Project Ideas

Current and past master thesis projects in the area of program transformation and some ideas for future projects.

Ongoing Projects

• Java and XML -- Martin Bravenboer
• Domain-specific optimization -- Stratego:CodeBoost - Transform:OttoSkroveBagge (Bergen)
• Simplifying the Simplifier -- AlanVanDam
• Documentation generation -- Rob Vermaas

Finished Projects

• Similix in Stratego -- LennartSwart
• Software Renovation -- Stratego:CobolX - Hedzer Westra - 2002
• Inlining Strategies -- Arne de Bruijn - 2001
• First-Class Rules and Generic Traversal -- Stratego:RhoStratego - Transform:EelcoDolstra - 2001

Project Ideas

Source to source transformation

• Java generation and optimization
  • Program Refactoring
  • Concrete Java

• Haskell transformation
  • Functions from Data

• C sharp transformation

• C transformation
  • typedefs by post-parse disambiguation

Reverse engineering

• Language independent program visualization

Optimization

• Optimizers from interpreters
• Control flow normalization
• Code generation for VLIW architectures
• Strategies for loop optimization
• Strategies for instruction scheduling
• Instruction selection for quadruples

Extending, improving Stratego

• Optimizing Stratego programs
• Representing object variables
• Transformation aspects
• StrategoDebug
• Transformation composer
• Optimization plugin

• Back-ends
  • Stratego to JVM
  • Stratego to CLI

Resources

• Transform:ProgramTransformation: survey website on program transformation
• Stratego:StrategoLanguage: language for specification of program transformation systems