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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

Programs are more distributed and concurrent today than ever before, and structural communications are at the core. Constructing and debugging such programs are hard due to the lack of formal specification/verification of concurrency. This…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Hanwen Wu , Hongwei Xi

Multiparty sessions are systems of concurrent processes, which allow several participants to communicate by sending and receiving messages. Their overall behaviour can be described by means of global types. Typable multiparty session enjoy…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Franco Barbanera , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini

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

Distributed systems have become increasingly prevalent in the software industry. Due to their intrinsic complexity, much research has focused on the verification of their behaviour. An active research line is around behaviour models that…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Francisco Parrinha , João Mota , António Ravara

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…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Rumyana Neykova , Nobuko Yoshida

A multiparty session formalises a set of concurrent communicating participants. We propose a type system for multiparty sessions where some communications between participants can be ignored. This allows us to type some sessions with global…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Franco Barbanera , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini

We propose an interpretation of multiparty sessions with asynchronous communication as Flow Event Structures. We introduce a new notion of global type for asynchronous multiparty sessions, ensuring the expected properties for sessions,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ilaria Castellani , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini , Paola Giannini

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

Communicating systems comprise diverse software components across networks. To ensure their robustness, modern programming languages such as Rust provide both strongly typed channels, whose usage is guaranteed to be affine (at most once),…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Nicolas Lagaillardie , Rumyana Neykova , Nobuko Yoshida

Advancements in mobile device computing power have made interactive web applications possible, allowing the web browser to render contents dynamically and support low-latency communication with the server. This comes at a cost to the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Anson Miu , Francisco Ferreira , Nobuko Yoshida , Fangyi Zhou

Asynchronous multiparty session types are a type-based framework which ensure the compatibility of components in a distributed system by checking compliance against a specified global protocol. We propose a top-down approach, starting with…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kai Pischke , Jake Masters , Nobuko Yoshida

Replication is an alternative construct to recursion for describing infinite behaviours in the pi-calculus. In this paper we explore the implications of including type-level replication in Multiparty Session Types (MPST), a behavioural type…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Matthew Alan Le Brun , Simon Fowler , Ornela Dardha

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

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 are a discipline for the static verification of message-passing programs. A session type specifies a channel's protocol as sequences of exchanges. It is most relevant to investigate session-based concurrency by identifying the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Alen Arslanagic , Jorge A. Pérez , Anda-Amelia Palamariuc

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

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

Session types are a rich type discipline, based on linear types, that lifts the sort of safety claims that come with type systems to communications. However, web-based applications and microservices are often written in a mix of languages,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Atsushi Igarashi , Peter Thiemann , Yuya Tsuda , Vasco T. Vasconcelos , Philip Wadler

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