What Structural Relationships in ArchiMate?

What Structural Relationships in ArchiMate?

Structural relationships represent the ‘static’ coherence within an architecture.

ArchiMate Structural relationship (in class hierarchy)

  • The composing concept (the ‘from’ side of the relationship) is always an element;
  • the composed concept (the ‘to’ side of the relationship) may in some cases also be another relationship.

Nesting Form of Elements

  • Structural relationships may also be expressed by means of nesting of the composed concept within the composing element.
  • However, that this can lead to ambiguous models, in case multiple structural relationships are allowed between these elements.

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