Organizations and individuals are becoming increasingly dependent on sophisticated computing systems. In differing circumstances, this dependency might for example center on the continuity of the service delivered by the computing system, the overall performance level achieved, the real-time response rate provided, the extent to which catastrophic failures are avoided, or confidentiality violations prevented. These various concerns can be subsumed into the single conceptual framework of dependability, for which reliability, availability, safety and security, for example, can be considered as particular attributes.

The Sixth European Dependable Computing Conference aims to provide a European venue for researchers and practitioners from all over the world to present and discuss their latest research results and developments. Papers are solicited on theory, techniques and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable computing systems. Besides traditional hardware and software faults, concerns include human interaction faults, being they accidental or malicious.

EDCC is the successor of two European conference series on fault tolerance and dependability as well as on aspects of testing and diagnosis. One of them, known as the "International Conference on Fault-Tolerant Computing Systems" was organized 1982-91 by the German Technical Interest Group "Fault Tolerant Computing Systems". The other series, known as the "International Conference on Fault-Tolerant Systems and Diagnostics", was organized 1975-90 in the former Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and the former GDR. EDCC is organized every 2 or 3 years in European countries. EDCC-1 was held in Berlin (Germany) in October 1994, EDCC-2 in Taormina (Italy) in October 1996, EDCC-3 in Prague (Czech Republic) in September 1999, EDCC-4 in Toulouse (France) in October 2002 and EDCC-5 in Budapest (Hungary) in April 2005.

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS:
Manuscripts should be submitted in the following categories: Regular Papers, Practical Experience Reports, Prototype-Tool descriptions and Panels. Regular Papers should describe original research (not submitted or published elsewhere) and be not more than 20 double-spaced pages including figures and tables using 11-point type. Practical Experience Reports (5-12 pages) should describe an experience or a case study, such as the design and deployment of a system or actual failure and recovery field data. Prototype-Tool description papers (5-12 pages) should outline the design or implementation of a software tool, a prototype or an operational system, etc. Panels (2-4 pages) should describe the panel objectives, and include the bios of the Panel proposers and the probable panellists. Contributions should be submitted as Portable Document Format (.pdf), or Post Script (.ps) files.

The title page of each submission should include a 150-word abstract, five keywords, authors’ names and address and include a line specifying the submission category. The full mailing address, phone, fax and email address of the corresponding author should be specified.

The proceedings of the conference will be published by the IEEE Computer Society.