Concurrent Programming Using Actors: Exploiting Large-Scale Parallelism

Authors:
Gul Agha;Carl Hewitt
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Concurrent Programming Using Actors: Exploiting Large-Scale Parallelism
Year:
1985

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Abstract

We argue that the ability to model shared objects with changing local states, dynamic reconfigurability, and inherent parallelism are desirable properties of any model of concurrency. The {\it actor model} addresses these issues in a uniform framework. This paper briefly describes the concurrent programming language {\it Act3} and the principles that have guided its development. {\it Act3} advances the state of the art in programming languages by combining the advantages of object-oriented programming with those of functional programming. We also discuss considerations relevant to large-scale parallelism in the context of {\it open systems}, and define an abstract model which establishes the equivalence of systems defined by actor programs.