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A semantics preserving actor translation. (English) Zbl 1401.68026
Degano, Pierpaolo (ed.) et al., Automata, languages and programming. 24th international colloquium, ICALP ’97, Bologna, Italy, July 7–11, 1997. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer-Verlag (ISBN 978-3-540-63165-1/pbk; 978-3-540-69194-5/ebook). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1256, 369-378 (1997).
Summary: In this paper we present two actor languages and a semantics preserving translation between them. The source of the translation is a high-level language that provides object-based programming abstractions. The target is a simple functional language extended with basic primitives for actor computation. The semantics preserved is the interaction semantics of actor systems – sets of possible interactions of a system with its environment. The proof itself is of interest since it demonstrates a methodology based on the actor theory framework for reasoning about correctness of transformations and translations of actor programs and languages and more generally of concurrent object languages.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1369.68020].

##### MSC:
 68N15 Theory of programming languages 68N18 Functional programming and lambda calculus 68N19 Other programming paradigms (object-oriented, sequential, concurrent, automatic, etc.) 68Q55 Semantics in the theory of computing
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