From 9f3b9cfd59ea32e7b3ee79d2a239288bcf4f907a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Garnock-Jones Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 17:48:22 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] More docs --- syndicate/doc/what-is-an-actor.md | 23 ++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/syndicate/doc/what-is-an-actor.md b/syndicate/doc/what-is-an-actor.md index 08b0e6e..039dbc7 100644 --- a/syndicate/doc/what-is-an-actor.md +++ b/syndicate/doc/what-is-an-actor.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # What is an Actor? -A [Syndicated Actor][Actor] is a collection of stateful -[Entities][Entity], organised in a tree of [Facets][Facet], with each -facet representing a +A [Syndicated Actor][Actor] ([Garnock-Jones 2017](#GarnockJones2017)) +is a collection of stateful [Entities][Entity], organised in a tree of +[Facets][Facet], with each facet representing a [(sub)conversation](https://syndicate-lang.org/about/#conversational-concurrency-1) that the Actor is engaged in. Each entity belongs to exactly one facet; each facet has exactly one parent and zero or more children; @@ -22,8 +22,17 @@ similar to that offered by the E programming language **References.** - De Koster, Joeri, Tom Van Cutsem, and Wolfgang De Meuter. “43 Years of Actors: A Taxonomy of Actor Models - and Their Key Properties.” In Proc. AGERE, 31–40. Amsterdam, - The Netherlands, 2016. - [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1145/3001886.3001890). + name="DeKoster2016" + href="http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2016/vub-soft-tr-16-11.pdf">“43 + Years of Actors: A Taxonomy of Actor Models and Their Key + Properties.” In Proc. AGERE, 31–40. Amsterdam, The + Netherlands, 2016. [DOI](https://doi.org/10.1145/3001886.3001890). [PDF](http://soft.vub.ac.be/Publications/2016/vub-soft-tr-16-11.pdf). + + - Garnock-Jones, Tony. “Conversational + Concurrency.” PhD, Northeastern University, 2017. + [Permalink](http://hdl.handle.net/2047/D20261862). + [PDF@Northeastern](https://repository.library.northeastern.edu/files/neu:cj82qs441/fulltext.pdf). + [PDF@syndicate-lang.org](https://syndicate-lang.org/papers/conversational-concurrency-201712310922.pdf). + [HTML](https://syndicate-lang.org/tonyg-dissertation/html/).