Sessions and session types: an overview

  • Authors:
  • Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini;Ugo De'Liguoro

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy

  • Venue:
  • WS-FM'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Web services and formal methods
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We illustrate the concepts of sessions and session types as they have been developed in the setting of the π-calculus. Motivated by the goal of obtaining a formalisation closer to existing standards and aiming at their enhancement and strengthening, several extensions of the original core system have been proposed, which we survey together with the embodying of sessions into functional and object-oriented languages, as well as some implementations.