by analyzing the prevalence of portions of flow payloads, and thus uses no knowledge of protocol semantics above the TCP level. It is designed to produce signatures that exhibit high sensitivity (high true positives) and high specificity (low false positives); our evaluation of the system on real DMZ traces

Protocol reverse engineering has often been a manual process that is considered time-consuming, tedious and error-prone. To address this limitation, a number of solutions have recently been proposed to allow for automatic protocol reverse engineering. Unfortunately, they are either limited

the availability of a program that implements the protocol. Our approach extracts more accurate and complete protocol information and enables the analysis of encrypted protocols. Our automatic protocol reverse-engineering techniques extract the message format and field semantics of protocol messages sent

Protocol reverse engineering, the process of extracting the application-level protocol used by an implementation, without access to the protocol specification, is important for many network security applications. Recent work [17] has proposed protocol reverse engineering by using clustering

Abstract. We propose a novel approach to reverse engineering of relational databases to ontologies. Our approach incorporates two main sources of semantics: HTML pages and a relational schema. This incorporation results in that: (1) only minimal information about a relational database is required

The subject of my PhD work is the study of software engineers' intentions and the importance of using the information provided by such intentions during the software engineering (SE) process. More specifically, we will study how explicit software intentions can contribute to a better

not provide enough information (or are not trusted), reverse engineers can use third-party tools or write their own tools to support introspection. Reverse engineering tools can be roughly categorized as probe tools (or sensors) and control tools. Probe tools provide information about the program

the construction of an analytical framework that could inform, and better organize, further research. However, given the dif culty of the task, and the necessarily collective character of this endeavour, what is presented here should be considered, literally, as materials to be used in the building of a

Abstract. With the Web’s emergence and generalization in various domains such as economy, commerce, education, culture, etc, the Web application reverse-engineering process becomes necessary in order to facilitate the maintenance of such applications and the evolution towards new Web technology

including semantic information, additional attributes and links to larger datasets can be observed in recent years. The use of semantically rich standards (e.g. CityGML) for the modelling of urban space beyond the simple representation of the geometrical aspect is one of the key hints towards a rich ‘urban