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MAPPING REPRESENTATION [1 record]

Record 1 2015-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Information Processing (Informatics)
  • Computer Mathematics
DEF

Procedures for transforming one set to another set (of information) or a correspondence.

DEF

... a way of associating objects in one set (range elements) with objects in another set (domain elements). A mapping may (optionally have a default image: if there is no stored image for a particular domain element, a request to determine its image can return the default image. For example, when a Boolean mapping is used to represent a collection the default image is FALSE.

CONT

... input/output mappings are compared with those of the "ideal" model to yield a pair which defines the abstract properties of the counter example.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traitement de l'information (Informatique)
  • Mathématiques informatiques
DEF

Représentation, sous forme d'algorithme ou de table, des relations entre les constituants de deux ensembles de données.

Spanish

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