Subject: SEN1 Meeting tomorrow, Jeroen van den Bos
From: Bas Basten
To: sen1-list
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:16:06 +0200 (CEST)

Dear all,

At tomorrow's SEN1 meeting it's Jeroen's turn to give a talk. His talk
will be a try out for an upcoming conference talk (ICSE 2011). Because
of this it will only be about 20-25 minutes.

Title:
Bringing Domain-Specific Languages to Digital Forensics (joint work
with Tijs van der Storm)

Abstract:
Digital forensics investigations often consist of analyzing large
quantities of data. The software tools used for analyzing such data
are constantly evolved to cope with a multiplicity of versions and
variants of data formats. This process of customization is time
consuming and error prone.

To improve this situation we present DERRIC, a domain-specific
language (DSL) for declaratively specifying data structures. This way,
the specification of structure is separated from data processing. The
resulting architecture encourages customization and facilitates reuse.
It enables faster development through a division of labour between
investigators and software engineers.

We have performed an initial evaluation of DERRIC by constructing a
data recovery tool. This so-called carver has been automatically
derived from a declarative description of the structure of JPEG files.
We compare it to existing carvers, and show it to be in the same
league both with respect to recovered evidence, and runtime
performance.


As usual, we start at 10am in room L016. See you all there!

Cheers,
Bas