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9780262511414

Actors A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

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    9780262511414

  • ISBN10:

    026251141X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1986-12-17
  • Publisher: The MIT Press

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figuresp. xi
Series Forewordp. xiii
Prefacep. xv
Introductionp. 1
General Design Decisionsp. 5
Computation In Actor Systemsp. 21
A More Expressive Languagep. 45
A Model For Actor Systemsp. 69
Concurrency Issuesp. 89
Abstraction And Compositionalityp. 101
Conclusionsp. 119
Asynchronous Communication Treesp. 123
A Glossary Of Actor Termsp. 131
Referencesp. 137
Indexp. 141
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