Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems (MIT Press) - Softcover

Agha, Gul

 
9780262511414: Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems (MIT Press)
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ISBN 10: 026251141X ISBN 13: 9780262511414
Publisher: MIT Press, 1986

Synopsis

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

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
MIT Press
Publication date
1986
Language
English
ISBN 10 
026251141X
ISBN 13 
9780262511414
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
164

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