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The paper analyses the problem of class generalisation from the non-traditional point of view—class life cycles. Model of class life cycle represents a process-oriented view on the class which is not usual in the field of conceptual modelling. This paper focuses on the problem of modelling life cycles of generic classes when there is a need to model several life cycles, valid at the same time. The paper shows that this problem is rooted in the natural contradiction of object- and process-oriented approach to modelling following from the fact that these two basic approaches are based on mutually contradicting primary types of hierarchical abstraction. The paper also shows that this problem is closely connected with the “problem of conflicting identities” in generalisation trees discussed on the border of the conceptual modelling and ontology engineering fields.
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The work presented in this paper has been supported by the Czech Science Foundation in the grant project No. P403/10/0303 Enterprise Architecture as Management Principle for SMEs.
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Repa, V. (2013). Modelling Life Cycles of Generic Object Classes. In: Linger, H., Fisher, J., Barnden, A., Barry, C., Lang, M., Schneider, C. (eds) Building Sustainable Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7540-8_34
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