• Actors: almost all private and isolated, just enough shared to do routing
  • Actor model - Wikipedia
  • 2016 survey by Joeri De Koster, Tom Van Cutsem, and Wolfgang De Meuter, for taxonomy and common terminology (SPLASH AGERE 2016)
  • 1990 overview by Gul Agha, who has contributed hugely to the study of actors (Comm. ACM 1990)
  • 1997 operational semantics for actors by Gul Agha, Ian Mason, Scott Smith, and Carolyn Talcott.
  • brief mention of some of the content of the original 1973 paper by Carl Hewitt, Peter Bishop, and Richard Steiger. (IJCAI 1973)
  • Joe Armstrong’s 2003 dissertation on Erlang.
  • 2005 paper on the language E by Mark Miller, Dean Tribble, and Jonathan Shapiro. (TGC 2005)
  • 5.4 Actor-based Concurrency
  • swift-evolution/proposals/0306-actors.md at main · swiftlang/swift-evolution · GitHub