The aim of SENSORIA was to develop a novel comprehensive approach to the engineering of software systems for service-oriented architectures where foundational theories, techniques and methods are fully integrated in a pragmatic software engineering approach. The reviewers deemed the project to have been a huge success. More than 650 papers were published, 24 PhDs were completed, 27 tools were developed, and 3 spin-off companies were created.
ATX's role was in the development of a methodology for the automated transformation of Legacy systems to Service Oriented Architectures. Our proposal can be seen as an instance of the SEI's horseshoe model, a conceptual model for reengineering at different levels, with a focus on transformations at the level of architectural models. This goal is achieved by using techniques such as code pattern matching (to annotate the code), reverse engineering, graph transformation and forward engineering.
More information on Sensoria can be found at www.sensoria-ist.eu.
