Conceptualisation

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  conceptualisation \conceptualisation\ n.
     the act of formulating or making a concept of something.
  
     Syn: conceptualization, formulation, formularizing,
          formularising.
          [WordNet 1.5]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  conceptualisation
       n 1: an elaborated concept [syn: {conceptualization}, {conceptuality}]
       2: inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and
          formulating it mentally [syn: {conceptualization}, {formulation}]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  conceptualisation
       
           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.
       
          (1994-10-19)