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
knowledge representation.
Every
knowledge base,
knowledge-based system, or knowledge-level agent is committed to some conceptualisation, explicitly or implicitly.
