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ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

By Agha G.A.

Book information

Publisher
MIT
Year
1986
ISBN
0-262-01092-5
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1155560 bytes)
Series
The Mit Press Series in Artificial Intelligence
Pages
153\153
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
600
Time added
2013-12-29 19:00:00

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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