@TechReport{Kahl-2009b, author = {Wolfram Kahl}, title = {Collagories for Relational Adhesive Rewriting}, institution = {Software Quality Research Laboratory, Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University}, year = {2009}, type = {SQRL Report}, number = {56}, month = JUL, note = {In: \url{http://sqrl.mcmaster.ca/sqrl_reports.html}}, abstract = {We define collagories essentially as ``distributive allegories without zero morphisms'', and show that they are sufficient for accommodating the relation-algebraic approach to graph transformation. Collagories closely correspond to the adhesive categories important for the categorical DPO approach to graph transformation. but thanks to their relation-algebraic flavour provide a more accessible and more flexible setting.} }