Graph Rewriting and Relabeling with PBPO+: A Unifying Theory for Quasitoposes

03/02/2022

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by   Roy Overbeek, et al.

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We extend the powerful Pullback-Pushout (PBPO) approach for graph rewriting with strong matching. Our approach, called PBPO+, allows more control over the embedding of the pattern in the host graph, which is important for a large class of rewrite systems. We argue that PBPO+ can be considered a unifying theory in the general setting of quasitoposes, by demonstrating that PBPO+ can define all rewrite relations definable by PBPO, AGREE and DPO, as well as additional ones. Additionally, we show that PBPO+ is well suited for rewriting labeled graphs and some classes of attributed graphs, by introducing a lattice structure on the label set and requiring graph morphisms to be order-preserving.