School of Engineering and Information Sciences
Research Seminars (Term 2 - 2010-11)

Abstract


PORGY: a strategy-driven interactive environment for graph visualisation

Maribel Fernandez
Kings College, University of London

Abstract   

  PORGY is an interactive, visual environment for graph transformations

  based on graph-rewriting rules controlled by strategies. It has been

  used to model interaction networks and biochemical pathways whose states

  are represented by  port graphs and evolutions are driven by rules and

  strategies. The visualisation features provide the user with useful

  insights on possible behaviours of the model and its properties.  In

  this talk we will describe PORGY's strategy language, which is used to

  control the rewriting engine and the generation of execution traces,

  and give examples of graph-based programs in this language.

  The design and implementation of PORGY is currently under way, as part

  of the PORGY project (INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest and King's College

  London: Oana Andrei, Maribel Fernandez, Helene Kirchner, Guy Melancon,

  Olivier Namet, Bruno Pinaud).

  https://gravite.labri.fr/?Projects_%2F_Grants:Porgy

 

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  Bio

  Maribel Fernandez is a Reader in Computer Science at King's College

  London.  She completed a PhD in 1993 (University of Paris-Sud), and

  obtained an Habilitation (Higher Doctorate) from University

  of Paris-Sud and Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS Paris) in 2000.

  Her research focuses on rewrite-based multiparadigm computation models

  and associated programming languages, and the development of tools for

  the specification, analysis and verification of complex systems, such as

  biochemical systems, telecommunications or software applications.

  Recently, she has also applied rewriting techniques

  to the formalisation of access control models and policies.

 

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