Nowadays, distributed systems are increasingly present, for public software applications as well as critical systems. software applications as well as critical

The purpose of this workshop was to provide a general forum for distributed systems researchers. Special em- phasis was placed on research activities in distrib

Distributed systems employed in critical infrastructures must fulfill dependability, timeliness, and performance specifications. Since these systems most often

Recent advances in science and technology have made modern computing and engineering systems more powerful and sophisticated than ever. The increasing complexit

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing, LADC 2005, held in Salvador, Brazil, in October 2