Dependable Computing Second Latin-American Symposium, LADC 2005, Salvador, Brazil, October 25-28, 2005, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing, LADC 2005, held in Salvador, Brazil, in October 2005.
The 16 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks, and outlines of 2 workshops and 3 tutorials, were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation, certification, modelling, embedded systems, time, and distributed systems algorithms.

Invited Talks.- Probabilistic Validation of Computer System Survivability.- Timed Asynchronous Distributed Systems.- WLAN in Automation – More Than an Academic Exercise?.- Evaluation.- Using Stratified Sampling for Fault Injection.- A Methodology for the Automated Identification of Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities in Executable Software Without Source-Code.- Quantitative Evaluation of Distributed Algorithms Using the Neko Framework: The NekoStat Extension.- Certification.- Airborne Software Concerns in Civil Aviation Certification.- Modelling.- A Method for Modeling and Testing Exceptions in Component-Based Software Development.- Verifying Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems Using Object-Based Graph Grammars.- The Zerberus Language: Describing the Functional Model of Dependable Real-Time Systems.- Embedded Systems.- Soft Error Mitigation in Cache Memories of Embedded Systems by Means of a Protected Scheme.- On the Effects of Errors During Boot.- A Fault Tolerant Approach to Object Oriented Design and Synthesis of Embedded Systems.- Time.- Scheduling Fixed-Priority Hard Real-Time Tasks in the Presence of Faults.- On the Monitoring Period for Fault-Tolerant Sensor Networks.- Adapting Failure Detectors to Communication Network Load Fluctuations Using SNMP and Artificial Neural Nets.- Distributed Systems Algorithms.- Parsimony-Based Approach for Obtaining Resource-Efficient and Trustworthy Execution.- Generating Fast Atomic Commit from Hyperfast Consensus.- Group-Based Replication of On-Line Transaction Processing Servers.- Workshops.- Third Workshop on Theses and Dissertations on Dependable Computing.- Latin-American Workshop on Dependable Automation Systems.- Tutorials.- Software Architectures for Dependable Systems.- Fault-Tolerant Techniques for Concurrent Objects.-Agreement Protocols in Environments with Temporal Uncertainties.