DSA 2017 is a combination of the Fourth International Conference on Trustworthy Systems and Their Applications (TSA) and the Third International Symposium on Dependable Computing and Internet of Things (DCIT). In the past, both TSA and DCIT were technically sponsored by the IEEE Reliability Society. Following the same tradition, DSA 2017 also has the same technical sponsorship from IEEE. It is organized by the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. In addition, the conference receives support from Dalian University of Technology and Wuhan University of Technology.

DSA 2017 focuses on innovative methodologies, techniques, tools, management, and applications to produce dependable and trustworthy systems and their applications in a more cost-effective way. It provides a discussion forum to bring together academic researchers, industry practitioners, and government policy and decision makers to exchange ideas and results, share experiences, and explore possible solutions to overcome current challenges.

The conference proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Papers presented at the conference will also be submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore and to all of the A&I (abstracting and indexing) partners (such as the Ei Compendex).