18th Workshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance (VERFE 2024)
organized as Special Track in conjunction with 37th ARCS 2024
Potsdam, Germany, May 14-16, 2024

Scope and Focus

Dependability is a property of technical systems – in particular of computer systems - that requires special attention during design and operation phases. One important means to achieve dependability is supporting fault-tolerance, i.e. making the system resilient to hardware and software faults by construction. Fault-tolerance techniques are in the focus of this workshop, either implemented in hardware or as software-based distributed algorithms. In addition, surrounding techniques will be considered, such as computation models or simulations to assess the impact of fault tolerance techniques to reliability and availability.

Topics (focused but not limited to)

• Dependable computer systems, networks and embedded systems
• Fault tolerance techniques in hardware and in software
• Fault tolerant processor architecture
• Testing of fault tolerance and performance under fault effects
• Fault injection techniques
• Modeling, Simulation and Evaluation of fault tolerant systems
• Fault tolerance in operating systems, storage and database systems
• Fault tolerance in communication architectures
• AI-based techniques for fault tolerance

Submission guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers via EasyChair by selecting the track “Workshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance”. Papers must be submitted in PDF format, formatted according to Springer LNCS style and must not exceed 15 pages, including references, appendices and figures. Accepted contributions will be part of the ARCS 2024 conference proceedings, published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Important Dates

Workshop / Track Chairs

Technical Program Committee