ReSIST Everything

Speaker: Tom Anderson

Abstract

Dependability, resilience, security and trustworthiness may not immediately spring to mind when you recall the life and works of Oscar Wilde, but the SRG title above is the best quote I could find (pace Daleks, Cybermen and the Borg). This SRG provides an opportunity to consider the very much wider set of opportunities that the ReSIST Network of Excellence can offer. The ReSIST NoE project has already hastily begun, involves 18 Eurpoean partners with research interests in Resilience, and aims: to integrate research in resilience; to build and scale-up resilience technologies (with emphasis on architecture and implementation, algorithms and mechanisms, socio-technical systems, verification methods and tools, evaluation methods and tools); to promote training and dissemination. We (Newcastle) have explicit opportunities for engagement in all of these areas, and in addition we have some modest funding for work on resilience integration. The short talk will try to outline the very broad research area covered and indicate how anyone interested could get involved. Ideally this will be followed by questions, and discussion of the answers - the presenter may well be uncertain and will welcome your assistance.