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