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This paper describes “dynamic business entities”, ontological classes that dynamically acquire and lose properties and relationships as a function of other aspects of the entities. Specifically, we propose how acquisition and loss instructions for such transient properties may be inherent in the definition of the entities possessing them. We use SBVR to demonstrate the specification of dynamic business entities showing how our idea could be applied in practice. We illustrate with an example drawn from the Flanders Research Information Space.
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s 7th Framework Programme under grant agreement no. 257593.
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Limonad, L., De Leenheer, P., Linehan, M., Hull, R., Vaculín, R. (2012). Ontology of Dynamic Entities. In: Atzeni, P., Cheung, D., Ram, S. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7532. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34002-4_27
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