Structured Classifier

A structured classifier is a classifier with internal structure. It contains a set of parts connected by connectors. An instance of a structured class contains an object or set of objects corresponding to each part. A part has a type and a multiplicity within its container. An object that is a part may only belong to one structured object. All of the objects in a single structured object are implicitly related by their containment in the same object. This implicit relationship may be exploited in the implementation of behavior on the structured class.

A connector is a contextual relationship between two parts in a structured classifier. It defines a relationship between objects serving as parts of the same structured object. ...

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