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In Choreographic Programming, a distributed system is programmed by giving a choreography, a global description of its interactions, instead of separately specifying the behaviour of each of its processes. Process implementations in terms of a distributed language can then be automatically projected from a choreography. We present Linear Compositional Choreographies (LCC), a proof theory for reasoning about programs that modularly combine choreographies with processes. Using LCC, we logically reconstruct a semantics and a projection procedure for programs. For the first time, we also obtain a procedure for extracting choreographies from process terms.

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We thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on this paper. Montesi was supported by the Danish Council for Independent Research (Technology and Production), Grant No. DFF–4005-00304, and by the Open Data Framework project at the University of Southern Denmark. This publication was made possible in part by the DemTech Grant 10-092309 from the Danish Council for Strategic Research, Program Commission on Strategic Growth Technologies and in part by NPRP Grant #7-1393-5-209 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.

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    Fabrizio Montesi

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Carbone, M., Montesi, F. & Schürmann, C. Choreographies, logically. Distrib. Comput. 31, 51–67 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00446-017-0295-1

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