Increasingly, individuals and organizations are developing or procuring sophisticated computing systems on whose services they need to place great reliance. In differing circumstances, the focus will be on differing properties of such services -- e.g., continuity, performance, real-time response, ability to avoid catastrophic failures, prevention of deliberate privacy intrusions.
The notion of dependability, defined as the trustworthiness of a computing system which allows reliance to be justifiably placed on the service it delivers, enables these various concerns to be subsumed within a single conceptual framework. Dependability thus includes as special cases such attributes as reliability, availability, safety, security.
The Working Group is aimed at identifying and integrating approaches, methods and techniques for specifying, designing, building, assessing, validating, operating and maintaining computer systems which should exhibit some or all of these attributes.
Specifically, the Working Group is concerned with progress in:
IFIP Working Group 10.4 was established by the IFIP General Assembly in October 1980, and operates under IFIP Technical Committee TC-10, "Computer Systems Technology".
Nominations for the 2021 Jean-Claude Laprie Award are now open.
Ateniese, Di Pietro, Mancini, and Tsudik win the 2020 Jean-Claude Laprie Award
Call for nominations for the 2020 Jean-Claude Laprie Award issued.
Huang, Kintala, Kolettis, and Fulton win the 2019 Jean-Claude Laprie Award
Call for nominations for the 2019 Jean-Claude Laprie Award issued.
Avizienes and Chen win the 2018 Jean-Claude Laprie Award
Huang and Abraham; Schlichting and Schneider win the 2017 Jean-Claude Laprie Award
Ramasamy and Zonouz Elected as New Members at Winter 2017 Meeting.
Nominations for the 2017 Jean-Claude Laprie Award open.
Carter and Schneider; Avizienis, Laprie, Randell and Landwehr win the 2016 Jean-Claude Laprie Award
Nita-Rotaru elected new member at Summer meeting..
Hopkins, Smith, and Lala receive 2015 Jean-Claude Laprie Award.
Amir and Pattabiraman elected new members at Winter meeting.
Nominations for the 2015 Jean-Claude Laprie Award open.
Pataricza and Neves elected new members at Summer meeting.
2014 Jean-Claude Laprie Award winners announced.