Actors : a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems

Actors : a model of concurrent computation in distributed systems / Gul A. Agha.

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 d...

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Main Author: Agha, Gul A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1986.
Series:MIT Press series in artificial intelligence.
Subjects:
Electronic data processing > Distributed processing.
Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
Electronic data processing > Distributed processing
Verteiltes System
Parallelverarbeitung
Nebenläufigkeit
Concurrente programmering.
Computermodellen.
Traitement réparti.
Parallélisme (informatique)
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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. ContentsIntroduction General Design Decisions Computation in ACTOR Systems A More Expressive Language A Model for ACTOR Systems Concurrency Issues Abstraction and Compositionality Conclusions
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 144 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-140) and index.
ISBN:9780262255554
0262255553
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/1086.001.0001
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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