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2008 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Towards an Algebraic Theory of Bidirectional Transformations
verfasst von : Perdita Stevens
Erschienen in: Graph Transformations
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Bidirectional transformations are important for model-driven development, and are also of wide interest in computer science. In this paper we present early work on an algebraic presentation of bidirectional transformations. In general, a bidirectional transformation must maintain consistency between two models, either of which may be edited, and each of which may incorporate information not represented in the other. Our main focus here is on lenses [2,1,3] which provide a particularly well-understood special case, in which one model is an abstraction of the other, and either the abstraction or the full model may be edited. We show that there is a correspondence between lenses and short exact sequences of monoids of edits. We go on to show that if we restrict attention to invertible edits,
very well-behaved
lenses correspond to split short exact sequences of groups; this helps to elucidate the structure of the edit groups.