CaSPiS: A Calculus of Sessions, Pipelines and Services

Service-oriented computing is calling for novel computational models and languages with well disciplined primitives for client-server interaction, structured orchestration and unexpected events handling. We present CaSPiS, a process calculus where the conceptual abstractions of sessioning and pipelining play a central role for modelling service-oriented systems. CaSPiS sessions are two-sided, uniquely named and can be nested. CaSPiS pipelines permit orchestrating the flow of data produced by different sessions. The calculus is also equipped with operators for handling (unexpected) termination of the partner’s side of a session. Several examples are presented to provide evidence of the flexibility of the chosen set of primitives. One key contribution is a fully abstract encoding of Misra et al.’s orchestration language Orc. Another main result shows that in CaSPiS it is possible to program a “graceful termination” of nested sessions, which guarantees that no session is forced to hang forever after the loss of its partner

A type language for message passing component-based systems

Component-based development is challenging in a distributed setting, for starters considering programming a task may involve the assembly of loosely-coupled remote components. In order for the task to be fulfilled, the supporting interaction among components should follow a well-defined protocol. In this paper we address a model for message passing component-based systems where components are assembled together with the protocol itself. Components can therefore be independent from the protocol, and reactive to messages in a flexible way. Our contribution is at the level of the type language that allows to capture component behaviour so as to check its compatibility with a protocol. We show the correspondence of component and type behaviours, which entails a progress property for components.Comment: In Proceedings ICE 2020, arXiv:2009.0762

Coordination via Types in an Event-based Framework ⋆

Abstract. We propose a novel approach to service choreography through a typed process calculus that features an event notification paradigm for coordinating distributed components (e.g., services). Basically, the type system expresses coordination policies for handling the events spawn in a network so that distributed components react to events when the type of their public interface is ”compatible” with (the policies expressed by) the types of signals. Remarkably, the type system can naturally handle multi-party sessions, as shown in the formalisation of the OpenID protocol which requires multi-party sessions for handling user identities