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Evolving Multialgebras Unify All Usual Sequential Computation Models

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Evolving Multialgebras Unify All Usual Sequential Computation Models
Abstract. It is well-known that Abstract State Machines (ASMs) can simulate “stepby-step” any type of machines (Turing machines, RAMs, etc.). We aim to overcome two facts: 1) simulation is not identification, 2) the ASMs simulating machines of some type do not constitute a natural class among all ASMs. We modify Gurevich’s notion of ASM to that of EMA (“Evolving MultiAlgebra”) by replacing the program (which is a syntactic object) by a semantic object: a functional which has to be very simply definable over the static part of the ASM. We prove that very natural classes of EMAs correspond via “literal identifications” to slight extensions of the usual machine models and also to grammar models. Though we modify these models, we keep their computation approach: only some contingencies are modified. Thus, EMAs appear as the mathematical model unifying all kinds of sequential computation paradigms. Contents
Serge Grigorieff, Pierre Valarcher
Added 14 May 2010
Updated 14 May 2010
Type Conference
Year 2010
Where STACS
Authors Serge Grigorieff, Pierre Valarcher
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