RE: [mdt-sbvr.dev] SBVR-uml designation.gif

[Mark H Linehan <mlinehan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Stan's observation on April 12 that an SBVR "representation"
is an association class,  I believe it doesn't show up that way in the CMOF
file because CMOF doesn't support association classes.  But Figure 8.4 in
the SBVR specification makes it quite clear that "representation" is an
association class.

Since EMF doesn't support association classes, we are still left with
modeling "representation" as a class in EMF.  Semantically, it is quite
clear that a representation owns neither the corresponding meaning nor the
corresponding expression.
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Mark H. Linehan
STSM, Model Driven Business Transformation
IBM Research

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