Mircea Lungu - Research Interests

Software Ecosystems

My PhD thesis has focused on software ecosystem analysis and more precisely, on Reverse Engineering Software Ecosystems. In my thesis I argue that reverse engineering which is traditionally performed on individual software systems should raise to the next higher abstraction level: the level of the software ecosystem. I show that by doing this one can better understand individual systems, as well as the entire ecosystem itself.

In the tool support that I have built for the thesis, I integrate traditional single-system reverse engineering techniques with ecosystem reverse engineering. One of the research prototypes that I have built during my PhD is The Small Project Observatory a framework for visualizing the structure and evolution an entire software ecosystem.

Architecture Recovery

My interests are broader than ecosystem analysis and they span information visualization, reverse engineering, programming languages, and programming environments. One of the first software analysis tools I have built was Softwarenaut is a tool which supports the recovery of the architecture of a given software system in an interactive, exploratory way.