Publications 1990 - 1994

1. Sturman, Daniel. "Fault-Adaptation for Systems in Unpredictable Environments," MS thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
2. Callsen, Christian J., Gul Agha. "Open Heterogeneous Computing in ActorSpace," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 21, pp 289-, 1994. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
3. Sturman, Daniel, Gul Agha. "A Protocol Description Language for Customizing Failure Semantics," in Proceedings of the Thirteenth Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, pp 148-157, IEEE Computer Society Press, October, 1994. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
4. Agha, Gul, Daniel Sturman. "A Methodology for Adapting to Patterns of Faults," in G. M. Koob and C. G. Lau (editors), Foundations of Dependable Computing: Models and Frameworks for Dependable Systems, Chap. 2, vol. 1, pp 1-59, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
5. Panwar, Rajendra, Gul Agha. "A Methodology for Programming Scalable Architectures ," Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 22 pp 479-487, 1994. [pdf] [bib]
6. Agha, Gul. "Formal Methods for Actors: A Progress Report," Formal Description Techniques V, IFIP Transactions, vol. C-10, pp 217-228, Elsevier-North Holland, 1993. [bib]
7. Agha, Gul, Svend Frølund, Rajendra Panwar, Daniel Sturman. "A Linguistic Framework for Dynamic Composition of Dependability Protocols," in C. E. Landwehr, B. Randell, and L. Simoncini (editors), Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerant Systems VIII, pp 345-363, IFIP Transactions, Springer-Verlag, 1993. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
8. Agha, Gul, Svend Frølund, WooYoung Kim, Rajendra Panwar, Anna Patterson, Daniel Sturman. "Abstraction and Modularity Mechanisms for Concurrent Computing," Parallel and Distributed Technology, vol. 1, no. 2, pp 3-15, IEEE Computer Society, May, 1993. [pdf] [ps.gz] [bib]
9. Agha, Gul, Christian J. Callsen. "ActorSpace: An Open Distributed Programming Paradigm ," Fourth ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming, San Diego, CA, May 1993. Also published as a Special Issue of SIGPLAN Notices vol. 28, No. 7, pp 23-32, July, 1993. [pdf] [bib]
10. Frølund, Svend, Gul Agha. "A Language Framework for Multi-Object Coordination," in O. Nierstrasz (Editor), Proceedings of the European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 707, pp 346-360, Springer Verlag, August, 1993. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
11. Venkatasubramanian, Nalini. "Hierarchical Garbage Collection in Scalable Distributed Systems," University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
12. Frølund, Svend. "Inheritance of Synchronization Constraints in Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming Languages," European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, in O. L. Madsen (Editor), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 615, pp 185-196, Springer Verlag, 1992. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
13. Agha, Gul, Chris Houck, Rajendra Panwar. "Distributed Execution of Actor Programs," in D. Gelernter, T. Gross, A. Nicolau, and D. Padua (editors), Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 589, pp 1-17, Springer-Verlag, 1992. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
14. Miriyala, Shakuntala, Gul Agha, Yamina Sami. "Visualizing Actor Programs using Predicate Transition Nets," Journal of Visual Languages and Computation, vol. 3, no. 2, pp 195-220, Academic Press, June, 1992. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
15. Agha, Gul, Ian A. Mason, Scott Smith, Carolyn Talcott. "Towards a Theory of Actor Computation," The Third International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR '92), Stony Brook, NY, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 630, pp 565-579, Springer Verlag, August, 1992. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
16. Kim, WooYoung, Gul Agha. "Compilation of a Highly Parallel Actor-Based Language," The Fifth International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, YALEU/DCS/RR-915, pp 1-12, New Haven, CT, September. (Also, in D. Gelernter, T. Gross, A. Nicolau, and D. Padua (editors), Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 757, pp 1-15, Springer-Verlag, 1993.), 1992. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
17. Houck, Chris, Gul Agha. "HAL: A High-level Actor Language and Its Distributed Implementation," 21st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '92), vol. II, pp 158-165, St. Charles, IL, August, 1992. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
18. Venkatasubramanian, Nalini, Shakuntala Miriyala, Gul Agha. "Scalable Concurrent Computing ," SADHANA: Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, Special Issue on Parallel and Distributed Computing, vol. 17, no. 1, pp 193-220, 1992, Indian Academy of Sciences, Banglore, India, 1992. [bib]
19. Venkatasubramanian, Nalini, Gul Agha, Carolyn Talcott. "Scalable Distributed Garbage Collection for Systems of Active Objects," in Y. Bekkers and J. Cohen (editors), International Workshop on Memory Management, ACM SIGPLAN and INRIA, St. Malo, France, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 637, pp 134-148, Springer-Verlag, September, 1992. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
20. Jagannathan, Suresh, Gul Agha. "A Reflective Model of Inheritance," in O. L. Madsen (Editor), The Sixth European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Utretcht, Netherlands, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 615, pp 350-371, Springer-Verlag, 1992. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
21. Agha, Gul, Svend Frølund, Rajendra Panwar, Daniel Sturman. "A Linguistic Framework for Dynamic Composition of Fault-Tolerance Protocols," Conference on Dependable Computing for Critical Applications (DCCA-3), pp 197-207, International Federation of Information Processing Societies, Palermo (Sicily), Italy, September, 1992. [bib]
22. Agha, Gul, Rajendra Panwar. "An Actor-Based Framework for Heterogeneous Computing Systems," Workshop on Heterogeneous Processing, pp 35-42, IEEE Computer Society, March, 1992. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
23. Agha, Gul. "The Structure and Semantics of Actor Languages ," in J. W. deBakker, W. P. deRoever, G. Rozenberg (editors), Foundations of Object Oriented Languages, pp. 1-59, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 489, Springer Verlag, 1991. [bib]
24. Agha, Gul, Chris Houck, Rajendra Panwar. "Distributed Execution of Actor Programs," Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, pp. 1-15, INTEL, Santa Clara, CA, August, 1991. [pdf] [ps] [bib]
25. Agha, Gul. "Proceedings of the SIGPLAN Workshop on Object-Based Concurrent Programming ," OOPS Messenger, vol. 2, No. 2, April 1991, ACM SIGPLAN, 1991. [bib]
26. Agha, Gul. "Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming," in Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery, vol. 33, no. 9, pp 125-141, September, 1990. [pdf] [bib]