[W/K] :: knowledge representation

  knowledge representation
       
          The subfield of artificial intelligence concerned with
          designing and using systems for storing knowledge - facts
          and rules about some subject.
       
          A body of formally represented knowledge is based on a
          conceptualisation - an abstract view of the world that we
          wish to represent.  In order to manipulate this knowledge we
          must specify how the abstract conceptualisation is represented
          as a concrete data structure.  An ontology is an explicit
          specification of a conceptualisation.
       
          (1994-10-19)