1997 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Finite Automata and Regular Sets
Author : Dexter C. Kozen
Published in: Automata and Computability
Publisher: Springer New York
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Intuitively, a state of a system is an instantaneous description of that system, a snapshot of reality frozen in time. A state gives all relevant information necessary to determine how the system can evolve from that point on. Transitions are changes of state; they can happen spontaneously or in response to external inputs.