• Engineering dependable systems: hardware, networking, software, deployment, and maintenance;
• Dependability of hardware: fault tolerant architectures, multi-core systems, virtualization, nanoscale computers, hardware dependability assessment;
• Dependability of software: frameworks and software architectures for dependability, runtime monitoring, adaptation, model driven dependability engineering, testing, verification, software certification;
• Dependability of networks: LAN, WAN, mobile, ad-hoc, sensor networks, protocols;
• Dependability of data: storage, databases;
• Dependability of maintenance: tuning performance and availability, security configuration;
• Dependability and human issues: human-computer interaction, management of complex systems;
• Security: foundations, policies, protocols, access control, intrusion detection, intrusion tolerance;
• Safety: incidents & accidents, risk perception and analysis, safety-critical applications and systems;
• Critical infrastructure protection;
• Algorithms and methods for dependable and secure computing;
• Dependability and security modeling, measurement and benchmarking.