abstraction

This abstraction layer allows any operating system to run on the hardware without knowledge of any other guest operating system.

What seems to be lacking is a suitable abstraction for programming pervasive computing environments.

From the previous section, you can see that virtio is an abstraction for a set of common emulated devices in a paravirtualized hypervisor.

Such a primary force would be really no more than an empty abstraction, with as little content as the abstract thing-in-itself.

The bean only currently provides an abstraction for font styles, but it would be easy to extend the interface for other style types.

We've made it very easy to create additional layers of abstraction in the semantics of your tests, not just in the code.

But then, while no one wants to think of extinction, the word is far less of an abstraction in Hawaii than in other places.

We've made it a breeze to add new layers of abstraction to your tests.

But the death of distance will not be reversed and globalisation is no longer a philosophical abstraction to be argued over.

Though I appeared to be, for the moment, freed of the zombie abstraction, I was just as distant.

Logical volume management is a disk abstraction layer that allows you to group physical disks into a single entity called a volume group.

Thus it is difficult to automate this abstraction process; accordingly the analysis model is often created separately.

The notion of viewpoints is an abstraction that provides a specification of a system, limited to a particular set of problems.

So if you know that the service is static and won't change, then you could climb one more level up the abstraction food chain.

I would like to see a hardware abstraction layer installed similar to what Fedora uses for hardware recognition.

When you read this statement you may make an abstraction of it as an idea, a concept, and the abstraction is another form of measurement.

I can't do it any other way, for you are both congenitally unable to understand a philosophic abstraction.

So you see, we're navigating the web for the first time as if it's actually a web, not page to page, but at a higher level of abstraction.

S. To construct an enemy includes two dimensions, abstraction and dehumanization of the enemy, and personification of the nation.

The main means of communications between peers; provides an abstraction for a one-way, asynchronous conduit for information transfer.

Don't let the consumer of an abstraction depend on anything but the public contract of that abstraction.

Closures are such a powerful abstraction that object systems and fundamental control structures are often implemented using them.

Please do not make it into an abstraction, an idea, but rather observe the actual fact, the actual happening in the reading of this.

This paper raises the question of abstraction and embodiment and stresses the conclusion that words are token, and lexeme is type.

A VLAN is an abstraction of the traditional concept of a local area network (LAN).

The best systems are those that allow you to work at multiple levels of abstraction within the metaprogramming system itself.

These things augmented induce a little penalty, and with the help of data abstraction, penalty induced by tags can be further eliminated.

The next level of abstraction models the company's business processes for realizing the interactions that were captured at the domain level.

Experiment shows that this key frame extraction method is efficient, the video abstraction can preferable express the video content.

Provides a layer of abstraction that protects a client application from changes made to the name or location of the base object .

To provide a sense of the scope and abstraction level that such a model might reflect, consider Figure 4.

Seed profit has this use truly, be understood simply to be a group of abstraction when it especially after the truth of N layer principle.

Data abstraction enforces a clear separation between the abstract properties of a data type and the concrete details of its implementation.

Now that we have identified the key levels of abstraction, let's take a closer look at the relationships between them.

At the core of functional programming is the function, just as classes are the primary abstraction in object-oriented languages.

The system design is considered to be a high-level abstraction of what will eventually be the program design.

It is not just the knowledge in a domain expert's head; it is a rigorously organized and selective abstraction of that knowledge.

GORM helps mitigate the leaky-abstraction problem by allowing you to represent your object model in a way that makes sense in Groovy.

In the natural and social sciences alike, it is all a matter of getting the right abstraction.

The pedestrian noticed nothing just now, and a clue to her abstraction was afforded by a trivial incident.

Database abstraction layers allow you to develop your application independent of a database.

When an artifact seems to appear at different levels of the architecture, the highest level of abstraction is used for the mapping.

Functions are an essential programming abstraction: key concepts to understand are parameter passing, variable scope, and doc strings.

My interest is in reducing reality to a certain abstraction, in which, again and again, an identity, a culture or an emotion is preserved.

Thomas disliked theory and abstraction; so he was a very poor student at school and he left it on his sixteenth birthday.

A virtual processor is an abstraction for a processing resource and maps to a hardware thread on the underlying system.

Instead three experiments they conducted suggested the answer was to think about yourself at a higher level of abstraction.

Ask: Each project seems to be linked to a type of "chest word" , that is neither an abstraction nor a form.

Besides, even with this limitation, the final cause, or Good, is a vague abstraction, and the same vagueness attaches to what is to be Duty.

Once these two basic requirements are met, it is easy to see the group leader as a very good abstraction for a compute grid's Task Manager.

That sense of good and evil may be about more than a right versus wrong abstraction.

Ideally, of course, we use a level of abstraction that makes it easy to grasp the intended solution.

Adding an abstraction in the form of a DAO decouples the database implementation from the GUI implementation.

Energy and dynamism are represented with the velocity of abstraction that multiplies the trajectory of an object or of a body in movement.

the once-intangible abstraction had become a living, breathing entity that I could press my face into and wrap my arms around.

All that time, the world only exists as an abstraction, as they are taught the values of their society.

The hypothesis of economic man is an abstraction of human nature in mainstream Economics and a basic precondition of Economics illation.

Analysis involves describing what the system to be built is at a high (conceptual) level of abstraction.

The analysis model level provides an abstraction above that of actual design.

Templates are a beautiful abstraction and can seriously facilitate long-term maintenance of your applications if used properly.

Is an abstraction for locking, allowing for lock implementations that are implemented as Java classes rather than as a language feature.

Enables you to define the actual hardware abstraction layer (HAL) to be loaded at startup.

This approach of breaking complexity down into layers of abstraction is of course not unique to IT-related disciplines.

Abstraction goes into any work of art, whether the artist is aware of it or not.

It's the kind of abstraction that only exists when a seller wants a buyer to pay more.

Singly linked lists are a powerful abstraction that allow you to represent numerous types of data .

A good judge must consider all the facts of a case as well as the abstraction " justice" .

Coarse-grained components are usually implemented through composition of finer-grained components as a means for obtaining abstraction.

This provides an abstraction layer over the existing operating system-specific windowing system (GTK in case of Linux).

The kernel also acts as an abstraction layer between the hardware and the rest of the software stack.

In his haste and abstraction he stuck a pickle-fork into his right eye, and on removing the fork the eye came with it.

The specification of an executable statement that forms an abstraction of a computational procedure.

By application of place abstraction and transition abstraction HFPN is able to realize hierarchical knowledge representation and reasoning.

HAL Hardware Abstraction Layer . Used to provide a generic interface to the hardware and " hide " hardware- specific functions .

Now that we've presented a simple example with four levels of abstraction, let's scale the approach to support solutions for IT enterprises.

And there was a little -- an interesting theory about abstraction.

While abstraction and solution flexibility impose performance impacts, consider specific performance requirements of the implementation.

Means of abstraction, by which compound elements can be named and manipulated as units.

It provides a layer of abstraction to decouple client code from access to a service, as well as its location and underlying implementation.

And, first, it makes the universal no better than an abstraction external to the particulars, and God a being without determinate quality.

In the next post we'll go back up the abstraction ladder to take a thorough look at virtual memory.

We purposefully kept the discussion at a higher level of abstraction so you could determine the details that will fit your environment.

The same concepts apply at any of these levels of abstraction or across different concerns.

A connector is a JDI abstraction used to establish a connection between a debugger application and a target VM.

A good judge must consider the actual facts of a case as well as the abstraction "justice" .

The cube model can be seen as an abstraction of a star-join or snowflake-join schema.

And yet we know that in too many parts of the world, this ideal remains an abstraction -- a distant dream.

That is not necessarily so -- even though visual displays are often used for work conducted at a higher level of abstraction.

Virtual Multicast channels are an abstraction that provide for communication across the normal boundaries of multicast traffic.

The GUI's dependence on an implementation rather than an abstraction limits the system.

Now it's pure abstraction, now it's double-faced women, now it's a war scene with a few lines, space and dots.

Therefore, we saved the RESTful service results into test files, and created an abstraction method to obtain the URL for a given REST call.

Slice introduces the abstraction of a virtual database to encompass the underlying physical database partitions or shards.

The details of the service abstraction -- particularly service activation -- are under development at the moment and are liable to change.

A tablespace is an abstraction of a collection of containers into which database objects are stored.

Keep in mind that the set of publicly visible members form the abstraction exposed by the type, along with the type's name itself.

The detailed requirements specify the lowest level abstraction of the system requirements.

The simplest answer is as an abstraction layer, along the lines of the Windows HAL, but this doesn't tell the entire story.

(adj. ) A style characterized by geometric abstraction, a flat picture plan, perfection of a surface, and graphic precision.

It involves interpretation, abstraction and creation, as well as quantitive analysis, mathematics and algorithmic thinking.

It finds out the advantages offered by the frame buffer abstraction and teaches you to write frame buffer drivers.

Represents an abstraction of an access control entry (ACE) that defines an access rule for a file or directory.

In the application shown in Figure 2, the GUI relies on an abstraction -- a data access object or DAO.

Microsoft does such a good job at creating this abstraction that Microsoft alumni have a notoriously hard time starting companies.

A satisfactory form of reuse must remove these obstacles by supporting abstraction and providing a finer grain of reuse .

My first (incorrect) assumption led me to use a list of integers for my factors, but that's a poor abstraction.

They provide some of the implementation details for an abstraction and in some cases they may be useable without inheritance.

For this and the next installment, I tackle code reuse via refactoring and the attendant abstraction impact.

Hence, the application programmer determines the level of format abstraction with its advantages and disadvantages.

Is an abstraction of any service the TCF client needs.

We like to refer to these types as making up an extended basic language of primitive built-in and primitive class abstraction types.

Peony essence is the kind of 100% pure natural abstraction with light yellow colour and fragrant flavor.

The use of the class as the primary means of abstraction is key to object-oriented framework design.

Due to its higher level of abstraction, patterns are often more reusable than code.

Depending on the complexity of the project, a canonical data model may be specified at two different levels of abstraction and granularity.

Literary history is characteristic of reality and abstraction in form of text, humanity, ideology and world.

The goal of these translations is better abstraction and code that is easier to understand and maintain.

Keeping the initial implementation as simple as possible and introducing an abstraction only when needed, may have been more appropriate.

It is not that uncommon for the cost of an abstraction to outweigh the benefit it delivers.

Directly accessing the fields of a class violates two basic principles of OO design: abstraction and encapsulation.

The set of interfaces in JNDI provides an abstraction of a directory service.

Models are used in the natural and social sciences to represent complex phenomena with a useful abstraction .

Predication: the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence it consists of argument and predicate.

Having made an abstraction of the statement, you then try to match it with an existing abstraction in your memory.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Like UML models that are abstractions of the application architecture, data models represent the abstraction of the information model.

Definitions that associate names with values provide a limited means of abstraction.

The partition-specific firmware provides a set of services specific to AIX and System p called Run-Time Abstraction Services (RTAS).

The coarse product of carotene would be obtained through extracting and saponifying from the abstraction liquid.

The model is an abstraction of parallel systems that use digital electronic processors and optical pipelined buses for communication.

Iteration abstraction, Data abstraction, Procedural abstraction, Type abstraction.

The process is similar to what you've have already seen, thanks to JMX's abstraction layer.

But this arrow points only one way, and that's in the direction of ever-higher abstraction.

Changes in the implementation of an abstraction should have no impact on clients; that is, their code should not have to be recompiled.

HAL is a specification and an implementation of a hardware abstraction layer.

To reach an abstraction in a realization, it is essential to have an awareness of the material qualities and sophistication.

That is, one of the core principles of good abstraction is the hiding of concerns from higher-level components.

The most significant byte (MSB) specifies the token type and consequently identifies the abstraction and its associated metadata table.

In this article, we'll examine a simple abstraction layer which takes the bite out of using JDBC.

Method: Adopting IR subtraction method and comparing the location of absorption peaks. There would be no meed of separation and abstraction.

Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is an API that provides an abstraction layer for authentication protocols.

On a higher level, Swordfish is using a subset of the JBI standard for messaging abstraction and message routing between components.

By changing their abstraction to the background, the Pac-Man designers achieved their goal in a highly constrained environment.

Used to synchronize access to the root page abstraction of an internal B-tree.

As an important module in pattern recognition, character abstraction's nature is conducting some switch to reduce dimension.

A solution is an abstraction for a container to group multiple projects together.

A hypervisor sits between the guest operating systems and the bare hardware as an abstraction layer.

Your current focus level is an abstraction that reflects contributions from many separate physiological values.

The top arrow shows that a decreasing level of abstraction results in greater implementation specificity by means of model transformations.

The answer is simple: the . NET collection classes do not include a set abstraction.

A concept and symbol that connotes nullity represents a qualitative advancement of the human capacity of abstraction.

Recursive application of the same basic set of concepts at different levels of abstraction.

I apperceive a bit about shoes and I can see the quality in the abstraction and bond.

It can be argued that the complexity of the problems you can solve is directly related to the kind and quality of abstraction.

We bend the knee to no one human, any more than we bend to the abstraction of an ideal.

For Poul Nielsen the gestural mark is based more comprehensively in a personal exploration of western expressive abstraction.

Mendelian gene is not a real physical entity but an abstraction or symbol .

The idealism develops the active side, but only comprehend in the form of mind, falling into abstraction.

A more advanced implementation of the Factory pattern would add a layer of abstraction to the product classes.

It's a very difficult and complex image, masquerading as a simple abstraction.

He was a direct impact on the French Fauvism, German Expressionism, so that the early 20th century portrait emerged lyrical abstraction.

Provide an improved layer of abstraction and extend the Dynamic MBean model to further remove dependencies on a given implementation.

The abstraction of the vision information is a complex process that involves signal processing, image analysis and physiology.

Software architecture is the highest-level abstraction of a system. It provides a model of the large-scale structure and behavior of system.

As you move down abstraction levels, you would need more elements to represent the same thing.

Set: The familiar set abstraction. No duplicate elements permitted. May or may not be ordered. Extends the Collection interface.

You cannot wage war against an abstraction; yet the war on terror remains a widely accepted metaphor even today.

Develop each abstraction level before proceeding to the next lower level.

Here, we have experienced and explored a semi-automated method for generating a high-level abstraction of a UML class diagram.

This leaves a layer of abstraction between the content provider and the component requesting information (for security).

Don't you think it neassessmentary to have a close abstraction of the contract to abstain anything absenceing?

Under the influence of external load, the rate of ozone oxidation and hydrogen atom abstraction from the polymer chain increases.

This tutelary theory is a pure mathematical fiction. From the start it has been founded on a formidable abstraction.

Optimal derivation of DoDAF views necessitates consistent modeling at multiple levels of abstraction (i. e. , systems decomposition).

In fact, language experts generally believe functional languages operate at a higher abstraction level than most object-oriented languages.

The classes except for the discovered abstraction class do not have attributes and operations.

Think of namespace handlers as an important new extension point and valuable new abstraction for Spring.

Magic pushbutton: Coding implementation logic directly within interface code, without using abstraction.

You can implement abstraction by having realizations between the interfaces and the class implementations.

This article presents techniques for applying levels of abstraction to IT solutions.

Allows you to work with data at higher level of abstraction than typical Web applications.

In the more common case, the DSM environment supports an additional layer of abstraction when compared to a traditional CASE tool.

Concept: The work is inspired by the abstraction that planners and architects experience when designing road networks.

MDSD formalizes this idea of abstraction through the use of different levels of modeling and decomposition within a system.

Even the term "the Abrahamic covenant" is a theological abstraction, but it is one that the Bible itself makes.

A core extension since PHP 3, the Unified ODBC extension is the ideological ancestor of a fast, light database access abstraction for PHP.

We like to make the distinction, however, because analysis can be considered the level of abstraction where IT meets the business.

But quickly you realize that "working for" a company is an abstraction.

The best of them understand the need for rules, but don't have the luxury of abstraction.

We also have a DBX database abstraction extension allowing you to transparently use any database supported by that extension.

Think of your development abstraction layer as a big, beautiful yacht with insanely powerful motors.

The essence of life is struggle and competition, and to the extent perfect peace is an almost meaningless abstraction.

Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego.

Want image and have to be interested in, but science method has certain abstraction.

Discover and document the relationships between the logical and physical architectures for each level of abstraction addressed.

And prototype-delegate is also one of the object abstraction, code-sharing protocols in OOP.

Methods: Oral liquid was made by steam distillation, alcohol abstraction method, water abstraction and alcohol precipitation.

But engineers who for one reason or another did not want to move forward got stuck at their current level of abstraction.

The PortletAdapter class is an implementation of the central portlet abstraction, the portlet interface.

Realms are an abstraction of physical user registry systems; they expose a distributed user population as a single coherent entity.

Data Extraction Two readers appraised each selected article using a pretested, standardized data abstraction form developed in a pilot test.

It has a very neat data abstraction layer, and also has support for association data mapping.

Requirements and architecture are pillars that cross various levels of abstraction, and are not limited to a specific level of abstraction.

But the human essence is no abstraction inherent in each single individual.

The software architecture discipline is centered on the idea of reducing complexity through abstraction and separation of concerns.

The environment module provides the abstraction of the Linux kernel (with flags to support compilation in the simulation mode).

Summary: A virtual filesystem (VFS) is an abstraction with surprisingly productive uses.

Entity beans are an abstraction of data that is usually stored in a database.

The theoretical stand of Marxist stand is of life and history as well as of abstraction and transcendentalism .

This does not exclude the OO viewpoint adopted by RUP, but rather implements another layer of abstraction above it.

This allows modeling of data at different levels of abstraction while maintaining consistency and traceability between these models.

The MetaModel Database is an abstraction only and does not actually hold any data: It is simply a model.

One layer above the core object is the factory code. The factory object provides a basic abstraction of the core XPCOM object.

OOP can be as simple as data abstraction, or as complex as a company-wide methodology.

There are two differences - the first one is from the point of protocol and abstraction.

Theoretical mechanics starts with practical tasks. Some principles then are found by abstraction, synthesis and induction.

It depicts a drum kit lit so brightly from behind that the image is reduced to a skeletal abstraction.

The new A2DP solution can be easily ported to a new embedded platform by modifying these abstraction layers.

The semantic connection between elements in models across abstraction boundaries are of particular interest in the context of MDA.

Annotated mappings defeat the purpose of such an abstraction.

The virtual file system is an abstraction of the underlying physical file system.

As the figure shows, the top level of abstraction is elasticity, automated deployment, and utility computing.

The architecture is the responsibility of the software architect, and we just explained that it crosses multiple levels of abstraction.

Though the effects have been quite real, this abstraction is, as all are, strictly conceptual.

Traceability is the ability to trace artifacts through all levels of abstraction, from specification to implementation and vice versa.

This principle vests electrons with un determination in momentum and position, derives from the abstraction of point particle of electrons.

All engineers follow this core set of principles when applying levels of abstraction.

Until quite recently, the Javanese language had no word meaning the abstraction 'society. '

The abstraction-decomposition relationship is basically nonlinear.

A higher abstraction level with excellent customization is the holy grail for any development language, including the Java language.

One way to deal with that data diversity is to provide an abstraction layer that can mask differences in data location and data type.

Above all the dragon introduces a symbolic sign in contrast with the abstraction of the bridge.

To paint with Chinese ink painting's techniques, Fan's series of Abstraction is a good example to implant the "Flat" concept into paintings.

Meanwhile, Friedman's theoretical assumptions for some degree of abstraction is reasonable and feasible.

The virtual file system (VFS) is the abstraction layer for the multitude of file systems that are supported in the kernel.

Web services and SOA can address these issues of providing either a simple abstraction layer or an intelligent one.

Although this new distribution is merely an abstraction of the full Ext JS library, it does bring a new mindset to development with Ext JS.

There are actually a couple of reasons why the added abstraction actually makes life easier in the long run.

Abstraction is the process of hiding details when working with a module from outside its implementation.

This value comes in the form of abstraction and enablement of composition.

Without exception, all great architects have mastered the ability to conceptualize a solution at distinct levels of abstraction.

Hegel's idealism and Feuerbach's materialism had one thing in common and that was their abstraction from real concrete conditions.

The second is practical: to programmers, the intentional method constitutes an "abstraction" of the underlying target code.

Instead, he will replace this very simple abstraction with a very simple image: sweep away your cares.

The Nothing which the Buddhists make the universal principle, as well as the final aim and goal of everything, is the same abstraction.

In general, the added robustness and simplicity of higher levels of abstraction are seldom outweighed by other considerations.

One powerful abstraction of a sensor is a logical sensor, which is a unit of sensing or module that supplies a particular percept.

In everyday life, we use abstraction to help us manage complexity.

in advanced stage, the key pathogenesis is deficiency of liver-kidney and blood-qi, with collaterals abstraction by phlegm and blood stasis.

Hazelwood's approach contradicts one of the most important notions in computer programming--abstraction.