The representation problem in reverse engineering

Formal and explicit model building in reverse engineering focuses attention on modeling as an aid to understanding, and results in artifacts that may be useful to others. Choosing the proper representation during reverse engineering is the representation problem. This problem is examined by presenting a taxonomy of solutions. The issues involved in choosing a representation through an example reverse engineering task are illustrated. General considerations for model representations, with emphasis on their overall architecture, are presented.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>