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MULTIPLE INHERITANCE [1 record]

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Record 1 1998-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Mathematics
DEF

A conceptual mechanism that allows a subclass to acquire attributes, notifications and behaviour from more than one supeclass.

CONT

When we have more than one retrieval task in mind, with each task requiring a different organization of the hierarchy, this calls for multiple, overlapping, orthogonal groupings of properties, and is known as multiple inheritance.

OBS

Contrast with tree-structured (simple inheritance) systems.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Intelligence artificielle
  • Mathématiques
DEF

Mécanisme conceptuel qui permet à une sous-classe d'acquérir de plusieurs superclasses des attributs, des notifications, des opérations et un comportement.

Spanish

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