Composition of an individual

26 March 2011, rev. 1 April 2011, rev. 5 Febr. 2012

Introduction

Instances of PossibleIndividual may be composed of other instances of PossibleIndividual. The Part 2 data model distinguishes a few flavors of composition:

The subtypes Participation, TemporalWholepart, and TemporalBounding have been discussed elsewhere. We will discuss the three entity types that apply to instances of ArrangedIndividual in the 'whole' role: ArrangementOfIndividual, AssemblyOfIndividual, and FeatureWholePart.

The typical model for composition, in template format, is:

Template for an instance of ClassOfCompositionOfIndividual

Template for an instance of CompositionOfIndividual

Analysis diagram

The analysis diagram for the above case is as follows.

Subtypes of CompositionOfIndividual

Now the templates for the three subtypes, that involve an ArrangedIndividual, follow below (for my convenience I leave the IDs the same). We start with the ArrangementOfIndividual:

Template for an instance of ClassOfArrangementOfIndividual

Template for an instance of ArrangementOfIndividual

Then the template for AssemblyOfIndividual:

Template for an instance of ClassOfAssemblyOfIndividual

Template for an instance of AssemblyOfIndividual

And finally the FeatureWholePart:

Template for an instance of ClassOfFeatureWholePart

Template for an instance of FeatureWholePart