Angela.Hickman@ML.RI.CMU.EDU (05/08/86)
[Forwarded from the CMU bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.] I recently received e-mail from a former professor asking for some references. Below is part of his mail. If you know of any references in this area, please send mail to ach@ml. _____ I have a student who will probably do a piece of work in software engineering. The idea is to take existing programs and try to infer data structures and data flow. The trick is that these will be large program systems (many modules), written and "enhanced" (~= "modified" or "corrected") by many people over some time. Furthermore, they will not have been designed or built with any of the modern software development methodologies. In short, they will be real programs that have been maintained by many people. Part of the work may involve expert systems and AI work to develop a rules base to infer the structure. Do you know of anyone doing work in any of these areas?