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responsibility
subject			fact

responsibility	can be found by looking for verbs and nouns describing actions in the system description
	has definition Something a system is required to do that is allocated to a particular class
	is a subtopic of 5.8 - The Process Of Developing Class Diagrams
	is carried out by operation
	is a kind of subject
	may require several operations but one public operation will be in charge, all others will be private
	must be attributed to a class

Kinds of responsibility :

• adding and deleting links of associations (4 facts)
• computing numerical results (2 facts)
• copying, converting, transforming, transmitting or outputting (3 facts)
• creating and initializing new instances (4 facts)
• destroying instances (4 facts)
• loading to and saving from persistent storage (3 facts)
• navigating and searching (2 facts)
• responsibility of a class (3 facts)
• setting and getting values of attributes (3 facts)