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Multiparty asynchronous session types

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Nobuko Yoshida,

Marco CarboneAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 43, Issue 1

Pages 273 - 284

https://doi.org/10.1145/1328897.1328472

Published: 07 January 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Communication is becoming one of the central elements in software development. As a potential typed foundation for structured communication-centred programming, session types have been studied over the last decade for a wide range of process calculi and programming languages, focussing on binary (two-party) sessions. This work extends the foregoing theories of binary session types to multiparty, asynchronous sessions, which often arise in practical communication-centred applications. Presented as a typed calculus for mobile processes, the theory introduces a new notion of types in which interactions involving multiple peers are directly abstracted as a global scenario. Global types retain a friendly type syntax of binary session types while capturing complex causal chains of multiparty asynchronous interactions. A global type plays the role of a shared agreement among communication peers, and is used as a basis of efficient type checking through its projection onto individual peers. The fundamental properties of the session type discipline such as communication safety, progress and session fidelity are established for generaln-party asynchronous interactions.

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Multiparty asynchronous session types
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Formal language definitions
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language features
2. Theory of computation
  1. Formal languages and automata theory
  2. Semantics and reasoning
    1. Program semantics

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 43, Issue 1

POPL '08

January 2008

420 pages

ISSN:0362-1340

EISSN:1558-1160

DOI:10.1145/1328897

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POPL '08: Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
January 2008
448 pages
ISBN:9781595936899
DOI:10.1145/1328438
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