Rebecca Montanari graduated (summa cum laude) in Electronic
Engineering at the University of Bologna in 1996. In 1997-1998 she
had been working for a company, CryptoNet S.r.l., focusing on
security technologies enabling electronic commerce applications.
She received a Ph.D. (2001) degree in Computer Science Engineering
at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems
(DEIS) of the University of Bologna discussing the doctoral
dissertation “Security Models for Mobile Agents”. She is Associate
Professor since 2005 at DEIS, University of Bologna. The research
interests of Rebecca Montanari focus mainly on policy-based
networking and systems/service management, mobile agent systems,
security management mechanisms, and tools in both traditional and
mobile systems. In particular, she has a strong know-how and
experience on middleware for self-managing and self-adapting
distributed services, based on semantically enhanced metadata.
Rebecca Montanari co-authored more than 50 papers
published in international journal/magazine articles and in other
venues (books, book chapters, conferences, and workshops). From the
scientific point of view, Rebecca Montanari has participated to the
technical program committee of numerous international conferences,
including for instance: IEEE International Workshop on Policies for
Distributed Systems and Networks (Policy), IEEE-ACM International
Conference on Mobile Data (MDM), IEEE Symposium on Multi-Agent
Security and Survivability (MAS&S), IEEE International
Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), The Semantic Web
and Policy Workshop (SWPW06). The above international research
activities in terms of publication and of participation in
reviewing/organizational work demonstrate the international
visibility of Rebecca Montanari, especially in the innovative
research area of middleware for mobile services. In addition,
Rebecca Montanari has established several collaborations with
state-of-the-art research centers to carry out research activities
of her interest, such as Nokia Research Center Cambridge (Ora
Lassila's research group), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(Lalana Kagal), Imperial College London (Morris Sloman's research
group), Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Pensacola-USA
(Jeffrey M. Bradshaw), as proved also by several joint
publications.
