From Lock Freedom to Progress Using Session Types

Inspired by Kobayashi's type system for lock freedom, we define a behavioral type system for ensuring progress in a language of binary sessions. The key idea is to annotate actions in session types with priorities representing the urgency with which such actions must be performed and to verify...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Luca Padovani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Publishing Association 2013-12-01
Series:Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.2698v1