Case for Support Part 1: Previous Research Track Record 1.1 Rodolfo Gomez (principle Investigator) Track Record 1.2 Formal Methods at Kent

Rodolfo Gomez is currently a PhD student 1 in the Computing Laboratory at Kent. In 2000, he joined the realtime systems research group at Universidad Nacional del Sur (Argentina), where he worked until 2002 on temporal and active databases and temporal query languages. This research (in collaboration, among others, with Dr. Juan Augusto at University of Ulster and Dr. Antony Galton at University of Exeter) resulted in an evaluation of temporal query languages [Gom&Aug,00], the analysis of an event specification language for active databases [Gomez et al,01; Gom&Aug,04], and a method to verify PARADIGM (a SE notation) models using Propositional Linear Temporal Logic [Aug&Gom,02; Aug&Gom,03]. Rodolfo Gomez was awarded a prestigious Overseas Research Scholarship from Universities UK to study at the University of Kent. As a result, he joined the Theoretical Computer Science research group in 2002, under the supervision of Dr. Howard Bowman. His contributions in this period include an implementation of a decision procedure for Propositional ITL [Gom&Bow,04]; a timed automata notation for the specification and verification of infinite-state systems (Discrete Timed Automata) [Gom&Bow,03-DTA]; and a method to detect zeno-timelocks in timed automata [Bow, Gom et al,04]. He has published in a number of conferences (ICEIS, SEKE, FORTE and AMAST) and journals (International Journal of Software Engineering & Knowledge Engineering and Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics). He has also won the Prestigious Paper Award from the Computing Laboratory at Kent (for the paper [Gom&Bow,04]), and completed a major research monograph on concurrency theory [Bow&Gom,05]. All this makes Rodolfo Gomez a strong candidate for the Fellowship Call, and shows that he has the necessary skills to undertake the proposed research.