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Concurrent systems are often complex and difficult to design. Choreographic languages, such as Multiparty Session Types (MPST), allow the description of global protocols of interactions by capturing valid patterns of interactions between…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Telmo Ribeiro , José Proença , Mário Florido

This work investigates a reduced-complexity adaptive methodology to consensus tracking for a team of uncertain high-order nonlinear systems with switched (possibly asynchronous) dynamics. It is well known that high-order nonlinear systems…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Maolong Lv , Wenwu Yu , Jinde Cao , Simone Baldi

We consider concurrent systems consisting of a finite but unknown number of components, that are replicated instances of a given set of finite state automata. The components communicate by executing interactions which are simultaneous…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Marius Bozga , Radu Iosif , Joseph Sifakis

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

Actor coordination armoured with a suitable protocol description language has been a pressing problem in the actors community. We study the applicability of multiparty session type (MPST) protocols for verification of actor programs. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-16 Rumyana Neykova , Nobuko Yoshida

Runtime verification offers scalable solutions to improve the safety and reliability of systems. However, systems that require verification or monitoring by a third party to ensure compliance with a specification might contain sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Thomas A. Henzinger , Mahyar Karimi , K. S. Thejaswini

Context: The complexity of modern safety-critical systems in industries keep on increasing due to the rising number of features and functionalities. This calls for formal methods in order to entrust confidence in such systems. Nevertheless,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Arut Prakash Kaleeswaran , Arne Nordmann , Thomas Vogel , Lars Grunske

In the contemporary business landscape, collaboration across multiple organizations offers a multitude of opportunities, including reduced operational costs, enhanced performance, and accelerated technological advancement. The application…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Valerio Goretti , Davide Basile , Luca Barbaro , Claudio Di Ciccio

Multi-party Conversational Systems are systems with natural language interaction between one or more people or systems. From the moment that an utterance is sent to a group, to the moment that it is replied in the group by a member, several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-08 Maira Gatti de Bayser , Paulo Cavalin , Renan Souza , Alan Braz , Heloisa Candello , Claudio Pinhanez , Jean-Pierre Briot

Research on data confidentiality, integrity and availability is gaining momentum in the ICT community, due to the intrinsically insecure nature of the Internet. While many distributed systems and services are now based on secure…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Antonio Magnani , Gabriele D'Angelo , Stefano Ferretti , Moreno Marzolla

Algorithms for the synchronisation of clocks across networks are both common and important within distributed systems. We here address not only the formal modelling of these algorithms, but also the formal verification of their behaviour.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Paul Gainer , Sven Linker , Clare Dixon , Ullrich Hustadt , Michael Fisher

We consider multi-party protocols for classification that are motivated by applications such as e-discovery in court proceedings. We identify a protocol that guarantees that the requesting party receives all responsive documents and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jinshuo Dong , Jason Hartline , Aravindan Vijayaraghavan

Runtime verification is a computing analysis paradigm based on observing a system at runtime (to check its expected behaviour) by means of monitors generated from formal specifications. Distributed runtime verification is runtime…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Giorgio Audrito , Ferruccio Damiani , Volker Stolz , Mirko Viroli

Session types have emerged as a typing discipline for communication protocols. Existing calculi with session types come equipped with many different primitives that combine communication with the introduction or elimination of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Peter Thiemann , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

Hybrid systems with both discrete and continuous dynamics are an important model for real-world cyber-physical systems. The key challenge is to ensure their correct functioning w.r.t. safety requirements. Promising techniques to ensure…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Stefan Mitsch , Grant Olney Passmore , Andre Platzer

This article introduces a fully automated verification technique that permits to analyze real-time systems described using a continuous notion of time and a mixture of operational (i.e., automata-based) and descriptive (i.e., logic-based)…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-08-14 Carlo A. Furia , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi

Intermediate-scale quantum devices are becoming more reliable, and may soon be harnessed to solve useful computational tasks. At the same time, common classical methods used to verify their computational output become intractable due to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-03 Johannes Knörzer , Daniel Malz , J. Ignacio Cirac

Scalable and automatic formal verification for concurrent systems is always demanding. In this paper, we propose a verification framework to support automated compositional reasoning for concurrent programs with shared variables. Our…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Fuyuan Zhang , Yongwang Zhao , David Sanan , Yang Liu , Alwen Tiu , Shang-Wei Lin , Jun Sun

This paper introduces a new theory of multiparty session types based on symmetric sum types, by which we can type non-deterministic orchestration choice behaviours. While the original branching type in session types can represent a choice…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-12-01 Lasse Nielsen , Nobuko Yoshida , Kohei Honda

Data replication is essential to ensure reliability, availability and fault-tolerance of massive distributed applications over large scale systems such as the Internet. However, these systems are prone to partitioning, which by Brewer's CAP…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-12 Matthieu Perrin , Achour Mostéfaoui , Claude Jard