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Perspectives and Complex Aggregates

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When we model a phenomenon we apply a perspective on the phenomenon. The perspective decides which properties we include in the model. It also decides how we conceive a phenomenon in terms of its constituent parts. Several perspectives on the same phenomenon create several distinct, but overlapping models. The models of the phenomenon use potentially shared parts. Their combination is a complex aggregate. The objective of this article is to investigate a conceptual model behind several perspectives and the resulting complex aggregate, and to illustrate various techniques for representing perspectives and complex aggregates as usual object models. We present a number of extensions to common modeling techniques at the conceptual level, and we discuss shortcomings and weaknesses of implementation techniques based on the object model.

This research was supported in part by the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, EF627.

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  1. The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute for Production Technology, University of Southern Denmark/Odense University, DK 5230, Odense M, Denmark

    Lars Kirkegaard Bækdal & Bent Bruun Kristensen

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  1. School of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics, South Bank University, 103 Borough Road, London, UK

    Dilip Patel  & Shushma Patel  & 

  2. School of Computing, London Guildhall University, 100 Minories, London, UK

    Islam Choudhury

  3. Department of Information Systems and Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, London, UK

    Sergio de Cesare

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Bækdal, L.K., Kristensen, B.B. (2001). Perspectives and Complex Aggregates. In: Patel, D., Choudhury, I., Patel, S., de Cesare, S. (eds) OOIS 2000. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0299-1_6

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