Computing Dictionary
knowledge representation definition
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)