| Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems Revised Edition Contributor(s): Agha, Gul (Author) |
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ISBN: 026251141X ISBN-13: 9780262511414 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 1986 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Computer Science |
| Dewey: 004 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.50 lbs) 190 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |