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An Aggregation Model and its C++ Implementation

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Object-oriented conceptual models strive to capture more semantics in order to better represent requirements of real-world applications. Aggregation is a powerful construct for semantic modeling. Intuitively, it relates a composite object to its component objects. This paper presents a new version of aggregation, with a generalized version of cardinality constraints and a new subcategorization of part relationships, with an associated transitivity rule. An implementation in C++ is also presented.

This work is part of the YEROOS (Yet another project on Evaluation and Research on Object-Oriented Strategies) project, principally based at the University of Louvain. See http://yeroos.qant.ucl.ac.be.

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  1. Université catholique de Louvain, IAG-QANT, 1 Place des Doyens, 1348, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

    Manuel Kolp & Alain Pirotte

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  1. School of Information Technology, University of Queensland, Q4072, Brisbane, Australia

    Maria E. Orlowska

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    Roberto Zicari

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Kolp, M., Pirotte, A. (1998). An Aggregation Model and its C++ Implementation. In: Orlowska, M.E., Zicari, R. (eds) OOIS’97. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1525-0_18

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