A Universal Modular ACTOR Formalism for Artificial Intelligence

By C. Hewitt, P. Bishop, R. Steiger. 1973

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Towards Federated Learning at Scale: System Design (2019, methodology): “The FL server is designed around the Actor Programming Model (Hewitt et al., 1973).”
In-Memory Big Data Management and Processing: A Survey (2015, methodology): “MemepiC [60] is the in-memory version of epiC [23], an extensible and scalable system based on Actor Concurrent programming model [260], which has been designed for proc-”
What serverless computing is and should become (2021, methodology): “Microsoft Or-leans, 5 which implements an actor model , 15 similarly hides fault tolerance concerns from programmers.”
Scala Actors: Unifying thread-based and event-based programming (2009, background): “An actor [28,2] is a concurrent process that communicates with other actors by exchanging messages.”
OneFlow: Redesign the Distributed Deep Learning Framework from Scratch (2021, methodology): “4 THE RUNTIME We adopt the actor model (Hewitt et al., 1973) in runtime design.”
Microservices: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (2016, background): “For example, research contributions in the domain of the actor model [35] and software agents [54] have not been emphasized enough, and still modern distributed systems have been influenced by these communities too.”