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COMPEL Glossary / actor-topology
Actor topology
A multi-agent topology in which agents communicate via message passing — with each agent as an isolated actor owning its own state and mailbox.
What this means in practice
Derived from the Hewitt actor model; provides strong isolation and reasoning-about-concurrency benefits, widely used in Erlang-style distributed systems.
Synonyms
actor-model MAS , message-passing topology
See also
- Multi-agent orchestration — The architectural coordination of multiple cooperating agents — via hierarchical, market, swarm, or actor topologies — to achieve collective tasks.
- Swarm topology — A multi-agent topology in which peer agents coordinate without central authority — via shared state, stigmergy, or direct peer messaging.
- Agent-to-agent (A2A) protocol — The communication mechanism between AI agents — specifying message format, authentication, authorization scope, rate limiting, and audit logging.