Graph rewriting and relabeling with PBPO plus : A unifying theory for quasitoposes

We extend the powerful Pullback-Pushout (PBPO) approach for graph rewriting with strong matching. Our approach, called PBPO+, allows more control over the embedding of the pattern in the host graph, which is important for a large class of rewrite systems. We argue that PBPO+ can be considered a unifying theory in the general setting of quasitoposes, by demonstrating that PBPO+ can define a strict superset of the rewrite relations definable by PBPO, AGREE and DPO. Additionally, we show that PBPO+ is well suited for rewriting labeled graphs and some classes of attributed graphs, by introducing a lattice structure on the label set and requiring graph morphisms to be order-preserving.(c) 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons .org /licenses /by /4 .0/).