E-CARES Project: Reengineering of Telecommunication Systems

One important field of application for embedded real-time systems is in the telecommunications industry. In the first phase of the E-CARES reengineering project, we regarded the architecture modeling and the reverse engineering of telecommunication systems. Current work concerns the restructuring of such systems including their re-design and re-implementation. The aim is to provide concepts, languages, methods, and tools to improve the architecture and the real-time performance of the software system. Our reengineering prototype is based on a graph rewriting system by which the underlying application logic is generated.

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