March 2019
Intermediate to advanced
636 pages
27h 50m
English
There's one particular kind of relationship that's particularly important in a business network, and that's the concept of ownership. Ownership is an associative relationship such as the insurance policy document we discussed earlier. Let's think about a specific example—a person owns a car. Is the owner an attribute of the car? Is the car an attribute of the person? After a little thinking, we might realize that neither statement captures what it means to own something. Ownership is a mapping between the person and the car. Ownership is a concept that's quite separate to the car and its owner.
It's important to understand this way of thinking about ownership, because in many cases we model the ownership ...
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