Conceptual schema

A Conceptual schema is a map of concepts and their releationships.

incomplete list of concepts:

• physical object (an instance of something)
• abstraction (a class of something)

incomplete list of relationships:

• A is a[?] B
• A contains[?] B
• A requires[?] B

See also:

• Knowledge representation
• Mindmap, Semantic Web, Ontology (computer science)