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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 d...

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Main Author: Agha, Gul A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1986.
Series:The MIT Press series in artificial intelligence
Subjects:
Electronic data processing > Distributed processing.
Parallel processing (Electronic computers)
COMPUTER SCIENCE/General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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. ContentsIntroduction General Design Decisions Computation in ACTOR Systems A More Expressive Language A Model for ACTOR Systems Concurrency Issues Abstraction and Compositionality Conclusions
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 144 pages) : illustrations.
ISBN:9780262255554
0262255553
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/1086.001.0001