Graph Transformation for Software Engineers: With Applications to Model-Based Development and Domain-Specific Language Engineering - Softcover

Heckel, Reiko; Taentzer, Gabriele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3030439186 ISBN 13: 9783030439187

Publisher: Springer, 2021

Synopsis

This book is an introduction to graph transformation as a foundation to model-based software engineering at the level of both individual systems and domain-specific modelling languages.

The first part of the book presents the fundamentals in a precise, yet largely informal way. Besides serving as prerequisite for describing the applications in the second part, it also provides a comprehensive and systematic survey of the concepts, notations and techniques of graph transformation. The second part presents and discusses a range of applications to both model-based software engineering and domain-specific language engineering. The variety of these applications demonstrates how broadly graphs and graph transformations can be used to model, analyse and implement complex software systems and languages. 

This is the first textbook that explains the most commonly used concepts, notations, techniques and applications of graph transformation without focusing on one particularmathematical representation or implementation approach. Emphasising the research and engineering methodologies used, it will be a valuable resource for graduate students, practitioners and researchers in software engineering, foundations of programming and formal methods.

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About the Author

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reiko Heckel is a member of the School of Informatics at the University of Leicester. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gabriele Taentzer is a member of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at Philipps-Universität Marburg. The authors' research is in Graph Transformation, its foundations and applications to System Modelling and Analysis, Model-Based Software Development and Language Engineering.

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This book is an introduction to graph transformation as a foundation to model-based software engineering at the level of both individual systems and domain-specific modelling languages.

The first part of the book presents the fundamentals in a precise, yet largely informal way. Besides serving as prerequisite for describing the applications in the second part, it also provides a comprehensive and systematic survey of the concepts, notations and techniques of graph transformation. The second part presents and discusses a range of applications to both model-based software engineering and domain-specific language engineering. The variety of these applications demonstrates how broadly graphs and graph transformations can be used to model, analyse and implement complex software systems and languages.

This is the first textbook that explains the most commonly used concepts, notations, techniques and applications of graph transformation without focusing on one particular mathematical representation or implementation approach. Emphasising the research and engineering methodologies used, it will be a valuable resource for graduate students, practitioners and researchers in software engineering, foundations of programming and formal methods.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030439186
• ISBN 13: 9783030439187
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 332