Conceptualization
Conceptualization is the process of identifying, abstracting, and organizing a coherent set of concepts and relationships that represent the essential important elements, relationships, and possible states of affairs within a given subject domain (a.k.a. area of knowledge , field, universe of discourse). It transforms the complexity of reality into structured ideas that can be shared, discussed, analyzed, and modeled. A conceptualization is intended to be understandable by humans (the community of subject domain stakeholders) but can also be represented in machine interpretable form. Conceptualizations are social artifacts, sociotechnical tools. A conceptualization serves as a shared understanding among domain stakeholders, enabling them to articulate and reason about the subject domain in consistent, meaningful, and useful ways. It captures not only what exists, but also what could possibly exist by defining the admissible configurations, constraints, mechanics, and dynamics of that...