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We propose an interpretation of multiparty sessions as "flow event structures", which allows concurrency between communications within a session to be explicitly represented. We show that this interpretation is equivalent, when the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Ilaria Castellani , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini , Paola Giannini

Multiparty Session Types (MPST) are a well-established typing discipline for message-passing processes interacting on sessions involving two or more participants. Session typing can ensure desirable properties: absence of communication…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Alceste Scalas , Nobuko Yoshida

Session types denote message protocols between concurrent processes, allowing a type-safe expression of inter-process communication. Although previous work demonstrate a well-defined notion of subtyping where processes have different…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Chuta Sano , Stephanie Balzer , Frank Pfenning

Ensuring correctness of communication in distributed systems remains challenging. To address this, Multiparty session types (MPST), initially introduced by Honda et al. [52, 53], offer a type discipline in which a programmer or architect…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ping Hou , Nobuko Yoshida , Iona Kuhn

Programs are more distributed and concurrent today than ever before, and structural communications are at the core. Constructing and debugging such programs are hard due to the lack of formal specification/verification of concurrency. This…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Hanwen Wu , Hongwei Xi

Multiparty session types (MSTs) are a type-based approach to verifying communication protocols, represented as global types in the framework. We present a precise subtyping relation for asynchronous MSTs with communicating state machines…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Elaine Li , Felix Stutz , Thomas Wies

The notion of subtyping has gained an important role both in theoretical and applicative domains: in lambda and concurrent calculi as well as in programming languages. The soundness and the completeness, together referred to as the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-02-12 Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini , Silvia Ghilezan , Svetlana Jakšić , Jovanka Pantović , Nobuko Yoshida

Timed session types formalise timed communication protocols between two participants at the endpoints of a session. They feature a decidable compliance relation, which generalises to the timed setting the progress-based compliance between…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Massimo Bartoletti , Tiziana Cimoli , Maurizio Murgia

Session types describe the structure of communications implemented by channels. In particular, they prescribe the sequence of communications, whether they are input or output actions, and the type of value exchanged. Crucial to any language…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Dimitris Mostrous , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

Multiparty Session Types (MPST) provide a type-theoretic foundation for specifying and verifying communication protocols in distributed systems. MPST rely on the notion of global type which specifies the global behaviour and local types,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Cinzia Di Giusto , Etienne Lozes , Pascal Urso

Multiparty Session Types (MPST) is a typing discipline for communication protocols. It ensures the absence of communication errors and deadlocks for well-typed communicating processes. The state-of-the-art implementations of the MPST theory…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Keigo Imai , Rumyana Neykova , Nobuko Yoshida , Shoji Yuen

We (re)define session types as projections of process behaviors with respect to the communication channels they use. In this setting, we give session types a semantics based on fair testing. The outcome is a unified theory of behavioral…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2009-12-01 Luca Padovani

For many application-level distributed protocols and parallel algorithms, the set of participants, the number of messages or the interaction structure are only known at run-time. This paper proposes a dependent type theory for multiparty…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Pierre-Malo Denielou , Nobuko Yoshida , Andi Bejleri , Raymond Hu

Session types capture precise protocol structure in concurrent programming, but do not specify properties of the exchanged values beyond their basic type. Refinement types are a form of dependent types that can address this limitation,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Pedro Baltazar , Dimitris Mostrous , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

Session types have been proposed as a means of statically verifying implementations of communication protocols. Although prior work has been successful in verifying some classes of protocols, it does not cope well with parameterized,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-08-24 Minas Charalambides , Peter Dinges , Gul Agha

Global protocol specifications are the starting point of top-down verification methodologies, and serve as a blueprint for synthesizing local specifications that guarantee the correctness of distributed implementations. In this work, we…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Elaine Li , Felix Stutz

This paper presents the first implementation of session types in a dynamically-typed language - Python. Communication safety of the whole system is guaranteed at runtime by monitors that check the execution traces comply with an associated…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Rumyana Neykova

Multiparty session types (MPST) offer a framework for the description of communication-based protocols involving multiple participants. In the top-down approach to MPST, the communication pattern of the session is described using a global…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Omer Keskin , Nobuko Yoshida , Rob van Glabbeek

Session types are abstractions of communication protocols enabling the static analysis of message-passing processes. Refinement notions for session types are key to support safe forms of process substitution while preserving their…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mario Bravetti , Luca Padovani , Gianluigi Zavattaro

Many type systems include infinite types. In session type systems, which are the focus of this paper, infinite types are important because they allow the specification of communication protocols that are unbounded in time. Usually infinite…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Simon J. Gay , Diogo Poças , Vasco T. Vasconcelos