Towards an ASM Thesis for Unconventional Algorithms

  • Authors:
  • Wolfgang Reisig

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ASM '00 Proceedings of the International Workshop on Abstract State Machines, Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

All descriptions of algorithms, be they formal or informal, employ data structures, operations on them, and some policy to cause operations be applied to data. Gurevich calls a formal description technique for algorithms algorithm universal if it allows for each informally described algorithm a formal representation that would essentially make precise the notions used in the informal description, not employing additional data, operations or steps. Gurevich's ASM thesis claims Abstract State Machines be algorithm universal for conventional, sequential algorithms. Here we are behind properties of formal presentations that are algorithm universal for unconventional, distributed algorithms.