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well decomposable problems

adaptive multiprocess

We will use the following two different notions of the term process:

 – The notion of a functional process which is seen as a vast movement of components exchanging information and energy, and producing the state of a certain system, as is the case of brains producing representations. We can thus speak of the process of emergence of a form of thought about something focused from a trigger generating intention.

 – The much more precise notion of computer process, which is a small program wrapped in utilities and processed in a computer system that handles quantities of them simultaneously. We will then speak of swarms of processes to designate very numerous computer processes running in competition, this notion of swarm of processes being then close to the other notion of functional process.

Generally speaking, there are two categories of programs in computer science:

 – The category of programs where it is a question of calculating a given function which is precise, well defined in advance, of strictly developing the calculations of all the necessary steps, which amounts to the execution of a structured set of state machines.