TDSC的目的是以可靠和安全的方式發表論文，包括共同考慮這些問題及其與系統性能的相互作用。這些領域包括但不限于：系統設計：安全和容錯系統的架構；托管/可存活計算；入侵和容錯、檢測和恢復；容錯和入侵中間件；防火墻和網絡技術；系統管理和管理；評估：建模和預測；生存能力和性能建模；解決方案技術；實驗方法，包括試驗臺設計、自動故障/攻擊生成、監測、測量和分析、工作量特性、基準和服務質量評估；應用：交易處理；分布式和普及系統；電子商務；實時系統；安全關鍵系統；嵌入式系統；互聯網應用程序；軟件設計：對檢測和恢復的操作系統支持；自我檢查；容錯技術；網絡接口和協議；測試、驗證和驗證；老化和年輕化;可靠性和性能.新興技術：納米尺度計算；移動計算；無線電話；衛星網絡；數據挖掘；可穿戴計算機；多媒體應用；信號處理；量子計算。

The purpose of TDSC is to publish papers in dependability and security, including the joint consideration of these issues and their interplay with system performance. These areas include but are not limited to: System Design: architecture for secure and fault-tolerant systems; trusted/survivable computing; intrusion and error tolerance, detection and recovery; fault- and intrusiontolerant middleware; firewall and network technologies; system management and administration; Evaluation: modeling and prediction; survivability and performability modeling; solution techniques; experimental methods including test-bed design, automated fault/attack generation, monitoring, measurement and analysis, workload characterization, benchmarking, and quality of service assessment; Applications: transaction processing; distributed and pervasive systems; electronic commerce; real-time systems; safety-critical systems; embedded systems; Internet applications; Software Design: operating system support for detection and recovery; selfchecking; fault tolerance techniques; network interfaces and protocols; testing, validation, verification; aging and rejuvenation; reliability and performance. Emerging Technologies: nanoscale computing; mobile computing; wireless telephony; satellite networks; data mining; wearable computers; multimedia applications; signal processing; quantum computing.