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ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

By Gul Agha

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
1986
ISBN
0262010925, 9780262010924
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3701865 bytes)
Series
The Mit Press Series in Artificial Intelligence
Edition
Second printing
Pages
164\153
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-05-14 12:35:59

Description

The transition from sequential to parallel computation is an area of critical concern in today's computer technology, particularly in architecture, programming languages, systems, and artificial intelligence. This book addresses central issues in concurrency, and by producing both a syntactic definition and a denotational model of Hewitt's actor paradigm—a model of computation specifically aimed at constructing and analyzing distributed large-scale parallel systems—it substantially advances the understanding of parallel computation. Contents: Introduction. General Design Decisions. Computation in ACTOR Systems. A More Expressive Language. A Model for ACTOR Systems. Concurrency Issues. Abstraction and Compositionality. Conclusions.

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