A database management system and a method of managing a database

摘要

The invention relates to a database management system and a method of managing a database. The database management system for managing a database, wherein the database stores a plurality of entities related to each other by a plurality of relations. The database management system comprising: a user interface for interfacing with the database in a situation, a context modeller for modelling a context representation, wherein the context modeller is arranged to model the context representation in accordance with the situation using a semantic net, which includes a subset of the entities which are identified by the context modeller as being relevant to the situation, so that when the context representation is applied to the database the behaviour of the database is adapted in accordance with the situation. <IMAGE>