Patent ID: 7958074

Claim:
A computerized method for at least one of creating, applying, and using a reasoning heuristic in at least one database of an information system accessible by a computer, said reasoning heuristic being based on an entity/relation paradigm, said method comprising: providing a mechanism, as executed by a processor on a computer, for a user to at least one of define and interact with a domain-independent reasoning heuristic attachable to data in a database in said information system, thereby allowing self-describing knowledge capsules to be at least one of created from said data and, if data in said database is already encapsulated in said self-describing knowledge capsules, searched and retrieved from said database, wherein said data in said information system being so encapsulated in said self-describing knowledge capsules is thereby characterized as having a self-similar hypergraph (“fractal”) format, said self-similar hypergraph format representing a graph in said information structure which comprises one or more nodes and each said node selectively comprises an entire subgraph, wherein a plurality of such heuristics are formed to provide a plurality of inferencing and meta-inferencing reasoning heuristics, and wherein relations information in said information system comprise binary relations and said inferencing and meta-inferencing reasoning heuristics are represented using domain-independent properties.