flowmap

noun

flowmap

noun

Etymology From flow + map.

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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A kind of diagram indicating flow through a process or system.

  • 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:
  • 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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  • […] 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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