analysis operation 1004 is performed whenever information identifying the relationship of the second rwe from the point of view of the first rwe is necessary in this embodiment such a relationship may be necessary when determining the first rwe 39 s entire list of relationships for example when a w4 analysis in correlation has to be performed from the first rwe 39 s point of view another retrieval and analysis operation 1006 is also shown in which the information identifying a relationship of the first rwe from the point of view of the second rwe is necessary again such analysis may be performed when an analysis of the second rwe 39 s relationship with all of the other rwes known to the system is necessary this illustrates that this point of view relationship is managed and stored independently from the prior point of view relationship i e that of the second rwe from the point of view of the first likewise a third retrieval and analysis operation 1008 is provided wherein from a third information object may be retrieved as necessary that identifies the relationship of the first rwe from the point of view of the first rwe thus in situations where it is necessary to determine what the first rwe 39 s self declared relationship is or self declared description will be retrieved in this operation 1008.