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Tiago Prince Sales edited this page Oct 28, 2015 · 21 revisions

Kind

A «Kind» is construct you are going to use in most of your models. It is used to represent rigid concepts, which provide identity principle for their instances and are relationally independent.

Let's see some examples:

Rules for using kinds:

  1. A «Kind» cannot have another «Kind» as its super-type, directly or indirectly.

Because of that rule, the following usages are not allowed:

Usage of the «Kind» stereotype in real models:

  1. Home
  2. OntoUML Tutorial
    1. Theoretical Foundations
      1. Classes and Individuals
      2. Rigidity
      3. Identity
      4. Dependency
      5. Objects x Events
    2. Class Stereotypes
      1. Kind
      2. Subkind
      3. Role
      4. Phase
      5. Category
      6. RoleMixin
      7. Mixin
      8. Relator
      9. Mode
      10. Quality
      11. Collective
      12. Quantity
    3. Relation Stereotypes
      1. Formal
      2. Mediation
      3. Material
      4. Derivation
      5. Characterization
      6. ComponentOf
      7. SubCollectionOf
      8. MemberOf
      9. SubQuantityOf
  3. OntoUML Pattern Catalogue
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