Venkatasubramanian, Ramprasad2014-03-142014-03-141994etd-10242009-020119http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45285This project is part of the Automatic Specification Interpreter (ASPIN), a tool currently under development, that takes the various forms of informal specifications and creates formal engineering models from them. ASPIN has a long-term goal of providing an automated system for digital system synthesis from informal specifications. This report describes an algorithm and a program, flowgrapher, that generates conceptual graphs from requirements expressed as flowcharts captured with a commercial tool. Generation of conceptual graphs from flowcharts is done in two stages. First the flowchart is drawn using Viewlogic's Viewdraw and a netlist representation of the flowchart is obtained. Next, this netlist is parsed to obtain the successor/predecessor relations between the various flowchart blocks and these relations are used to develop the conceptual graph representation of the flowchart. Flowgrapher has been implemented in the C programming language under the Unix environment.vi, 50 leavesBTDapplication/pdfenIn CopyrightLD5655.V851 1994.V465Flow chart generatorsMaster's projecthttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10242009-020119/