Towards Symbolic Analysis of Model Transformations

As the Unified Modeling Language is evolving into a family of languages with individually specified semantics, there is an increasing need for highly automated and provenly correct model transformations that assure the integration of local views of the system (in the form of different diagrams) into a consistent global view. Graph transformation provides an easy-to-understand visual specification technique to formally capture the rules of such transformations. In the paper, we propose a model checking based verification approach for the general purpose model transformation system VIATRA by transforming model transition systems [14] into SAL specifications [1] to provide access for a combination of symbolic analysis techniques.