Examples of such new data types include multimedia data, documents, engineering artifacts, and temporal data.
In large scale model based development, analysis level models are more like knowledge bases than engineering artifacts.
An enthusiastic, hungry generation has become comfortable with what are called, in sound engineering, "artifacts": the glitches and dropouts and streaks that represent missing data and the trips that data has made.
The problem here is, however, that there is a lack of profound integration between different safety artifacts on the one hand and the general engineering artifacts on the other hand.
Depending upon the purpose, which can be problem diagnosis, impact analysis, functional enhancements, or re-engineering to newer technologies or newer design, the reverse engineering artifacts vary in their definition, the abstraction level, and contents.
The definition of PRS is a fundamental question of developing a new class of distributed semiotic systems with ability to communicate, identify and manufacture engineering artifacts with prescriptive characteristics.
Context: Traceability in Software Product Lines (SPL) is the ability to interrelate software engineering artifacts through required links to answer specific questions related to the families of products and underlying development processes.
We propose a specification-based approach that allows analyst to specify and control the contents and abstraction level of the reverse engineering artifacts, while allowing user-interaction during extraction.
Because the datasets involved are usually constructed using an incremental development approach, we expect satisfactory performance of ApproxMap on similar versions, containing several approximately equivalent bnode pairs, as generally occurs in successive versions of software engineering artifacts.
