TY - JOUR
T1 - A Session Subtyping Tool
AU - Lange, Julien
AU - Bravetti, Mario
AU - Bacchiani, Lorenzo
AU - Zavattaro, Gianluigi
PY - 2021/4/21
Y1 - 2021/4/21
N2 - Session types are becoming popular and have been integrated in several mainstream programming languages. Nevertheless, while many programming languages consider asynchronous fifo channel communication, the notion of subtyping used in session type implementations is the one defined by Gay and Hole for synchronous communication. This might be because there are several notions of asynchronous session subtyping, these notions are usually undecidable, and only recently sound (but not complete) algorithmic characterizations for these subtypings have been proposed. But the fact that the definition of asynchronous session sub- typing and the theory behind related algorithms are not easily accessible to non-experts may also prevent further integration. The aim of this pa- per, and of the tool presented therein, is to make the growing body of knowledge about asynchronous session subtyping more accessible, thus promoting its integration in practical applications of session types.
AB - Session types are becoming popular and have been integrated in several mainstream programming languages. Nevertheless, while many programming languages consider asynchronous fifo channel communication, the notion of subtyping used in session type implementations is the one defined by Gay and Hole for synchronous communication. This might be because there are several notions of asynchronous session subtyping, these notions are usually undecidable, and only recently sound (but not complete) algorithmic characterizations for these subtypings have been proposed. But the fact that the definition of asynchronous session sub- typing and the theory behind related algorithms are not easily accessible to non-experts may also prevent further integration. The aim of this pa- per, and of the tool presented therein, is to make the growing body of knowledge about asynchronous session subtyping more accessible, thus promoting its integration in practical applications of session types.
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12455
M3 - Conference article
SN - 0302-9743
JO - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
JF - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ER -