Mixing the actor model with other concurrency models in a single program can break the
actor abstraction. This increases the chance of creating deadlocks and data races—two …

This paper introduces a unified concurrent programming model combining the previously
developed Actor Model (AM) and the task-parallel Async-Finish Model (AFM). With the …

Active objects offer a paradigm which simplifies writing distributed applications. Since each
active object has a single thread of control, data races are prevented. However, this …

The actor model has already proven itself as an interesting concurrency model that avoids
issues such as deadlocks and race conditions by construction, and thus facilitates …

Actors interact by asynchronous message passing. A key semantic property of actors is that
they do not share state. This facilitates data-race freedom, fault isolation and location …

The actor model has been successfully used for scalable computing in distributed systems.
Actors are objects with a local state, which can only be modified by the exchange of …

Supporting all known abstractions for concurrent and parallel programming in a virtual
machines (VM) is a futile undertaking, but it is required to give programmers appropriate …

With the trend of ever growing data centers and scaling core counts, simple programming
models for efficient distributed and concurrent programming are required. One of the …

In the past, the Actor Model has mainly been explored in a distributed context. However,
more and more application developers are also starting to use it to program shared-memory …

During the past decade, software developers widely adopted JVM and CLI as multi-
language virtual machines (VMs). At the same time, the multicore revolution burdened …