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Modelling session types using contracts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2014

GIOVANNI BERNARDI  and
MATTHEW HENNESSY
GIOVANNI BERNARDI
Affiliation:
School of Statistics and Computer Science, The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland Email: bernargi@tcd.ie, matthew.hennessy@tcd.ie
MATTHEW HENNESSY
Affiliation:
School of Statistics and Computer Science, The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland Email: bernargi@tcd.ie, matthew.hennessy@tcd.ie
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Abstract

Session types and contracts are two formalisms used to study client–server protocols. In this paper, we study the relationship between them. The main result is the existence of a fully abstract model of session types; this model is based on a natural interpretation of these types into a subset of contracts.

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