On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Hans Nikolaus Beck wrote:

> Has anyone already described something like  'algebra of processes' on
> mathemtical level ?

Yes, it's called the Pi calculus, which has been implemented a few times
for research and is very similar to most actor languages, and there is
another variant called the Join calculus (JoCAML implements that).

Pi-calculus: This has a couple of good links (there are many more):
http://cliki.tunes.org/Pi%20Calculus

Join-calculus: http://para.inria.fr/join/eng.htm

> greetings
> Hans

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