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         The Fifth International Conference on Dependability 
             DEPEND 2012 
           August 19 - 24, 2012 - Rome, Italy   | 
       
     
    
     
     DEPEND Advisory Chairs
      Reijo Savola, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
       Sergio Pozo Hidalgo, University of Seville, Spain
       Manuel Gil Perez, University of Murcia, Spain
       Petre Dini, Concordia University, Canada / China Space Agency Center - Beijing, China
     DEPEND 2012 Industry Liaison Chairs
      Piyi Yang, Wonders Information Co., Ltd., China
       Timothy Tsai, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, USA
     DEPEND 2012 Research/Industry Chair
      Michiaki Tatsubori, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan
      DEPEND 2012 Special Area Chairs
     Cross-layers dependability
       Szu-Chi Wang, National Ilan University, Taiwan
     Hardware dependability
       Peter Tröger, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of Potsdam, Germany
     Empirical assessments
       Marcello Cinque, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
     Security and Trust
       Syed Naqvi, CETIC, Belgium
     DEPEND 2012 Technical Program Committee
     Murali Annavaram, University of Southern California, USA
       Afonso Araújo Neto, University of Coimbra, Portugal
José Enrique  Armendáriz-Iñigo, Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
Steffen Bartsch, TZI - Universität Bremen, Germany
Jorge Bernal Bernabé, University of Murcia, Spain
Andrey Brito, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, Brazil
Lasaro Camargos, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil
Juan Carlos Ruiz, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Antonio Casimiro Costa, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Simon        Caton, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
Zhe Chen, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
Marcello Cinque, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Domenico Cotroneo, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Rubén de Juan  Marín, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerp, Belgium &  IBBT, Belgium
Nicola Dragoni, Technical University of Denmark - Lyngby,  Denmark
Diana El Rabih,  Université Paris 12, France
Laila El Aimani,  Technicolor, Security & Content Protection Labs., Germany
Alexander Felfernig, TU - Graz, Austria
Nuno Ferreira Neves, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Francesco Flammini, Ansaldo STS, Italy
Cristina Gacek, City University London, United Kingdom
Manuel Gil Perez, University of Murcia, Spain
Michael Grottke, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Nils Gruschka, NEC Laboratories Europe - Heidelberg, Germany
Bjarne E. Helvik, The Norwegian University of Science and  Technology (NTNU) - Trondheim, Norway
Jiankun Hu, Australian Defence Force Academy - Canberra, Australia
Neminath Hubballi, Infosys Lab Bangalore, India
       Arshad Jhumka, University of Warwick - Coventry, UK
       Yoshiaki Kakuda, Hiroshima City University, Japan
       Hui Kang, Stony Brook University, USA
       Aleksandra Karimaa, Turku University/TUCS and Teleste  Corporation, Finland
       Dong-Seong Kim, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
       Ezzat Kirmani, St. Cloud State University, USA
       Seah Boon Keong, MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia
       Abdelmajid Khelil, TU-Darmstadt, Germany
       Kenji Kono, Keio University, Japan
       Israel Koren, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA
       Mani Krishna, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA
       Patrick Lanigan, FeDex, USA
       Mikel Larrea, University of the Basque Country - UPV/EHU,  Spain
       Inhwan Lee, Hanyang University - Seoul, Korea
       Matthew Leeke, University of Warwick, UK
       Paolo Lollini, University of Firenze, Italy
       Miroslaw Malek, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
       Rivalino Matias Jr., Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil
       Manuel Mazzara, Newcastle University, UK / UNU-IIST, Macau
       Per Håkon Meland, SINTEF ICT, Norway
  
       Francesc D.  Muñoz-Escoí, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
       Jogesh K. Muppala, The Hong Kong University of Science and  Technology, Hong Kong
       Jun Na, Northeastern University, China
       Syed Naqvi, CETIC, Belgium
       Sarmistha Neogy, Jadavpur University, India
       Mats Neovius, Åbo Akademi University - Turku, Finland
       Hong Ong, e-Manual System Sdn Bhd, Malaysia
       Anne-Cécile Orgerie, ENS de Lyon, France / University of Melbourne,   Australia
       Aljosa Pasic, ATOS Origin, Spain
       Wolfgang Pree, University of Salzburg, Austria
       Felix Salfner, SAP Innovation Center - Potsdam, Germany
       Reijo Savola, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland,  Finland
       Dimitrios Serpanos, University of Patras & ISI, Greece
       Navjot Singh, Avaya Labs Research, USA
       Komminist Sisai, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
       Kuo-Feng Ssu, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
       Vladimir Stantchev, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
       Neeraj Suri, TU-Darmstadt, Germany
       Oliver Theel, University Oldenburg, Germany Sergio Pozo  Hidalgo, University of Seville, Spain
       Kishor Trivedi, Duke University - Durham, USA
       Peter Tröger, Hasso Plattner Institute / University of  Potsdam, Germany
       Elena Troubitsyna, Aabo Akademi -Turku, Finland
       Timothy Tsai, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, USA
       Marco Vallini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
       Ángel Jesús Varela Vaca, University of Sevilla, Spain
       Bruno Vavala, Carnegie Mellon University, USA | University  of Lisbon, Portugal
       Hironori Washizaki, Waseda University, Japan
       Hiroshi Yamada, Keio University, Japan
       Piyi Yang, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China
       Hee Yong Youn, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea