ActorSpace: An open distributed programming paradigm

Gul Agha; Christian J. Callsen

doi:10.1145/155332.155335

ActorSpace: An open distributed programming paradigm

Gul Agha, Christian J. Callsen

Computer Science

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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 ac-torSpaces that are visible in the actorSpace. Both visibility and attributes are dynamic. Messages may be sent to one or all members of a group denned 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.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP 1993
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	23-32
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	0897915895
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/155332.155335
State	Published - Aug 1 1993
Event	4th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP 1993 - San Diego, United States Duration: May 19 1993 → May 22 1993

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP
Volume	Part F129677

Other

Other	4th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP 1993
Country	United States
City	San Diego
Period	5/19/93 → 5/22/93

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Engineering(all)

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Agha, G., & Callsen, C. J. (1993). ActorSpace: An open distributed programming paradigm. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP 1993 (pp. 23-32). (Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP; Vol. Part F129677). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/155332.155335

ActorSpace : An open distributed programming paradigm. / Agha, Gul; Callsen, Christian J.

Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP 1993. Association for Computing Machinery, 1993. p. 23-32 (Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP; Vol. Part F129677).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Agha, G & Callsen, CJ 1993, ActorSpace: An open distributed programming paradigm. in Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP 1993. Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP, vol. Part F129677, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 23-32, 4th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP 1993, San Diego, United States, 5/19/93. https://doi.org/10.1145/155332.155335

Agha G, Callsen CJ. ActorSpace: An open distributed programming paradigm. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP 1993. Association for Computing Machinery. 1993. p. 23-32. (Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, PPOPP). https://doi.org/10.1145/155332.155335

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