Associations: abstractions over collaboration

B.B. Kristensen
SMC'03 Conference Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics. Conference Theme - System Security and Assurance (Cat. No.03CH37483)  
The notion of associations as abstractions over collaborations is motivated and explored. This kind of association is seen as first class a concept at both modeling and programming level. Associations are seen as concepts/phenomena and possess properties. Properties of associations are characterized. A general event-based information sending and receiving mechanism is investigated as an example of a concrete form of property at the programming level.
doi:10.1109/icsmc.2003.1245630 dblp:conf/smc/Kristensen03 fatcat:z43kr4foyfbwplcpr22q3sfx44