATES EQUATIONAL SPECIFICATIONS IN MODEL INTO HIGHLY EFFICIENT PROGRAMS IN PL/1, C OR ADA (GENERATION OF PROGRAMS IN FORTRAN IS IN DEVELOPMENT). TOGETHER THESE TWO SYSTEMS PROVIDE AN AUTOMATED CONVERSION PATH FROM OLD TO NEW OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS PROJECT IS ALSO IN USE OF THE MODEL EQUATIONAL LANGUAGE SPECIFICATIONS TO ACHIEVE MUCH EASIER UNDERSTANDING OF PROGRAMS. THIS ASPECT IS VERY IMPORTANT IN ATTAINING MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENTS, HIGHER RELIABILITY AND BETTER EFFICIENCY OF PROGRAMS. ANOTHER IMPORTANT ASPECT IS USE OF SRE FOR CONVERSION TO PARALLEL COMPUTERS. THE PROPOSED PHASE I WORK CONSISTS OF DESIGN OF ALGORITHMS AND TESTING OF THE CONCEPT THROUGH EXAMPLES.

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