Reengineering procedural into data flow programs

Author

Newcomb, Philip ; Martens, Paul

Author_Institution

Res. & Technol., Boeing Comput. Services, Seattle, WA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

14-16 Jul 1995

Firstpage

32

Lastpage

38

Abstract

Program transformation techniques are described for automatic translation of systems from a procedural form into a non-procedural, event-driven, data-flow computational architecture called the quasi-procedural method (QPM). Significant performance optimizations are achieved for many kinds of computations after conversion of their programs into QPM. The translation into QPM is accomplished with a knowledge-based transformational reengineering approach. The application of the translation to a large Boeing FORTRAN system for aircraft synthesis (ACSYNT) is discussed

Keywords

FORTRAN; aerospace computing; aircraft; computer aided software engineering; data flow computing; knowledge based systems; program interpreters; reverse engineering; software performance evaluation; systems re-engineering; ACSYNT system; Boeing FORTRAN system; aircraft synthesis; automatic translation; data flow programs; knowledge-based transformational reengineering approach; nonprocedural event-driven data-flow computational architecture; performance optimization; procedural programs; program conversion; program transformation techniques; quasi-procedural method; reverse engineering; Aircraft; Airplanes; Algorithms; Computer architecture; Design optimization; Optimization methods; Optimizing compilers; Parallel processing; Program processors; Runtime environment;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Reverse Engineering, 1995., Proceedings of 2nd Working Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-711-43

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCRE.1995.514691

Filename

514691