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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

Behavioural type systems ensure more than the usual safety guarantees of static analysis. They are based on the idea of "types-as-processes", providing dedicated type algebras for particular properties, ranging from protocol compatibility…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-08-08 Simon J. Gay , Nils Gesbert , António Ravara

Session types statically prescribe bidirectional communication protocols for message-passing processes and are in a Curry-Howard correspondence with linear logic propositions. However, simple session types cannot specify properties beyond…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Ankush Das , Frank Pfenning

Multiparty sessions with asynchronous communications and global types play an important role for the modelling of interaction protocols in distributed systems. In designing such calculi the aim is to enforce, by typing, good properties for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Francesco Dagnino , Paola Giannini , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini

We propose a type-based analysis to infer the session protocols of channels in an ML-like concurrent functional language. Combining and extending well-known techniques, we develop a type-checking system that separates the underlying ML type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Carlo Spaccasassi , Vasileios Koutavas

Duality is a central concept in the theory of session types. Since a flaw was found in the original definition of duality for recursive types, several other definitions have been published. As their connection is not obvious, we compare the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Simon J. Gay , Peter Thiemann , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

Higher-order networks are widely used to describe complex systems in which interactions can involve more than two entities at once. In this paper, we focus on inclusion within higher-order networks, referring to situations where specific…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-07-22 Nicholas W. Landry , Jean-Gabriel Young , Nicole Eikmeier

Reusable software components need expressive specifications. This paper outlines a rigorous foundation to model-based contracts, a method to equip classes with strong contracts that support accurate design, implementation, and formal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Nadia Polikarpova , Carlo A. Furia , Bertrand Meyer

Context-free session types describe structured patterns of communication on heterogeneously-typed channels, allowing the specification of protocols unconstrained by tail recursion. The enhanced expressive power provided by non-regular…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Gil Silva , Andreia Mordido , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

Multiparty session types (MPST) are a type-based approach for specifying message-passing distributed systems. They rely on the notion of global type specifying the global behaviour and local types, which are the projections of the global…

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

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

This paper introduces assume/guarantee contracts on continuous-time control systems, hereby extending contract theories for discrete systems to certain new model classes and specifications. Contracts are regarded as formal characterizations…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Bart Besselink , Karl H. Johansson , Arjan van der Schaft

Session types are a type-based approach to the verification of message-passing programs. They specify communication structures essential to enforcing program correctness; by relying on sequencing constructs, a session type can precisely…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Alen Arslanagić , Jorge A. Pérez , Dan Frumin

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

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

This paper discusses how model checking, a technique used for the verification of behavioural requirements of dynamic systems, can be usefully deployed for the verification of contracts. A process view of agreements between parties is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Aspassia Daskalopulu

We present a graphical and dynamic framework for binding and execution of business) process models. It is tailored to integrate 1) ad hoc processes modeled graphically, 2) third party services discovered in the (Inter)net, and 3)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Johannes Neubauer , Bernhard Steffen , Tiziana Margaria

This paper improves the session typing theory to support the modelling and verification of processes that implement federated learning protocols. To this end, we build upon the asynchronous ``bottom-up'' session typing approach by adding…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Ivan Prokić , Simona Prokić , Silvia Ghilezan , Alceste Scalas , Nobuko Yoshida

Battiston et al. (arXiv:2110.06023) provide a comprehensive overview of how investigations of complex systems should take into account interactions between more than two elements, which can be modelled by hypergraphs and studied via…

Many real-world phenomena are naturally modeled by graphs and networks. However, classical graph models are often limited to pairwise interactions and may not adequately capture the richer structures that arise in practice. Higher-order…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Takaaki Fujita , Florentin Smarandache