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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.35
Generalising Projection in Asynchronous Multiparty Session Types

Authors: Rupak Majumdar, Madhavan Mukund, Felix Stutz, and Damien Zufferey

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 203, 32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2021)

Abstract
Multiparty session types (MSTs) provide an efficient methodology for specifying and verifying message passing software systems. In the theory of MSTs, a global type specifies the interaction among the roles at the global level. A local specification for each role is generated by projecting from the global type on to the message exchanges it participates in. Whenever a global type can be projected on to each role, the composition of the projections is deadlock free and has exactly the behaviours specified by the global type. The key to the usability of MSTs is the projection operation: a more expressive projection allows more systems to be type-checked but requires a more difficult soundness argument. In this paper, we generalise the standard projection operation in MSTs. This allows us to model and type-check many design patterns in distributed systems, such as load balancing, that are rejected by the standard projection. The key to the new projection is an analysis that tracks causality between messages. Our soundness proof uses novel graph-theoretic techniques from the theory of message-sequence charts. We demonstrate the efficacy of the new projection operation by showing many global types for common patterns that can be projected under our projection but not under the standard projection operation.
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Rupak Majumdar, Madhavan Mukund, Felix Stutz, and Damien Zufferey. Generalising Projection in Asynchronous Multiparty Session Types. In 32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 203, pp. 35:1-35:24, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{majumdar_et_al:LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.35,
  author =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Mukund, Madhavan and Stutz, Felix and Zufferey, Damien},
  title =	{{Generalising Projection in Asynchronous Multiparty Session Types}},
  booktitle =	{32nd International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2021)},
  pages =	{35:1--35:24},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-203-7},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{203},
  editor =	{Haddad, Serge and Varacca, Daniele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.35},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-144125},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2021.35},
  annote =	{Keywords: Multiparty session types, Verification, Communicating state machines}
}
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Brave New Idea Paper
DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.28
Motion Session Types for Robotic Interactions (Brave New Idea Paper)

Authors: Rupak Majumdar, Marcus Pirron, Nobuko Yoshida, and Damien Zufferey

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 134, 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019)

Abstract
Robotics applications involve programming concurrent components synchronising through messages while simultaneously executing motion primitives that control the state of the physical world. Today, these applications are typically programmed in low-level imperative programming languages which provide little support for abstraction or reasoning. We present a unifying programming model for concurrent message-passing systems that additionally control the evolution of physical state variables, together with a compositional reasoning framework based on multiparty session types. Our programming model combines message-passing concurrent processes with motion primitives. Processes represent autonomous components in a robotic assembly, such as a cart or a robotic arm, and they synchronise via discrete messages as well as via motion primitives. Continuous evolution of trajectories under the action of controllers is also modelled by motion primitives, which operate in global, physical time. We use multiparty session types as specifications to orchestrate discrete message-passing concurrency and continuous flow of trajectories. A global session type specifies the communication protocol among the components with joint motion primitives. A projection from a global type ensures that jointly executed actions at end-points are communication safe and deadlock-free, i.e., session-typed components do not get stuck. Together, these checks provide a compositional verification methodology for assemblies of robotic components with respect to concurrency invariants such as a progress property of communications as well as dynamic invariants such as absence of collision. We have implemented our core language and, through initial experiments, have shown how multiparty session types can be used to specify and compositionally verify robotic systems implemented on top of off-the-shelf and custom hardware using standard robotics application libraries.
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Rupak Majumdar, Marcus Pirron, Nobuko Yoshida, and Damien Zufferey. Motion Session Types for Robotic Interactions (Brave New Idea Paper). In 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 134, pp. 28:1-28:27, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{majumdar_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.28,
  author =	{Majumdar, Rupak and Pirron, Marcus and Yoshida, Nobuko and Zufferey, Damien},
  title =	{{Motion Session Types for Robotic Interactions}},
  booktitle =	{33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:27},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-111-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{134},
  editor =	{Donaldson, Alastair F.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-108205},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: Session Types, Robotics, Concurrent Programming, Motions, Communications, Multiparty Session Types, Deadlock Freedom}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.90
The Need for Language Support for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems

Authors: Cezara Dragoi, Thomas A. Henzinger, and Damien Zufferey

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 32, 1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)

Abstract
Fault-tolerant distributed algorithms play an important role in many critical/high-availability applications. These algorithms are notoriously difficult to implement correctly, due to asynchronous communication and the occurrence of faults, such as the network dropping messages or computers crashing. Nonetheless there is surprisingly little language and verification support to build distributed systems based on fault-tolerant algorithms. In this paper, we present some of the challenges that a designer has to overcome to implement a fault-tolerant distributed system. Then we review different models that have been proposed to reason about distributed algorithms and sketch how such a model can form the basis for a domain-specific programming language. Adopting a high-level programming model can simplify the programmer's life and make the code amenable to automated verification, while still compiling to efficiently executable code. We conclude by summarizing the current status of an ongoing language design and implementation project that is based on this idea.
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Cezara Dragoi, Thomas A. Henzinger, and Damien Zufferey. The Need for Language Support for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems. In 1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 32, pp. 90-102, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{dragoi_et_al:LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.90,
  author =	{Dragoi, Cezara and Henzinger, Thomas A. and Zufferey, Damien},
  title =	{{The Need for Language Support for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems}},
  booktitle =	{1st Summit on Advances in Programming Languages (SNAPL 2015)},
  pages =	{90--102},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-80-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{32},
  editor =	{Ball, Thomas and Bodík, Rastislav and Krishnamurthi, Shriram and Lerner, Benjamin S. and Morriset, Greg},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.90},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-50192},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SNAPL.2015.90},
  annote =	{Keywords: Programming language, Fault-tolerant distributed algorithms, Automated verification}
}
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