Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

I. Design for Dependability and Security

    Architectures
        Fault-tolerant, secure, and safe middleware
        Intrusion detection and tolerance
        Firewall technologies; authentication and authorization of users, systems, and applications
        Network technologies, including protocols, routers, and switches
        On-line detection and recovery
    System Management and Administration
    Cryptography
        Application of cryptography techniques
        Key management
        Cryptographic protocols and algorithms, and their security
    Use of COTS components

II. Evaluation

    Modeling and Prediction
        Threat-assessment and intrusion-detection models
        Availability, performability, and survivability
        Intrusion tolerance; attack models
        Modeling methods, including Markov chains, queuing/fluid flow, Stochastic Petri Nets (SPN), SAN models
    Experimental Methods
        Monitoring and measurement
        Workload characterization
        Benchmarking
        Test-bed design, including fault, error, attack, and workload generation
        Field monitoring and measurement, including failures, security violations and break-ins, and intrusion detection
        Statistical methods
    Formal Specification and Verification
    Quality of Service (encompassing performability, security, and safety)

III. Application-Specific Areas

    Survivable Database Design and Transaction Processing
    Electronic Commerce
    Embedded Systems
    File and File System Security
    Distributed and Pervasive Systems
    Smartcards and Biometrics
    Real-Time Systems
    Safety-Critical Systems (e.g., aerospace computing)
    Internet Applications
    Multimedia Applications and Signal-Processing

IV. Software Design

    Operating System Support (for error/intrusion detection and/or tolerance)
    Self-Checking Software Systems
    Dependable, Secure Protocols and Network Interfaces
    Software Testing, Validation, and Verification
    Software Aging and Rejuvenation
    Software Security and Reliability Engineering

V. New Technologies (problems and opportunities)

    Nanoscale Computing
    Ad Hoc Networks
    Pervasive and Embedded Computing
    Networks of Satellites
    Data Mining
    Wearable Computers and Associated Networks
    Quantum Computing
    Cyber-Physical Systems (e.g., mobile health, Smart Grid, and ITS)