ACTORS: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

A foundational model of concurrency is developed in this thesis. We examine issues in the design of parallel systems and show why the actor model is suitable for exploiting large-scale parallelism. Concurrency in actors is constrained only by the availability of hardware resources and by the l...

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Main Author: Agha, Gul Abdulnabi
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6952