FAMILY OF CONCEPTS - Structural Partition of Class of Individual
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Class of IndividualA Class of Individual is a First Order Class of Entitys that exist in space and time. It is the powertype of Individual. Class of Individuals are represented as dark orange boxes (see the Meta-Model Legend) . Examples: - Red; - 12 kg; - Top Secret (TS) confidentiality. - Birth, - Death, |
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DISJOINT SUBTYPES of 'Class of Individual'
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Class of Bounded Individual |
A Class of Bounded Individual is a Class of Individual which denotes Bounded Individuals that have a proper life cycle, bounded by Temporal Bounding Types. Class of Bounded Individual is the powertype of Bounded Individual. It means that all sub-types of Bounded Individual are instances of Class of Bounded Individual. Examples: - Car, - Application, - A Process Type (Action Process Type) such as the registration process used at the Oackland digital hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic. Counterexamples: - Project is not a Class of Bounded Individual because its instances have a spatio-temporal extent. Project is a subtype of Bounded Individual. - Capability is not a Class of Bounded Individual. It is a Property. |
Temporal Bounding Type |
A Temporal Bounding Type is Class of Individual that defines the type of temporal boundaries that delimitate Class of Bounded Individuals. It is a class of Temporal Bounding. Exemples: - Birth, - Death, - Start of the plinian phase of a volcanic eruption. - Hospital opening. |