π-calculus, Session Types research at Imperial College
We propose a formal semantics for distributed transactions inspired by the attribute mechanisms of the Java Transaction API. Technically, we model services in a process calculus featuring transactional scope mechanisms borrowed from the so called container-managed transactions of Java. We equip our calculus with a type system for our calculus and show that, in well-typed systems, it guarantees absence of run-time errors due to misuse of transactional mechanisms.
@inproceedings{BT2010, author = {Laura Bocchi and Emilio Tuosto}, title = {{A Java Inspired Semantics for Transactions in SOC}}, booktitle = { 5th International Symposium on Trustworthly Global Computing}, series = {LNCS}, volume = {6084}, pages = {120--134}, publisher = {Springer}, year = 2010 }
@inproceedings{BT2010, author = {Laura Bocchi and Emilio Tuosto}, title = {{A Java Inspired Semantics for Transactions in SOC}}, booktitle = { 5th International Symposium on Trustworthly Global Computing}, series = {LNCS}, volume = {6084}, pages = {120--134}, publisher = {Springer}, doi = "10.1007/978-3-642-15640-3_9", year = 2010 }