Applications of Reverse Engineering

In the context of developing tool support to the automated analysis of interactive systems implementations, this chapter proposal aims to investigate the applicability of reverse engineering approaches to the derivation of user interfaces behavioural models. The ultimate goal is that these models might be used to reason about the quality of the system, both from an usability and an implementation perspective, as well as being used to help systems maintenance, evolution and redesign. 

Zhang, W. (2003) Research into the engineering application of Reverse Engineering technology. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, Vol. 139, p>p. 472-475, ISSN 0924-0136... 

Applications of Reverse Engineering in the Life Science and Medical Device Industries... 

The applications of reverse engineering to orthopedics, such as the knee, hip, or spine implantation, are very challenging, partially due to the complex motions of the knees, hips, or spine. A proper function of these implants manufactured by reverse engineering requires them to sustain multiaxial statistic stresses and various modes of dynamic loads. They are also expected to have sufficient wear and impact resistance. Several institutes, such as ASTM International, originally known as American Society for Testing and Materials, have published various standards on the testing of these implants. For... 

Use of reverse micelles in synthetic chemistry to improve the rate and the yield of reactions seems likely to be a fruitful area of research in the future. In addition to catalysis, several other applications of reverse micelles can be cited. Just as nonpolar dirt is solubilized in aqueous micelles, so, too, polar dirt that would be unaffected by nonpolar solvents may be solubilized into reverse micelles. This plays an important role in the dry cleaning of clothing. Motor oils are also formulated to contain reverse micelles to solubilize oxidation products in the oil that might be corrosive to engine parts. 

The rapid development of biotechnology during the 1980s provided new opportunities for the application of reaction engineering principles. In biochemical systems, reactions are catalyzed by enzymes. These biocatalysts may be dispersed in an aqueous phase or in a reverse micelle, supported on a polymeric carrier, or contained within whole cells. The reactors used are most often stirred tanks, bubble columns, or hollow fibers. If the kinetics for the enzymatic process is known, then the effects of reaction conditions and mass transfer phenomena can be analyzed quite successfully using classical reactor models. Where living cells are present, the growth of the cell mass as well as the kinetics of the desired reaction must be modeled [16, 17]. 

Non-contact 3D digitizing systems are mostly used in the field of reverse engineering, in which numerical models are reconstructed from clouds of points, as described in the literature [6], They are also used in pattern recognition of machine vision applications, online measurement systems and dimensional control systems. With these systems, the coordinates of a large number of points can be obtained in a few seconds, but they require further treatment as they form discrete images of objects [7]. 

C. Bradley, B. Currie, Advances in the field of reverse engineering. Computer Aided Design and Applications. 2 (2005) 697-706. 

The area of reverse engineering is developing in several directions development of new methods and technologies, improvement of tools for data acquisition (hardware) and data processing (software) in terms of the accuracy and acceleration of the process itself, and usage of RE methods in new applications. Several important papers deal with the development in each of these areas. 

This chapter has reviewed reverse engineering techniques and tools that are applicable for complex embedded systems. From a research perspective, it is xmfortunate that the research communities of reverse engineering and embedded and real-time systems are practically disconnected. As we have argued before, embedded systems are an important target for reverse engineering, offering xmique challenges compared to desktop and business applications. 

In Chapter 2, Campos et d. Present an example of reverse engineering aimed at facilitating the development and maintenance of software applications that include a substantial user interface source code. Starting from the observation that understanding (and thus maintenance) of user interface code is highly challenging due to the typically non-modular structure of such code and its interactions with the remainder of the application, they present a technique and tool that is able to extract user interface behavioral models from the source code of Java applications, and show how these models can be used to reason about the application s usabiUty and implementation quality. 

The primary objective of this chapter is to discuss the material characteristics with a focus on mechanical metallurgy applicable in reverse engineering to help readers accomplish these tasks. 

Hardness provides a first order of approximation of mechanical strength. However, great caution is required to extrapolate mechanical properties directly from hardness. First, hardness is measured using a variety of scales, each representing different material characteristics, and there are no precise conversions among them. Second, the relationships, if any, between hardness and other mechanical properties are usually empirical and lack supporting scientific theories. These relationships are material specific with limited applicability. In reverse engineering, a hardness comparison should always be in the same scale whenever feasible. Conformance to a material specification based on hardness is an estimate at best. 

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