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• XML-based message exchange with CIM semantics: Can
be used to build personal XML schemas to enable standards-
based message exchange between applications. As with
coupling of applications, the CIM provides a standardized
semantics for coupling applications of different vendors. A tool
for developing such schemas is available, for example through
Langdale Consultants (http://www.cimtool.org).
In the following, some characteristics of the CIM are summarized:
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• e CIM is hierarchical: Common classes inherit common
attributes to subclasses.
• e CIM is normalized: All attributes are unique and belong to
only one class. e use of attributes within other classes is done
by defining relationships between these ...