Partial Instances via Subclassing

The traditional notion of instantiation in Object-Oriented Modeling (OOM) requires objects to be complete, i.e., be fully certain about their existence and attributes. This paper explores the notion of partial instantiation of class diagrams, which allows the modeler to omit some details of objects depending on modeler’s intention. Partial instantiation allows modelers to express optional existence of some objects and slots (links) as well as …