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`admissibility condition
`
`afterimage
`a copy of adatabase object after
`admissibility condition_in artificial intelli-
`gence and optimization theory, the necessity that
`it is updated.
`the heuristic measure never overestimates the
`cost of the remaining search path, thus ensuring
`that an optimal solution will be found.
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`(1) a computationalentity that acts on
`agent
`behalf of other entities in an autonomous fash-
`1on.
`(2) in the client-server model, the partof the
`ADT=See abstract data type.
`system that performs information preparation
`and exchange on behalf of a client or server.
`Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it
`implies some kind of automatic process which
`can communicate with other agents to perform
`some collective task on behalf of one or more
`humans.
`
`advanced manufacturing system (AMS)
`modern manufacturing system combining com-
`puter assisted design, automation, robotics, and
`humans in a manner that maximizes product
`quality, optimizes production costs, and in-
`creases the flexibility of the means of produc-
`tion.
`
`the input sequence can be thought
`adversary
`of as being generated by an adversary that uses
`information about the past moves ofthe on-line
`algorithm to choose inputs that maximize the
`ratio between the cost to the algorithm and the
`optimal cost.
`
`aerodynamic head
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`See disk head.
`
`a filter acting on information
`afferentfilter
`coming in to a receiving system.
`
`a geometric image transfor-
`affine function
`mation including one or more translations, ro-
`tations, scales, and shears that is represented
`by a4 x 4 matrix allowing multiple geometric
`transformations in one transform step. Affine
`transformations are purely linear and do notin-
`clude perspective or warping transformations.
`Affine functions are functions of several vari-
`ables which can be defined as
`
`FFL Adee Xn)
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`= 0g + ope] + cg42 +: + nda
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`an application whose
`agent-based system
`components are agents. See agent.
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`a class that contains an ag-
`aggregate class
`gregation of other objects.
`
`a function supported in
`aggregate function
`SQL (not expressible in the relational algebra)
`that applies mathematical functions to a collec-
`tion of values. Examples include average, count,
`sum, etc.
`
`in an analytic model that
`ageregate traffic
`has multiple classes of service, or multiple
`chains of customers, the aggregate traffic is the
`combined traffic from one or more classes of
`service.
`In this case, the performance metrics
`obtained are for the combination of classes. A
`class may be aggregated (combined) with an-
`other when no performance metrics are desired
`for the class, or when individual class measure-
`ments are difficult to obtain.
`
`a whole-part relationship in
`aggregation
`which the whole object has emergent and re-
`sultant properties and the relationship is asym-
`metric and irreflexive at the instance level.
`
`where c; are known constants.
`AGI=See address generation interlock.
`affine map
`‘Seeaffine function.
`
`affine transform ee function.
`
`information present in the envi-
`affordance
`ronment and available for processing, and which
`is related to invariants within that environment.
`
`(1900-1973)
`
`Aiken, Howard Hathaway
`Born: Hoboken, New Jersey.
`Aiken is best know as the inventor of the
`Mark | and Mark II computers. While not com-
`mercially successful, these machines were sig-
`nificant in the development of the modern com-
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