automation

automate | American Dictionary

automate
verb[ T ]
us/ˈɔ·t̬əˌmeɪt/
to make something operate automatically by using machines or computers:
New technologies let you automate control of your home lighting, appliances, and even heating and cooling systems.

automate | Business English

automate
verb[ T ]
 WORKPLACE, PRODUCTIONuk /ˈɔːtəmeɪt/us
to use machines or computers instead of people to do a particular task, especially in a factory or office:
The software automates many processes, increasing reliability and reducing the time involved with each order.
All of the factory's operations have been automated.

automated

adjectiveuk /ˈɔːtəmeɪtɪd/ us /ˈɑːṱəmeɪţɪd/
a fully automated production plant
An automated system notifies you via e-mail whenever credit information is added to your file.

Examples of automate

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Inductive learning is par ticularly suitable in the context of an automated design system because training data can be generated in an automated fashion.
Therefore, it is useful to automate a generic process using batchfiles.
It might not be possible to completely automate this process because of ambiguities.
In short, the compositional modeller enables the adaptivity of monitoring and control by automating the process of model construction whenever the system under control changes.
Allowing both humans and automated agents to specify rules for context-sensitive behaviour of different entities easily.
Artificial intelligence promised a revolutionary approach to assisting or automating design processes, separate from other computational systems.
Unfortunately, such an integrated modelling process is beyond the scope of any existing automated modeller.
We accomplish automated verification using a temporal logic and model-checking techniques, allowing us to reuse existing algorithms and results for trace effect verification.
This flexible, open-ended approach to visual style automates qualitative rerepresentations, learns from the data set unsupervised, and modifies assessments according to design context.
Claim variables are inferred using an inference procedure, which may not necessarily be automated, from data item values.
In general, our experts felt that the use of an automated coherence measure would be a valuable instructional aid.
In the multi-agent literature, various interaction and decision mechanisms for automated negotiation have been proposed and studied.
Traditional automated negotiation mechanisms do not facilitate the exchange of this information.
Through an automated mirror system, monochromatic light was directed to any one of the three panels; this constituted the test light.
This is clearly important since most robots and automated machines are defined around task requirements.
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