Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Dependable parallel, distributed and network-centric computing systems

• High availability in parallel, distributed and network-centric systems

• Safety and security in distributed and network-centric computing systems

• Autonomic network computing

• Resilience/fault tolerance at software level

• Dependability by virtualization

• Dependable high-speed wide, local, and system area networks

• Dependable mobile computing

• Dependable clusters

• Dependable internet servers

• Dependable cloud computing

• Dependability issues of multi- and many core systems

• Dependability in distributed embedded systems

• Dependable protocols for distributed and network-centric systems

• Protocol verification and validation

• Dependability of Software Defined Networks (SDN)

• Practical experiences and prototypes

• Dependability evaluation of parallel, distributed and network-centric systems