consistency property
11Intellectual property in Iran — Iran is a member of the WIPO since 2001 and has acceded to several WIPO intellectual property treaties.[1] Iran joined the Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Paris Convention) in 1959. In December 2003 Iran became a party to… …
12ACID — For other uses, see Acid (disambiguation). In computer science, ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) is a set of properties that guarantee database transactions are processed reliably. In the context of databases, a single logical …
13Chinese restaurant process — Not to be confused with Chinese restaurant syndrome. In probability theory, the Chinese restaurant process is a discrete time stochastic process, whose value at any positive integer time n is a partition Bn of the set {1, 2, 3,  …
14Gödel's incompleteness theorems — In mathematical logic, Gödel s incompleteness theorems, proved by Kurt Gödel in 1931, are two theorems stating inherent limitations of all but the most trivial formal systems for arithmetic of mathematical interest. The theorems are of… …
15Operational transformation — Operation Transformation redirects here. For the cross media event, see Operation Transformation (TV series). Operational transformation (OT) is a technology for supporting a range of collaboration functionalities in advanced groupware systems.… …
16logic, history of — Introduction the history of the discipline from its origins among the ancient Greeks to the present time. Origins of logic in the West Precursors of ancient logic There was a medieval tradition according to which the Greek philosopher …
17metalogic — /met euh loj ik/, n. the logical analysis of the fundamental concepts of logic. [1835 45; META + LOGIC] * * * Study of the syntax and the semantics of formal languages and formal systems. It is related to, but does not include, the formal… …
18Concurrency control — In information technology and computer science, especially in the fields of computer programming (see also concurrent programming, parallel programming), operating systems (see also parallel computing), multiprocessors, and databases, concurrency …
19set theory — the branch of mathematics that deals with relations between sets. [1940 45] * * * Branch of mathematics that deals with the properties of sets. It is most valuable as applied to other areas of mathematics, which borrow from and adapt its… …
20mathematics, foundations of — Scientific inquiry into the nature of mathematical theories and the scope of mathematical methods. It began with Euclid s Elements as an inquiry into the logical and philosophical basis of mathematics in essence, whether the axioms of any system… …
