Computing Dictionary
Actors definition
theory 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)