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)