Unfolding semantics of graph transformation

  • Authors:
  • Paolo Baldan;Andrea Corradini;Ugo Montanari;Leila Ribeiro

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica, Pura e Applicata, Università di Padova, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy;Instituto de Informática, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Information and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Several attempts have been made of extending to graph grammars the unfolding semantics originally developed by Winskel for (safe) Petri nets, but only partial results were obtained. In this paper, we fully extend Winskel's approach to single-pushout grammars providing them with a categorical concurrent semantics expressed as a coreflection between the category of (semi-weighted) graph grammars and the category of prime algebraic domains, which factorises through the category of occurrence grammars and the category of asymmetric event structures. For general, possibly nonsemi-weighted single-pushout grammars, we define an analogous functorial concurrent semantics, which, however, is not characterised as an adjunction. Similar results can be obtained for double-pushout graph grammars, under the assumptions that nodes are never deleted.