Enhanced Gas Path Modelling for Condition Monitoring

Aero engines are critical components in aviation, relying on thermodynamics to convert fuel energy into thrust. Maintenance of these engines constitutes a significant portion of operational costs. Gas path analysis (GPA) is essential for engine health management, relying on performance modeling to simulate engine operations accurately. This...

An Empirical Assessment on the Limits of Binary Code Summarization with Transformer-based Models

Reverse engineering binaries is required to understand and analyse programs for which the source code is unavailable. Decompilers can transform the largely unreadable binaries into a more readable source code-like representation. However, many aspects of source code, such as variable names and comments, are lost during the compilation and...

Transformative Reconstruction: The application of a new approach towards dilapidated or unfinished buildings in Beirut

The conflictual past of Beirut is being erased by the company of Solidere, which has a strong will to modernise, through a highly destructive reconstruction, in an effort to heal the city. With this project, a new approach is taken on, in which an old concrete structure, riddled with bullet holes, part of the great variety of dilapidated and...

Reverse Engineering Relational Data for Entity Type Recognition in Enterprise Solutions at ING

Database entity type recognition is the practice of recognizing conceptual entity types for which given data sets contain data. In big data or data lake settings, it is not always known which conceptual entity types are represented in each data set, making it difficult to extract value from the data. Depending on the logical schemas, each...

Reverse Engineering of existing reinforced concrete slab bridges

Most bridges in the Western European road networks are ageing. The vast majority of about 90% of these bridges have reinforced concrete as a building material. The traffic intensity, as well as the axle, and the average vehicle weight have increased since these structures were opened to traffic. Furthermore, the structural (design) codes have...

Reverse engineering in Architecture: Exploiting morphology of unprocessed material by reverse engineering in architecture

Architectural engineering is evolving from a traditional craftsmanship to a new digital craftsmanship. Through advancements in production and processing techniques, we can achieve both mass production and offer mass customisation. As for the typology shown below, a simple house [1] & [2], the source of the material did not alter. The...

Combining learning with fuzzing for software deobfuscation

Software obfuscation is widely applied to prevent reverse engineering of applications. However, to evaluate security and validate behaviour we are interested in analysis such software. In this thesis, we give an overview of available obfuscation techniques as well as methods to undo this effort through reverse engineering and deobfuscation. We...

Re-engineering Web Applications from MSO to SSO

Nowadays a lot of small companies maintain multiple websites that require the user to sign up for ordering products or extended interaction. The users have to create an account for each website the company owns, creating duplicate information for the company and forcing the customer to remember multiple accounts. Where big companies can solve...

Component diagram recovery with dynamic analysis

By evaluating the architecture of a software system, ways to improve the system's quality attributes (such as its performance and modifiability) can be identified and valuable lessons can be learned which may also be applied to other systems. An architecture evaluation requires an up-to-date description of the architecture, which is often...

Understanding Ajax Applications by using Trace Analysis

Ajax is an umbrella term for a set of technologies that allows web developers to create highly interactive web applications. Ajax applications are complex; they consist of multiple heterogeneous artifacts which are combined in a highly dynamic fashion. This complexity makes Ajax applications hard to understand, and thus to maintain. For this...