Class: SoftwareEntity
A software entity is a computational entity that can be interpreted by or directly executed by a processing unit.
URI: sio:SoftwareEntity
Parents
- is_a: ComputationalEntity - A computational entity is an information content entity operated on using some computational system.
Children
- SoftwareApplication - A software application is software that can be directly executed by some processing unit.
- SoftwareLibrary - A software library is software composed of a collection of software modules and/or software methods in a form that can be statically or dynamically linked to some software application.
- SoftwareMethod - A software method (also called subroutine, subprogram, procedure, method, function, or routine) is software designed to execute a specific task.
- SoftwareModule - A software module is software composed of a collection of software methods.
- SoftwareScript - A software script is software whose instructions can be executed using a software interpreter.
Referenced by Class
Attributes
Inherited from ComputationalEntity:
- hasCreator 0..1
- Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
- Range: Entity
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hasAttribute 0..1
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Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.
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Range: Entity
- satisfies 0..1
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Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.
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Range: Description
- isRelatedTo 0..1
- Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
- Range: Entity
- derivesInto 0..1
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Description: a derives to b if and only if a or some part thereof is consumed in the formation of b.
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Range: Object
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