flowmap

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noun

A kind of diagram indicating flow through a process or system.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounflowmap (plural flowmaps)

plural flowmaps

  1. computingA kind of diagram indicating flow through a process or system.

    Flowmaps can be exponentially large if there are many alternatives. In the NELSIS system, the flow plan is fixed.

    1995, Sea Hawon Choi, Design Methodology in High Level Synthesis (page 67)
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    Flowmaps have a hierarchical structure in which some functional units correspond to activities (atomic operations) and others correspond to more detailed flowmaps.

    1994, Reid Alan Baldwin, A Discipline Independent Framework for Engineering Design, page 101

    […] a "flowmap" that amounts to a perceptual analysis of the Sokoban level. The flowmap is a concise data structure that contains a graph of all possible pushes (under the assumption that all other barrels are deleted), […]

    2007, Ben Goertzel, Pei Wang, Advances in Artificial General Intelligence, page 66

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