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   Dear Environmentalists,

   This  week,  we  have  two guests from industry. The first one is Paul
   Jansen  from QA Systems. He will talk about the architecture developed
   at QA Systems for automating software renovation projects.

   Please note that the talk is later than normal, at 2 PM.

   Our  other  guest  will  talk  on Friday. A separate announcement will
   follow.

   This announcement can be found at <http://www.cwi.nl/~pem>

         A Reference Architecture for Automated Software Renovation

   Date:    23.09.99
   Time:    14:00
   Venue:   M2.79, CWI
   Speaker: Paul Jansen (QA Systems R&D Labs)
   Title:   A Reference Architecture for Automated Software Renovation

   Multinationals  are  nowadays  confronted with huge installed bases of
   legacy  software  as  a  heritage  of  the past. On the one hand these
   systems constitute inestimably strategic power bases of knowledge, but
   on  the  other  hand  they  have  sometimes become hardly maintainable
   anymore.  Automated  renovation, migration and translation are a means
   to  improve  millions  of  lines  of code without much intervention of
   expensive  and  scarce  human  resources while achieving qualitatively
   good results.

   Years  of  industrial  experience in the field of automated renovation
   have  led  to  the  belief that state-of-the-art compiler and database
   technology  are  not  sufficient  to  carry  out  automated renovation
   projects   adequately.  New  interesting  techniques  are  needed  and
   developed  to overcome specific renovation problems. Examples of these
   problems  are  preserving conditional compilation, merging old and new
   layout consistently during translation and storing program comments in
   an implicit way in the internal datastructure.

   During  this technical overview presentation, a reference architecture
   will  be  presented  for  carrying  out  automated software renovation
   projects.  This  architecture  incorporates most solutions to problems
   encountered  in the renovation projects that have been carried out the
   last  few  years.  Many  real-life examples will be used to illustrate
   this architecture.
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