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Triple Graph Grammars (TGGs) are a declarative and rule-based approach to bidirectional model transformation. The key feature of TGGs is the automatic derivation of various operations such as unidirectional transformation, model synchronisation, and consistency checking. Application conditions can be used to increase the expressiveness of TGGs by guaranteeing schema compliance, i.e., that domain constraints are respected by the TGG. In recent years, a series of new TGG-based operations has been introduced leveraging Integer Linear Programming (ILP) solvers to flexible consistency maintenance even in cases where no strict solution exists. Schema compliance is not guaranteed, however, as application conditions from the original TGG cannot be directly transferred to these ILP-based operations. In this paper, we extend ILP-based TGG operations so as to guarantee schema compliance. We implement and evaluate the practical feasibility of our approach.
This work was partially supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through the SPEAR project (01IS17024I).
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We like to thank Surbhi Verma, Shubhangi Salunkhe and Darya Zarkalam for contributing to large parts of the implementation.
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Weidmann, N., Anjorin, A. (2020). Schema Compliant Consistency Management via Triple Graph Grammars and Integer Linear Programming. In: Wehrheim, H., Cabot, J. (eds) Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering. FASE 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12076. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45234-6_16
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