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Accounting Information Systems Chapter 3 Flashcards
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- 1Aggregation RelationshipA special-purpose UML notation representing the relationship between two classes that are often considered together, such as when a sports league is made up of a collection of teams.
- 2AssociationUML symbol that depicts the relationship between two classes and is modeled as a solid line that connects two classes in a model.
- 3AttributesData elements that describe instances in a class like fields in a database table such as characteristics, properties or adjectives that describe each class.
- 4Business RuleStatements of constraints on business processes that provide the logic which guides the behavior of the business in specific situations.
- 5CardinalitiesAssociations defining how one entity links to another
- 6ClassAll individual collections of assets, whether objects, individuals, or conceptual structures, a business wants to collect and store information.
- 7Class DiagramStructure models prepared using UML notation.
- 8Composition RelationshipSpecial purpose UML notation showing the relationship between two classes often considered together when one class cannot exist without the other class.
- 9ConstraintsRules and guidelines outlining how processes are completed and decisions are made.
- 10Data ModelsGraphic representation of the conceptual contents of databases supporting communication about the database contents between users and designers of the database.
- 11EntitiesClasses in UML notations depicting people, things, and events of interest.
- 12Foreign KeyAttibutes that allow database tables to be linked. Foreign keys of one table are the primary keys of another linked table and support the link between the two tables.
- 13Generalization RelationshipSpecial purpose UML symbol supporting grouping of things with common characteristics. This symbol reduces redundancy because the shared characteristics need only be modeled once.
- 14MultiplicitiesUML symbols showing the minimum and maximum number of times one class can be associated with another class. The symbols show one to one, one to many, or many to many relationships.
- 15Primary KeyAn attribute or combination of attributes uniquely identifying a class in a data model or row in a table.
- 16RelationshipThe business purpose for the association of two classes or two database tables.
- 17Structure ModelConceptual depiction of a database. This can be a UML class model or entity-relationship model.
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