Citation
Edward A. Lee. "ThreadedComposite: A Mechanism for Building Concurrent and Parallel Ptolemy II Models". Technical report, EECS Dept., University of California, Berkeley, UCB/EECS-2008-151, December, 2008.

Abstract
This paper describes the usage patterns of the ThreadedComposite actor in Ptolemy II. This actor enables the execution of opaque actors (atomic actors or composite actors with directors) in a separate thread, thus providing multithreading for models of computation that are not already multthreaded. It can be used to execute an actor in the background, to execute multiple actors in parallel (e.g. on a multicore machine), and to execute actors that block on I/O operations without blocking other actors.

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  Edward A. Lee. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/511.html"
  ><i>ThreadedComposite: A Mechanism for Building
  Concurrent and Parallel Ptolemy II
  Models</i></a>, Technical report,  EECS Dept.,
  University of California, Berkeley, UCB/EECS-2008-151,
  December, 2008.

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  Edward A. Lee. "ThreadedComposite: A Mechanism for
  Building Concurrent and Parallel Ptolemy II Models".
  Technical report,  EECS Dept., University of California,
  Berkeley, UCB/EECS-2008-151, December, 2008.

• BibTeX

  @techreport{Lee08_ThreadedCompositeMechanismForBuildingConcurrentParallel,
      author = {Edward A. Lee},
      title = {ThreadedComposite: A Mechanism for Building
                Concurrent and Parallel Ptolemy II Models},
      institution = {EECS Dept., University of California, Berkeley},
      number = {UCB/EECS-2008-151},
      month = {December},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {This paper describes the usage patterns of the
                ThreadedComposite actor in Ptolemy II. This actor
                enables the execution of opaque actors (atomic
                actors or composite actors with directors) in a
                separate thread, thus providing multithreading for
                models of computation that are not already
                multthreaded. It can be used to execute an actor
                in the background, to execute multiple actors in
                parallel (e.g. on a multicore machine), and to
                execute actors that block on I/O operations
                without blocking other actors.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/511.html}
  }
  

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