The Relations Type Manager allows users to define their own types of relations, so that they can customize their Knowledge Spaces according to their purposes. To open the Relations Type Manager, click the RT Manager button in the rightmost part of the ViCoS workspace. This will open a new window, in which you will be asked to choose a lexicon. Subsequently, you will see a window, in which you see all the relations you have defined for this particular lexicon, and the option New Relation Type. After clicking the latter you will be redirected to the Relation Editorr:

Figure 4.1. Relation Type Manager

Here the users can define all the properties of the relation: Name, Definition, Characteristics, Line Type, Color. Once all these properties have been decided upon press Define.

Instead of defining a relation by yourself, you can also import a relation from the DCS-ISO 12620 repository.