Telos: representing knowledge about information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Modelling of set membership: the notion and the issues
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Analysis patterns: reusable objects models
Analysis patterns: reusable objects models
Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical and computational foundations
Knowledge representation: logical, philosophical and computational foundations
An ontological analysis of the relationship construct in conceptual modeling
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Metaclasses and Their Application: Data Model Tailoring and Database Integration
Metaclasses and Their Application: Data Model Tailoring and Database Integration
Understanding semantic relationships
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Materialization: A Powerful and Ubiquitous Abstraction Pattern
VLDB '94 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Formalizing Materialization Using a Metaclass Approach
CAiSE '98 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Taxonomies and Derivation Rules in Conceptual Modeling
CAiSE '01 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Abstraction Concepts: The Basis for Data and Knowledge Modeling
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Enity-Relationship Approach: A Bridge to the User
The Semantics of Parts Versus Aggregates in Data/Knowledge Modelling
CAiSE '93 Proceedings of Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Relationship Reification: A Temporal View
CAiSE '99 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Towards an Abstraction Ontology
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases XVIII
Conceptual modelling patterns for roles
Journal on Data Semantics V
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A generic relationship type is a relationship type that may have several realizations in a domain. Typical examples are IsPartOf, IsMemberOf or Materializes, but there are many others. The use of generic relationship types offers several important benefits. However, the achievement of these benefits requires an adequate representation method of the generic relationship types, and their realizations, in the conceptual schemas. In this paper, we propose two new alternative methods for this representation; we describe the contexts in which one or the other is more appropriate, and show their advantages over the current methods. We also explain the adaptation of the methods to the UML.