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Structuring Communication with Session Types

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Concurrent Objects and Beyond

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Session types are types for distributed communicating processes. They were born from process encodings of data structures and typical interaction scenarios in an asynchronous version of the π-calculus, and are being studied and developed as a potential basis for structuring concurrent and distributed computing, as well as in their own right. In this paper, we introduce basic ideas of sessions and session types, outline their key technical elements, and discuss how they may be usable for programming, drawing from our experience and comparing with existing paradigms, especially concurrent objects such as actors. We discuss how session types can offer a programming framework in which communications are structured both in program text and at run-time.

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  1. Queen Mary, University of London, UK

    Kohei Honda, Tzu-Chun Chen & Romain Demangeon

  2. Imperial College, London, UK

    Raymond Hu, Rumyana Neykova, Pierre-Malo Deniélou & Nobuko Yoshida

  3. Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

    Pierre-Malo Deniélou

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Honda, K. et al. (2014). Structuring Communication with Session Types. In: Agha, G., et al. Concurrent Objects and Beyond. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8665. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44471-9_5

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