Architecting Dependable Systems VI

As software systems become increasingly ubiquitous, issues of dependability become ever more crucial. Given that solutions to these issues must be considered from the very beginning of the design process, it is reasonable that dependability and security are addressed at the architectural level. This book has originated from an effort to bring together the research communities of software architectures, dependability and security.

This state-of-the-art survey contains expanded and peer-reviewed papers based on the carefully selected contributions to two workshops: the Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2008), organized at the 2008 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2008), held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, in June 2008, and the Third International Workshop on Views On Designing Complex Architectures (VODCA 2008) held in Bertinoro, Italy, in August 2008. It also contains invited papers written by recognized experts in the area. The 13 papers are organized in topical sections on dependable service-oriented architectures, fault-tolerance and system evaluation, and architecting security.

• Peer
• System
• authentication
• cluster computing
• design
• distributed systems
• embedded systems
• fault tolerance
• real-time systems
• redundancy
• scalable systems
• software architecture
• structured analysis
• validation
• verification

• Computing Laboratory, Canterbury, University of Kent, Kent, UK

  Rogério Lemos

• LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

  Jean-Charles Fabre

• School of Computing Science, Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

  Cristina Gacek

• Dipartimento di Informatica, Largo Pontecorvo 3c, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

  Fabio Gadducci

• Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (ISTI-CNR), Pisa, Italy

  Maurice Beek

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