Generalization (1/2)

• is a taxonomic relationship between a specialized class and a more general class

  • the specialized one inherits all properties of the generalized one
  • additional properties can be added
  • an instance of the subclass can be used wherever an instance of the superclass is allowed (at least syntactically)
  • multiple inheritance is also allowed:

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The model contains more

subclasses than actually

shown in this diagram

{overlapping}

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