Workshop on Graph-Based Tools

The International Workshop on Graph Based Tools (GraBaTs 2006) is the third workshop of a series that serves as a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the development and application of graph-based tools. Based upon mathematically solid underlying concepts, graph-based tools are frequently used in various application areas in software and systems engineering. 1 Motivation and History Graphs are well-known means to capture structural aspects in various fields of computer science. Based upon mathematically solid underlying concepts, graphbased tools are frequently used in various application areas in software and systems engineering. Successful application areas include (but not limited to) compiler construction, constraint solving, CASE tool generation, software engineering, pattern recognition techniques, program analysis, software evolution, software visualization and animation, visual languages, and many more. A commonality in all these areas is that tools heavily rely on graphs as an underlying data structure. The International Workshop on Graph Based Tools (GraBaTs 2006) is a forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the development and application of graph-based tools. The current event is already the third in a series which is traditionally organized bi-annually as a satellite event of the International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT) [3]. The first workshop on this topic [4] took place in 2002 in Barcelona, Spain, while the second workshop [5] was organized in 2004 in Rome, Italy. Both events have demonstrated that the GraBaTs workshop is of special relevance for a conference on graph transformation. Frequently, the application of graph transformation technology requires the existence of reliable, user-friendly and efficient tool support. Moreover, these tools are frequently built on top of basic services or frameworks provided by popular open development environments such as Eclipse [1] or NetBeans [2] which significantly reduce development efforts, and provide a professional look-and-feel of the tools thus facilitating industrial acceptance. A. Corradini et al. (Eds.): ICGT 2006, LNCS 4178, pp. 465–466, 2006. c © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006 466 A. Zündorf and D. Varró