+1 I had trouble understanding the reasoning of this example as well. In our data model, the email would rather be a collection, and the signature an element of it, rather than a specialization of it. A specialization of "this email" would be, for example. the "printed version on my desk", which *is* a specialization of "my thoughts on this email thread". Intuitively, I am having trouble coming up with a counterexample of the transitivity of our specialization. Regards, Tom --- Tom De Nies Ghent University - IBBT Faculty of Engineering and Architecture Department of Electronics and Information Systems - Multimedia Lab Gaston Crommenlaan 8 bus 201, B-9050 Ledeberg-Ghent, Belgium t: +32 9 331 49 59 e: tom.denies@ugent.be URL: http://multimedialab.elis.ugent.be 2012/4/2 Luc Moreau <L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk> > > is this example really reflecting specialisation? The signature is > contained in the email message. Is it a specialisation of it? > > On 2 Apr 2012, at 00:11, "Stian Soiland-Reyes" < > soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> wrote: > > > My signature in the end of this email is a specialization of this > > email message, which is a specialization of my thoughts on this email > > thread. However the signature is not a specialization of those > > thoughts. > >
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