Useful References

Web

• The Actor model on Wikipedia
• Hewitt, Meijer and Szyperski: The Actor Model (everything you wanted to know...) on YouTube
• Joe Armstrong: Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors.- 2003, Dissertation
• Robert Virding in this thread on the elixir forum suggests that there are two complementary roads to actors, a theoretical and a pragmatic one.

Books

• Gul Agha: Actors, A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems.- 1986, MIT Press
• Joe Armstrong: Programming Erlang, 2nd ed., Software for a Concurrent World.- 2013 Pragmatic Programmers
• Paul Butcher: Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks, When Threads Unravel.- 2014 Pragmatic Programmers
• Roland Kuhn: Reactive Design Patterns.- 2017, Manning
• Vaughn Vernon: Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model, Applications and Integrations in Scala and Akka.- 2016, Pearson