If you have reached this description from partition model, operation model, or event diagram model, and you do not want to delve into the state models right away, you can just take an an event to be a change in an object that is worth modelling. Read First: State Change An event is a change in the state of an object that the user wants to model. States changes not designated as events are ignored, at least during analysis. The model does not need to contain every possible change in the tuples of an object.
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