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Interactive and automated proofs for graph transformations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2018

MARTIN STRECKER
MARTIN STRECKER*
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Institut de Recherche en Informatique (IRIT), Université de Toulouse, France Email: martin.strecker@irit.fr
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Abstract

This article explores methods to provide computer support for reasoning about graph transformations. We first define a general framework for representing graphs, graph morphisms and single graph rewriting steps. This setup allows for interactively reasoning about graph transformations. In order to achieve a higher degree of automation, we identify fragments of the graph description language in which we can reduce reasoning about global graph properties to reasoning about local properties, involving only a bounded number of nodes, which can be decided by Boolean satisfiability solving or even by deterministic computation of low complexity.

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Mathematical Structures in Computer Science , Volume 28 , Special Issue 8: Term and Graph Rewriting , September 2018 , pp. 1333 - 1362
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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