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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2026.7
Compositional Design, Implementation, and Verification of Swarms

Authors: Florian Furbach, Lucas Clorius, Roland Kuhn, Hernán Melgratti, Alceste Scalas, and Emilio Tuosto

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 372, 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026)

Abstract
Swarm protocols are a recently introduced formalism for specifying, implementing, and verifying peer-to-peer systems called swarms. A swarm consists of distributed agents called machines that communicate by asynchronous event propagation. Following a local-first model, each machine can progress without requiring continuous connectivity to other machines. Existing models of swarms are not compositional, making the modular development of large and complex swarm applications as well as the reuse of code difficult. We address these issues by presenting novel theory and techniques for the compositional specification, verification, and implementation of swarms. These results enable the correct compositional reuse of pre-existing swarm protocols and machine implementations. We implement these contributions in a companion software artifact which enables the automatic integration of independently designed and verified swarm components.
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Florian Furbach, Lucas Clorius, Roland Kuhn, Hernán Melgratti, Alceste Scalas, and Emilio Tuosto. Compositional Design, Implementation, and Verification of Swarms. In 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 372, pp. 7:1-7:30, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{furbach_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2026.7,
  author =	{Furbach, Florian and Clorius, Lucas and Kuhn, Roland and Melgratti, Hern\'{a}n and Scalas, Alceste and Tuosto, Emilio},
  title =	{{Compositional Design, Implementation, and Verification of Swarms}},
  booktitle =	{40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026)},
  pages =	{7:1--7:30},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-423-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{372},
  editor =	{Krebbers, Robbert and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2026.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-261036},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2026.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: Swarms, Swarm Protocols, Concurrency, Distributed Coordination, Local-first Software, Behavioural Types, Publish-Subscribe, Asynchronous Communication}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2026.15
Automatic Code and Test Generation of Smart Contracts from Coordination Models

Authors: Elvis Konjoh Selabi, Maurizio Murgia, António Ravara, and Emilio Tuosto

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 372, 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026)

Abstract
We propose a formal approach for specifying and implementing decentralised coordination in distributed systems, with a focus on smart contracts. Our model captures dynamic roles, data-driven transitions, and external coordination interfaces, enabling high-level reasoning about decentralised workflows. We implement a toolchain that supports formal model validation, code generation for Solidity (our framework is extendable to other smart contract languages), and automated test synthesis. Although our implementation targets blockchain platforms, the methodology is platform-agnostic and may generalise to other service-oriented and distributed architectures. We demonstrate the expressiveness and practicality of the approach by modelling and realising some coordination patterns in smart contracts.
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Elvis Konjoh Selabi, Maurizio Murgia, António Ravara, and Emilio Tuosto. Automatic Code and Test Generation of Smart Contracts from Coordination Models. In 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 372, pp. 15:1-15:30, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{konjohselabi_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2026.15,
  author =	{Konjoh Selabi, Elvis and Murgia, Maurizio and Ravara, Ant\'{o}nio and Tuosto, Emilio},
  title =	{{Automatic Code and Test Generation of Smart Contracts from Coordination Models}},
  booktitle =	{40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:30},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-423-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{372},
  editor =	{Krebbers, Robbert and Silva, Alexandra},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2026.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-261119},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2026.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Smart Contracts, Coordination Models, Formal Semantics, Role-Based Access, Decentralised Systems, Code Generation, Solidity, Verification}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.12.1.18
Compositional Design, Implementation, and Verification of Swarms (Artifact)

Authors: Lucas Clorius, Florian Furbach, Roland Kuhn, Hernán Melgratti, Alceste Scalas, and Emilio Tuosto

Published in: DARTS, Volume 12, Issue 1, Special Issue of the 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026)

Abstract
This is the companion artifact of the paper titled "Compositional Design, Implementation, and Verification of Swarms" (ECOOP'26). This artifact contains an extension of the open-source Actyx toolkit that implements the theoretical results in the paper. It also includes scripts to reproduce all experiments and claims in Section 6 of the paper, as well as documentation on the usage of our extended Actyx toolkit via various examples.
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Lucas Clorius, Florian Furbach, Roland Kuhn, Hernán Melgratti, Alceste Scalas, and Emilio Tuosto. Compositional Design, Implementation, and Verification of Swarms (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 18:1-18:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@Article{clorius_et_al:DARTS.12.1.18,
  author =	{Clorius, Lucas and Furbach, Florian and Kuhn, Roland and Melgratti, Hern\'{a}n and Scalas, Alceste and Tuosto, Emilio},
  title =	{{Compositional Design, Implementation, and Verification of Swarms (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{18:1--18:3},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{12},
  number =	{1},
  editor =	{Clorius, Lucas and Furbach, Florian and Kuhn, Roland and Melgratti, Hern\'{a}n and Scalas, Alceste and Tuosto, Emilio},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.12.1.18},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-261559},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.12.1.18},
  annote =	{Keywords: Swarms, Swarm Protocols, Concurrency, Distributed Coordination, Local-first Software, Behavioural Types, Publish-Subscribe, Asynchronous Communication}
}
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Artifact
DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.12.1.22
Automatic Code and Test Generation of Smart Contracts from Coordination Models (Artifact)

Authors: Elvis Konjoh Selabi, Maurizio Murgia, António Ravara, and Emilio Tuosto

Published in: DARTS, Volume 12, Issue 1, Special Issue of the 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026)

Abstract
The companion paper proposes a formal approach for specifying and implementing decentralised coordination in distributed systems, with a focus on smart contracts. The model captures dynamic roles, data-driven transitions, and external coordination interfaces, enabling high-level reasoning about decentralised workflows. A toolchain supports formal model validation, Solidity code generation (extensible to other smart contract languages), and automated test synthesis. Although targeting blockchain platforms, the methodology is platform-agnostic and may generalise to other service-oriented and distributed architectures. The expressiveness and practicality of the approach are demonstrated through modelling and realising coordination patterns in smart contracts. This artifact accompanies our paper [Elvis Konjoh Selabi et al., 2026]. It provides a toolchain for generating smart contract code from EDAM (Extended Data-Aware Machines) specifications. The artifact includes the complete source code, a Docker image for easy deployment, pre-generated experiment data (generated code, automated tests, and mutation testing results), and reproduction scripts.
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Elvis Konjoh Selabi, Maurizio Murgia, António Ravara, and Emilio Tuosto. Automatic Code and Test Generation of Smart Contracts from Coordination Models (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 12, Issue 1, pp. 22:1-22:9, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@Article{konjohselabi_et_al:DARTS.12.1.22,
  author =	{Konjoh Selabi, Elvis and Murgia, Maurizio and Ravara, Ant\'{o}nio and Tuosto, Emilio},
  title =	{{Automatic Code and Test Generation of Smart Contracts from Coordination Models (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{22:1--22:9},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{12},
  number =	{1},
  editor =	{Konjoh Selabi, Elvis and Murgia, Maurizio and Ravara, Ant\'{o}nio and Tuosto, Emilio},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.12.1.22},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-261590},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.12.1.22},
  annote =	{Keywords: Smart Contracts, Coordination Models, Formal Semantics, Role-Based Access, Decentralised Systems, Code Generation, Solidity, Verification}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.17
Fair Join Pattern Matching for Actors

Authors: Philipp Haller, Ayman Hussein, Hernán Melgratti, Alceste Scalas, and Emilio Tuosto

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 313, 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
Join patterns provide a promising approach to the development of concurrent and distributed message-passing applications. Several variations and implementations have been presented in the literature - but various aspects remain under-explored: in particular, how to specify a suitable notion of message matching, how to implement it correctly and efficiently, and how to systematically evaluate the implementation performance. In this work we focus on actor-based programming, and study the application of join patterns with conditional guards (i.e., the most expressive and challenging version of join patterns in literature). We formalise a novel specification of fair and deterministic join pattern matching, ensuring that older messages are always consumed if they can be matched. We present a stateful, tree-based join pattern matching algorithm and prove that it correctly implements our fair and deterministic matching specification. We present a novel Scala 3 actor library (called JoinActors) that implements our join pattern formalisation, leveraging macros to provide an intuitive API. Finally, we evaluate the performance of our implementation, by introducing a systematic benchmarking approach that takes into account the nuances of join pattern matching (in particular, its sensitivity to input traffic and complexity of patterns and guards).
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Philipp Haller, Ayman Hussein, Hernán Melgratti, Alceste Scalas, and Emilio Tuosto. Fair Join Pattern Matching for Actors. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 17:1-17:28, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{haller_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.17,
  author =	{Haller, Philipp and Hussein, Ayman and Melgratti, Hern\'{a}n and Scalas, Alceste and Tuosto, Emilio},
  title =	{{Fair Join Pattern Matching for Actors}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{17:1--17:28},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-341-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{313},
  editor =	{Aldrich, Jonathan and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.17},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208663},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.17},
  annote =	{Keywords: Concurrency, join patterns, join calculus, actor model}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.10.2.8
Fair Join Pattern Matching for Actors (Artifact)

Authors: Philipp Haller, Ayman Hussein, Hernán Melgratti, Alceste Scalas, and Emilio Tuosto

Published in: DARTS, Volume 10, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)

Abstract
Join patterns provide a promising approach to the development of concurrent and distributed message-passing applications. Several variations and implementations have been presented in the literature - but various aspects remain under-explored: in particular, how to specify a suitable notion of message matching, how to implement it correctly and efficiently, and how to systematically evaluate the implementation performance. In this work we focus on actor-based programming, and study the application of join patterns with conditional guards (i.e., the most expressive and challenging version of join patterns in literature). We formalise a novel specification of fair and deterministic join pattern matching, ensuring that older messages are always consumed if they can be matched. We present a stateful, tree-based join pattern matching algorithm and prove that it correctly implements our fair and deterministic matching specification. We present a novel Scala 3 actor library (called JoinActors) that implements our join pattern formalisation, leveraging macros to provide an intuitive API. Finally, we evaluate the performance of our implementation, by introducing a systematic benchmarking approach that takes into account the nuances of join pattern matching (in particular, its sensitivity to input traffic and complexity of patterns and guards).
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Philipp Haller, Ayman Hussein, Hernán Melgratti, Alceste Scalas, and Emilio Tuosto. Fair Join Pattern Matching for Actors (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 10, Issue 2, pp. 8:1-8:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@Article{haller_et_al:DARTS.10.2.8,
  author =	{Haller, Philipp and Hussein, Ayman and Melgratti, Hern\'{a}n and Scalas, Alceste and Tuosto, Emilio},
  title =	{{Fair Join Pattern Matching for Actors (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{8:1--8:3},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-342-3},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{10},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Haller, Philipp and Hussein, Ayman and Melgratti, Hern\'{a}n and Scalas, Alceste and Tuosto, Emilio},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.10.2.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-209062},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.10.2.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Concurrency, join patterns, join calculus, actor model}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.15
Behavioural Types for Local-First Software

Authors: Roland Kuhn, Hernán Melgratti, and Emilio Tuosto

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 263, 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023)

Abstract
Peer-to-peer systems are the most resilient form of distributed computing, but the design of robust protocols for their coordination is difficult. This makes it hard to specify and reason about global behaviour of such systems. This paper presents swarm protocols to specify such systems from a global viewpoint. Swarm protocols are projected to machines, that is local specifications of peers. We take inspiration from behavioural types with a key difference: peers communicate through an event notification mechanism rather than through point-to-point message passing. Our goal is to adhere to the principles of local-first software where network devices collaborate on a common task while retaining full autonomy: every participating device can locally make progress at all times, not encumbered by unavailability of other devices or network connections. This coordination-free approach leads to inconsistencies that may emerge during computations. Our main result shows that under suitable well-formedness conditions for swarm protocols consistency is eventually recovered and the locally observable behaviour of conforming machines will eventually match the global specification. Our model elaborates on the Actyx industrial platform and provides the basis for tool support: we sketch an implemented prototype which proves this work a viable step towards reasoning about local-first and peer-to-peer software systems.
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Roland Kuhn, Hernán Melgratti, and Emilio Tuosto. Behavioural Types for Local-First Software. In 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 263, pp. 15:1-15:28, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{kuhn_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.15,
  author =	{Kuhn, Roland and Melgratti, Hern\'{a}n and Tuosto, Emilio},
  title =	{{Behavioural Types for Local-First Software}},
  booktitle =	{37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023)},
  pages =	{15:1--15:28},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-281-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{263},
  editor =	{Ali, Karim and Salvaneschi, Guido},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.15},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-182086},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.15},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed coordination, local-first software, behavioural types, publish-subscribe, asynchronous communication}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.9.2.14
Behavioural Types for Local-First Software (Artifact)

Authors: Roland Kuhn, Hernán Melgratti, and Emilio Tuosto

Published in: DARTS, Volume 9, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023)

Abstract
This artifact supports the theory of swarm protocols presented in the related article. Specifically, following the top-down development typical of choreographic approaches, our artifact enables the specification of systems of peers communicating through an event notification mechanism from a global viewpoint which can then be projected to local specifications of peers, rendered as machines. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first implementation of a behavioural type framework supporting the application of the principles of local-first software for network devices which collaborate on a common task while retaining full autonomy. The artifact can be integrated in the Actyx industrial platform; this proves this work a viable step towards reasoning about local-first and peer-to-peer software systems.
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Roland Kuhn, Hernán Melgratti, and Emilio Tuosto. Behavioural Types for Local-First Software (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 37th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2023). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 9, Issue 2, pp. 14:1-14:5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@Article{kuhn_et_al:DARTS.9.2.14,
  author =	{Kuhn, Roland and Melgratti, Hern\'{a}n and Tuosto, Emilio},
  title =	{{Behavioural Types for Local-First Software (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{14:1--14:5},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{9},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Kuhn, Roland and Melgratti, Hern\'{a}n and Tuosto, Emilio},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.9.2.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-182541},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.9.2.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Distributed coordination, local-first software, behavioural types, publish-subscribe, asynchronous communication}
}
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Artifact
DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.8.2.21
Design-by-Contract for Flexible Multiparty Session Protocols (Artifact)

Authors: Lorenzo Gheri, Ivan Lanese, Neil Sayers, Emilio Tuosto, and Nobuko Yoshida

Published in: DARTS, Volume 8, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)

Abstract
We introduce CAScr, the first implementation of Scribble (http://www.scribble.org, https://nuscr.dev/) that relies on choreography automata, for deadlock-free distributed programming. CAScr supports the main theoretical results and constructions in the related article. CAScr takes the popular top-down approach to system development, based on choreographic models, following the original methodology of Scribble and multiparty session types. The top-down approach enables correctness-by-construction: a developer provides a global description for the whole communication protocol; by projecting the global protocol, APIs are generated from local CFSMs, which ensure the safe implementation of each participant. The theory of choreography automata in the related article guarantees deadlock freedom for the distributed implementation of flexible global protocols. We target web development, supporting in particular the TypeScript programming language.
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Lorenzo Gheri, Ivan Lanese, Neil Sayers, Emilio Tuosto, and Nobuko Yoshida. Design-by-Contract for Flexible Multiparty Session Protocols (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 21:1-21:5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@Article{gheri_et_al:DARTS.8.2.21,
  author =	{Gheri, Lorenzo and Lanese, Ivan and Sayers, Neil and Tuosto, Emilio and Yoshida, Nobuko},
  title =	{{Design-by-Contract for Flexible Multiparty Session Protocols (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{21:1--21:5},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{8},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Gheri, Lorenzo and Lanese, Ivan and Sayers, Neil and Tuosto, Emilio and Yoshida, Nobuko},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.8.2.21},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162196},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.8.2.21},
  annote =	{Keywords: Choreography automata, design by contract, deadlock freedom, Communicating Finite State Machines, TypeScript programming}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.8
Design-By-Contract for Flexible Multiparty Session Protocols

Authors: Lorenzo Gheri, Ivan Lanese, Neil Sayers, Emilio Tuosto, and Nobuko Yoshida

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 222, 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)

Abstract
Choreographic models support a correctness-by-construction principle in distributed programming. Also, they enable the automatic generation of correct message-based communication patterns from a global specification of the desired system behaviour. In this paper we extend the theory of choreography automata, a choreographic model based on finite-state automata, with two key features. First, we allow participants to act only in some of the scenarios described by the choreography automaton. While this seems natural, many choreographic approaches in the literature, and choreography automata in particular, forbid this behaviour. Second, we equip communications with assertions constraining the values that can be communicated, enabling a design-by-contract approach. We provide a toolchain allowing to exploit the theory above to generate APIs for TypeScript web programming. Programs communicating via the generated APIs follow, by construction, the prescribed communication pattern and are free from communication errors such as deadlocks.
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Lorenzo Gheri, Ivan Lanese, Neil Sayers, Emilio Tuosto, and Nobuko Yoshida. Design-By-Contract for Flexible Multiparty Session Protocols. In 36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 222, pp. 8:1-8:28, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{gheri_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.8,
  author =	{Gheri, Lorenzo and Lanese, Ivan and Sayers, Neil and Tuosto, Emilio and Yoshida, Nobuko},
  title =	{{Design-By-Contract for Flexible Multiparty Session Protocols}},
  booktitle =	{36th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2022)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:28},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-225-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{222},
  editor =	{Ali, Karim and Vitek, Jan},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-162367},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2022.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Choreography automata, design by contract, deadlock freedom, Communicating Finite State Machines, TypeScript programming}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.14
Probabilistic Analysis of Binary Sessions

Authors: Omar Inverso, Hernán Melgratti, Luca Padovani, Catia Trubiani, and Emilio Tuosto

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 171, 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2020)

Abstract
We study a probabilistic variant of binary session types that relate to a class of Finite-State Markov Chains. The probability annotations in session types enable the reasoning on the probability that a session terminates successfully, for some user-definable notion of successful termination. We develop a type system for a simple session calculus featuring probabilistic choices and show that the success probability of well-typed processes agrees with that of the sessions they use. To this aim, the type system needs to track the propagation of probabilistic choices across different sessions.
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Omar Inverso, Hernán Melgratti, Luca Padovani, Catia Trubiani, and Emilio Tuosto. Probabilistic Analysis of Binary Sessions. In 31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 171, pp. 14:1-14:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{inverso_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.14,
  author =	{Inverso, Omar and Melgratti, Hern\'{a}n and Padovani, Luca and Trubiani, Catia and Tuosto, Emilio},
  title =	{{Probabilistic Analysis of Binary Sessions}},
  booktitle =	{31st International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2020)},
  pages =	{14:1--14:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-160-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{171},
  editor =	{Konnov, Igor and Kov\'{a}cs, Laura},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-128264},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2020.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Probabilistic choices, session types, static analysis, deadlock freedom}
}
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