Sistemi e Informatica of the University of Florence.
Research interests Formal methods for specifying and verifying concurrent and reactive systems.
Process calculi and behavioral equivalences, two mathematical tools being used to this purpose, permit describing systems at different levels of abstraction. This enables one to formalize correctness of implementations with respect to specifications. My work aims at investigating expressive power and tractable proof methods for diverse notions of process calculi and behavioral equivalences. Emphasis is on those aspects that are critical to distributed systems, such as asynchrony, mobility and cryptography in communications. See also the page of the Concurrency and Mobility group at the Department.