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Human fallibility, unpredictable operating environments, and the heterogeneity of hardware devices are driving the need for software to be able to adapt as seen in the Internet of Things or telecommunication networks. Unfortunately,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Paul Harvey , Simon Fowler , Ornela Dardha , Simon J. Gay

We study large-scale distributed cooperative systems that use optimistic replication. We represent a system as a graph of actions (operations) connected by edges that reify semantic constraints between actions. Constraint types include…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-10-08 Pierre Sutra , Marc Shapiro , João Pedro Barreto

This paper investigates a decentralized design approach of leader-following consensus protocols for heterogeneous multiagent systems under a fixed communication topology with a directed spanning tree (DST) and asymmetric weight matrix.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Lanhao Zhao , Yangzhou Chen

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

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

Modern web programming involves coordinating interactions between browser clients and a server. Typically, the interactions in web-based distributed systems are informally described, making it hard to ensure correctness, especially…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-01-13 Anson Miu , Francisco Ferreira , Nobuko Yoshida , Fangyi Zhou

Clustering is a very popular network structuring technique which mainly addresses the issue of scalability in large scale Wireless Sensor Networks. Additionally, it has been shown to improve the energy efficiency and prolong the life of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-09-10 Khalid Nawaz , Alejandro P. Buchmann

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

We introduce the Adaptive Massively Parallel Computation (AMPC) model, which is an extension of the Massively Parallel Computation (MPC) model. At a high level, the AMPC model strengthens the MPC model by storing all messages sent within a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Soheil Behnezhad , Laxman Dhulipala , Hossein Esfandiari , Jakub Łącki , Warren Schudy , Vahab Mirrokni

A population protocol describes a set of state change rules for a population of $n$ indistinguishable finite-state agents (automata), undergoing random pairwise interactions. Within this very basic framework, it is possible to resolve a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-19 Adrian Kosowski , Przemysław Uznański

This paper systematizes knowledge on the performance of Multi-Party Computation (MPC) protocols. Despite strong privacy and correctness guarantees, MPC adoption in real-world applications remains limited by high costs (especially in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Roberta De Viti , Vaastav Anand , Pierfrancesco Ingo , Deepak Garg

Multiparty computation (MPC) consists in several parties engaging in joint computation in such a way that each party's input and output remain private to that party. Whereas MPC protocols for specific computations have existed since the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Jesús Manjón

Over the years, many multiprocessor locking protocols have been designed and analyzed. However, the performance of these protocols highly depends on how the tasks are partitioned and prioritized and how the resources are shared locally and…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Jian-Jia Chen , Georg von der Brüggen , Junjie Shi , Niklas Uete

In concurrent and distributed systems, software components are expected to communicate according to predetermined protocols and APIs - and if a component does not observe them, the system's reliability is compromised. Furthermore, isolating…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Christian Batrolo Burlò , Adrian Francalanza , Alceste Scalas

Communication protocols are central to engineering decentralized multiagent systems. Modern protocol languages are typically formal and address aspects of decentralization, such as asynchrony. However, modern languages differ in important…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Amit K. Chopra , Samuel H. Christie , Munindar P. Singh

Session types have been proposed as a means of statically verifying implementations of communication protocols. Although prior work has been successful in verifying some classes of protocols, it does not cope well with parameterized,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-08-24 Minas Charalambides , Peter Dinges , Gul Agha

Local analysis has long been recognised as an effective tool to combat the state-space explosion problem. In this work, we propose a method that systematises the use of local analysis in the verification of deadlock freedom for concurrent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Pedro Antonino , Augusto Sampaio , Jim Woodcock

Most works on session types take an equi-recursive approach and do not distinguish among a recursive type and its unfolding. This becomes more important in recent type systems which do not require global types, also known as generalised…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Marco Giunti , Nobuko Yoshida

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

We present Multiparty Classical Choreographies (MCC), a language model where global descriptions of communicating systems (choreographies) implement typed multiparty sessions. Typing is achieved by generalising classical linear logic to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Marco Carbone , Luis Cruz-Filipe , Fabrizio Montesi , Agata Murawska