7th European Dependable Computing Conference, Kaunas, Litauen

The seventh European Dependable Computing Conference aims at providing a European&#8211;hosted venue for researchers and practioners from all over the world to present and discuss their latest research achievements&#046; Original papers are solicited on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable computing systems&#046; All kinds of faults are of interest, from traditional hardware and software faults to accidental and malicious human interactions&#046; <b>Keywords:</b> • Architectures for dependable systems&#046; • Architecture and protocols for security&#046; • Critical infrastructure protection&#046; • Dependability for mobile systems&#046; • Dependability in high&#8211;bandwidth and system area networks&#046; • Dependability measurement, modeling, and evaluation&#046; • Dependability in SOA and middleware&#046; • Dependability in wireless sensor and ad hoc networks&#046; • Dependability in high performance and grid systems&#046; • Dependability in business and ecommerce applications&#046; • Dependability in data streaming&#046; • Security&#046; • Fault tolerant distributed systems&#046; • Fault tolerance in databases and transactional systems&#046; • Fault tolerance in real&#8211;time systems&#046; • Fault tolerance in multimedia systems&#046; • Hardware and software testing, verification, and validation&#046; • Human factors&#046; • Formal methods for dependability&#046; • Information assurance, survivability, and intrusion tolerance&#046; • Internet dependability and quality of service&#046; • Safety&#8211;critical systems&#046; • Software reliability engineering&#046; • Dependability benchmarking&#046; • Software engineering for dependability&#046;