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Mailbox Types for Unordered Interactions

Authors Ugo de'Liguoro , Luca Padovani

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Ugo de'Liguoro
  • Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Informatica, Torino, Italy
Luca Padovani
  • Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Informatica, Torino, Italy

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Ugo de'Liguoro and Luca Padovani. Mailbox Types for Unordered Interactions. In 32nd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 109, pp. 15:1-15:28, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2018.15

Abstract

We propose a type system for reasoning on protocol conformance and deadlock freedom in networks of processes that communicate through unordered mailboxes. We model these networks in the mailbox calculus, a mild extension of the asynchronous pi-calculus with first-class mailboxes and selective input. The calculus subsumes the actor model and allows us to analyze networks with dynamic topologies and varying number of processes possibly mixing different concurrency abstractions. Well-typed processes are deadlock free and never fail because of unexpected messages. For a non-trivial class of them, junk freedom is also guaranteed. We illustrate the expressiveness of the calculus and of the type system by encoding instances of non-uniform, concurrent objects, binary sessions extended with joins and forks, and some known actor benchmarks.

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ACM Subject Classification
  • Theory of computation → Type structures
  • Theory of computation → Process calculi
  • Software and its engineering → Concurrent programming structures
  • Software and its engineering → Message passing
Keywords
  • actors
  • concurrent objects
  • first-class mailboxes
  • unordered communication protocols
  • behavioral types
  • protocol conformance
  • deadlock freedom
  • junk freedom

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