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Ensuring correctness of communication in distributed systems remains challenging. To address this, Multiparty session types (MPST), initially introduced by Honda et al. [52, 53], offer a type discipline in which a programmer or architect…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Ping Hou , Nobuko Yoshida , Iona Kuhn

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

Objects and actors are communicating state machines, offering and consuming different services at different points in their lifecycle. Two complementary challenges arise when programming such systems. When objects interact, their state…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Roly Perera , Julien Lange , Simon J. Gay

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

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

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,…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Cinzia Di Giusto , Etienne Lozes , Pascal Urso

We present a formalization of session types in a multi-threaded lambda-calculus (MTLC) equipped with a linear type system, establishing for the MTLC both type preservation and global progress. The latter (global progress) implies that the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-03-14 Hongwei Xi , Zhiqiang Ren , Hanwen Wu , William Blair

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

We describe scalable protocols for solving the secure multi-party computation (MPC) problem among a large number of parties. We consider both the synchronous and the asynchronous communication models. In the synchronous setting, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Varsha Dani , Valerie King , Mahnush Movahedi , Jared Saia , Mahdi Zamani

MQTT, one of the most popular protocols for the IoT, works according to a publish/subscribe pattern in which multiple clients connect to a single broker, generally hosted in the cloud. However, such a centralised approach does not scale…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Edoardo Longo , Alessandro Enrico Cesare Redondi , Matteo Cesana , Andrès Arcia-Moret , Pietro Manzoni

We strive to use session type technology to prove behavioural properties of fault-tolerant distributed algorithms. Session types are designed to abstractly capture the structure of (even multi-party) communication protocols. The goal of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Manuel Adameit , Kirstin Peters , Uwe Nestmann

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

Communicating state machines provide a formal foundation for distributed computation. Unfortunately, they are Turing-complete and, thus, challenging to analyse. In this paper, we classify restrictions on channels which have been proposed to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Felix Stutz , Damien Zufferey

Communicating state machines provide a formal foundation for distributed computation. Unfortunately, they are Turing-complete and, thus, challenging to analyse. In this paper, we classify restrictions on channels which have been proposed to…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Felix Stutz , Damien Zufferey

Session types are a typing discipline used to formally describe communication-driven applications with the aim of fewer errors and easier debugging later into the life cycle of the software. Protocols at the transport layer such as TCP,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Samuel Cavoj , Ivan Nikitin , Colin Perkins , Ornela Dardha

Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is an important enabling technology for data privacy in modern distributed applications. We develop a new type theory to automatically enforce correctness,confidentiality, and integrity properties of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Christian Skalka , Joseph P. Near

We present a protocol for performing state merging when multiple parties share a single copy of a mixed state, and analyze the entanglement cost in terms of min- and max-entropies. Our protocol allows for interpolation between corner points…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-06 Nicolas Dutil , Patrick Hayden

Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC) allows a set of parties to securely compute a functionality in a distributed fashion without the need for any trusted external party. Usually, it is assumed that the parties know each other and have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Malte Breuer , Ulrike Meyer , Susanne Wetzel

Session types are types for specifying the protocols that communicating processes must follow in a concurrent system. When composing two or more well-typed processes, a session typing system must check whether such processes are multiparty…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Marco Carbone , Sonia Marin , Carsten Schürmann

Multiparty sessions with asynchronous communications and global types play an important role for the modelling of interaction protocols in distributed systems. In designing such calculi the aim is to enforce, by typing, good properties for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Francesco Dagnino , Paola Giannini , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini