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

Agha, Gul A.

ISBN 10: 0262010925 / ISBN 13: 9780262010924

Published by Mit Pr, 1986

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems (The Mit Press Series in Artificial Intelligence)
• Publisher: Mit Pr
• Publication Date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262010925
• ISBN 13: 9780262010924
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Acceptable

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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.