| dc.description.abstract | Act2 is a highly concurrent programming  language designed to exploit the processing  power available from parallel computer  architectures. The language supports  advanced concepts in software engineering,  providing high-level constructs suitable for  implementing artificially-intelligent  applications. Act2 is based on the Actor model  of computation, consisting of virtual  computational agents which communicate by  message-passing. Act2 serves as a  framework in which to integrate an actor  language, a description and reasoning  system, and a problem-solving and resource  management system. This document  describes issues in Act2's design and the  implementation of an interpreter for the  language. | en_US |