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Proof theory provides a foundation for studying and reasoning about programming languages, most directly based on the well-known Curry-Howard isomorphism between intuitionistic logic and the typed lambda-calculus. More recently, a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Farzaneh Derakhshan , Frank Pfenning

Session types provide a flexible programming style for structuring interaction, and are used to guarantee a safe and consistent composition of distributed processes. Traditional session types include only one-directional input (external)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Kirstin Peters , Nobuko Yoshida

Session Types offer a typing discipline that allows protocol specifications to be used during type-checking, ensuring that implementations adhere to a given specification. When looking to realise global session types in a dependently typed…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Jan de Muijnck-Hughes , Edwin Brady , Wim Vanderbauwhede

Multiparty session types (MPST) are a robust typing framework that ensures safe and deadlock-free communication within distributed protocols. As these protocols grow in complexity, compositional modelling becomes increasingly important to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Paula Blechschmidt

The development of the SJ Framework for session-based distributed programming is part of recent and ongoing research into integrating session types and practical, real-world programming languages. SJ programs featuring session types…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-10-20 Nuno Alves , Raymond Hu , Nobuko Yoshida , Pierre-Malo Deniélou

Noninterference guarantees that an attacker cannot infer secrets by interacting with a program. Information flow control (IFC) type systems assert noninterference by tracking the level of information learned (pc) and disallowing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Farzaneh Derakhshan , Stephanie Balzer , Yue Yao

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

We address the problem of local type inference for a language based on System F with context-free session types. We present an algorithm that leverages the bidirectional type checking approach to propagate type information, enabling first…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Bernardo Almeida , Andreia Mordido , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

This work exploits the logical foundation of session types to determine what kind of type discipline for the pi-calculus can exactly capture, and is captured by, lambda-calculus behaviours. Leveraging the proof theoretic content of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Bernardo Toninho , Nobuko Yoshida

We sketch a simple language of concurrent objects which explores the design space between type systems and continuous testing. In our language, programs are collections of communicating automata checked automatically for multiparty…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Roly Perera , Simon J. Gay

In this paper we introduce imprecise probability for session types. More exactly, we use a probabilistic process calculus in which both nondeterministic external choice and probabilistic internal choice are considered. We propose the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Bogdan Aman , Gabriel Ciobanu

Multiparty session calculi have been recently equipped with security requirements, in order to guarantee properties such as access control and leak freedom. However, the proposed security requirements seem to be overly restrictive in some…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Ilaria Castellani , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini , Ugo de'Liguoro

A system of session types is introduced as induced by a Curry Howard correspondence applied to Bounded Linear Logic, and then extending the thus obtained type system with probabilistic choices and ground types. The obtained system satisfies…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Ugo Dal Lago , Giulia Giusti

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

Multiparty session types provide a type discipline for ensuring communication safety, deadlock-freedom and liveness for multiple concurrently running participants. The original formulation of MPST takes the top-down approach, where a global…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Thien Udomsrirungruang , Nobuko Yoshida

Multiparty session types (MPST) are a specification and verification framework for distributed message-passing systems. The communication protocol of the system is specified as a global type, from which a collection of local types (local…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Lorenzo Gheri , Nobuko Yoshida

We present a system of session types based on adjoint logic which generalize standard binary session types. Our system allows us to uniformly capture several new behaviors in the space of asynchronous message-passing communication,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Klaas Pruiksma , Frank Pfenning

Multiparty Session Types (MPST) are a typing discipline for communication-centric systems, guaranteeing communication safety, deadlock freedom and protocol compliance. Several works have emerged which model failures and introduce…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Matthew Alan Le Brun , Ornela Dardha

We explore the integration of metaprogramming in a call-by-value linear lambda-calculus and sketch its extension to a session type system. We build on a model of contextual modal type theory with multi-level contexts, where contextual…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Pedro Ângelo , Atsushi Igarashi , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

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