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41Functional verification — Functional verification, in electronic design automation, is the task of verifying that the logic design conforms to specification. In everyday terms, functional verification attempts to answer the question Does this proposed design do what is… …
42Spin glass — A spin glass is a disordered material exhibiting high magnetic frustration. The origin of the behavior can be either a disordered structure (such as that of a conventional, chemical glass) or a disordered magnetic doping in an otherwise regular… …
43List of combinatorics topics — This is a list of combinatorics topics.A few decades ago it might have been said that combinatorics is little more than a way to classify poorly understood problems, and some standard remedies. Great progress has been made since 1960.This page is …
44Reactive search — is the common name for a family of optimization algorithms based on the local search techniques. It refers to a class of heuristics that automatically adjust their working parameters during the optimization phase.OverviewReactive search, like all …
45School timetable — A school timetable is a table for coordinating these four elements: * students * teachers * rooms * time slots (also called periods)School timetables usually cycle every week or every fortnight. The phrase School timetables largely refers to high …
46Competitions and prizes in artificial intelligence — There are a number of competitions and prizes to promote research in artificial intelligence. Contents 1 General machine intelligence 2 Conversational behaviour 3 Pilotless aircraft 4 …
47Genetic algorithm — A genetic algorithm (GA) is a search heuristic that mimics the process of natural evolution. This heuristic is routinely used to generate useful solutions to optimization and search problems. Genetic algorithms belong to the larger class of… …
48Conceptual graph — Conceptual graphs (CGs) are a formalism for knowledge representation. In the first published paper on CGs, John F. Sowa (Sowa 1976) used them to represent the conceptual schemas used in database systems. The first book on CGs (Sowa 1984) applied… …
49Decision theory — in economics, psychology, philosophy, mathematics, and statistics is concerned with identifying the values, uncertainties and other issues relevant in a given decision, its rationality, and the resulting optimal decision. It is closely related to …
50Global optimization — is a branch of applied mathematics and numerical analysis that deals with the optimization of a function or a set of functions to some criteria. General The most common form is the minimization of one real valued function f in the parameter space …
