[W/K] :: actors

  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/).html">(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)