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SPLASH 2017
Sun 22 - Fri 27 October 2017 Vancouver, Canada

Causal message delivery, i.e. the requirement that messages are delivered in an order respecting their causal (logical) dependencies, is often mandated in the distributed setting. So far, causal message delivery was implemented by augmenting messages with metadata information that allows the receiver (or the platform) to re-order, and if necessary hold back, messages upon receipt before processing.

We propose that causal message delivery can be achieved by construction, simply by organizing the nodes of the distributed application into a tree topology, and without the need for any metadata in the messages.

We present our ideas informally through an example application and then develop and present a formal model to prove that causal message delivery is preserved in tree-based networks.

Mon 23 Oct

Displayed time zone: Tijuana, Baja California change

10:30 - 12:00
Session 1: Verification and Language ModelsAGERE at Prince of Wales
Chair(s): Joeri De Koster Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
10:30
30m
Talk
Sparrow - A DSL for Coordinating Large Groups of Heterogeneous Actors
AGERE
Humberto Rodriguez Avila Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Joeri De Koster Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, Wolfgang De Meuter Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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11:00
30m
Talk
Tree Topologies for Causal Message Delivery
AGERE
Sebastian Blessing Imperial College London, Sylvan Clebsch Imperial College London, Sophia Drossopoulou
11:30
30m
Talk
Order Types: Static Reasoning about Message Races in Asynchronous Message Passing Concurrency
AGERE
Mehdi Bagherzadeh Oakland University, Hridesh Rajan Iowa State University
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