Symbolic synthesis of knowledge-based program implementations. Systems with concurrent streams of activity are ubiquitous in computer hardware and software designs, but are conceptually complex, and fraught with faults and inefficiency. The project aims to address these difficulties by automating aspects of system design, to relieve the designer of the need to reason about complex patterns of information flow.
Process algebra approach to distributed quantum computation and secure quantum communication. This project will develop effective methods for reasoning about the behaviours of distributed quantum computing and communicating systems. The developed methods will provide effective techniques for verifying security of quantum cryptographic protocols.