actors

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actors - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Actors
  
     <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 <agha@cs.uiuc.edu>, Cambridge Press, MA,
     1986].
  
     (1999-11-23)