NODES Winter School and Seminar

1-3.2.2012, Turku,
Finland

This event is based on the book "Dependability and Computer Engineering: Concepts for Software-Intensive Systems" © IGI Global. This book has sprung from the initiative of the NODES (Network On DEependable Systems) network a Nordic and Baltic education network in dependability, financed by Nordforsk during 2007-2012. The network consists of researchers from the Technical University of Denmark, the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, the SINTEF ICT Research Centre and the University of Oslo, Norway, the Linköping University, Sweden, and the Åbo Akademi University, Finland. One of the objectives of NODES is to promote cooperation as well as ensure a wide dissemination of the Nordic and Baltic research results in the dependability topic. Part of the material of this book seeks to address this objective and is thus based on research results initially presented at the yearly NODES workshops during 2007-2010. Complementing the work of the NODES researchers, we have invited submissions from well-known researchers in the dependability area. Each chapter was peer-reviewed by two reviewers, thus ensuring the scholarly value of the book. The result consists of 11 chapters detailing the NODES research and 8 chapters from other researchers working in the dependability field.

Another objective of the NODES network is to establish a Dependability Curriculum to be employed in postgraduate studies. The scholar and timely content of this book is thus employed to establishing the field of dependability as an engineering discipline in the Nordic region as well as globally. We hope this event will stimulate the interest of prospect engineers and acting practitioners to the subject as well as supplement various courses in dependability curricula.