The conference targets a broad range of topics, which includes, but is not limited to:

• Hardware and software architecture of dependable systems.

• Safety critical systems.

• Embedded and real-time systems.

• Cyber-physical systems.

• Cloud computing dependability and security.

• Dependable mobile and multimedia systems.

• Fault-tolerant networks and protocols.

• Autonomic and adaptive systems.

• Dependable virtualization.

• VLSI dependability.

• Dependability modeling and tools.

• Testing and validation methods.

• Dependability benchmarking.

• Security of systems and networks.

• Intrusion-tolerant systems.

• Critical infrastructure protection.

• Big data and fault tolerance in databases and transactional systems.

• Dependability in socio-technical systems.