Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems (Paperback or Softback)

Agha, Gul

ISBN 10: 026251141X / ISBN 13: 9780262511414

Published by Mit Press 12/17/1986, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems (Paperback or Softback)
• Publisher: Mit Press 12/17/1986
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026251141X
• ISBN 13: 9780262511414
• Binding: Paperback or Softback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

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

About the Author

Gul Agha is Director of the Open Systems Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science.