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Update: Again thanks for the examples, they have been very helpful and with the following, I don't mean to take anything away from them. Aren't the currently given examples, as far as I understand ...
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I am working on investigation of one front-end application of medium complexity. At this moment it is written in pure javascript, it has a lot of different event-based messages connecting few main ...
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Is a finite state machine just an implementation of a Markov chain? What are the differences between the two?
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I am just wondering if anyone know of some good tutorials on the Internet for developing state machines. Or ebooks? I am starting working on state machines and just need something general to get me ...
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I have something to do for work and I need your help. We want to implement a FSM - Finite State Machine, to identify char sequence(like: A, B, C, A, C), and tell if it accepted. We think to implement ...
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I am trying to leverage Akka's finite state machine framework for my use case. I am working on a system that processes a request that goes through various states. The request here is the application ...
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Related to this Stack Overflow question (C state-machine design), could you Stack Overflow folks share your Python state-machine design techniques with me (and the community)? At the moment,...
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I need to match certain URLs in web application, i.e. /123,456,789, and wrote this regex to match the pattern: r'(\d+(,)?)+/$' I noticed that it does not seem to evaluate, even after several minutes ...
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I am just curious if there is a programming language which has state machines (similar to boost::statechart) as primary language construct. Analogies - c# has delegates where java uses the observer ...
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Does anybody know a workflow engine (such as Spring WebFlow) for Javascript? We have a home-made framework that allows us to guide site navigation using JSON, but its quality is far from good. Edit ...
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I'm using several enum-based state machines in my Android application. While these work very well, what I am looking for is a suggestion for how to elegantly receive events, typically from registered ...
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I'd love to figure it out myself but I was wondering roughly what's the algorithm for converting a function with yield statements into a state machine for an enumerator? For example how does C# turn ...
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I want to learn what is the difference between "State machine" and "workflow", and how is it any different from "State machine workflow"?
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I am attempting to build an FSM to control a timer in (iphone sdk) objective c. I felt it was a necessary step, because I was otherwise ending up with nasty spaghetti code containing pages of if-then ...
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Is it feasible to use the yield keyword to implement a simple state machine as shown here. To me it looks like the C# compiler has done the hard work for you as it internally implements a state ...
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What is the difference between Mealy & Moore type of finite state machines?
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What is the correct syntax for performing a validation on before a transition in the state_machine gem? I've tried the following, before_transition :apple => :orange do validate :validate_core ...
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I have some fairly simple state needs (for now). I think I would like to model these using the Stateless api. (But I don't really know much about state machines, so I could be wrong.) But I am ...
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Is it possible to send variables in the the transition? i.e. @car.crash!(:crashed_by => current_user) I have callbacks in my model but I need to send them the user who instigated the transition ...
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I came across stateless, a hierarchical state machine framework based on Simple State Machine for Boo, but configured using C# 3.0 It is easy to configure and use, I will probably use it soon. But I ...
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What is the best way to write a state machine in C? I usually write a big switch-case statement in a for(;;), with callbacks to re-enter the state machine when an external operation is finished. Do ...
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I need to write state machines that run fast in c#. I like the Windows Workflow Foundation library, but it's too slow and over crowded with features (i.e. heavy). I need something faster, ideally with ...
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Interface IAsyncStateMachine can be used only by compiler, and is used in generating state machine for async methods. Interface has SetMachineState - configures the state machine with a heap-allocated ...
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Please, help me. I'm confused. I know how to write state-driven behavior of model, but I don't know what should I write in specs... My model.rb file look class Ratification < ActiveRecord::Base ...
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Both of them represent the different states a system can take. So what is the difference of Petri Nets and Finite State Machines? When do I use Petri Nets, and when do I use Finite State Machines?
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