Concurrent Programming Using Actors: Exploiting Large-Scale Parallelism

We argue that the ability to model shared objects with changing local states, dynamic reconfigurability, and inherent parallelism are desirable properties of any model of concurrency. The actor model addresses these issues in a uniform framework. This paper briefly describes the concurrent pr...

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Main Authors: Agha, Gul, Hewitt, Carl
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6433