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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

The scenario-based specification of a large distributed system is usually naturally decomposed into various modules. The integration of specification modules contrasts to the parallel composition of program components, and includes various…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Guoxin Su , Mingsheng Ying , Chengqi Zhang

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

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) facilitates privacy-preserving computation between multiple parties without leaking private information. While most secure deep learning techniques utilize MPC operations to achieve feasible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ke Lin , Yasir Glani , Ping Luo

We present a multiparty session type (MST) framework with asynchronous mixed choice (MC). We propose a core construct for MC that allows transient inconsistencies in protocol state between distributed participants, but ensures all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Laura Bocchi , Raymond Hu , Adriana Laura Voinea , Simon Thompson

Multiparty session typing (MPST) is a method to make concurrent programming simpler. The idea is to use type checking to automatically detect safety and liveness violations of implementations relative to specifications. In practice, the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Sung-Shik Jongmans

To celebrate the 30th edition of EXPRESS and the 20th edition of SOS we overview how session types can be expressed in a type theory for the standard $\pi$-calculus by means of a suitable encoding. The encoding allows one to reuse results…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Ilaria Castellani , Ornela Dardha , Luca Padovani , Davide Sangiorgi

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

Multiparty Session Types (MPST) is a typing discipline for communication protocols. It ensures the absence of communication errors and deadlocks for well-typed communicating processes. The state-of-the-art implementations of the MPST theory…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Keigo Imai , Rumyana Neykova , Nobuko Yoshida , Shoji Yuen

Multi-party computation (MPC) is promising for designing privacy-preserving machine learning algorithms at edge networks. An emerging approach is coded-MPC (CMPC), which advocates the use of coded computation to improve the performance of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Elahe Vedadi , Yasaman Keshtkarjahromi , Hulya Seferoglu

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 (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

Session types denote message protocols between concurrent processes, allowing a type-safe expression of inter-process communication. Although previous work demonstrate a well-defined notion of subtyping where processes have different…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Chuta Sano , Stephanie Balzer , Frank Pfenning

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a general cryptographic technique that allows distrusting parties to compute a function of their individual inputs, while only revealing the output of the function. It has found applications in areas…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Helene Haagh , Aleksandr Karbyshev , Sabine Oechsner , Bas Spitters , Pierre-Yves Strub

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 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 2024-02-14 Kirstin Peters , Uwe Nestmann , Christoph Wagner

In this paper, we design secure multi-party computation (MPC) protocols in the asynchronous communication setting with optimal resilience. Our protocols are secure against a computationally-unbounded malicious adversary, characterized by an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ananya Appan , Anirudh Chandramouli , Ashish Choudhury

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

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

Prior work has extended the deep, logical connection between the linear sequent calculus and session-typed message-passing concurrent computation with equi-recursive types and a natural notion of subtyping. In this paper, we extend this…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Coşku Acay , Frank Pfenning