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Introduced by C.
Hewitt (77), further
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refined and
developed by G. Agha et al
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(85-present)
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An Actor
encapsulates a thread of
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execution with a
collection of objects.
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Only the actor’s
thread may access its
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objects directly
and change their state.
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Provides for
implicit object
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synchronization.
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