Introduction

Zusammenfassung

Dependable Distributed Systems Distributed systems have become crucial in most application domains of computing systems. Their success stems from, for example, being more cost-efficient, more powerful, and more scalable than standalone systems. Distributed systems are characterised by consisting of active components that are spatially distributed and share information via some means of communication. The components are active in the sense that they perform computations that are of interest for the user of the system. The range of the components’ spatial distribution is wide, from micro-scale embedded systems-on-a-chip to globally – and possibly further – distributed systems.