Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, The, Second Edition
by James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch
association
The semantic relationship between two or more classifiers that involves connections among their instances.
See also association class, association end, association generalization, binary association, multiplicity (association), n-ary association.
Semantics
An association is a relationship among two or more specified classifiers that describes connections among their instances. The participating classifiers have ordered positions within the association. The same class may appear in more than one position in an association. Each instance of an association (a link) is a tuple (an ordered list) of references to objects. The extent of the association is a collection of such links. The collection may be a set (no duplicate entries) or a ...
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