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Everything about Command (computing)
External instruction to a computer program
In computing, a command is a high-level instruction received via an external interface that directs the behavior of a computer program. Commonly, commands are sent to a program via a command-line interface, a script, a network protocol, or as an event triggered in a graphical user interface. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Command (computing)A 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: r2_mlm: A command for computing R-squared measures for models fit by mixedInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Financial ManagementThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Boutiques: a flexible framework to integrate command-line applications in computing platformsCited 40 times
- Go sideways: Command-line interfaceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Batch fileA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Boutiques: a flexible framework to integrate command-line applications in computing platforms
ROTEC: Robust to early termination command governor for systems with limited computing capacity
parallel: A command for parallel computing
ginteff: A generalized command for computing interaction effects
Analysis of Earthquake Emergency Command System According to Cloud Computing Methods
CNN-LSTM for MFCC-based Speech Recognition on Smart Mirrors for Edge Computing Command
Here Come the ‘Computer People’: Anthropomorphosis, Command, and Control in Early Personal Computing
Ensemble Gaussian mixture model-based special voice command cognitive computing intelligent system
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Financial ManagementUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1987
Control and Dynamic SystemsCornelius T. Leondes · 1985- 📕IEE proceedingsInstitution of Electrical Engineers · 1980
First Course in Control System DesignKamran Iqbal · 2017
Computerized engine controlsDick H. King, Delmar Publishers · 1987
Fieldbus and Networking in Process AutomationSunit Kumar Sen · 2014- 📕Windows PowerShellLee Holmes · 2008
Optimal And Robust Scheduling For Networked Control SystemsStefano Longo · 2013
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