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title: "On Definitional Processes in Knowledge Reconstruction Systems"
authors:
  - "Peter Schefe"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/100"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0100.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "509-510"
track: "Knowledge Representation"
keywords:
---

# On Definitional Processes in Knowledge Reconstruction Systems

Peter Schefe

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 509-510.

## Abstract

Defining concepts Is a fundamental process of modelling a certain domain of knowledge. Current knowledge representation languages, even those said to support terminological adequacy, attn suffer from severe epistemological deficiencies. Especially the procedures for defining subconcepts are shown to be lnadeqiate. A baste analysts of prlmltl'le concept formation processes yields some general requirements for the definitional part of a knowledge reconstruction deYice comprising the possibility to model system aggregation, role, collection, and membership abstractions.