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2009
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Recovering structured data types from a legacy data model with overlays
Mariano Ceccato, Thomas Roy Dean, Paolo Tonella
October 2009
Information and Software Technology , Volume 51 Issue 10
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
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Legacy systems are often written in programming languages that support arbitrary variable overlays. When migrating to modern languages, the data model must adhere to strict structuring rules, such as those associated with an object oriented data model, ...

Keywords: Legacy systems, Program transformations, Reengineering
 
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A verification framework for access control in dynamic web applications
Manar H. Alalfi, James R. Cordy, Thomas R. Dean
May 2009
C3S2E '09: Proceedings of the 2nd Canadian Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering
Publisher: ACM
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This paper proposes a security analysis framework for dynamic web applications. A reverse engineering process is performed over a dynamic web application to extract a role-based access control security model. A formal analysis is applied on the recovered ...

 
2008
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SQL2XMI: Reverse Engineering of UML-ER Diagrams from Relational Database Schemas
Manar H. Alalfi, James R. Cordy, Thomas R. Dean
October 2008
WCRE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 15th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering - Volume 00 , Volume 00
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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Data modeling is an essential part of the software development process, and together with application modeling forms the core of the model-driven approach to software engineering. While UML is considered the standard for application modeling, there is ...

Keywords: source transformation, UML, ER, database schema, SQL
 
2007
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Automated conversion of table-based websites to structured stylesheets using table recognition and clone detection
Andy Y. Mao, James R. Cordy, Thomas R. Dean
October 2007
CASCON '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference of the center for advanced studies on Collaborative research
Publisher: ACM
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Web standards such as XHTML and CSS are rapidly coming into practice and have many advantages, including compatibility, consistency across browsers, and increased ease of maintenance. Unfortunately large numbers of existing websites still use the deprecated ...

 
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Lightweight State Based Mutation Testing for Security
Songtao Zhang, Thomas Dean, Scott Knight
September 2007
TAICPART-MUTATION '07: Proceedings of the Testing: Academic and Industrial Conference Practice and Research Techniques - MUTATION (TAICPART-MUTATION 2007) - Volume 00 , Volume 00
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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State based protocols are protocols in which the handling of one message depends on the contents of previous messages. Testing such protocols, for security or for other purposes usually means specifying the state space of the protocol in some manner. ...

 
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Special Issue on Web Site Evolution (WSE 2006): Editorials
Davide Bolchini, Thomas Dean, Damiano Distante, Scott Tilley
September 2007
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice , Volume 19 Issue 5
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Evaluating Aspect Mining Techniques: A Case Study
Chanchal Kumar Roy, Mohammad Gias Uddin, Banani Roy, Thomas R. Dean
June 2007
ICPC '07: Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension
Publisher: IEEE Computer Society
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Aspect mining aims at identifying cross-cutting concerns in existing systems and therefore advocates the adaption to an aspect-oriented design. This paper presents a case study examining three existing aspect mining techniques from the literature by ...

 
2006
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Packet decoding using context sensitive parsing
Sylvain Marquis, Thomas R Dean, Scott Knight
October 2006
CASCON '06: Proceedings of the 2006 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
Publisher: ACM
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Protocol tester is a project at RMC and Queen's that applies program transformation techniques to protocol data to evaluate the security of network applications. As part of this process, binary protocols are translated into a textual representation. ...

 
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A lightweight approach to state based security testing
Songtao Zhang, Thomas Dean, Scott Knight
October 2006
CASCON '06: Proceedings of the 2006 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
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State based protocols are protocols in which the handling of one message depends on the contents of previous messages. Testing such protocols, for security or for other purposes usually means specifying the state space of the protocol in some manner. ...

 
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Learning invariant features using inertial priors
Thomas Dean
August 2006
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence , Volume 47 Issue 3-4
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
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We address the technical challenges involved in combining key features from several theories of the visual cortex in a single coherent model. The resulting model is a hierarchical Bayesian network factored into modular component networks embedding variable-order ...

Keywords: 68T05, 68T10, 68T45, Bayesian networks, graphical models, machine learning, neural modeling
 
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