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Graph grammars and graph rewrite systems improved a lot towards practical usability during the last years. Nevertheless, there are still major problems to overcome in order to attract a broad number of software designers and developers to the usage of graph grammars and graph rewrite systems. Two of the main problems are, (1) that current graph grammar notations are too proprietary and (2) that there exists no seamless integration of graph rewrite systems with common (OO) design and implementation languages like UML and C++ or Java.
Story Diagrams are a new graph rewrite language that tries to overcome these deficiencies. Story Diagrams adopt main features from Progres, e.g. explicit graph schemes, programmed graph rewriting with parameterized rules, negative, optional and set-valued rule elements. Story diagrams extend common graph models by offering direct support for ordered, sorted, and qualified associations and aggregations as known from the object-oriented data model. Story Diagrams adopt UML class diagrams for the specification of graph schemes, UML activity diagrams for the (graphical) representation of control structures, and UML collaboration diagrams as notation for graph rewrite rules. Story Diagrams are translated to Java classes and methods allowing a seamless integration of object-oriented and graph rewrite specified system parts.
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Fischer, T., Niere, J., Torunski, L., Zündorf, A. (2000). Story Diagrams: A New Graph Rewrite Language Based on the Unified Modeling Language and Java. In: Ehrig, H., Engels, G., Kreowski, HJ., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Theory and Application of Graph Transformations. TAGT 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1764. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46464-8_21
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