Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems (Mit Press Series in Artificial Intelligence)

Agha, Gul

ISBN 10: 026251141X / ISBN 13: 9780262511414

Published by The MIT Press, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems (Mit Press Series in Artificial Intelligence)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 026251141X
• ISBN 13: 9780262511414
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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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.