Survey of Graph Rewriting applied to Model Transformations

Francisco de la Parra, Thomas Dean

2014

Abstract

Model-based software development has become a mainstream approach for efficiently producing designs, test suites and program code. In this context, model-to-model transformations have become first-class entities and their classification, formalization and implementation are the subject of ongoing research. This work surveys the characteristics and properties of graph rewriting systems and their application to formalize and implement transformations of language-based software models. A model’s structure or behaviour can be abstracted into the definition of a given graph type. Its structural and behavioural changes can be represented by rule-based transformation of graphs.

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de la Parra F. and Dean T. (2014). Survey of Graph Rewriting applied to Model Transformations . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-007-9, pages 431-441. DOI: 10.5220/0004731504310441


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@conference{modelsward14,
author={Francisco de la Parra and Thomas Dean},
title={Survey of Graph Rewriting applied to Model Transformations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2014},
pages={431-441},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004731504310441},
isbn={978-989-758-007-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Survey of Graph Rewriting applied to Model Transformations
SN - 978-989-758-007-9
AU - de la Parra F.
AU - Dean T.
PY - 2014
SP - 431
EP - 441
DO - 10.5220/0004731504310441