Review of Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems
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https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v11i4.861Abstract
Gul A. Agha's "Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems (The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1987, 144 pages, $25.00, ISBN 0-262-01092-5) is part of the MIT Press Series in Artificial Intelligence. This volume is edited by Patrick Winston, Michael Brady, and Daniel Bobrow.
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1990-12-15
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Akman, V. (1990). Review of Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems. AI Magazine, 11(4), 92. https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v11i4.861
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