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Tutorial Introduction to Graph Transformation: A Software Engineering Perspective

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Graph Transformations (ICGT 2004)

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As a basic introduction to graph transformation, this tutorial is not only intended for software engineers. But applications typical to this domain, like the modeling of component-based, distributed, and mobile systems, model-based testing, and diagram languages provide well-known examples and are therefore used to give a survey of the motivations, concepts, applications, and tools of graph transformation.

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  1. Politecnico di Milano, Italy

    Luciano Baresi

  2. University of Paderborn, Germany

    Reiko Heckel

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  1. Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

    Hartmut Ehrig

  2. University of Paderborn, Warburger Straße 100, 33098, Paderborn, Germany

    Gregor Engels

  3. George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

    Francesco Parisi-Presicce

  4. Leiden Center of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Leiden University, Niels Bohrweg 1, 2333, Leiden, CA, The Netherlands

    Grzegorz Rozenberg

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Baresi, L., Heckel, R. (2004). Tutorial Introduction to Graph Transformation: A Software Engineering Perspective. In: Ehrig, H., Engels, G., Parisi-Presicce, F., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Graph Transformations. ICGT 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3256. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30203-2_30

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