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Stateful Behavioral Types for Active Objects

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Integrated Formal Methods (IFM 2018)

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It is notoriously hard to correctly implement a multiparty protocol which involves asynchronous/concurrent interactions and constraints on states of multiple participants. To assist developers in implementing such protocols, we propose a novel specification language to specify interactions within multiple object-oriented actors and the side-effects on heap memory of those actors. A behavioral-type-based analysis is presented for type checking. Our specification language formalizes a protocol as a global type, which describes the procedure of asynchronous method calls, the usage of futures, and the heap side-effects with a first-order logic. To characterize runs of instances of types, we give a model-theoretic semantics for types and translate them into logical constraints over traces. We prove protocol adherence: If a program is well-typed w.r.t. a protocol, then every trace of the program adheres to the protocol, i.e., every trace is a model for the formula of the protocol’s type.

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This work is partially supported by FormbaR, part of the Innovation Alliance between TU Darmstadt and Deutsche Bahn AG.

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Kamburjan, E., Chen, TC. (2018). Stateful Behavioral Types for Active Objects. In: Furia, C., Winter, K. (eds) Integrated Formal Methods. IFM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11023. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98938-9_13

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