Research Projects

Funded Projects

• Earth System Curator (NSF); Joint with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, MIT, and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton. Co-PI at Georgia Tech is Professor Leo Mark) Metadata and software engineering issues in climate modeling
• Learning About Complex Systems in Middle School by Constructing Structure-Behavior-Function Models (NSF/Advanced Learning Technologies; joint with Ashok Goel and Rutgers U.) effectiveness of SBF representation for teaching about complex systems


• Teleological Reasoning in Adaptive Software Design (NSF/Science of Design); Joint with Ashok Goel; role of goals in software adaptability

Previously Funded but Ongoing Projects

• Adequate Reverse Engineering (NSF) Quality assessments of reverse engineering efforts


• Dowser (NSF) Domain-oriented reverse engineering


• Dynamo (DARPA) Guaranteed assembly of software components
• Ectropic Software (NSF) Maintaining the conceptual integrity of evolving software systems
• Enterprise Legacy Transformation (Aflac Corporation and the State of Georgia's Information Technology Innovation Center) Conversion of mainframe legacy software to web services
• ISVis Upgrade project;Original ISVis site (NSF/NASA) Visualization of interaction scenarios; adaptation of software systems

Senior Design and UROC

• Page Sleuth Analysis of web pages


• Plexicon Lexicon of programming abstractions
• TAJ Transformational abstraction of software in support of program understanding