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The computing science is about computations. But what is a computation? We try to answer this question without fixing a computation model first. This brings up additional foundational questions like what is a level of abstraction? The analysis leads us to the notion of abstract state machine (ASM) and to the ASM thesis: Let A be any computer system at a fixed level of abstraction. There is an abstract state machine B that step-for-step simulates A.
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Gurevich, Y. (2001). The Abstract State Machine Paradigm: What Is in and What Is out. In: Bjørner, D., Broy, M., Zamulin, A.V. (eds) Perspectives of System Informatics. PSI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2244. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45575-2_3
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