Architecting Dependable Systems II

As software systems become ubiquitous, the issues of dependability become more and more critical. Given that solutions to these issues must be taken into account from the very beginning of the design process, it is appropriate that dependability is addressed at the architectural level.

This book results from an effort to bring together the research communities of software architectures and dependability. Inspired by the ICSE 2003 Workshop on Software Architectures for Dependable Systems, the book focuses on topics relevant to improving the state of the art in architecting dependable systems. The 15 thoroughly reviewed papers originate partly from the workshop; others were solicited in order to achieve complete coverage of all relevant aspects. The papers are organized into topical sections on architectures for dependability, fault-tolerance in software architectures, dependability analysis in software architectures, and industrial experience.

• Middleware
• component-based systems
• dependable computing
• dependable systems
• distributed systems
• fault tolerance
• mda
• model driven architecture
• modeling
• software architecture
• systems architecture
• systems development
• web service architecture

• Computing Laboratory, University of Kent,  

  Rogério Lemos

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

  Cristina Gacek

• Computer Science School, Newcastle University, UK

  Alexander Romanovsky

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