Representing part-whole relations in conceptual modeling: An empirical evaluation

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An Australian Research Council Discovery Grant funded this research. We are indebted to participants in workshops at The University of Queensland. City University of Hong Kong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and The University of Auckland for comments on previous versions of this paper. We also thank Daniel Moody, Steve Hitchman, Graeme Simsion. and Yair Wand for helpful comments on our research. An earlier, partial version of this paper was presented at the 23<SUP>rd</SUP> International Conference on Information Systems, Barcelona, December 15-18, 2002. We are indebted to attendees at our presentation for helpful comments. We thank the senior editor. associate editor. and three reviewers for helpful comments on our paper.