ACTORS - Definition of ACTORS at Define.com Dictionary and Thesaurus (define ACTORS)

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

Actors 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)

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