PRDC 2010 is the sixteenth in this series of symposia started in 1989 that are devoted to dependable and fault tolerant computing. PRDC is now recognized as the main regular event of the Pacific area that is covering the many dimensions of dependability and fault tolerance, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the dependability of computing system has become increasingly critical. This symposium provides a forum for countries around the Pacific Rim and other areas of the world to exchange ideas for improving the dependability of computing systems.
Topics of interest include (but not limited to):
Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification and validation
Dependability measurement, modeling and evaluation
Security quantification
Self-healing, self-protecting and fault-tolerant systems
Software aging and rejuvenation
Safety-critical systems and software
Architecture and system design for dependability
Fault tolerant algorithms and protocols
Tools for design and evaluation of dependable systems
Reliability in Internet and Web systems and applications
Information security in Internet
Dependability issues in computer networks and communications
Dependability issues in distributed and parallel systems
Dependability issues in real-time systems, database and transaction processing systems
Dependability issues in autonomic computing
Dependability issues in embedded systems