Actors programming for the mobile cloud

Gul Agha

doi:10.1109/ISPDC.2014.31

Actors programming for the mobile cloud

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Actor programming languages provide the kind of inherent parallelism that is needed for building applications in the mobile cloud. This is because the Actor model provides encapsulation (isolation of local state), fair scheduling, location transparency, and locality of reference. These properties facilitate building secure, scalable concurrent systems. Not surprisingly, very large-scale applications such as Facebook chat service and Twitter have been written in actor languages. The paper introduces the basics of the actor model and gives a high-level overview of the problem of coordination in actor systems. It then describes several novel methods for reasoning about concurrent systems that are both effective and scalable.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014
Editors	Traian Muntean, Robert Rolland, Leon Mugwaneza
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	3-9
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9780769552651
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPDC.2014.31
State	Published - Sep 16 2014
Event	13th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014 - Marseille, France Duration: Jun 24 2014 → Jun 27 2014

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014

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Other	13th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014
Country/Territory	France
City	Marseille
Period	6/24/14 → 6/27/14

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Computer Science(all)
Information Systems and Management

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Agha, G. (2014). Actors programming for the mobile cloud. In T. Muntean, R. Rolland, & L. Mugwaneza (Eds.), Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014 (pp. 3-9). Article 6900192 (Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPDC.2014.31

Actors programming for the mobile cloud. / Agha, Gul.
Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014. ed. / Traian Muntean; Robert Rolland; Leon Mugwaneza. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. p. 3-9 6900192 (Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014).

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Agha, G 2014, Actors programming for the mobile cloud. in T Muntean, R Rolland & L Mugwaneza (eds), Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014., 6900192, Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 3-9, 13th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014, Marseille, France, 6/24/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISPDC.2014.31

Agha G. Actors programming for the mobile cloud. In Muntean T, Rolland R, Mugwaneza L, editors, Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2014. p. 3-9. 6900192. (Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014). doi: 10.1109/ISPDC.2014.31

Agha, Gul. / Actors programming for the mobile cloud. Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014. editor / Traian Muntean ; Robert Rolland ; Leon Mugwaneza. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2014. pp. 3-9 (Proceedings - IEEE 13th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISPDC 2014).

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