John Hartman's Papers

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(Except for my dissertation, compressed Postcript files are only available by request.)

• "Programming Plans and Functional Representation", by John Hartman and B. Chandrasekaran, Draft
• "Functional Representation of Software Architecture Knowledge"
, by John Hartman and B. Chandrasekaran, Conference Submission (Postscript - 210K)
• "Plan-Based Reengineering of Legacy Fortran Code: A Case Study"
, by Mitch Lubars, John Hartman, Man Li, and Zuzana Dobes, Conference Submission
• "Knowledge-Based Automatic Reengineering"
, by Mitch Lubars, John Hartman, Man Li, and Zuzana Dobes. SBIR Phase I Final Report, NASA Contract NAS5-32738, Feb. 22, 1996, The Analytix Group
• "Functional Representation of Executable Software Architectures" , by John Hartman and B. Chandrasekaran, Technical Report, Laboratory For Artificial Intelligence Research, The Ohio State University, December 1, 1995 (Postscript - .6MB)
• "Functional Representation and Understanding of Software: Technology and Application" , by John Hartman and B. Chandrasekaran, 5th Annual Dual-Use Technologies and Applications Conference, Mohawk IEEE and Rome Lab, Utica, NY (May 1995) (Postscript -*2MB*)
• "Plans in Software Engineering - An Overview" , Technical Report, Laboratory For Artificial Intelligence Research, The Ohio State University, November 22, 1994 (Postscript - *1MB*)
• "Technical Introduction to the First Workshop on AI and Automated Program Understanding" , Workshop Notes, Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (1992) (Postscript- *343KB*)
• "Pragmatic, Empirical Program Understanding" , Workshop Notes, AAAI Workshop on AI and Automated Program Understanding, Tenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (1992) (Postscript- *430KB*)
• "Understanding Natural Programs Using Proper Decomposition" , 13th International Conference on Software Engineering - ICSE-13, (1991) (Adobe Acrobat PDF- *1MB*) (Postscript- 406KB)
• "Automatic Control Understanding for Natural Programs" , AI 91-161, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Dept. of Computer Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, (Ph.D. thesis)(1991) (Postscript - *3MB*)(Compressed Postscript - *1MB*)

Proposals

• "Knowledge-Based Software Re-Engineering Tools"
• "Knowledge-Based Software Reverse Engineering:
• "Automatic Program Understanding Empirical Studies"
• "Interactive Knowledge Acquisition and Visualization for Automatic Program Understanding"

Panels

• "Automatic Program Understanding and Software Reengineering", ACM Computer Science Conference - CSC '94, (panel position) (1994)
• "Pragmatic Program Understanding for Automated Re-Engineering", International Computer Software and Apllication Conference - COMPSAC '90, (panel position) (1990)

Update: 13-Jan-1998