Research on the Mapping Rules of Complex Inheritance Relationship from CIM to the Logic Model

There are not a set of perfect rules as well as implementation methods to meet the demand of electric marketing business and to transform Common Information Model (CIM) into the logical model. In this paper, the complex inheritance relationship, such as the absence of multiple inheritance and the empty of parent class, is considered in CIM. This paper also focuses on the universally unique identifier IdentifiedObject class, from which most classes inherit. Moreover, based on the research about the complex inheritance relationship from CIM to the logical model, several mapping rules are introduced, which can make the transformation come true.