Actors A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

Name: Actors A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems
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ISBN: 9780262511414

ISBN-10: 026251141X

ISBN-13: 9780262511414

Edition: 1986

Authors: Gul Agha

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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.…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/17/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 190
Size: 6.50" wide x 8.98" long x 0.41" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

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.



List of Figures


Series Foreword


Preface



Introduction



General Design Decisions



Computation In Actor Systems



A More Expressive Language



A Model For Actor Systems



Concurrency Issues



Abstraction And Compositionality



Conclusions



Asynchronous Communication Trees



A Glossary Of Actor Terms


References


Index