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Initial Conflicts for Transformation Rules with Nested Application Conditions

Logic in Computer Science 2020-05-13 v1

Abstract

We extend the theory of initial conflicts in the framework of M-adhesive categories to transformation rules with ACs. We first show that for rules with ACs, conflicts are in general neither inherited from a bigger context any more, nor is it possible to find a finite and complete subset of finite conflicts as illustrated for the category of graphs. We define initial conflicts to be special so-called symbolic transformation pairs, and show that they are minimally complete (and in the case of graphs also finite) in this symbolic way. We show that initial conflicts represent a proper subset of critical pairs again. We moreover demonstrate that (analogous to the case of rules without ACs) for each conflict a unique initial conflict exists representing it. We conclude with presenting a sufficient condition illustrating important special cases for rules with ACs, where we do not only have initial conflicts being complete in a symbolic way, but also find complete (and in the case of graphs also finite) subsets of conflicts in the classical sense.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2005.05901,
  title  = {Initial Conflicts for Transformation Rules with Nested Application Conditions},
  author = {Leen Lambers and Fernando Orejas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.05901},
  year   = {2020}
}
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