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Software engineering applications, like integrated development environments or CASE tools, often work on complex documents with graph-like structures. Modifications of these documents can be realized by graph transformations. Many graph transformation systems operate only in volatile memory and thus suffer from a couple of drawbacks.
In this paper, we present the graph model of the Gras/GXL database management system. Gras/GXL enables graph based applications to store their graphs persistently in commercial databases. Because these applications usually have their own graph model, a mapping from this graph model to the Gras/GXL graph model has to be realized. We will present mappings for the PROGRES, DiaGen, and DiaPlan graph models in this paper. For the PROGRES graph model we will also show its realization.
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Böhlen, B. (2004). Specific Graph Models and Their Mappings to a Common Model. In: Pfaltz, J.L., Nagl, M., Böhlen, B. (eds) Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance. AGTIVE 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25959-6_4
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