This proceedings volume contains 45 contributions from international scientists and researchers in academia and industry who are working in various scientific and technical areas of dependability, security, and autonomic computing. It opens with a paper describing a prototype model for self-healing and self-reproduction in a Swarm Robotics System. Other topics include (for example) tamper-evident digital signatures; a security-supportive middleware architecture for pervasive computing; and the analysis of stream authentication protocols in autonomous agent-based systems. The volume lacks a subject index. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
