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    of system of nodes to define its location in a network. Child: A child node is a node extending from another node. For example, a computer with internet...
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  • In computer science, a goal node is a node in a graph that meets defined criteria for success or termination. Heuristical artificial intelligence algorithms...
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  • In computer programming, a sentinel node is a specifically designated node used with linked lists and trees as a traversal path terminator. This type...
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    polyhedron is analogous to the neighborhood of a vertex in a graph. Node (computer science) Graph theory Glossary of graph theory File:Small Network.png; example...
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    computer science, a tree is a widely used abstract data type that represents a hierarchical tree structure with a set of connected nodes. Each node in...
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  • no change in potential Node (computer science), a basic unit used to build data structures Goal node (computer science), a node in a graph that meets defined...
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    networks, with each node (computer used as a server) running its own instance of an operating system. In most circumstances, all of the nodes use the same...
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    Knowledge Sharing" by Tom Gruber used ontology as a technical term in computer science closely related to earlier idea of semantic networks and taxonomies...
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    seminal contributions that influenced the development of computer networks. In 1969, the first four nodes of the ARPANET were connected using 50 kbit/s circuits...
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  • This glossary of computer science is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in computer science, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including...
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    In computer science, a binary tree is a tree data structure in which each node has at most two children, referred to as the left child and the right child...
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    In computer science, recursion is a method of solving a computational problem where the solution depends on solutions to smaller instances of the same...
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  • Decomposition in computer science, also known as factoring, is breaking a complex problem or system into parts that are easier to conceive, understand...
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    In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every "leaf" node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of a data...
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  • In computer science, tree traversal (also known as tree search and walking the tree) is a form of graph traversal and refers to the process of visiting...
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    In computer science, a binary search tree (BST), also called an ordered or sorted binary tree, is a rooted binary tree data structure with the key of each...
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  • generics in C#, Delphi, Java, and Go: class List<T> { class Node<T> { T elem; Node<T> next; } Node<T> head; int length() { ... } } List<B> map(Func<A, B> f...
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  • In computer science, object composition and object aggregation are closely related ways to combine objects or data types into more complex ones. In conversation...
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    every node with children (internal node) has either two, three, or four child nodes: a 2-node has one data element, and if internal has two child nodes; a...
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  • In mathematical optimization and computer science, heuristic (from Greek εὑρίσκω "I find, discover") is a technique designed for problem solving more quickly...
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    In computer science, data (treated as singular, plural, or as a mass noun) is any sequence of one or more symbols; datum is a single symbol of data. Data...
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    the world's first computer virus: a computation that used the network to recreate itself on another node, and spread from node to node. The source code...
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    A diskless node (or diskless workstation) is a workstation or personal computer without disk drives, which employs network booting to load its operating...
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    elements are called "nodes". The lines connecting elements are called "branches". Nodes without children are called leaf nodes, "end-nodes", or "leaves". Every...
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    formal languages, which are used in mathematical logic and theoretical computer science, a string is a finite sequence of symbols that are chosen from a set...
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    In computer science, a trie (/ˈtraɪ/, /ˈtriː/ ), also known as a digital tree or prefix tree, is a specialized search tree data structure used to store...
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    In computer science, a node d of a control-flow graph dominates a node n if every path from the entry node to n must go through d. Notationally, this...
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    shortest paths between nodes in a weighted graph, which may represent, for example, a road network. It was conceived by computer scientist Edsger W. Dijkstra...
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  • called MSR-type algorithms which have been used widely in fields from computer science to control theory. Bitcoin uses proof of work, a difficulty adjustment...
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  • In computer science and networking in particular, a session is a time-delimited two-way link, a practical (relatively high) layer in the TCP/IP protocol...
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