This volume consists of 58 papers from the main program of the April 2006 conference on computer system dependability, 34 invited papers on future applications and research, and 44 papers presented during a series of eight workshops. The general sessions explore peer-to-peer systems, wireless sensor networks, protocols and communication, security as quality of service, identification and authentication, secure software, high availability, and security management. The workshops focus on the reliability and security aspects of overlay networks, Bayesian networks, large-scale service-oriented systems, e-learning, data warehousing and mining, bioinformatics, and e-government. No subject index is provided. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
