Implementation of the ´Information Bearing Capability Model´ for Databases

To tackle the capability of a data schema of bearing information, a model for the definition and exploitation of what we call the ´Information Bearing Capability´ of a database (IBC Model for short) model has been proposed. In this paper, we present the notion of IBC with a brief justification. We then describe the IBC model with a diagram and present a set of inference rules for reasoning about information content in terms of whether a given state of affairs is included in the information content of another state of affairs. These rules are a means of deriving nested information. In order to experiment the ideas reflected by the IBC model, we implemented a simplified IBC model by using Prolog. This experimentation shows how domain independent and nested information may be derived from known information and how the IBC model may be implemented and used with and for a database.