Incremental Updates for Efficient Bidirectional Transformations
Paper in proceeding, 2011

A bidirectional transformation is a pair of mappings between source and view data objects, one in each direction. When the view is modified, the source is updated accordingly. The key to handling large data objects that are subject to relatively small modifications is to process the updates incrementally. Incrementality has been explored in the semi-structured settings of relational databases and graph transformations; this flexibility in structure makes it relatively easy to divide the data into separate parts that can be transformed and updated independently. The same is not true if the data is to be encoded with more general-purpose algebraic datatypes, with transformations defined as functions: dividing data into welltyped separate parts is tricky, and recursions typically create interdependencies. In this paper, we study transformations that support incremental updates, and devise a constructive process to achieve this incrementality.

Bidirectional programming

Incremental computing

Program transformation

View-update problem

Functional programming

Author

Meng Wang

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Software Engineering (Chalmers)

Jeremy Gibbons

University of Oxford

Nicolas Wu

Well-Typed LLP

ICFP'11 The 16th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming

392-403
978-145030865-6 (ISBN)

Areas of Advance

Information and Communication Technology

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

DOI

10.1145/2034773.2034825

ISBN

978-145030865-6

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3/19/2018