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Using Higher-Order Contracts to Model Session Types (Extended Abstract)

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Session types are used to describe and structure interactions between independent processes in distributed systems. Higher-order types are needed in order to properly structure delegation of responsibility between processes. In this paper we show that higher-order web-service contracts can be used to provide a fully-abstract model of recursive higher-order session types. The model is set-theoretic, in the sense that the denotation of a contract is given by the set of contracts with which it complies; we use a novel notion of peer compliance. A crucial step in the proof of full-abstraction is showing that every contract has a non-empty denotation.

Research supported by SFI project SFI 06 IN.1 1898, and FCT project PTDC/EIA-CCO/122547/2010.

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  1. IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain

    Giovanni Bernardi

  2. School of Computer Science and Statistics, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland

    Matthew Hennessy

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  1. Department of Mathematics, University of Padova, Via Trieste, 63, 35121, Padova, Italy

    Paolo Baldan

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Roma “La Sapienza”, Via Salaria, 113, 00198, Rome, Italy

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Bernardi, G., Hennessy, M. (2014). Using Higher-Order Contracts to Model Session Types (Extended Abstract). In: Baldan, P., Gorla, D. (eds) CONCUR 2014 – Concurrency Theory. CONCUR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8704. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44584-6_27

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