Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

The transition from sequential to parallel computation is an area of critical concern in today's computer technology,...
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Author: Gul Agha
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Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems by Agha, Gul

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

$98.17

Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

$98.17
Author: Gul Agha
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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



Author: Gul Agha
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 12/17/1986
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780262511414
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Agha, Gul: - 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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