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The model of interactive Turing machines (ITMs) has been proposed to characterise which stream translations are interactively computable; the model of reactive Turing machines (RTMs) has been proposed to characterise which behaviours are reactively executable. In this article we provide a comparison of the two models. We show, on the one hand, that the behaviour exhibited by ITMs is reactively executable, and, on the other hand, that the stream translations naturally associated with RTMs are interactively computable. We conclude from these results that the theory of reactive executability subsumes the theory of interactive computability. Inspired by the existing model of ITMs with advice, which provides a model of evolving computation, we also consider RTMs with advice and we establish that a facility of advice considerably upgrades the behavioural expressiveness of RTMs: every countable transition system can be simulated by some RTM with advice up to a fine notion of behavioural equivalence.
F. Yang—This author is sponsored by the China Scholarship Council (CSC).
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Luttik, B., Yang, F. (2016). On the Executability of Interactive Computation. In: Beckmann, A., Bienvenu, L., Jonoska, N. (eds) Pursuit of the Universal. CiE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9709. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40189-8_32
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