WADS 2004 - Twin Workshops on Architecting Dependable Systems

	Twin Workshops on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS 2004) International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2004) International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2004) http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/wads

WADS 2004 (Home) Call for Papers Call for Papers (.pdf) (.txt) ICSE WADS 2002 ICSE WADS 2003	WORKSHOPS PROGRAMS ICSE 2004 Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems DSN 2004 Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems	The post-proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of their Lecture Notes in Computer Science

WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Rogério de Lemos University of Kent at Canterbury UK r.delemos@kent.ac.uk Cristina Gacek University of Newcastle upon Tyne UK cristina.gacek@ncl.ac.uk Alexander Romanovsky University of Newcastle upon Tyne UK alexander.romanovsky@ncl.ac.uk PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andrea Bondavalli, Italy Jan Bosch, The Netherlands Geoffrey Coulson, UK Ivica Crnkovic, Sweden Geert Deconinck, Belgium Marie-Claude Gaudel, France Paola Inverardi, Italy Valérie Issarny, France Kane Kim, USA Nicole Levy, France Roy Maxion, USA Nenad Medvidovic, USA Dewayne Perry, USA Brian Randell, UK Debra Richardson, USA Graham Roberts, UK Cecília Rubira, Brazil Lisa Spainhower, USA Kishor S. Trivedi, USA Frank van der Linden, The Netherlands Aad PA van Moorsel, USA Paulo Veríssimo, Portugal Michel Wermelinger, Portugal Alexander Wolf, USA	MOTIVATION AND OUTCOME The twin workshops on architecting dependable systems is an ambitious project, which aims to promote cross-fertilization between the communities of software architectures and dependability. Both communities will benefit from the clarification of approaches that have been previously tried and succeeded, as well as those that have been tried but have not yet shown to be successful. This not only helps avoid the reinvention of the wheel, but also clarifies and promotes areas where the most promising research may lie. The aim of the workshops is to bring together the communities of software architectures and dependability to discuss the state of research and practice when dealing with dependability issues at the architecture level. The twin workshops are open to all researchers, system developers and users who are involved with or have an interest in dependability at the architecture level. THEME Architectural representations of systems have shown to be effective in assisting the understanding of broader system concerns by abstracting away from details of the system. The dependability of systems is defined as the reliance that can justifiably be placed on the service the system delivers. Dependability has become an important aspect of computer systems since everyday life increasingly depends on software. Although there is a large body of research in dependability, architectural level reasoning about dependability is only just emerging as an important theme in software engineering. This is due to the fact that dependability concerns are usually left until too late in the process of development. In addition, the complexity of emerging applications and the trend of building trustworthy systems from existing, untrustworthy components are urging dependability concerns be considered at the architectural level. Hence the questions that the software architecture and dependability communities are currently facing: what are the architectural principles involved in building dependable systems? How should these architectures be evaluated? WORKSHOPS PROGRAMS ICSE 2004 Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems DSN 2004 Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems FURTHER INFORMATION WADS 2004-related email should be addressed to: wads-2004@kent.ac.uk WADS 2004 home page: http:://www.cs.kent.ac/wads ICSE 2004 website: http://conferences.iee.org/icse2004 DSN 2004 website: http://www.dsn.org/

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