Amalgamating pushout and pullback graph transformation in collagories

  • Authors:
  • Wolfram Kahl

  • Affiliations:
  • McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ICGT'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Graph transformations
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The relation-algebraic approach to graph transformation replaces the universal category-theoretic characterisations of pushout and pullbacks with the local characterisations of tabulations and co-tabulations. The theory of collagories is a weak axiomatisation of relationalgebraic operations that closely corresponds to adhesive categories. We show how to amalgamate double-pushout and double-pullback rewriting steps into a fused rewriting concept where rules can contain subgraph variables in a natural and flexible way, and rewriting can delete or duplicate the matched instances of such variables.