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Paul Lindgreen’s paper presents a simple, elegant ontology for modelling objects. He begins by asserting that anything and everything is a thing. Then, he introduces the notion of an association between things — which, in turn, is a thing. Once, the notion of things and associating things is established, a good deal of the way in which we model the world can be expressed. These include the notions of concept (object type), generalization (subtypes/supertypes, classification/instantiation, composition, delegation, meta-modeling, and so on.
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Odell, J.J. (1995). Comments on “Anything, everything and things playing roles: Three realizing principles as a contribution to a platform for understanding” by P. Lindgreen. In: Falkenberg, E.D., Hesse, W., Olivé, A. (eds) Information System Concepts. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34870-4_21
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