Conceptual Analysis and Knowledge Management 1) Introduction 2) Some General Remarks concerning Knowledge Representation

In order to be able to put forth in a systematic way our conception of knowledge representation (KR), we will start in the next section (section 2) with some general remarks concerning the problem of KR. In section 3 we will discuss several aspects of knowledge management that is, following our point of view, the domain of reference of KR. In section 4, we will give a short characterization of knowledge based systems (KBS). In section 5 we will try to isolate several major descriptive problems that are to be solved if we envisage the realization of a KBS. In section 6 we will set up several hypothesis that should be taken into account by conceptual analysis. In section 7, finally, we will sketch out a conceptual theory of decription by the means of the conceptual graph theory developped mainly by Sowa (1984).