<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.
