Viewing Control Structures as Patterns of Passing Messages.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss some organizational aspects of programs using the actor model of computation. This paper presents an approach to modelling intelligence in terms of a society of communicating knowledge-based problem-solving experts. In turn each of the experts can be viewed as a society that can be further decomposed in the same way until the primitive actors of the system are reached. Investigated are the nature of the communication mechanisms needed for effective problem-solving by a society of experts and the conventions of discourse that make this possible.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA038246

Entities

People

  • Carl Hewitt

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Complex Numbers
  • Computational Processes
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Construction
  • Formal Languages
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Programming Languages
  • Security
  • Semantic Models
  • Simulations
  • Theses

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