Messages as active agents

  • Authors:
  • David W. Wall

  • Affiliations:
  • The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

  • Venue:
  • POPL '82 Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
  • Year:
  • 1982

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Abstract

Network algorithms are usually stated from the viewpoint of the network nodes, but they can often be stated more clearly from the viewpoint of an active message, a process that intentionally moves from node to node. This paper gives some examples of this notion, and then discusses a means of implementing it. This implementation applied in both directions also demonstrates the logical equivalence of the two viewpoints.