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Executable Semantics and Type Checking for Session-Based Concurrency in Maude

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Rewriting Logic and Its Applications (WRLA 2022)

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Session types are a well-established approach to communication correctness in message-passing programs. We present an executable specification of the operational semantics of a session-typed \(\pi \)-calculus, implemented in the Maude system. We also develop an executable specification of its associated algorithmic type checking, and describe how both specifications can be integrated. We further explore how our executable specification enables us to detect well-typed but deadlocked processes by leveraging reachability and model checking tools in Maude. Our developments define a promising new approach to the (semi)automated analysis of communication correctness in message-passing concurrency.

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    See https://gitlab.com/calrare1/session-types.

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Acknowledgements

This work has been partially supported by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) under project No. 016.Vidi.189.046 (Unifying Correctness for Communicating Software).

We are grateful to Camilo Rocha for his useful suggestions on this work, to the anonymous reviewers for their careful reading, and to the WRLA’22 attendees for constructive remarks.

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  2. University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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Ramírez Restrepo, C.A., Pérez, J.A. (2022). Executable Semantics and Type Checking for Session-Based Concurrency in Maude. In: Bae, K. (eds) Rewriting Logic and Its Applications. WRLA 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12441-9_12

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