Kafura, Dennis G.Lee, Keung Hae2013-06-192013-06-191988http://hdl.handle.net/10919/19499Inheritance is a valuable mechanism which enhances reusability and maintainability of software. A language design based on the actor model of concurrent computation faces a serious problem arising from the interference between concurrency and inheritance. A similar problem also occurs in other concurrent object-oriented languages. In this paper, we describe problems found in existing concurrent object-oriented languages. We present a solution which is based on a concept called behavior abstraction.application/pdfenIn CopyrightTechnical reportTR-88-53http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000137/01/TR-88-53.pdf