An Implicitly-Typed Deadlock-Free Process Calculus

  • Authors:
  • Naoki Kobayashi;Shin Saito;Eijiro Sumii

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CONCUR '00 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Concurrency Theory
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We extend Kobayashi and Sumii's type system for the deadlock-free π-calculus and develop a type reconstruction algorithm. Kobayashi and Sumii's type system helps high-level reasoning about concurrent programs by guaranteeing that communication on certain channels will eventually succeed. It can ensure, for example, that a process implementing a function really behaves like a function. However, because it lacked a type reconstruction algorithm and required rather complicated type annotations, applying it to real concurrent languages was impractical. We have therefore developed a type reconstruction algorithm for an extension of the type system. The key novelties that made it possible are generalization of usages (which specifies how each communication channel is used) and a subusage relation.