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In object-oriented technology, some concepts are so often used that people have no doubt about their meaning (e.g. class, object, method). This is not the case when abstraction concerns lead to the use of some conceptual representations such as an object being part of another one. Even the standardized notation UML is confusing in some of its definitions. In this paper, we use the benefits from a formal definition for the semantics of the Whole-Part relationship to improve the metamodel used in the UML. The aim of the proposed specification is for it to be incorporated into version 2.0 of UML.
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Bruel, JM., Henderson-Sellers, B., Barbier, F., Le Parc, A., France, E.B. (2001). Improving the UML Metamodel to Rigorously Specify Aggregation and Composition. In: Wang, X., Johnston, R., Patel, S. (eds) OOIS 2001. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0719-4_3
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