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Pragmatic and semantic aspects of a module concept for graph transformation systems

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The paper presents a conceptual framework for a module concept for graph transformation systems from a software engineering as well as from a theoretical point of view. The basic idea is to reuse concepts, which are known within or without the graph grammar field, to structure large specifications. These are the concept of distributed graph transformation systems, the concept of inheritance of specifications, and the import-export-interface concept. All these concepts are presented in a uniform framework based on the syntactical notion of a graph class specification and its semantics given by a graph transformation system. This is the basis for an explicit integration of these concepts and a corresponding specification language, to be discussed in a subsequent paper.

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  • State Graph
  • Graph Transformation
  • Graph Class
  • Graph Grammar
  • Module Concept

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin, Franklinstr. 28/29, D-10587, Berlin, Germany

    Hartmut Ehrig

  2. Dept. of Computer Science, Leiden University, P.O. Box 9512, NL-2300, RA Leiden, The Netherlands

    Gregor Engels

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    Ehrig, H., Engels, G. (1996). Pragmatic and semantic aspects of a module concept for graph transformation systems. In: Cuny, J., Ehrig, H., Engels, G., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Graph Grammars and Their Application to Computer Science. Graph Grammars 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1073. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61228-9_84

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