July 25th, 2014, University of York, UK


Electronic Communications of the EASST
Volume 68 (2014)

Proceedings of the
8th International Workshop on Graph-Based Tools

(GraBaTs 2014)

July 25th, 2014, University of York, UK

A satellite event of ICGT’14

Guest Editors: Matthias Tichy, Bernhard Westfechtel
Managing Editors: Tiziana Margaria, Julia Padberg, Gabriele Taentzer
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Preface

A wide variety of graph-based tools have emerged, including e.g. tools for visual languages,
model driven development (editing, analysis, simulation, and transformation of models), data
analysis, pattern recognition, software evolution, and efficient graph algorithms. In all of these
areas, tools are developed that retrieve, store, transform, and display graphs. It is the purpose
of this workshop to survey the state of the art of graph-based tools, bring together developers of
graph-based tools in different application fields and to encourage new tool development cooper-
ations.

This volume contains the proceedings of GraBaTs 2014, the 8th International Workshop on
Graph Based Tools. GraBaTs 2014 was held as a workshop co-located with ICGT 2014, the 7th

International Conference on Graph Transformation, in York, UK. This workshop continues the
GraBaTs series of workshops that serve as a forum for researchers and practitioners interested
in the development and application of practical graph-based tools. Previous workshops were
held in 2002 (Barcelona, Spain), 2004 (Rome, Italy), 2006 (Natal, Brazil), 2008 (Leicester, UK),
2009 (Zurich, Switzerland), 2010 (Enschede, The Netherlands), and 2012 (Bremen, Germany).
The format of the workshop varied over the years. In most issues (as in the current one), papers
were presented and collected in workshop proceedings. In 2008/2009, GraBaTs was held as a
tool transformation contest, which was continued as a separate event and was held in parallel
under the joint umbrella of STAF 2014.

This year we received 10 regular submissions. From these, 4 papers were accepted for the
GraBaTs proceedings.

We would like to thank the members of the Program Committee and the external reviewers
for their excellent work. We are also indebted to the members of the ICGT/STAF organization
committee who provided outstanding support for running the GraBaTs workshop smoothly. Last
but not least, we would like to express our thanks to Tobias Heindel, who enriched the GraBaTs
program by his invited talk.

September 2014
Matthias Tichy, Bernhard Westfechtel

PC chairs of GraBaTs 2014

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Program Committee

• Artur Boronat, University of Leicester (UK)

• Claudia Ermel, Technical University of Berlin (Germany)

• Joel Greenyer, University of Hannover (Germany)

• Esther Guerra, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)

• Dimitris Kolovos, University of York (UK)

• Christian Krause, SAP Innovation Center Potsdam (Germany)

• Tihamér Levendovszky, Vanderbilt University (USA)

• Mark Minas, Universität der Bundeswehr München (Germany)

• Arend Rensink, University of Twente (The Netherlands)

• Gabriele Taentzer, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany)

• Matthias Tichy, Chalmers University / University of Gothenburg (Sweden)

• Pieter Van Gorp, Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands)

• Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp (Belgium) / McGill University (Canada)

• Gergely Varró, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)

• Bernhard Westfechtel, University of Bayreuth (Germany)

• Andreas Winter, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg (Germany)

• Albert Zündorf, University of Kassel (Germany)

External Reviewers

Tobias George, Marcel Hahn

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