Towards an abstraction for remote evaluation in Erlang

Abstract

Erlang is an industry-standard cross-platform functional programming language and runtime system (ERTS) intended for the development of scalable enterprise projects that are inherently concurrent and distributed systems [1]. In essence, an Erlang system consists of a number of actors [3] (processes) executing concurrently across a number of nodes. These actors interact with one another (mainly) through asynchronous messaging and are also capable of spawning further actors, either locally or at a remote node.