Each year a different specialist topic has been chosen for the theme of the Seminar, and a small group of highly expert speakers invited to provide a summary of the present state of the art in their area of interest and expertise within or related to the chosen overall topic.
Attendance is by invitation.
Dependability is a deliberately broad term to cover not only reliability but also system properties such as security, timeliness, security and privacy. Dependability research has been central to the computing science research at Newcastle for thirty years. Initially the main focus was on safety critical systems but, as computer systems have become ever more pervasive, dependability is now essential to business critical systems such as e-commerce. This year's Seminar will be held from Monday evening, Sept 3 to Friday Sept 7, 2001. Attendance at these Seminars is, unfortunately, rather limited, but our aim is to have appropriately senior representation from a broad spectrum of European university computing science departments.