flowmap

English

Etymology

From flow +‎ map.

Pronunciation

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Noun

flowmap (plural flowmaps)

1. (computing) A kind of diagram indicating flow through a process or system.
   • 1994, Reid Alan Baldwin, A Discipline Independent Framework for Engineering Design, page 101:

     Flowmaps have a hierarchical structure in which some functional units correspond to activities (atomic operations) and others correspond to more detailed flowmaps.

   • 1995, Sea Hawon Choi, Design Methodology in High Level Synthesis (page 67)

     Flowmaps can be exponentially large if there are many alternatives. In the NELSIS system, the flow plan is fixed.

   • 2007, Ben Goertzel, Pei Wang, Advances in Artificial General Intelligence, page 66:

     […] 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), […]