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This
website gives the rationale for, and outlines the first
steps towards the planning of, an Integrated Project with a
closely-allied Network of Excellence on the subject of
System and Information Infrastructure Dependability, to be
submitted to the First Call in FP6. These proposals are an
outcome of the current EU-funded AMSD (Accompanying Measure
on System Dependability) roadmapping project. Specifically,
what is proposed is an industry-led Integrated Project on
"Dependable Systems and Information infrastructures -
Research and Exploitation" (DeSIRE), allied to
"Dependability Foundations for Information infrastructures -
Network of Excellence" (DeFINE). Membership of the former
will be largely industrial, of the second, mainly academic,
though a significant joint membership is planned.
Both DeSIRE
and DeFINE will take a broad-ranging approach to
dependability, taking into consideration all types of faults
(e.g. hardware and software faults, human-machine
interaction faults including intrusions and malicious acts
by corrupt insiders), and all types of failures, since the
term dependability encompasses availability, security,
safety, reliability, survivability, etc. They will undertake
RTD on the various aspects of dependability, together with
education and training provisions, means for encouraging
dependability best practice, and support for effective
dialogues between relevant policy makers and the
dependability research communities. It is anticipated that
the DeSIRE consortium will include several major companies,
each involved in the development and deployment of
challenging computer systems in a particular application
area, and a number of SMEs involved in the development and
use of dependability tools and techniques. Management
structures are planned for DeSIRE and DeFINE that should
ensure their various system development activities treat all
dependability issues adequately and their activities on
various dependability technologies make good well-directed
progress. The detailed choice of these activities is yet to
be made, informed by the results of AMSD's road-mapping, and
by negotiations with prospective partners.
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