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Probabilistic Analysis of Binary Sessions

Logic in Computer Science 2020-07-24 v1

Abstract

We study a probabilistic variant of binary session types that relate to a class of Finite-State Markov Chains. The probability annotations in session types enable the reasoning on the probability that a session terminates successfully, for some user-definable notion of successful termination. We develop a type system for a simple session calculus featuring probabilistic choices and show that the success probability of well-typed processes agrees with that of the sessions they use. To this aim, the type system needs to track the propagation of probabilistic choices across different sessions.

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@article{arxiv.2007.11832,
  title  = {Probabilistic Analysis of Binary Sessions},
  author = {Omar Inverso and Hernán Melgratti and Luca Padovani and Catia Trubiani and Emilio Tuosto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.11832},
  year   = {2020}
}
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