Relationships Flashcards
Access
Aggregation
Assignment
Association
Composition
Flow
Influence
Realization
Serving
Specialization
Triggering
Main types of Relationships:
Structural, Dependency, Dynamic, Other
List Structural Relationship:
Composition, Aggregation, Assignment, Realization
List Dependency Relationship:
Association, Influence, Access, Serving
List Dynamic Relationship:
Triggering, Flow
List Other Relationship:
Specialization
Relationship Connector:
And & Or Junctions
Models static construction or composition of concepts of the same or different types
Structural Relationship
Model how elements are used to support other elements
Dependency Relationships
Model behavior dependencies between elements
Dynamic Relationships
A whole/part relationship that expresses an existence dependency: if a composite is deleted, its parts are (normally) deleted as well
Composition Relationship
Represents that an element combines one or more other concepts; does not imply an existence dependency
Aggregation Relationship
Represents the allocation of responsibility, performance of behavior, storage, or execution
Assignment Relationship
Represents that an entity plays a critical role in the creation, achievement, sustenance, or operation of a more abstract entity.
Realization
Indicates that more abstract entities (“what” or “logical”) are realized by means of more tangible entities (e.g., “how” or “physical”, respsectively)
Realization
Represents that an element provides its functionality to another element.
Serving
Represents the ability of behavior and active structure elements to observe or act upon passive structure elements.
Access
Indicates that a process, function, interaction, service, or event “does something” with a passive structure element (e.g, read, write, modify, delete).
Access
Represents that an element affects the implementation or achievement of some motivation element
Influence
Represents an unspecified relationship or one that is not represented by another ArchiMate relationship
Association
Represents a temporal or causal relationship between elements.
Triggering
Represents a transfer from one element to another.
Flow
Represents that an element is a particular kind of another element
Specialization
