Course timing and contacts

Course description and prerequisites

Research interests

Main references and handouts

Lectures

Essays

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

i- References

1. Reverse Engineering .. Secrets of Reverse Engineering, Eldad Elam, 2005

2. Reverse Engineering of Object Oriented Code, Paolo Tonella,  2005

3. Compilers .. Principles, Tools, Technique, Alfered V. Aho, 2007

4. Decompiler Thesis

5. Regression Analysis by Example, Samrit Chattefuee, 2006

ii. Handouts

1. Power Point                                                                              6.  Advanced Compiler

2. Regression (Notes)                                                                    7. Aliasing (Notes)

3. Regression  (power point)                                                          8. Aliasing (power points)

4. Regression 1, 2 (Notes)                                                             9. Call flow graph

5. SVM (Notes)                                                                          10. Reverse Engineering

6. SVM (Power Points)                                                               11. Slicing              

 

1. Automatic conversion of legacy code to web services

2. Program fault localization & fault prediction

3. Reverse engineering of aspects from object oriented code

 

 

 

Lectures
Lecture #	Subjects	References	Handouts	Date
1	Goals and Motivations	ref #1, pages 1..9, 17..23	Handout #1, Slide #1..4
2	Reversing tools	ref #1, pages 109..117	Handout #1, Slide #4
3	Disassemblers	ref #1, pages 21..29	Handout #1, Slide #4..6
4	Debugers	ref #1, pages 116..123	Handout #1, Slide #7..10
5	Decompilers : Phases	ref #4, pages 1..15	Handout #1, Slide #10..15
6,7	Decompilers : Control Flow	ref #4, pages 153..157	Handout #1, Slide #16..19
7	Data Dependency analysis	ref #3, pages 2..4, 15..16	Handout #1
8	Aliasing	Ref # 3	Handout #7, 8
8,10	Control dependencie	Ref # 3	Handout #6, pages 77..88
11,12	Call flow graph		Handout #9
14	UML diagrams	ref #2, pages 1..18	Handout #6, #7
15-16	Object Flow Graph	ref #2, pages 21..40	Hadnout #5
17	Data Reverse Engineering		Handout #5
18,19	Data Mining
20	Software Testing		Handout #11
21	Regression Analysis	ref # 5	Handout #2
22	Ridge Regression	ref # 5	Handout #3
23	Lasso & ElasticNets		Handout #4
24	Regression Tools & Examples	ref #5	Handout #3
25,26,27	Support Vector Machine		Handout # 5

Essays