Status Report: MORALE: Mission Oriented Architectural Legacy Evolution

Agreement/Contract Number: F30602-96-2-0229

For the period of: 10/1/97 - 12/31/97

PI Name, Spencer Rugaber

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280

E-mail: spencer@cc.gatech.edu

WWW Homepage: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/morale

Voice: 404-894-8450

FAX: 404-894-9442

1.0 Participants


Faculty:

Research Assistants:

2.0 Ongoing Research & Development

Our major current activity is prototype tool development. Beside the release of ISVis, we have the following tools in various stages of prototype development:

  • SIRRINE (Self-Improving Reflective Reasoner Integrating Noteworthy Experience ) - model-based diagnosis and adaption support for software designs supporting the MESA process
  • SAAMPad: Architecture rationale capture tool supports the SAAM process
  • ScenicView - scenario and goal hierarchy management support for the Scenic process
  • VisEd - a general-purpose architecture visualization tool
  • MORPH: Model Oriented Reengineering Process for HCI - tools for analyzing and transforming user interface software
  • REMORA (REsolution of MORale Architectures) - resolves differences among analyses of the same architecture

    • 3.0 Notable Accomplishments & Technology Transition

  • ISVis release 1.0 was made publically available over the Internet.
  • Potts has been appointed to the new IFIP Working Group 2.9 (Requirements Engineering).
  • Rugaber was presented "Outstanding Contribution over Time" award at the 4th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering.

    • 4.0 Progress on Inter/Intra Cluster Collaboration

  • SBF - ZD Integration: Work continues with Organon Motives and Knowledge Evolution to integrate the ZD and SBF representation languages. A joint technical report is being prepared.

    • 5.0 Publications

  • Dean Jerding and Spencer Rugaber. "Using Visualization for Architectural Localization and Extraction." Proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, October 6-8, 1997, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, IEEE Computer Society.
  • Melody Moore and Spencer Rugaber. "Domain Analysis for Transformational Reuse." Proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, October 6-8, 1997, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, IEEE Computer Society.

    • 6.0 Travel

  • Rugaber and Moore attended the Working Conference on Reverse Engineering and presented the two papers listed above.
  • Potts represented MORALE at the October cluster meeting at Irvine.
  • Potts attended OOPSLA (Atlanta, September, 1997) and the International Conference on Information Systems, including a workshop on the diffusion of innovations in information systems (Atlanta, December, 1997).

    • 7.0 Miscellaneous/Administrative/Problematic Issues

  • Ashok Goel will be on sabbatical for the next year at Rutgers and NEC Princeton Laboratories in New Jersey. While there he will continue his work on the MORALE project.
  • Melody Moore has accepted an Assistant Professor position at Georgia State University. She plans to fully participate in the remainder of the MORALE project and we are currently exploring a subcontract for the MORPH work with Georgia State.

    • 8.0 Plans For The Next Reporting Period

  • Our major activity for the next reporting period will be prototype tool development in anticipation of the July demos.