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Multiparty Session Types (MPST) provide a type-theoretic foundation for specifying and verifying communication protocols in distributed systems. MPST rely on the notion of global type which specifies the global behaviour and local types,…

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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 present a novel mathematical framework for the specification and analysis of fault-resilient distributed protocols and their implementations, with the following components: 1. Transition systems that allow the specification and analysis…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Ehud Shapiro

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

Message passing is a fundamental element in software development, ranging from concurrent and mobile computing to distributed services, but it suffers from communication errors such as deadlocks. Session types are a typing discipline for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Zekun Ji , Shuling Wang , Xiong Xu

This document is a technical overview and discussion of our work, a protocol for secure group messaging. By secure we mean for the actual users i.e. end-to-end security, as opposed to "secure" for irrelevant third parties. Our work provides…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-06-16 Ximin Luo , Guy Kloss

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 statically prescribe bidirectional communication protocols for message-passing processes. However, simple session types cannot specify properties beyond the type of exchanged messages. In this paper we extend the type system…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Ankush Das , Frank Pfenning

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

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

Refinement transforms an abstract system model into a concrete, executable program, such that properties established for the abstract model carry over to the concrete implementation. Refinement has been used successfully in the development…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Aurel Bílý , João C. Pereira , Jan Schär , Peter Müller

Message passing algorithms, whose iterative nature captures well complicated interactions among interconnected variables in complex systems and extracts information from the fixed point of iterated messages, provide a powerful toolkit in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-02-28 Chun-Yan Zhao , Yan-Rong Fu , Jin-Hua Zhao

Modal Transition Systems (MTS) are a well-known formalism that extend Labelled Transition Systems (LTS) with the possibility of specifying necessary and permitted behaviour. Modal refinement ($\preceq_m$) of MTS represents a step of the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Davide Basile

Session types express and enforce safe communication in concurrent message-passing systems by statically capturing the interaction protocols between processes in the type. Recent works extend session types with arithmetic refinements, which…

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Motivated by the response pattern for property specifications and applications within flexible workflow management systems, we report upon an initial study of modal and mixed transition systems in which the must transitions are interpreted…

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Various vulnerabilities have been found in message parsers of protocol implementations in the past. Even highly sensitive software components like TLS libraries are affected regularly. Resulting issues range from denial-of-service attacks…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Tobias Reiher , Alexander Senier , Jeronimo Castrillon , Thorsten Strufe

Multiparty session types (MSTs) are a type-based approach to verifying communication protocols. Central to MSTs is a projection operator: a partial function that maps protocols represented as global types to correct-by-construction…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Elaine Li , Felix Stutz , Thomas Wies , Damien Zufferey

Session types provide a typing discipline for message-passing systems. However, most session type approaches assume an ideal world: one in which everything is reliable and without failures. Yet this is in stark contrast with distributed…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Adam D. Barwell , Ping Hou , Nobuko Yoshida , Fangyi Zhou

Multiparty session types (MST) are a well-established type theory that describes the interactive structure of a fixed number of components from a global point of view and type-checks the components through projection of the global type onto…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Andi Bejleri , Elton Domnori , Malte Viering , Patrick Eugster , Mira Mezini

Multiparty Session Types (MPSTs) offer a structured way of specifying communication protocols and guarantee relevant communication properties, such as deadlock-freedom. In this paper, we extend a minimal MPST system with quantum data and…

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