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Contrasting classification with generalisation

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APCCM '09: Proceedings of the Sixth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modeling - Volume 96

Pages 71 - 78

Published: 01 January 2009 Publication History

Abstract

Classification and Generalisation are two of the most important abstraction mechanisms in modelling, and while they share a number of similarities, they are unmistakably different with respect to their properties. Recently, a number of (meta-) modelling language design approaches de-emphasised the differences between classification and generalisation in order to gain various advantages. This paper aims to demonstrate the loss in precision and the loss of sanity checks such approaches entail. After a careful comparison between classification and generalisation, I identify problems associated with the above mentioned approaches and offer alternatives that retain a strong distinction between classification and generalisation.

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Contrasting classification with generalisation
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Model development and analysis

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APCCM '09: Proceedings of the Sixth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modeling - Volume 96

January 2009

163 pages

ISBN:9781920682774

Editors:
Markus Kirchberg
Institute for Infocomm Research (IR), A*STAR (Singapore)
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Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)

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