CLASSIFICATION AND COMPARISON OF MODULE CONCEPTS FOR GRAPH TRANSFORMATION SYSTEMS
Reiko Heckel, Gregor Engels, Hartmut Ehrig, Gabriele Taentzer · WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks · 1999
In this chapter we use a three-level approach for analyzing module concepts for graph transformation systems. Based on the observation that module architectures consist of basic specifications like body or export interface and relations like the implementation relation between them, or the import relation between a client and a server module, module concepts are characterized by answering the questions 1. What are the basic specifications? 2. Which relations between specifications are used? 3. How are specifications and relations combined to module architectures? These three questions are investigated for five module concepts available in the literature. As a reference example, a sample modular specification of resource management in distributed operating systems is presented.