The TSA 2016 conference focuses on innovative methodologies, techniques, tools, management, and applications to produce dependable and trustworthy systems and their applications in a more cost-effective way. It provides a discussion forum to bring together academic researchers, industry practitioners, and government policy and decision makers to exchange ideas and results, share experiences, and explore possible solutions to overcome current challenges.

We welcome submissions on the following topics, although others will be accepted as well:

    Algorithms, Architecture, Framework, Design Patterns and Techniques for Dependable Systems and Software
    Security, Threats, Privacy, Safety, and Risk Management
    Dependability and Reliability
    Fault Tolerance and Availability
    Metrics and Measurement
    Requirements, Process, Standards, and Project Management
    Quality Assurance, Maintenance and Reverse Engineering
    Verification, Validation, Testing, and Analysis
    Formal Methods and Theories
    Communication, Networking, Optimization, and Performance
    Database and Storage
    Empirical Studies, Benchmarking, and Industrial Best Practices
    Applications and Tools
    Pervasive, Ubiquitous, Service-Oriented, and Clouding Computing
    Collaborative, Distributed, Embedded, Real-Time, High Performance, Highly Dependable, Intelligent, Multimedia Systems