Dependable Computing and Security for Software Systems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As we all know, ensuring that software systems behave correctly and reliably is a fundamental challenge, especially when facing complexity requirements and cloud computing. Nevertheless, the demand for dependable and secure systems motivates the development of novel techniques or feasible adaptations of existing techniques by addressing more issues, such as component interactions, real-time scheduling, self-adaptation, and fault tolerance.
This Special Issue aims to highlight advanced discoveries and emerging trends regarding the dependability and security of software systems in both academic society and industry. These findings will explore how we can apply emerging dependability and security theories and techniques to model and evaluate software systems alongside insights into how to improve software dependability and security. This issue will feature regular research papers, reviews, communications, and especially studies and viewpoints that bear strong practical relevance.
Dr. Junjun Zheng
Dr. Xiaoyi Zhang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Dependability: modeling, evaluation, and techniques
- Internet of things (IoT) architectures, protocols, security, and privacy
- Safety-critical systems
- Self-healing, self-protecting, and self-adaptive systems
- Quality assurance in software systems
- Software fault localization
- Repairing and re-engineering for software systems
- Security threats and countermeasures for software
- Malware analysis
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Published Papers
Software - ISSN 2674-113X