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Actors (A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems)
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Product Details
Author:
Gul Agha
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
190
Publisher:
MIT Press (December 17, 1986)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780262511414
ISBN-10:
026251141X
Weight:
13oz
Dimensions:
6" x 9"
Case Pack:
24
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RandomHouse
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$40.00
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$30.80
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P-RH
Discount Code:
A
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Yes
Audience:
General/trade
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
The MIT Press
Overview
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
