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A Formal Framework and a Tool to Process and Simulate Labelled Reconfigurable Nets Models Based on Graph Transformation

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Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2012)

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The poorness of modelling languages to deal with code mobility at requirement phase has incited the researchers to suggest new formalisms. Among these, we find Labelled Reconfigurable Net (LRN). It allows, in a simple and intuitive way, modelling mobile code paradigms (mobile agent, code on demand, remote evaluation).In this paper, we propose an approach based on the combined use of Meta-modelling and Graph Grammars to automatically generate visual modelling tool for LRN. This tool produces highly-structured, graphical, and rigorously-analyzable models for analysis and simulation purposes. In our approach, the UML Class diagram formalism is used to define a meta-model of LRN. The meta-modeling tool ATOM3 is used to generate a visual modeling tool according to the proposed LRN meta-model. We have also proposed a graph grammar to generate R-Maude [22] specification from the graphically specified LRN models. Then the reconfigurable rewriting logic language R-Maude is used to perform the simulation of the resulted R-Maude specification. Two examples illustrate our approach.

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    Nardjes Dehimi, Raida Elmansouri & Allaoua Chaoui

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Dehimi, N., Elmansouri, R., Chaoui, A. (2012). A Formal Framework and a Tool to Process and Simulate Labelled Reconfigurable Nets Models Based on Graph Transformation. In: Benlamri, R. (eds) Networked Digital Technologies. NDT 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 294. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30567-2_34

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