Actors

theory A model for concurrency by Carl Hewitt. Actors

are autonomous and concurrent objects which execute

asynchronously. The Actor model provides flexible

mechanisms for building parallel and distributed software

systems.

.

["Laws for Communicating Parallel Processes", C. Hewitt et al,

IFIP 77, pp. 987-992, N-H 1977].

["ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed

Systems", Gul A. Agha [e-mail], Cambridge Press, MA,

1986].

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