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Distributed systems have become increasingly prevalent in the software industry. Due to their intrinsic complexity, much research has focused on the verification of their behaviour. An active research line is around behaviour models that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Francisco Parrinha , João Mota , António Ravara

In the setting of the pi-calculus with binary sessions, we aim at relaxing the notion of duality of session types by the concept of retractable compliance developed in contract theory. This leads to extending session types with a new type…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Franco Barbanera , Ugo de'Liguoro

This paper presents CAMP, a new static performance analysis framework for message-passing concurrent and distributed systems, based on the theory of multiparty session types (MPST). Understanding the run-time performance of concurrent and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-12 David Castro-Perez , Nobuko Yoshida

Session types offer a type-based discipline for enforcing communication protocols in distributed programming. We have previously formalized simple session types in the setting of multi-threaded $\lambda$-calculus with linear types. In this…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Hanwen Wu , Hongwei Xi

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

We propose an interpretation of multiparty sessions with asynchronous communication as Flow Event Structures. We introduce a new notion of global type for asynchronous multiparty sessions, ensuring the expected properties for sessions,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ilaria Castellani , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini , Paola Giannini

Behavioural types provide a promising way to achieve lightweight, language-integrated verification for communication-centric software. However, a large barrier to the adoption of behavioural types is that the current state of the art…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Simon Fowler , Philipp Haller , Roland Kuhn , Sam Lindley , Alceste Scalas , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

Recent work on the enhancement of multiparty session types with logical annotations enable the effective verification of properties on (1) the structure of the conversations, (2) the sorts of the messages, and (3) the actual values…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Laura Bocchi , Romain Demangeon

Multiparty Session Types (MPSTs) offer a structured way of specifying communication protocols and guarantee relevant communication properties, such as deadlock-freedom. In this paper, we extend a minimal MPST system with quantum data and…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ivan Lanese , Ugo Dal Lago , Vikraman Choudhury

Session types are a type-based approach to the verification of message-passing programs. They have been much studied as type systems for the pi-calculus and for languages such as Java. A session type specifies what and when should be…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Alen Arslanagić , Jorge A. Pérez , Erik Voogd

In programming models with a reversible semantics, computational steps can be undone. This paper addresses the integration of reversible semantics into process languages for communication-centric systems equipped with behavioral types. In…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Claudio Antares Mezzina , Jorge A. Pérez

Ensuring the correctness of software for communication centric programs is important but challenging. Previous approaches, based on session types, have been intensively investigated over the past decade. They provide a concise way to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Andreea Costea , Wei-Ngan Chin , Florin Craciun , Shengchao Qin

Multiparty session types are designed to abstractly capture the structure of communication protocols and verify behavioural properties. One important such property is progress, i.e., the absence of deadlock. Distributed algorithms often…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Lukas Bartl , Julian Linne , Kirstin Peters

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

Bipartite networks provide an effective resource for representing, characterizing, and modeling several abstract and real-world systems and structures involving binary relations, which include food webs, social interactions, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Alexandre Benatti , Luciano da F. Costa

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…

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

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 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

We present TLLC which extends the Two-Level Linear dependent type theory (TLL) with session-based concurrency. Equipped with Martin-L\"{o}f style dependency, the session types of TLLC allow protocols to specify properties of communicated…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Qiancheng Fu , Hongwei Xi , Ankush Das