LADC is the major Latin-American event dedicated to discussing the many issues related to computer system dependability. This symposium succeeds the well established Brazilian Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computers. Its objective is to provide a forum for international and Latin-American scientists and engineers to present their latest research results and application experience in this very dynamic field. The first LADC was held in São Paulo, Brazil, in October 2003, while the second was held in Salvador, Brazil, in October 2005. In its third edition the symposium is going to take place in Morelia, Mexico. The proceedings are published by Springer as a number of the series LNCS - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springeronline.com/978-3-540-75293-6)

The LADC program will present technical sessions, tutorials and keynote talks from top international experts in the area. The symposium scope spans system, software, and hardware issues in all areas of dependable computing, including, but not limited to:

Critical Infrastructures Protection Database and Transactional Systems Dependability Benchmarking Dependability Modeling,   prediction and Evaluation Dependable Applications Design for Testability Distributed Systems Experimental Dependability   evaluation Fault-tolerant Algorithms Information Assurance Intrusion Tolerance

Networking and Mobile Computing Parallel, Clustered and Grid Systems Real-Time and Embedded Systems Safety-Critical Systems Security of Computing Systems Software Engineering of Dependable Systems Software Reliability Software Testing, Validation and Verification Storage Survivability of Computing Systems System Architecture

CO-ORGANIZED BY: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) - Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)

CO-SPONSORED BY: SBC - Brazilian Computing Society - SMCC - Mexican Society for Computer Science - IEEE TC on Dependable Computing & Fault Tolerance.

IN COOPERATION WITH: IFIP Working Group 10.4 "Dependable Computing and Fault-Tolerance" - SCCC - Chilean Computer Science Society - SADIO - Argentine Society for Informatics and Operations Research