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

hardcover – January 1, 1986
by Agha, Gul A.
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ISBN-13: 9780262010924 ISBN-10: 0262010925
Publisher
MIT Press
Binding
hardcover
Published
January 1, 1986
Weight
0.9 lbs
Dimensions
22.90×2.50×15.20 cm

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Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems (The Mit Press Series in Artificial Intelligence) by Agha, Gul A.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780262010924.

The transition from sequential to parallel computation is an area of critical concern in todays 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 Hewitts 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.