Open Systems Laboratory at Illinois

Actorspaces: an open distributed programming paradigm

By Gul Agha and Christian J. Callsen. In PPOPP, 23–32. ACM, 1993.

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Abstract

We present a new programming paradigm called ActorSpace. ActorSpace provides a new communication model based on destination patterns. An actorSpace is a computationally passive container of actors which acts as a context for matching patterns. Patterns are matched against listed attributes of actors and actorSpaces that are visible in the actorSpace. Both visibility and attributes are dynamic. Messages may be sent to one or all members of a group defined by a pattern. The paradigm provides powerful support for component-based construction of massively parallel and distributed applications. In particular, it supports open interfaces to servers and pattern-directed access to software repositories.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{conf/ppopp/AghaC93,
    author = "Agha, Gul and Callsen, Christian J.",
    editor = "Chen, Marina C. and Halstead, Robert",
    title = "ActorSpaces: An Open Distributed Programming Paradigm",
    booktitle = "PPOPP",
    crossref = "conf/ppopp/1993",
    ee = "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/155332.155335",
    pages = "23-32",
    year = "1993",
}

@proceedings{conf/ppopp/1993,
    editor = "Chen, Marina C. and Halstead, Robert",
    title = "Proceedings of the Fourth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on
             Principles & Practice of Parallel Programming (PPOPP), San
             Diego, California, USA, May 19-22, 1993",
    ee = "http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=155332",
    isbn = "0-89791-589-5",
    publisher = "ACM",
    year = "1993",
}