Inheritance hierarchies often constitute the backbone of object-oriented systems. Their quality is therefore quite crucial. We present here our work the objective of which is to help designers to improve and to measure the quality of their inheritance hierarchies. The quality we deal with is the degree of factorization of information. Our work is based on the mathematical structure of Galois (c...

In the context of meta-programming and reflective languages, classes are treated as full fledged objects which are instances of other classes named metaclasses. Metaclasses have proved to be useful for defining new class properties. Examples of such properties are lazy memory allocation, multiple inheritance, having a single instance. . . A class with some property is obtained by instantiating ...

In semantic and object oriented data models each class has one or more typing properties that associate it to other classes and carry type information about all instances of the class We introduce a new kind of property that we call instance typing property An instance typing property associates an instance of a class to another class and carries type information about that particular instance ...

The certificate of inheritance is the final act notary succession procedure which serves as proof quality heir and property right accepted heirs over goods successor mass, in amount awarded to each heir. Doctrine specialty literature continue express controversy regarding this act, even light new provisions Civil Code. Consequently, current paper aims analyze legal nature probative value inheri...

This paper discusses the manner in which SNOMED CT (SCT) has confused the metonymic role of some class labels as holonyms and has inappropriately assigned property inheritance down a holonymic chain due to its transitiveness. The notion of emergent properties is introduced as the only form of property that can exist on a holonym and its use in a hypernymic inheritance hierarchy is discussed. Th...

The modifier effect is the reduction in judged likelihood of a generic statement (Apples are sweet) when the subject is modified (Chinese apples are sweet). Connolly, Fodor, Gleitman and Gleitman, (2007) argued that this effect undermines the principle of default property inheritance in conceptual combination. In a series of studies, we replicated the effect and its interaction with modifier ty...

Human beings, who is a real person are accepted in rights and duties, have the right to dispose of their goods as they wish by working trying throughout life. Except for exceptions law, use, consumption, dismissal property, etc., with or without gratuity, he wishes. After his death, all rights, especially property right, which called taraka, pass heirs. Each legal system has determined some rul...

a 4: 2 pp.74-95, 2008 CAUSAL INHERITANCE AND SECOND-ORDER PROPERTIES Suzanne Bliss & Jordi Fernández Abstract We defend Jaegwon Kim’s ‘causal inheritance’ principle from an objection raised by Jurgen Schröder. The objection is that the principle is inconsistent with a view about mental properties assumed by Kim, namely, that they are second-order properties. We argue that Schröder misconstrues ...