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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/01/15 20:04, Oleg Goldshmidt
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<pre wrap="">Omer Zak <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:w1@zak.co.il"><w1@zak.co.il></a> writes:
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<pre wrap="">After a brief Google search:
Does anyone know about any research, theory or practice of time-varying
finite state machines?
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Short answer: I don't. ;-) I'll offer a couple of thoughts, anyway.
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<pre wrap="">I mean FSMs which might grow a new state, remove a state, add/subtract
transitions by means of meta-rules.
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I suppose it may be possible to write a FSM in such a way that
adding/removing the allowed states and transitions dynamically would be
possible. This would not be enough, though: any "interesting" FSM would
not just formally move from one state to another but do custom stuff as
a part of a transition, and one would want to create and load such
custom code dynamically.
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Didn't you just describe a Turing machine?<br>
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Shachar<br>
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