Excerpt from The Management Process, Management Information and Control Systems, and Cybernetics
One may usefully categorize such machines by the degree of fixity of state possibilities (finite machines versus Turing machine equivalents), by the degree of invariance in the relationship between input and output sequences (deterministic versus probabilistic), and by the degree of discreteness (discrete versus continuous).
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