Talk:Actor model and process calculi

message: I don't know of any references in the literature to the laws of the process calculi being metaphysical so I have removed the reference.--Carl Hewitt 05:55, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not metaphysical 

message: Someone recently reinserted the assertion that "ambients are a generalization of channels", and provided a citation to (Cardelli and Gordon 1998) in support of that assertion. I do not see anything in Cardelli and Gordon's Mobile Ambients paper which claims that ambients are a "generalization of channels". What I do see is:
#An ambient is a bounded place where computation happens. 
#Each ambient has a collection of subambients. Each subambient has its own name, agents, subambients, etc. 
#Each ambient has a collection of local agents (also known as threads, processes, etc.).
#Interaction between processes is by shared location within a common boundary. 
#The simplest communication mechanism that we can imagine is local anonymous communication within an ambient ... An output action releases a capability (possibly a name) into the local ether of the surrounding ambient. An input action captures a capability from the local ether and binds it to a variable within a scope.
Which makes ambients sounds quite a bit different named channels, and interactions via ambients sound different than interactions via named channels. Granted, Cardelli and Gordon do show how named channels can be encoded in the ambient calculus. But this is not the same thing as saying that ambients are a "generalization of channels" (I can encode integers in binary, but that doesn't make binary a "generalization of integers" in any meaningful sense). 
Based on the above, I have removed the assertion about ambients and channels. I will be happy to have it replaced if someone can point me to a section in Cardelli and Gordon's paper (or some other paper on the ambient calculus) which makes the assertion that ambients are a generalization of channels. --Allan McInnes (talk) 19:41, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambients and channels 

message: This article is unencyclopedic, being written more like a textbook chapter.  There are already articles on the two theories being compared, the Actor model and process calculi.  I suggest that the contents of this article could be moved into either of those articles.  There is also Actor model and process calculi history, apparently a gratuitous article resulting from the above edit war, History of the Actor model, Actor model middle history, Actor model later history, Denotational semantics of the Actor model.  Surely we don't need all of these. --ChetvornoTALK 02:22, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge this article? 

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