Foundations of Session Types and Behavioural Contracts
01 Apr 2016
Behavioural type systems, usually associated to concurrent or distributed computations, encompass concepts such as interfaces, communication protocols, and contracts, in addition to the traditional input/output operations. The behavioural type of a software component specifies its expected patterns of interaction using expressive type languages, so types can be used to determine automatically whether the component interacts correctly with other components. Two related important notions of behavioural types are those of session types and behavioural contracts. This article surveys the main accomplishments of the last 20 years within these two approaches.
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Pierre-Malo Deniélou,
António Ravara, Dimitris Mostrous,
Emilio Tuosto,
Gianluigi Zavattaro,
Hans Huttel,
Hugo Torres Vieira,
Ivan Lanese,
Luca Padovani,
Luis Caires, Marco Carbone,
Vasco Vasconcelos
