Architecting Dependable Systems IV
As software systems become ubiquitous, the issues of dependability become more and more crucial. Given that solutions to these issues must be considered from the very beginning of the design process, it is reasonable that dependability is addressed at the
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen University of Dortmund, Germany Madhu Sudan Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Rogério de Lemos Cristina Gacek Alexander Romanovsky (Eds.)
Architecting Dependable Systems IV
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Volume Editors Rogério de Lemos University of Kent, Computing Laboratory Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK E-mail: [email protected] Cristina Gacek Alexander Romanovsky Newcastle University, School of Computing Science Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK E-mail: {cristina.gacek, alexander.romanovsky}@ncl.ac.uk
Library of Congress Control Number: 2007931900 CR Subject Classification (1998): D.2, D.4 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 2 – Programming and Software Engineering ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13
0302-9743 3-540-74033-3 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-74033-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Foreword
On a recent visit to Sweden I had the pleasure of traveling by train between Stockholm and Malmö over several segments that spanned a few days. The trains always ran on time and were very comfortable. Particularly convenient was the fact that a passenger could get on the Internet during the trip simply by using her ticket number as the access code. One of the features on the on-line provider’s home page was a map of that area of Sweden, with the train’s current location updated in real-time. Impressed by this, I made a point of mentioning it to my Swedish host, and the conversation quickly turned to how much today’s systems, such as my tr
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