Natural-Language Semantics for Associations
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Conceptual models describe an application domain to further communication and understanding, and serve as the basis for subsequent software design and implementation. For a language to be used for conceptual modelling, the semantics of its constructs must be well-defined w.r.t. the application domain. The semantics of the association construct, central to object-oriented modelling languages, are problematic from the software perspective [1, 2], as well as in conceptual modelling. The definitions in the literature often obscure, rather than clarify the meaning of the construct. Prior research interpreted associations ontologically as mutual properties [3], and classified them according to linguistic and cognitive considerations [4]. The ontological interpretation confounds properties and interaction, while the latter does not explain the meaning of associations. Relationships and associations have been interpreted as relations, i.e. sets of tuples [2, 5] and in terms of their meaning for subsequent system implementation and programming [1]. The semantics of a language construct are defined by its semantic mapping to an element of the semantic domain [6]. For purposes of conceptual modelling, the semantic domain consists of those concepts in which we perceive the application domain, with which we think and reason about the domain. These concepts are human cognitive concepts.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005