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The incremental approach to stepwise development of models requires the ability to transform models (by replacing a submodel with another one) and to change the class of models (by adding features previously ignored). In the context of Petri Nets, this paper provides rigorous foundations for model transformations and net class transformations in the framework of high level replacement systems. We define net class transformations between elementary nets, place/transition nets and a new notion of algebraic high level nets and prove, among other results, that the two kinds of transformations are compatible. This is an important results for stepwise software development with Petri nets. The high abstraction level of the results allows an easy adaption to other specification techniques, such as e. g. Algebraic Specifications.

This work is part of the joint research project “DFG-Forschergruppe PETRINETZ- TECHNOLOGIE” supported by the German Research Council (DFG). This research was also supported in part by the TMR network “General Theory of Graph Transformation Systems” (GETGRATS) and by the Esprit Working Group APPLIGRAPH.

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  1. Institute for Communication and Software Technology, Technical University Berlin, Germany

    Maike Gajewsky

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Informazione, Universitá di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy

    Francesco Parisi-Presicce

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Gajewsky, M., Parisi-Presicce, F. (2002). On the Compatibility of Model and Model-Class Transformations. In: Cerioli, M., Reggio, G. (eds) Recent Trends in Algebraic Development Techniques. WADT 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2267. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45645-7_6

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