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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
     
     
see also:
concurrency carl hewitt objects asynchronously distributed lt;http://osl.cs.uiuc.edu/gt; 

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