Asset Oriented Modeling (AOM)

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Arcs

Assets are connected by arcs:

• Each asset that models a verb requires arcs that lead from that asset to the assets that model the nouns that are put into relation by this verb.
• Each aggregating verb (like "has") that relates an asset to another asset is modeled as an arc.
• Each classifying verb (like "is a") is modeled as an arc. To identify this relationship, we decorate these arcs with the role name "is a".
• Choices, i.e. arcs leading to one or another asset are modeled as clusters.

Note:

The asset "forward" acts as a ternary relationship, relating two departments and a set of orders with each other. We have decorated the different roles of "department" with appropriate role names.

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