Processing MetaAssociationTypes
Key:
-: the link is not processed.
D: downward processing, includes the linked object, then follows the associations from that object. The objects at the end of the links may be included depending on the link type.
S: standard processing, the object at the end of the link is included.
L: only the link to the object is included (not the object itself)
 
Link type
Example
Major
Minor
Extraction
Compar.
Protect
Dupli
Delete
Isolate
COMPOSITION
Procedure/Operation; Application/Tool; Project/Diagram, Tool, Function, Document ; ...
Aggregation-of Component
-
D
-
D
 
D
-
-
-
S
AGGREGATION
Operation/Rule, Timer ; Information/Entity ; Diagram/Entity, Relationship, MetaAssociationEnd, Constraint, Rule, Message, Operation, Condition, Record, Set, Sequencing, ... ; Record/Attribute; Identifier; Record-Key; Index; Diagram/Attribute (View-of-Diagram); ...
Aggregation-of
Parameter
-
D
-
D
 
L
-
-
-
S
DESCRIPTION
Operation/Service; Org-Unit/Operation; Project/Application, Procedure; Installed-Diagram; Site/Org-Unit; Record/Language; ...
Described
Description
-
S
-
-
 
L
-
-
-
S
DEFINITION
Logical Group/Entity; MetaAssociationEnd/Entity; Record-Owner, Record-Member; Synchronization/Message ...
Defined
Defining
-
S
-
-
 
L
-
-
-
S
CLASSIFICATION
Tag
Characterized
Used
-
S
-
-
 
L
-
-
-
S
FLOW
Source-... ; Target-...
SrcTarget
Source Target
-
-
-
-
 
 
-
-
-
-
TRANSFORMATION
Relationship/Record; Organizational-Operation; ...
Derived
Origin
-
S
-
-
 
L
-
-
-
S
SEQUENCE
Next; Timer/Message; ...
Next
Previous
-
-
-
-
 
 
-
-
-
-
MODELING
Descriptor-.. ; Program/Tool; Analysis-Function
Modeled
Diagram
S
D
-
D
L
D
-
-
-
-
CITATION
Diagram/Procedure, Org-Unit, Site, Application, Tool, Information, Function, State, ...
Citing
Cited
-
S
-
S
 
L
-
-
-
S
SUB-TYPING
Sub-Type; Equivalence, ...
Sub-Type
Super-Type
-
D
-
-
 
L
-
-
-
-
BIVALENT
Output, MetaAssociationEnd/Relationship
Component
Component
D
D
D
D
D
D
-
-
-
-S
HIERARCHY
Database/Table; Table/Column, Key, Index
 
-
D
-
D
 
D
-
D
-
S
CHECK
Constraint/Entity, Information, Relationship
Checking
Checked
D
-
-
-
 
L
-
-
-
-