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Data structure storing a computer process's information
A process control block (PCB), also sometimes called a process descriptor, is a data structure used by a computer operating system to store all the information about a process. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Process control blockA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A self-control leakage-suppression block for low-power high-efficient static logic circuit design in 22 nm CMOS processInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Software EngineeringThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Synthesis of decentralized process control structures using the concept of block relative gainCited 121 times
- Go sideways: Context switchA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Process stateA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Synthesis of decentralized process control structures using the concept of block relative gain
Multi‐block methods in multivariate process control
On the transformation of control flow between block-oriented and graph-oriented process modelling languages
A novel function block based integration approach to process planning and scheduling with execution control
Morphology Control of Highly Sulfonated Block Copolymers by a Simple Thermal Process
Implementation of a block-oriented model library for undergraduate process control courses in EMSO simulator
Dynamic Modelling and Advanced Process Control of Power Block for a Parabolic Trough Solar Power Plant
Multi‐block methods in multivariate process control
🆕 Influential since 2022
A self-control leakage-suppression block for low-power high-efficient static logic circuit design in 22 nm CMOS process
Comparison of midpoint transverse process to pleura (MTP) block and erector spinae plane block (ESP) for postoperative analgesia in modified radical mastectomy patients: A double-blinded, randomized control trial
Model predictive control simulations with block-hierarchical differential–algebraic process models
Process control block information dataset: Towards android malware detection
On Matrix Linear Diophantine Equation-Based Digital-Adaptive Block Pole Placement Control for Multivariable Large-Scale Linear Process
📚 Books worth reading
Software EngineeringRoger S. Pressman, Bruce Maxim · 1982
Patents for inventionsGreat Britain. Patent Office · 1859
Chemical Process SafetyDaniel A. Crowl, Joseph F. Louvar · 1989
Operations ManagementRoberta S. Russell, Bernard Taylor · 1998
Accounting Information SystemsLeslie Turner, Andrea Weickgenannt · 2008
Code CompleteSteve McConnell · 1993
The society of mindMarvin Minsky · 1986
Direct current fundamentalsOrla E. Loper, Edgar Tedsen · 1959
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