Analysis of Graph Transformation Systems: Native vs Translation-based Techniques

Reiko Heckel
Leen Lambers
Maryam Ghaffari Saadat

The paper summarises the contributions in a session at GCM 2019 presenting and discussing the use of native and translation-based solutions to common analysis problems for Graph Transformation Systems (GTSs). In addition to a comparison of native and translation-based techniques in this area, we explore design choices for the latter, s.a. choice of logic and encoding method, which have a considerable impact on the overall quality and complexity of the analysis. We substantiate our arguments by citing literature on application of theorem provers, model checkers, and SAT/SMT solver in GTSs, and conclude with a general discussion from a software engineering perspective, including comments from the workshop participants, and recommendations on how to investigate important design choices in the future.

Invited Presentation in Rachid Echahed and Detlef Plump: Proceedings Tenth International Workshop on Graph Computation Models (GCM 2019), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 17th July 2019, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 309, pp. 1–22.
Published: 20th December 2019.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.309.1 bibtex PDF
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