Multiparty session types and Multiparty Session Automata

Title: Multiparty session types and Multiparty Session Automata
Speaker: Dr. Pierre-Malo Deniélou (Imperial College London, UK)
Time: 3:00pm, January 11st, 2012.
Venue: Lecture Room, Level 3, Building No. 5, State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Science.

Abstract: In this talk, I will introduce Multiparty Session Types, a type
discipline for the pi-calculus which extends binary session type theory
to multiparty communication. I will then present some recent results
about a connection between Multiparty Session Types and communicating
automata. This connection defines a new class of automata, that we call
Multiparty Session Automata (MSA). MSA enjoy several good properties,
such as freedom from deadlock and communication error, and buffer
boundedness, while still being polynomial.
Joint work with Nobuko Yoshida.
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~malo/