Bidirectional Transformations "bx"
Zhenjiang Hu, Andy Schürr, Perdita Stevens, James F. Terwilliger · 2011
Bidirectional transformations (bx) are a mechanism for maintaining the consistency of two (or more) related sources of information. Researchers from many dierent areas of computer science including databases (DB), graph transformations (GT), software engineering (SE), and programming languages (PL) are actively investigating the use of bx to solve a diverse set of problems. Although researchers have been actively working on bidirectional transformations in the above mentioned communities for many years already, there has been very little cross-discipline interaction and cooperation so far. The purpose of a first International Meeting on Bidirectional Transformations (GRACE-BX), held in December 2008 near Tokyo, was therefore to bring together international elites, promising young researchers, and leading practitioners to share problems, discuss solutions, and open a dialogue towards understanding the common underpinnings of bx in all these areas. While the GRACE-BX meeting provided a starting point for exchanging ideas in dierent communities and confirmed our believe that there is a considerable overlap of studied