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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.41
Refinements for Multiparty Message-Passing Protocols: Specification-Agnostic Theory and Implementation

Authors: Martin Vassor and Nobuko Yoshida

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

Abstract
Multiparty message-passing protocols are notoriously difficult to design, due to interaction mismatches that lead to errors such as deadlocks. Existing protocol specification formats have been developed to prevent such errors (e.g. multiparty session types (MPST)). In order to further constrain protocols, specifications can be extended with refinements, i.e. logical predicates to control the behaviour of the protocol based on previous values exchanged. Unfortunately, existing refinement theories and implementations are tightly coupled with specification formats. This paper proposes a framework for multiparty message-passing protocols with refinements and its implementation in Rust. Our work decouples correctness of refinements from the underlying model of computation, which results in a specification-agnostic framework. Our contributions are threefold. First, we introduce a trace system which characterises valid refined traces, i.e. a sequence of sending and receiving actions correct with respect to refinements. Second, we give a correct model of computation named refined communicating system (RCS), which is an extension of communicating automata systems with refinements. We prove that RCS only produce valid refined traces. We show how to generate RCS from mainstream protocol specification formats, such as refined multiparty session types (RMPST) or refined choreography automata. Third, we illustrate the flexibility of the framework by developing both a static analysis technique and an improved model of computation for dynamic refinement evaluation. Finally, we provide a Rust toolchain for decentralised RMPST, evaluate our implementation with a set of benchmarks from the literature, and observe that refinement overhead is negligible.
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Martin Vassor and Nobuko Yoshida. Refinements for Multiparty Message-Passing Protocols: Specification-Agnostic Theory and Implementation. In 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 313, pp. 41:1-41:29, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{vassor_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.41,
  author =	{Vassor, Martin and Yoshida, Nobuko},
  title =	{{Refinements for Multiparty Message-Passing Protocols: Specification-Agnostic Theory and Implementation}},
  booktitle =	{38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024)},
  pages =	{41:1--41:29},
  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.2024.41},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-208906},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2024.41},
  annote =	{Keywords: Message-Passing Concurrency, Session Types, Specification}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.10.2.23
Refinements for Multiparty Message-Passing Protocols: Specification-Agnostic Theory and Implementation (Artifact)

Authors: Martin Vassor and Nobuko Yoshida

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

Abstract
Multiparty message-passing protocols are notoriously difficult to design, due to interaction mismatches that lead to errors such as deadlocks. Existing protocol specification formats have been developed to prevent such errors (e.g. multiparty session types (MPST)). In order to further constrain protocols, specifications can be extended with refinements, i.e. logical predicates to control the behaviour of the protocol based on previous values exchanged. Unfortunately, existing refinement theories and implementations are tightly coupled with specification formats. This artifact accompanies [Martin Vassor and Nobuko Yoshida, 2024]. It presents an implementation of the framework presented in this paper.
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Martin Vassor and Nobuko Yoshida. Refinements for Multiparty Message-Passing Protocols: Specification-Agnostic Theory and Implementation (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 38th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2024). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 10, Issue 2, pp. 23:1-23:5, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@Article{vassor_et_al:DARTS.10.2.23,
  author =	{Vassor, Martin and Yoshida, Nobuko},
  title =	{{Refinements for Multiparty Message-Passing Protocols: Specification-Agnostic Theory and Implementation (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{23:1--23:5},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-342-3},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{10},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Vassor, Martin 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.10.2.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-209212},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.10.2.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: Message-Passing Concurrency, Session Types, Specification}
}
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