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Adjacency ItemAn Adjacency Item is a member of an Adjacency List, and represents an elementary constituent of a model, used to reference an Element. It is a basic construct to form Adjacency Lists. An Adjacency Item is either a Reference Adjacency or a Nesting Adjacency . |
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Nesting Adjacency |
A Nesting Adjacency is an Adjacency Item that references its Element by nesting. Nesting is a fundamental concept in complex systems organization where Entity Elements are contained within other Entity Elements, creating hierarchical or web-like structures. This embedding mechanism intrinsically links the properties, behaviors, and lifecycles of nested Elements to their containing Elements, forming cohesive units at multiple scales. Nesting facilitates the emergence of complex aggregates and properties from simpler Entity Elements, enables efficient design of systems across levels, and supports both autonomy and integration within systems. |
Reference Adjacency |
A Reference Adjacency is an Adjacency Item Item that references its target Element through some identification mechanism kind (for instance, indexing mechanism using IDS and Keys, or physical pointers such as Cylinder.Head.Sector for files on hard-drives). |