Software Understanding

John Hartman, Ph.D.

I'm interested in artificial intelligence and software engineering, particularly program understanding theory, technology, tools and applications.

I investigate software engineering in tasks such as evolution, reverse engineering, transformation, maintenance, and reengineering. I focus on designing useful tools that capture and exploit software understanding.

At Ohio State I developed and evaluated representations and tools that capture functional intentions and their implementation at many semantic levels, e.g. requirements, architecture, code, knowledge, and process. Previously, I worked with The Analytix Group exploring commercialization of reengineering tools based on my dissertation, obtained a NASA SBIR contract, and directed a feasibility demonstration project. My dissertation research produced a practical automatic program understander, used it for quality automatic Cobol restructuring, and presented performance models, measures, and results.

I was Senior Research Associate in the Ohio State University Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research, working on the DARPA project: Functional Representation and Understanding of Software, Component-Based Software Technology. This involves B. Chandrasekaran's Functional Representation(FR) theory for device and software understanding, and the component work of Bruce Weide and the Reusable Software Research Group.

Above was written before I retired from research to care for my mother.

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John Hartman
2042 Lincoln St
Eugene OR 97405

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Web: www.swunderstanding.com

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