{"title":"Assuming Just Enough Fairness to make Session Types Complete for Lock-freedom","authors":"R. V. Glabbeek, P. Höfner, Ross Horne","doi":"10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470531","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We investigate how different fairness assumptions affect results concerning lock-freedom, a typical liveness property targeted by session type systems. We fix a minimal session calculus and systematically take into account all known fairness assumptions, thereby identifying precisely three interesting and semantically distinct notions of lock-freedom, all of which having a sound session type system. We then show that, by using a general merge operator in an otherwise standard approach to global session types, we obtain a session type system complete for the strongest amongst those notions of lock-freedom, which assumes only justness of execution paths, a minimal fairness assumption for concurrent systems.","PeriodicalId":174663,"journal":{"name":"2021 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"15","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2021 36th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LICS52264.2021.9470531","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We investigate how different fairness assumptions affect results concerning lock-freedom, a typical liveness property targeted by session type systems. We fix a minimal session calculus and systematically take into account all known fairness assumptions, thereby identifying precisely three interesting and semantically distinct notions of lock-freedom, all of which having a sound session type system. We then show that, by using a general merge operator in an otherwise standard approach to global session types, we obtain a session type system complete for the strongest amongst those notions of lock-freedom, which assumes only justness of execution paths, a minimal fairness assumption for concurrent systems.