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A Programming Language Tailored to the Specification and Solution of Differential Equations Describing Processes on Networks

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Language and Automata Theory and Applications (LATA 2010)

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We present an extension to the graph-transformation based programming language XL that allows easy specification and solution of differential equations on graphs.

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Hemmerling, R., Smoleňová, K., Kurth, W. (2010). A Programming Language Tailored to the Specification and Solution of Differential Equations Describing Processes on Networks. In: Dediu, AH., Fernau, H., Martín-Vide, C. (eds) Language and Automata Theory and Applications. LATA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6031. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13089-2_25

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