Glossary

A

AC Alternating current: Electric current that reverses its direction many times per second at regular intervals.

Activity modeling Map of the activities that make up a process and showing their interconnections and interactions, inputs and outputs, types of resources assigned, and the nature and extent of constraints and controls.

Adaptive controllers Control method used by a controller that must adapt to a controlled system with parameters that vary, or are initially uncertain.

B

Backtracking search General algorithm for finding all (or some) solutions to some computational problems, notably constraint satisfaction problems, that incrementally build candidates to the solutions, and abandons each partial candidate.

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