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Modern language models have enabled the development of agentic systems that achieve strong performance on reasoning-intensive tasks. Unfortunately, this has come with a security cost; these systems are vulnerable to prompt injection, a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dennis Jacob , Emad Alghamdi , Zhanhao Hu , Basel Alomair , David Wagner

Choreographies describe distributed protocols from a global viewpoint, enabling correct-by-construction synthesis of local behaviours. We develop a policy-parametric type system that prevents information leaks from high-security data to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Marco Bertoni , Saverio Giallorenzo , Marco Peressotti

This paper outlines a general formal framework for reasoning systems, intended to support future analysis of inference architectures across domains. We model reasoning systems as structured tuples comprising phenomena, explanation space,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Saleh Nikooroo , Thomas Engel

We consider type inference for guarded recursive data types (GRDTs) -- a recent generalization of algebraic data types. We reduce type inference for GRDTs to unification under a mixed prefix. Thus, we obtain efficient type inference.…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Peter J. Stuckey , Martin Sulzmann

Information flow control type systems statically restrict the propagation of sensitive data to ensure end-to-end confidentiality. The property to be shown is noninterference, asserting that an attacker cannot infer any secrets from made…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Farzaneh Derakhshan , Stephanie Balzer , Limin Jia

Types in logic programming have focused on conservative approximations of program semantics by regular types, on one hand, and on type systems based on a prescriptive semantics defined for typed programs, on the other. In this paper, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-19 João Barbosa , Mário Florido , Vítor Santos Costa

While methods of code abstraction and reuse are widespread and well researched, methods of proof abstraction and reuse are still emerging. We consider the use of dependent types for this purpose, introducing a completely mechanical approach…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-08-03 Christopher Schwaab , Jeremy G. Siek

Strategy languages enable programmers to compose rewrite rules into strategies and control their application. This is useful in programming languages, e.g., for describing program transformations compositionally, but also in automated…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Rongxiao Fu , Ornela Dardha , Michel Steuwer

We investigate the interplay between a modality for controlling the behaviour of recursive functional programs on infinite structures which are completely silent in the syntax. The latter means that programs do not contain "marks" showing…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Paula Severi

Today's software systems are highly distributed and interconnected, and they increasingly rely on communication to achieve their goals; due to their societal importance, security and trustworthiness are crucial aspects for the correctness…

This dissertation introduces executable refinement types, which refine structural types by semi-decidable predicates, and establishes their metatheory and accompanying implementation techniques. These results are useful for undecidable type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-03-14 Kenneth Knowles

We present a method for synthesizing recursive functions that provably satisfy a given specification in the form of a polymorphic refinement type. We observe that such specifications are particularly suitable for program synthesis for two…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Nadia Polikarpova , Ivan Kuraj , Armando Solar-Lezama

This work provides a study to demonstrate the potential of using off-the-shelf programming languages and their theories to build sound language-based-security tools. Our study focuses on information flow security encompassing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Minh Ngo , David A. Naumann , Tamara Rezk

This work introduces the novel concept of kind refinement, which we develop in the context of an explicitly polymorphic ML-like language with type-level computation. Just as type refinements embed rich specifications by means of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Luís Caires , Bernardo Toninho

Synchronous reactive data flow is a paradigm that provides a high-level abstract programming model for embedded and cyber-physical systems, including the locally synchronous components of IoT systems. Security in such systems is severely…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Sanjiva Prasad , R. Madhukar Yerraguntla , Subodh Sharma

We present a unifying framework for type systems for process calculi. The core of the system provides an accurate correspondence between essentially functional processes and linear logic proofs; fragments of this system correspond to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Emmanuel Beffara

We introduce a term algebra as a new formal specification language for the coordinating architectures of distributed systems consisting of a finite yet unbounded number of components. The language allows to describe infinite sets of systems…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Marius Bozga , Radu Iosif

We tackle the problem of statically ensuring that message-passing programs never run into deadlocks. We focus on concurrent functional programs governed by context-free session types, which can express rich tree-like structures not…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Andreia Mordido , Jorge A. Pérez

Types-and-effects are type systems, which allow one to express general semantic properties and to statically reason about program's execution. They have been widely exploited to specify static analyses, for example to track computational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-08-12 Letterio Galletta , Giorgio Levi

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