Relations

[guidelinePackage] Information Model Guidelines Relations

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Guidelines about relationships between elements in an information model.

Classifiers

Ownership (Association)
Ownership is a relationship between two Information Entities that means that the instances of one of the entities consist of instances of the other entity.
Simple Association (Association)
An association is a relationship between two entities that means that they are associated to each other in some way.

Features

Association Role (Association End)
Represents the role an Information Entity plays in an association towards another Information Entity.
Owner Role (Association End)
The Owner Role represents the role an Information Entity plays when its instances consist of instances of another Information Entity.
Part Role (Association End)
A Part Role represents the role an Information Entity plays when its instances is part of an instance of another entity.

Relations

Information Entity Inheritance (Generalization)
Captures the taxonomy between Information Entities.
An Information Entity inheriting another Information Entity means that that all attributes and relations are inherited.