Everything about Program transformation

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Program transformationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Data Augmentation by Program TransformationInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The Art of SeoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: tRNAscan-SE: A Program for Improved Detection of Transfer RNA Genes in Genomic SequenceCited 16,326 times
5. Go sideways: Abstract syntax treeA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: DMS Software Reengineering ToolkitA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• tRNAscan-SE: A Program for Improved Detection of Transfer RNA Genes in Genomic Sequence

  Todd M. Lowe, Sean R. Eddy · 1997 · Nucleic Acids Research · 16,326 citations

• Program Transformation Systems

  H. Partsch, R. Steinbrüggen · 1983 · ACM Computing Surveys · 248 citations

• Program Improvement by Source-to-Source Transformation

  David B. Loveman · 1977 · Journal of the ACM · 141 citations

• Data structures and program transformation

  Grant Malcolm · 1990 · Science of Computer Programming · 109 citations

• Program concept recognition and transformation

  W. Kozaczynski, J. Ning, A. Engberts · 1992 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 101 citations

• Continuation-Based Program Transformation Strategies

  Mitchell Wand · 1980 · Journal of the ACM · 88 citations

• A System for Assisting Program Transformation

  Martin S. Feather · 1982 · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 88 citations

• Inductive functional programming using incremental program transformation

  Roland Olsson · 1995 · Artificial Intelligence · 79 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Data Augmentation by Program Transformation

  Shiwen Yu, Ting Wang, Ji Wang · 2022 · Journal of Systems and Software · 60 citations

• A Static Detection Method for SQL Injection Vulnerability Based on Program Transformation

  Ye Yuan, Yuliang Lu, Kailong Zhu · 2023 · Applied Sciences · 16 citations

• Program Management Within Digital Transformation: The Emerging Importance Of Technology Architecture, Product Management, and Human Capital Transformation

  Andrew Gemino, Blaize Horner Reich · 2023 · Project Management Journal · 12 citations

• Assessment of the Turkish Health Transformation Program With Data Envelopment Analysis

  Melike Kübra Ekiz Bozdemir, Selen Avcı, Zerrin Aladağ · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management · 12 citations

• Program transformation landscapes for automated program modification using Gin

  Justyna Petke, Brad Alexander, Earl T. Barr · 2023 · Empirical Software Engineering · 10 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The Art of SeoEric Enge, Stephan Spencer · 2009
• 📕Program specializationRenaud Marlet · 2012
• Supervised Machine LearningTanya Kolosova, Samuel Berestizhevsky · 2020
• Signals, systems, transforms, and digital signal processing with MATLABMichael Corinthios · 2009
• Advanced Spatial Modeling with Stochastic Partial Differential Equations Using R and INLAElias T. Krainski, Virgilio Gómez-Rubio · 2018
• Transforming SchoolsMiranda Jefferson, Michael Anderson · 2017
• Two applications of functional analysisSudarsan Nanda · 1986
• Principles of program analysisFlemming Nielson, Hanne Riis Nielson · 1999

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