Tania Basso's secondment at UNIFI

The secondment of Tania Basso at the University of Florence is underway. She arrived at the beginning of the month and will stay for 2 months.

Tania is coming from the State University of Campinas, where she is a PhD student under the supervision of Profs. Mário Jino & Regina Moraes (UNICAMP) and Marco Vieira (UC). Her topic is “A Reference Architecture for Data Privacy in Web Applications” and she is one of the students Co-Advised by researchers of two of the partners of the DEVASSES project.

Today (June 10) she had a talk in which she introduced her topic and presented some of her work to UNIFI researchers. Basically, she presented a reference architecture for the development of web applications and services that are able to protect data privacy in a more complete and standard way from different sources of privacy violation.

During the secondment Tania will collaborate with UNIFI researchers, namely with Leonardo Montecchi. The collaboration will focus on extending UML with constructs capable to describe elements and concepts of such reference architecture, thus facilitating the development of systems enforcing the protection of personal information. Currently she is investigating existing UML profiles that can potentially be extended to include privacy concerns, and trying to define specific scenarios for privacy protection. Additionally she is also getting familiarized with standards adopted in model-driven engineering, as the Meta-Object Facility (MOF).