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Date Issued:
1998
Summary:
Most popular object-oriented modeling techniques (OOMTs) provide good support for the creation of conceptual models of system behavior and structure. A serious drawback of these techniques is that the concepts and notations used are not rigorously defined. This can lead to the creation of ambiguous models, and to disagreements over the proper use and interpretation of modeling constructs. An important modeling construct that is often loosely defined is aggregation. This thesis presents a precise characterization of aggregation that can help developers identify appropriate applications of the concept. Our characterization is the result of careful analysis of literature on conceptual modeling, knowledge representation and object-oriented (OO) modeling. We discuss primary and secondary properties of aggregation and propose annotations for UML (Unified Modeling Language). An extensive discussion of the more useful patterns of aggregation helps developers pick a suitable prescription of aggregation.
Title: The notion of aggregation.
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Name(s): Saksena, Monika.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
France, Robert B., Thesis advisor
Larrondo-Petrie, Maria M., Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1998
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 101 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Most popular object-oriented modeling techniques (OOMTs) provide good support for the creation of conceptual models of system behavior and structure. A serious drawback of these techniques is that the concepts and notations used are not rigorously defined. This can lead to the creation of ambiguous models, and to disagreements over the proper use and interpretation of modeling constructs. An important modeling construct that is often loosely defined is aggregation. This thesis presents a precise characterization of aggregation that can help developers identify appropriate applications of the concept. Our characterization is the result of careful analysis of literature on conceptual modeling, knowledge representation and object-oriented (OO) modeling. We discuss primary and secondary properties of aggregation and propose annotations for UML (Unified Modeling Language). An extensive discussion of the more useful patterns of aggregation helps developers pick a suitable prescription of aggregation.
Identifier: 9780591769579 (isbn), 15537 (digitool), FADT15537 (IID), fau:12298 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.Sc.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1998.
Subject(s): Object-oriented methods (Computer science)
UML (Computer science)
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