technique for computer processing that requires little human participation
1. An interacting
assembly of procedures, processes, methods, personnel, and equipment to perform automatically a series of
data processing operations on data.
Note: The data processing operations may result in a change in the semantic content of the data. (
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2. Data processing by means of one or more devices that use common
storage for all or part of a
computer program, and also for all or part of the data necessary for execution of the program; that execute
user-written or user-designated programs; that perform user-designated symbol manipulation, such as arithmetic operations, logic
operation, or
character-
string manipulations; and that can execute programs that modify themselves during their execution.
Note: Automatic data processing may be performed by a stand-alone unit or by several connected units.
3. Data processing largely performed by automatic means. [
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4. That branch of science and technology concerned with methods and techniques relating to data processing largely performed by automatic means. [
JP1]
