FARES establishes an in-depth academic platform to exchange novel theories, designs, applications and on-going research results among researchers and practitioners in different Computing Dependability aspects which emphasize the Practical Issues in Availability, Reliability and Security.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to

Reliability Models and Failure Prevention
Intrusion Detection and Fraud Detection
Dependability Requirement Engineering
Dependability Modelling and Prediction
Standards, Guidelines and Certification
Database and Datawarehouse Security
Secure Enterprise Information System
Network/Software/Database Security
Trust Models and Trust Management
Risk Planning, Analysis & Awareness
Survivability of Computing Systems
Authentication and Access Control
Security aspects in E-Government

Applied Tools and Applications
Legal and economic aspects
Security Models / Methods
Security and privacy issues
Data Analysis and Security
Availability and Reliability
Social Network Security
Usability and Security
Identity Management
Digital Forensics
Web Security
Grid Security
Blockchain

All accepted and presented papers compete for the best paper awards, which will be announced at the workshop closing ceremony. The authors of the awarded papers will receive a certificate.

A selection of accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of this research to the Special Issue entitled Topical Collection “Innovation in Information Security”, which will be published in Applied Sciences, an open access journal with IF = 2.838 (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/indexing) indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), Inspec, CAPlus / SciFinder, and other databases.

For invited papers, the Article Processing Charge (2300 CHF) will be fully waived.