Rasmus Adler - Dependable Computing - EDCC 2021 Workshops: DREAMS, DSOGRI, SERENE 2021, Munich, Germany, September 13, 2021, Proceedings

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The European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) is an international annual forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation, and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems. Traditionally, one-day workshops precede the main conference: the workshops complement the main conference by addressing dependability or security issues in specific application domains or by focussing on specialized topics, such as system resilience.

The 17th edition of EDCC (EDCC 2021) was initially planned to be held in Munich, Germany, during September 1316, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, for the second year in a row, it was changed to a virtual conference. The workshops day was held on Monday, September 13, 2021. Four workshop proposals were submitted to EDCC 2021, and, after a thoughtful revision process led by the workshop chair, all of them were accepted. The evaluation criteria for the selection process included the relevance to EDCC, the timeliness and expected interest in the proposed topics, the organizers ability to lead a successful workshop, and their balance and synergy.

The fourth workshop, Critical Automotive Applications: Robustness and Safety (CARS), will not be published as part of the Springer proceedings: the workshops organizers decided to continue the publication strategy they have followed since the first CARS workshop in 2010.

Each workshop had an independent Program Committee, which was in charge of reviewing and selecting the papers submitted to the workshop. All the workshops adopted a single-blind review process and the workshop papers received three reviews per paper on average.

Many people contributed to the success of the EDCC 2021 workshops day. I would like to express my gratitude to all those supported this event. I thank all the workshops organizers for their dedication and commitment, the authors who contributed to this volume, the reviewers for their help in the paper assessment, and the workshops participants.

I would also like to thank all the members of the EDCC Steering and Organizing Committees, in particular Michael Paulitsch and Mario Trapp (the general chairs), who made this virtual edition possible and free of charge for all the participants with the support of Intel Deutschland GmbH and Fraunhofer IKS, and Andr Martin (the publication chair) for his help in the preparation of these proceedings.

Finally, many thanks to the staff of Springer who provided professional support through all the phases that led to this volume.