Proving Properties of Actor Systems
Carl Hewitt published the principle of Actor induction which is:
- Suppose that an Actor x has property P when it is created
- Further suppose that if x has property P when it processes a message, then it has property P when it processes the next message.
- Then x always has the property P.
In his doctoral dissertation, Aki Yonezawa developed further techniques for proving properties of Actor systems including those that make use of migration. Russ Atkinson and Carl Hewitt developed techniques for proving properties of Serializers that are guardians of shared resources. Gerry Barber's doctoral disseration concerned reasoning about change in knowledgeable office systems.
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