The major areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Security and privacy issues in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks
Dependability in autonomic,pervasive and ubiquitous computing
Security and high-confidence systems
Support for trustworthy computing in operating systems and databases
Scalable systems design and Issues of trust in social networks
Resilient ad hoc and sensor networks
Internet dependability and Quality of Service
Safety-critical systems and critical infrastructures
Dependability of high-speed networks and protocols
Fault-tolerance in embedded systems, mobile systems and multimedia systems
Dependable wireless networks and peer-to-peer networks
Intrusion-tolerant, survivable and self-stabilizing systems
Dependability in Grid-, Cluster- and Cloud Computing
Measurement, monitoring and prediction
Analytical or experimental evaluations of dependable distributed systems
Formal methods and foundations for dependable distributed computing
Performance and dependability assessing techniques, Tools and Results