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Concurrent Programming for DAI
Gul A. Agha and Nadeem Jamali
Actors are a model for specifying coordination in a distributed system. Because the internal behavior of an actor is encapsulated and cannot be observed directly, the Actor model supports heterogeneous, variable grained objects. Specifically, the behavior of individual actors may be defined using any programming language.
