statewith

Statewith is not a widely standardized term in any single discipline, but it appears in niche texts as a way to describe a state that is augmented with additional information or context. In practice, statewith is often used as a compound concept or a variable name to denote a state coupled with extra data such as inputs, annotations, memory content, or provenance.

In computing and formal modeling, a statewith representation can be thought of as a pair or product that combines a basic state with contextual data. This allows models to capture how transitions depend not only on the current state but also on accompanying information. For example, a finite-state machine might be described as operating over pairs (state, context), where the context can influence which transitions are legal or which outputs are produced.

Applications of the idea include model checking, symbolic execution, and simulation of stateful systems or protocols, where reasoning about a combined state space can reveal interactions between state and context that would be missed if the state were modeled in isolation. Statewith representations can also appear in software engineering as annotated states used for debugging, tracing, or provenance tracking.

Origin and usage notes: the term is informal and tends to be defined within the confines of a particular project, paper, or implementation. Spelling and scope vary, with variants such as statewith, state-with, or state-with-context appearing in different sources. Because it is not a standard technical term, readers should consult the originating document to understand the precise definition in that context.

See also: state, stateful, annotated state, memory, provenance, labeled transition systems.