General Interactive Small Step Algorithms
Andreas R. Blass, Yuri G. Gurevich, Dean Rosenzweig, Benjamin Rossman · 2005
In earlier work, the Abstract State Machine Thesis --- that arbitrary algorithms are behaviorally equivalent to abstract state machines --- was established for several classes of algorithms, including ordinary, interactive, small-step algorithms. This was accomplished on the basis of axiomatizations of these classes of algorithms. Here we extend the axiomatization and the proof to cover interactive smallstep algorithms that are not necessarily ordinary. This means that the algorithms (1) can complete a step without necessarily waiting for replies to all queries from that step and (2) can use not only the environment's replies but also the order in which the replies were received. In order to