Perspectives and Complex Aggregates
OOIS '00: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems, page 65--84. London, UK, Springer-Verlag, (2000)Abstract
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...