Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Autonomic, pervasive and ubiquitous computing Cloud computing and virtualization: X-as-a-Service Dependability of distributed databases and transaction processing Dependability of distributed multimedia systems Dependable communication networks, QoS control and assessment Dependable cooperative mobile systems: ad hoc networks, sensor networks, robot networks Distributed algorithms Distributed objects and middleware systems Experimental or analytical evaluations of dependable distributed systems Fault-tolerance, reliability, availability in distributed systems Formal methods and foundations for dependable distributed computing High-assurance and safety-critical distributed system design and evaluation Internet-based systems and applications Parallel and distributed operating systems Privacy-assuring large scale data management systems Resilience of distributed infrastructures: intelligent transport, smart grids, vehicular networks Secure and trusted distributed systems