An interaction machine is an automaton which is an extension of a Turing machine that can interact with its environment with new input and output primitive actions.
Interaction machines have the potential to help us model how software agents interact with each other and their environment.
A multi-agent system can be thought of as a network of interaction machines.
For some background on the fundamentals of interaction machines, see the paper entitled "Computation Beyond Turing Machines" by Peter Wegner of Brown University and Dina Goldin of the University of Connecticut.
Singular of interaction machines.
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