Combining graph transformation and algebraic specification into model transformation

  • Authors:
  • Hans-Jörg Kreowski;Sabine Kuske;Caroline von Totth

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany;Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • WADT'10 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new framework of model transformation that combines graph transformation with algebraic specification. While graph transformation is well-suited to describe the transformation of visual models, one can observe that models are often composite structures with visual, graphical and diagrammatic components accompanied by all kinds of data objects like strings, sets, numbers, etc. that are not adequately represented by graphs. We advocate algebraic specification to cover these parts of models and tupling to combine the graph and the data components.