Concept map

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A concept map or conceptual diagram is a diagram that depicts suggested relationships between concepts. Concept maps are used by instructional designers, engineers, technical writers, and many others to organize and structure knowledge they want to graphically depict. The concept map represents ideas and information as boxes or circles, connected with arrows that are labelled often in a downward-branching hierarchical structure. They can also be represented as free-form maps. The key to a concept map is linking the relationships between different concepts by using linking phrases such as "causes", "requires", "such as" or "contributes to" in a visual format called concept mapping. Concept maps have been used to define the ontology of computer systems, as in object-role modeling or using Unified Modeling Language formalism.

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