Actors for Pervasive Computing

Jessie Dedecker^1* - jededecker@vub.ac.be
Werner Van Belle¹ - werner@yellowcouch.org, werner.van.belle@gmail.com
Wolfgang De Meuter¹

1- Programming Technology Lab (PROG) Department of Computer Science (DINF) Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB); Pleinlaan 2; 1050 Brussel; Belgium
* Corresponding author

Abstract :  The position we defend in this paper is that asynchronous communication patterns are to be considered to be the main communication paradigm in pervasive applications and that the actor model, which relies on such a form of communication, needs extenstion to be practical useful.

Keywords:  ambient pervasive ubiquitous computing asynchronous distributed systems actor systems
Reference:  Jessie Dedecker, Werner Van Belle, Wolfgang De Meuter; Actors for Pervasive Computing; Proceeding of the workshop on reference architectures and patterns for pervasive computing (OOPSLA2003); June 2003
Files: vub-prog-tr-03-29.pdf