conceptualisation

artificial intelligence The collection of objects, concepts

and other entities that are assumed to exist in some area of

interest and the relationships that hold among them. A

conceptualisation is an abstract, simplified view of the

world that we wish to represent. For example, we may

conceptualise a family as the set of names, sexes and the

relationships of the family members. Choosing a

conceptualisation is the first stage of knowledgerepresentation.

Every knowledge base, knowledge-based system, or

knowledge-level agent is committed to some

conceptualisation, explicitly or implicitly.

(1994-10-19)