The 2016 IEEE Services Emerging Technology Track on Dependable and Secure Services (DSS 2016)
Nuno Laranjeiro, Naghmeh Ivaki, Marco Paulo Amorim Vieira · 2016
This emerging technology track focuses on key topics regarding dependability and security of software and services. Service-based systems are being used in business, safety, and mission-critical environments to achieve operational goals and possess special characteristics that bring in difficult challenges to the research and industry communities. Among these challenges, dependability and security have been widely identified as critical aspects that need to be addressed, especially when considering that many services are also nowadays being deployed on the web, used over unreliable networks, and potentially exposed to security threats. The goal of the Emerging Technology Track On Dependable and Secure Services is to bring together researchers and practitioners to present original research and industrial practice regarding techniques to improve the dependability and security of services. Services hold special characteristics, in particular their typically complex nature, high heterogeneity, and fast-changing dynamics. In such scenarios, infrastructure interdependencies, failure and recovery modeling and analysis, accidental threats and attack modeling and evaluation, testing approaches, testbeds, benchmarks, interoperability in presence of dependability and security guarantees, as well as techniques and tools to assess the impact of accidental and malicious threats, metrics for assessing dependability and security are among the crucial aspects to be addressed.