Full Semantics Preservation in Model Transformation - A Comparison of Proof Techniques

Mathias Hülsbusch, Barbara König, Arend Rensink, Maria Semenyak, Christian Soltenborn, Heike Wehrheim

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    Abstract

    Model transformation is a prime technique in modern, model-driven software design. One of the most challenging issues is to show that the semantics of the models is not affected by the transformation. So far, there is hardly any research into this issue, in particular in those cases where the source and target languages are different. In this paper, we are using two different state-of-the-art proof techniques (explicit bisimulation construction versus borrowed contexts) to show bisimilarity preservation of a given model transformation between two simple (self-defined) languages, both of which are equipped with a graph transformation-based operational semantics. The contrast between these proof techniques is interesting because they are based on different model transformation strategies: triple graph grammars versus in situ transformation. We proceed to compare the proofs and discuss scalability to a more realistic setting.
    Original languageUndefined
    Place of PublicationEnschede
    PublisherCentre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT)
    Number of pages33
    Publication statusPublished - Feb 2010

    Publication series

    NameCTIT Technical Report Series
    PublisherCentre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente
    No.TR-CTIT-10-09
    ISSN (Print)1381-3625

    Keywords

    • IR-70058
    • EWI-17500
    • METIS-270737

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