Actors
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.
(http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/).
["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 , Cambridge Press, MA,
1986].
(1999-11-23)
Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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