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package org.semanticweb.owlapi.model;

/**
 * @author Matthew Horridge, The University Of Manchester, Bio-Health
 *         Informatics Group
 * @since 2.0.0
 * @param 
 *        value
 */
public interface OWLCardinalityRestriction extends
        OWLQuantifiedRestriction, HasCardinality {

    /**
     * Gets the cardinality of this restriction
     * 
     * @return The cardinality of this restriction
     */
    @Override
    int getCardinality();

    /**
     * Determines if this restriction is qualified. Qualified cardinality
     * restrictions are defined to be cardinality restrictions that have fillers
     * which aren't TOP (owl:Thing or rdfs:Literal). An object restriction is
     * unqualified if it has a filler that is owl:Thing. A data restriction is
     * unqualified if it has a filler which is the top data type (rdfs:Literal).
     * 
     * @return {@code true} if this restriction is qualified, or {@code false}
     *         if this restriction is unqualified.
     */
    boolean isQualified();
}