Some Basic Knowledge Architecture Patterns and principles

• Minds, not just human minds, all known natural minds, are comparing systems, all natural information processing and learning are based on comparing and qualifying
• To think about something, there has to be a something to think about, that is a resource
• Minds and computers differentiate (e.g. compare) resources by their qualities, in fact, a resource can be defined as a quality collection
• The first quality that every resource requires, for us to think about (e.g. refer to) it, is identification
• The second quality that every resource requires, for us to manage it in some way, is classification
• Classification relates resources to meta-data resources that define structure and bindings of classified resources
• There is no real limit to the number or type of qualities that resources can have but some, like identification, classification, and many others, are more common
• To aggregated into more complex resources, some resources also have qualities to relate other resources and qualify the relation
• Relation resources qualify the relation that subject (e.g. source, relation owner) resources can have with object (e.g. relation target) resources
• Qualified relations define capabilities of relation subjects over relation objects
• All resources define relation constraint qualities that limit what impact subject resources can have on them, as relation objects
• Behavior is the effective exercise of some capabilities
• Resource qualities are property sets and properties can take many different forms, including context rules and work-flow patterns
• Work-flow patterns are used to orchestrate resource behavior as they contribute to qualified relations
• Resource relations are often time-based and they are then characterized by period qualities
• Processes are typical time-based orchestrating resource relations