Tag Archives: relational structure

Reflections on Abstractions: The Use Case trade-off

Posted on 2013 July 22 by modelpractice

Based on the elementary terms of relational structures, this little example shows the basic trade-off of Use Cases: understandability vs redundancy. Continue reading →

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Reflections on Abstractions: Adjacent Rooms

Posted on 2013 July 6 by modelpractice

Example of an abstraction by subsuming directly connected nodes in the original into a single node in the model. This corresponds to a situation where structures of wall are abstracted to rooms with the neighborhood relation. Continue reading →

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