- Objective:
My research activity is in the field of formal methods in computer science and aims at the development of
methodologies for the design of computer, communication, and software systems on the basis of the following
principles:
- Formality: the utilization of rigorous mathematical foundations for defining modeling languages, so
as to avoid ambiguity and enable system description analysis and system property prediction.
- Expressiveness: the capability of easily representing computation and communication concepts as well
as functional and nonfunctional aspects.
- Usability: the provision of abstractions related to paradigms, patterns, and styles frequently
occurring in the system development practice, while hiding technical details.
- Efficiency: the automation of the system development process for synthesizing systems from their
formal descriptions by preserving the properties verified on the latter.
The ultimate goal of my research activity is to increase system quality in terms of dependability and
performance and, at the same time, reduce system development and maintenance costs deriving from the late
discovery of errors.
- Areas of interest:
- Semantics of concurrent programming languages.
- Process calculi, behavioral equivalences, and modal logics.
- Modeling and verification of concurrent and distributed systems.
- Performance evaluation of computer systems and networks.
- Foundations of software architecture and engineering.
- Automated support for model-based software development.
- Major achievements:
The process algebraic architectural description language
Æmilia and the companion verification tool
TwoTowers, together with several methodologies described in the book
"A Process Algebraic Approach to Software Architecture
Design".
- Publications and slides I have produced:
- Software tools I have implemented:
- Research projects I have led:
- PaCo -
Performability-Aware Computing: Logics, Models, and Languages [2008-2010]
(funded by the Italian Ministry for Education, University, and Research under programme PRIN).
- Scientific events I have organized or chaired:
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