Dependable Computer Systems

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

Foundations of Dependable Computing: System Implementation, explores the system infrastructure needed to support the various paradigms of Paradigms for Dependable Applications. Approaches to implementing support mechanisms and to incorporating additional appropriate levels of fault detection and fault tolerance at the processor, network, and operating system level are presented. A primary concern at these levels is balancing cost and performance against coverage and overall dependability. As these chapters demonstrate, low overhead, practical solutions are attainable and not necessarily incompatible with performance considerations. The section on innovative compiler support, in particular, demonstrates how the benefits of application specificity may be obtained while reducing hardware cost and run-time overhead.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the Third International Workshop on Engineering Dependable and Secure Machine Learning Systems, EDSMLS 2020, held in New York City, NY, USA, in February 2020.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Workshops of the 18th European Dependable Computing Conference, EDCC: ​13th Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems, SERENE 2022; Third Worskhop on Dynamic Risk Management for Autonomous Systems, DREAMS 2022, Third Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Railways, AI4RAILS, held in Zaragoza, Spain, in September 2022.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the workshops held at the 10th International Conference on New Trends in Model and Data Engineering, MEDI 2021, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in June 2021: Workshop on moDeling, vErification and Testing of dEpendable CriTical systems, DETECT 2021; Symposium on Intelligent and Autonomous Systems, SIAS 2021; Worjshop on Control Software: Methods, Models, and Languages, CSMML 2021; Blockchain for Inter-Organizational Collaboration, BIOC 2021; The International Health Data Workshop, HEDA 2021.

This book brings together for the first time two important features of a computer system that must be embedded in an organisational context.