Malicious-and Accidental-Fault Tolerance for Internet Applications
IST Research Project IST-
1 January 2000 - 28 February 2003

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MAFTIA involved experts from 5 countries and 6 organisations. The Industrial Advisory Board provided valuable feedback on the work of the project.

Research was organised into six workpackages.

Find out more about the key scientific results and achievements, and the benefits of this research collaboration.



Newcastle
Brian Randell and Robert Stroud were the principal researchers at Newcastle.
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Lisboa
 Paulo Veríssimo and Nuno Ferreira Neves led investigations at Lisboa.
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QinetiQ
 QinetiQ's research was led by Colin O'Halloran and Sadie Creese.
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Saarland
Birgit Pfitzmann (now at IBM Zurich), Michael Steiner (now at IBM Thomas Watson), and André Adelsbach led the research at Saarland.
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LAAS-CNRS
 Research at LAAS was led by David Powell and Yves Deswarte.
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IBM Zurich
Michael Waidner, Marc Dacier (now at Institut Eurécom), Andreas Wespi and Christian Cachin led the work at IBM Zurich.
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Paulo Veríssimo

Paulo Esteves Veríssimo has been a Professor in the Department of Informatics, University of Lisboa Faculty of Sciences since 1995.

He has led the Navigators Group, previously at INESC and now at the University of Lisboa Faculty of Sciences, since 1985. He has been in the coordinating team of several major national projects in informatics, and headed the participation of the group in several CEC ESPRIT projects.

He is a member of the Executive Board of the CABERNET- ESPRIT Network of Excellence and a member of IEEE. He has served in the programme committees of a number of conferences (IEEE, AFCET, ACM), and is an associate editor for the Baltzer Telecommunications Systems Journal.

He is author of more than 70 refereed publications in international scientific conferences and journals, and over 100 technical reports. He is co-author of two books in distributed systems and dependability. He organised and lectured in the LISBOA92 Advanced Course on Distributed Systems, and was director of the 3rd European Seminar on Advances on Distributed Systems, ERSADS 99.