Presentation 2016-11-03
Understanding of Class/ER Diagram based on Object Lifetime
Shigeo Kaneda, Akio Ida,
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Abstract(in English) UML specification categorizes “association” as a semantic relationship. This definition is not practical. In this paper, the association is taken as a relationship that only one instance is uniquely specified if one instance is selected. This relation is nearly equal to “functional dependency” of the RDB theory. The relationship is one-to-many relation, and at least one multiplicity should be “1”. This paper analyzes the lifetimes of two instances that the association builds a bridge. The analytical results show that the lifetime of the input side instance should be included within the longer lifetime of the output side instance. This theoretical result shows that the existence dependence class diagram has the equivalent expression ability with the conventional UML class diagram. Also, properties of timestamp or validity period are important tool to realize the functional dependency having “1” multiplicity in one side of the association.
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Keyword(in English) Class Diagram / ER Diagram / Relationship / The third normal form / Object / Lifetime / Functional Dependency
Paper # KBSE2016-25
Date of Issue 2016-10-27 (KBSE)

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Committee KBSE
Conference Date 2016/11/3(2days)
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Place (in English) Nagano-Engineering Campus, Shinshu University
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Chair Shigeo Kaneda(Doshisha Univ.)
Vice Chair Fumihiro Kumeno(Nippon Inst. of Tech.)
Secretary Fumihiro Kumeno(Shinshu Univ.)
Assistant Hajime Iwata(Kanagawa Inst. of Tech.) / Kohei Sakurai(Kanazawa Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Understanding of Class/ER Diagram based on Object Lifetime
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Class Diagram
Keyword(2) ER Diagram
Keyword(3) Relationship
Keyword(4) The third normal form
Keyword(5) Object
Keyword(6) Lifetime
Keyword(7) Functional Dependency
1st Author's Name Shigeo Kaneda
1st Author's Affiliation Doshisha University(Doshisha Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Akio Ida
2nd Author's Affiliation Doshisha University(Doshisha Univ.)
Date 2016-11-03
Paper # KBSE2016-25
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) KBSE-284
Page pp.pp.7-12(KBSE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2016-10-27 (KBSE)