Some Possible Projects

• Architecture of System X. X might be a big system you've worked on or are interested in. Last year students analyzed a VOIP system, a large distribution management system and VIM. It would be good if someone "adopted" Mozilla and collected and regularized ideas from the class and created a nice web presentation of Mozilla architecture.
• DEGEN. This a (suite of) programs intended to be used to evaluate and exercise software design extraction tools. It was started in an earlier class and has had a paper published on it. John Tran has worked further on it.
• Layouters. Create and polish automatic graph layout algorithms, as plug-ins to lsedit (the PBS landscape viewer).
• Tools. Invent, implement or evaluate tools for use in architecture extraction/maintenance.
• New grok. Implement a Java class that supports Tarski operators. This module could be a plug-in for lsedit.
• ETC. Any other topic in the general area of software architecture, such that your work will be of interest to the class.