VERFE 2014 - 10th Workshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance

Although the basic reliability of hardware and software components over the decades has steadily grown, their increasing number still causes severe problems. Moreover, in recent years it can be observed that in an increasing number of devices, e.g. cars, digital components are integrated into environments of other physical components. Here the complexity of the interactions with these other components, as well as the limited accessibility of the digital ones create problems with regard to maintaining a dependable operation of the entire system in case of faults or external disturbances.
While this is not a problem with microprocessors, there, the ever shrinking feature sizes, the higher complexity, lower voltages, and higher clock frequencies increase the probability of design-, manufacturing-, and operational faults, making fault tolerance techniques in general purpose processors to be of crucial importance in the future. As simple solutions (such as TMR) easily can get too expensive, the ability to trade increased reliability against performance/power overhead will become important, resulting in light-weight fault tolerance techniques implemented in hardware, but controllable from higher software layers.
This workshop aims at presenting contributions and work-in-progress from the research area of dependable and fault tolerant computing in order to bring together scientists working in related fields, especially from the central European countries.