%0 Book Section
%A Lluch-Lafuente, Alberto
%A Bruni, Roberto
%A Boronat, Artur
%A Montanari, Ugo
%A Paolillo, Generoso
%B Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems (FMOODS/FORTE 2010)
%D 2010
%E Hatcliff, John
%E Zucca, Elena
%F eprints:141
%I Springer
%P 2-16
%S Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%T Exploiting the Hierarchical Structure of Rule-Based Specifications for Decision Planning
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/141/
%V 6117
%X Rule-based specifications have been very successful as a declarative approach in many domains, due to the handy yet solid foundations offered by rule-based machineries like term and graph rewriting. Realistic problems, however, call for suitable techniques to guarantee scalability. For instance, many domains exhibit a hierarchical structure that can be exploited conveniently. This is particularly evident for composition associations of models. We propose an explicit representation of such structured models and a methodology that exploits it for the description and analysis of model- and rule-based systems. The approach is presented in the framework of rewriting logic and its efficient implementation in the rewrite engine Maude and is illustrated with a case study.  }
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