While many applications must deal with individuals and many applications must deal with groups, most applications must deal @@ -132,7 +134,7 @@ theory. If A is a member of B, and B is a member of C, then A is a member of C.
For example, consider the membership relations of Greenpeace, and composite relations of a multinational corporation. Greenpeace, -an organization (ie. group), can have both individuals and +an organization (i.e. group), can have both individuals and organizations (other groups) as members. Hence the membership relation between groups and parties. However, someone is not a member of Greenpeace just because they are a member of a group that @@ -321,8 +323,8 @@ a membership relation is an ordinary acs object with object identity, it is as easy to extend the membership relation to store extra information as it is to extend the users table or the -groups table.
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+groups table.