Towards a Scalable Representation of Run-time Information: The Challenge and Proposed Solution

Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj

2007

Abstract

An important issue in application modernization is the time and effort needed to understand existing applications. Understanding the dynamic aspects of software is a difficult task, further complicated by the lack of a scalable way of representing the extracted knowledge. The behavior of a software system is typically represented in the form of execution traces. Traces, however, can be extraordinary large. Existing meta-models such as the Knowledge Discovery Meta-model and the UML meta-model provide limited support for handling large execution traces. In this paper, we describe a meta-model called the Compact Trace Format (CTF) for efficient modeling of traces of routine (method) calls generated from multi-threaded systems. CTF is intended to facilitate the interoperability among modernization tools that focus on the analysis of the behavior of software systems. CTF is designed to be easily extensible to support other types of traces.

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Hamou-Lhadj A. (2007). Towards a Scalable Representation of Run-time Information: The Challenge and Proposed Solution . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Model-Driven Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MDEIS, (ICEIS 2007) ISBN 978-989-8111-00-5, pages 95-104. DOI: 10.5220/0002433900950104


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@conference{mdeis07,
author={Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj},
title={Towards a Scalable Representation of Run-time Information: The Challenge and Proposed Solution},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Model-Driven Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MDEIS, (ICEIS 2007)},
year={2007},
pages={95-104},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002433900950104},
isbn={978-989-8111-00-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Model-Driven Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 1: MDEIS, (ICEIS 2007)
TI - Towards a Scalable Representation of Run-time Information: The Challenge and Proposed Solution
SN - 978-989-8111-00-5
AU - Hamou-Lhadj A.
PY - 2007
SP - 95
EP - 104
DO - 10.5220/0002433900950104