Abstract:
In this paper we study an asynchronous distributed pi-calculus, with constructs for localities and migration. We show that a simple static analysis ensures the receptiveness of channel names, which, together with a simple type system, guarantees a local deadlock-freedom property, that we call message deliverability. This property states that any migrating message will find an appropriate receiver at its destination locality. We argue that this distributed, receptive calculus is still expressive enough while allowing for an effective type inference à la ML.

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