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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

Much of the software we use in everyday life consists of distributed components (running on separate cores or even computers) that collaborate through communication (by exchanging messages). It is crucial to develop robust methods that can…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Bas van den Heuvel

There exists a broad family of multiparty sessions in which the progress of one session participant is not unconditional, but depends on the choices performed by other participants. These sessions fall outside the scope of currently…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Luca Ciccone , Francesco Dagnino , Luca Padovani

With distributed computing becoming ubiquitous in the modern era, safe distributed programming is an open challenge. To address this, multiparty session types (MPST) provide a typing discipline for message-passing concurrency, guaranteeing…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Fangyi Zhou , Francisco Ferreira , Raymond Hu , Rumyana Neykova , Nobuko Yoshida

Session types enable the specification and verification of communicating systems. However, their theory often assumes that processes never fail. To address this limitation, we present a generalised multiparty session type (MPST) theory with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Adam D. Barwell , Alceste Scalas , Nobuko Yoshida , Fangyi Zhou

While formal models of concurrency tend to focus on synchronous communication, asynchronous communication is relevant in practice. In this paper, we will discuss asynchronous communication in the context of session-based concurrency, the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Bas van den Heuvel , Jorge A. Pérez

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

Developing multithreaded software is an extremely challenging task, even for experienced programmers. The challenge does not end after the code is written. There are other tasks associated with a development process that become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-04 Evgeny Vainer , Amiram Yehudai

We present an asynchronous calculus for multiparty sessions with mixed choice, which extends the Simple MultiParty Session framework in order to support nondeterministic choices with both input and output prefixes. Global types -- equipped…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Franco Barbanera , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini

Modern web applications can now offer desktop-like experiences from within the browser, thanks to technologies such as WebSockets, which enable low-latency duplex communication between the browser and the server. While these advances are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Jonathan King , Nicholas Ng , Nobuko Yoshida

Decentralized techniques are becoming crucial and ubiquitous with the rapid advancement of distributed ledger technologies such as the blockchain. Numerous decentralized systems have been developed to address security and privacy issues…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Yepeng Ding , Hiroyuki Sato

With web and mobile platforms becoming more prominent devices utilized in data analysis, there are currently few systems which are not without flaw. In order to increase the performance of these systems and decrease errors of data…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Daniel Szelogowski

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

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

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 using affinity and exception handling mechanisms have been developed to ensure the communication safety of protocols implemented in concurrent and distributed programming languages. Nevertheless, current affine session types…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ping Hou , Nicolas Lagaillardie , Nobuko Yoshida

Session types provide a typing discipline for message-passing systems. However, their theory often assumes an ideal world: one in which everything is reliable and without failures. Yet this is in stark contrast with distributed systems in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Adam D. Barwell , Ping Hou , Nobuko Yoshida , Fangyi Zhou

Multiparty session types (MP) are a type discipline for enforcing the structured, deadlock-free communication of concurrent and message-passing programs. Traditional MP have a limited form of choice in which alternative communication…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Kirstin Peters , Nobuko Yoshida

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

Multiparty session types (MPST) provide a rigorous foundation for verifying the safety and liveness of concurrent systems. However, existing approaches often force a difficult trade-off: classical, projection-based techniques are…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-12-01 David Castro-Perez , Francisco Ferreira , Sung-Shik Jongmans