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    • Concurrent Programming Using Actors: Exploiting Large-Scale Parallelism 

      Agha, Gul; Hewitt, Carl (1985-10-01)
      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 actor model addresses these ...
    • Linguistic Support of Receptionists for Shared Resources 

      Hewitt, Carl; Reinhardt, Tom; Agha, Gul; Attardi, Giuseppe (1984-09-01)
      This paper addressed linguistic issues that arise in providing support for shared resources in large scale concurrent systems. Our work is based on the Actor Model of computation which unifies the lambda calculus, the ...