Branch

Branching, in Revision Control and Software Configuration Management, ...

Branch and cut (sometimes written as branch-and-cut) is a method of combinatorial optimization for solving integer linear programs, that is, linear programming problems where some or all the unknowns are restricted to integer values.

Q. What are the branches of AI?
A. Here's a list, but some branches are surely missing, because no-one has identified them yet. Some of these may be regarded as concepts or topics rather than full branches.

Depth-First Branch-And-Bound Search
For many problems, the maximum search depth is known in advance or the search is finite.

Branches
The branches of Artificial Intelligence split off in many directions, and some overlap quite extensively. It is therefore difficult to classify them.

branching factor in a search tree, the number of children of a given node. Usually, the branching factors of individual nodes will vary.

One branch of normative ethics is theory of conduct; this is the study of right and wrong, of obligation and permissions, of duty, of what is above and beyond the call of duty, and of what is so wrong as to be evil.

The branch of AI that modeled its work after the neural network of the human brain is called connectionism.

"The branch of computer science that is concerned with the automation of intelligent behavior"
(Luger and Stubblefield, 1993)
"The study of how to make computers do things at which, at the moment, people are better"
(Rich and Knight, 1 99 1 ) ...

m_pNoBranch : TreeNode*
The TreeNode class forms the basic node data type used within the BDT. The TreeNode has a string containing either the question to be asked (if a body node) or the actual outcome (or "answer") if a leaf node.

Cognitive Branching Model
Yet others have suggested that aPFC is important for maintenance of meta-level goals while subgoals are being specified and manipulated.

Almost every branch of science and engineering currently shares the tools and techniques available in the domain of artificial intelligence.

One of the two branches of Predictive Modeling (the other one is Classification).
We address here the following topics :
Definition of Regression ...

Statistics is a branch of mathematics concerning the collection and the description of data. Usually statistics is considered to be one of those scary topics in college right up there with chemistry and physics.

Game theory is a branch of applied mathematics that is often used in the context of economics. ...

Monro, D. M., & Branch, J. L. (1976). The chirp discrete Fourier transform of general length. Applied Statistics, 26, 351-361.
Montgomery, D. C. (1976). Design and analysis of experiments. New York: Wiley.

A long "branch" of a neuron which carries the output signal (action potential) from the cell. A single axon may be as long as a meter. Contrast dendrite.
Central Nervous System (CNS) ...

Symbolic AI (or Classical AI) is the branch of artificial intelligence research that concerns itself with attempting to explicitly represent human knowledge in a declarative form (i.e. facts and rules).

The main program proceeds along this list (step 1), attacking the problems in the order of their generation; more powerful systems will have to be more judicious (both in generation and in selection of problems) for only thus can excessive branching ...

Expert system The branch of artificial intelligence that develops computer programs to simulate human decisions in many fields. External structure refers to customer and supplier relationships and the organisation's image.

Known to many as 'AL' or 'Alife', this branch of science seeks to cultivate synthetic, life-like behaviors such as growth, adaptation, reproduction, socialization, learning, and even death.

The branch out into a tree-like form around the cell body. The dendrites are like electrical cables which serve to conduct incoming signals to the cell. The axon or nerve fiber is the outgoing connection for signals emitted by the neuron.

backed-up error estimate In decision tree pruning one of the issues in deciding whether to prune a branch of the tree is whether the estimated error in classification is greater if the branch is present or pruned.

As Asimov's name and his trademark bushy-whiskered portrait became powerful marketing forces, he branched smoothly into other literary fields.

Signals coming into the neuron are received via junctions called synapses, these in turn are located at the end of branches of the neuron cell called dendrites.

Neural networks are a branch of the field known as "Artificial Intelligence".
In a nutshell a Neural network can be considered as a black box that is able to predict an output pattern when it recognizes a given input pattern.

Indeed a whole branch of the subject is devoted to 'Logic Programming'. The programming language 'PROLOG' was developed to address the need in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and is still a very popular language.

The branch of computer science which aims to create intelligent machines; the study and design of intelligent agents, where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions which maximize its chances of success.

genetic programming
A branch of evolutionary computation. The main characteristic is that the population is composed of programs written in a given programming language. The main goal is to automatically generate programs for a specific task ...

Mind Mapping. A visual method of organizing ideas. In most mind mapping systems the ideas branch out from a central point. In turn, each branch can have additional branches or links to other mind maps. A specific form of concept mapping.

We're already relying on robots to work assembly lines. Military branches and police squads use robots for bomb detection and other hazardous duties. We'll likely see even more widespread use of robots in these industries in the future.

The top level node is the root, only one root is allowed for a tree. The branch node are called child (use tvwChild relationship to add a child). You use tree data structure when you want to represent categorical data into hierarchy.

The program, representing each problem as a tree model, would attempt to solve it by selecting the branch that would most likely result in the correct conclusion.

Game Theory
Game theory is a branch of mathematics that seeks to model decision making in conflict situations.

but in general this definition leads into some very interesting lines of argument, for example take a tic tac toe program that has a internal graph of all possible moves and can calculate from that which branches provide the best chances of winning ...

Instead of choosing a definition, lets keep a birds eye, very high view of the issue, and say that Artificial intelligence is Intelligence of machines, and the branch of computer science that aims to create it.

But such a game need not be "over simplistic" because if we are given a truly interactive city to play in then the one goal of survival will quickly branch out into countless sub goals as we the player develop different tactics and strategies to ...

The axon is the long part of the neuron over which the signal (or impulse) is propagated. Dendrites are small, branching projections off of the soma which receive impulses. (insert Rebecca's neuron drawing here) ...

See also: Artificial intelligence, Knowledge, AI, Neural network, Demon