FAMILY OF CONCEPTS - Structural Partition of Conceptual Entity
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Conceptual EntityA Conceptual Entity is the representation of any tangible or intanglible resource or state of such resource that is of interest to understand the enterprises, its data, resources and activities. A Conceptual Entity is either a Concept or a State Concept. Example: - "Person" is a Conceptual Entity of type Concept, Its temporal boundaries are is birth and its death (see Event Concept). - "Employee" is a Conceptual Entity of type State Concept: it is a state of a "person". Its temporal boundaries are its hiring and its departure. |
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DISJOINT SUBTYPES of 'Conceptual Entity'
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Concept |
A Concept is the representation of any tangible or intanglible entity that is of interest to understand the enterprise, its data, resources and activities. A Concept is defined through its essential characteristics which can be: 1) A Concept Property that represents some an immutable factual characteristic such as "name", "amount". 2) A Concept Relationship that represents relationships to other Concepts. |
State Concept |
A State Concept is Conceptual Entity which is a state of another Conceptual Entity. Example: - Employee is a state of Person. Its temporal boundaries are "hiring" and "departure" (see Event Concept). |