Defining, transforming, and exchanging high-level schemas

The reverse engineering research community has been investigating mechanisms for exchanging data and partial results between reverse engineering tools (Woods et al., 1998; Holt et al., 2000). Among the many subproblems inherent in implementing a standard exchange format (SEF) is the design of schemas that represent views of source code at various levels of abstraction. We briefly discuss some of the issues in defining, transforming, and exchanging high-level schemas, including previous work on the TAXFORM project (Bowman et al., 2000) as well as discussions at the Workshop on Standard Exchange Format (WoSEF) (Holt et al., 2000).