##  [Actor Model](/actor-model) 

  ##  [Actor Model](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/actor-model-0) 

  

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Definition

A model of concurrent computation in which independent entities called actors encapsulate local state, communicate solely by asynchronous message passing, and can create new actors and designate behavior for future messages; there is no shared mutable state between actors in the abstract model.