The current age of pervasive communication, worldwide networked systems, and converged networks brings the areas of fault tolerance, fault management and quality guarantees to the forefront of today's research topics. Of special importance are cross-domain techniques, distributed fault management architectures, and autonomic protocols for improving the reliability, dependability, and manageability of network-centric systems.

IEEE DANMS 2007 provides an opportunity to bring together a broad range of researchers from network management, distributed systems, dependable systems, and autonomic computing, to exchange ideas and promote discussion on research topics in these areas. The workshop will be comprised of technical presentations, a panel session with representatives from industry and academia, and will provide ample opportunities for free discussions on the ideas presented.

Due to the inter-disciplinary nature of this workshop, we are open to papers that cover any aspect of fault tolerance, reliability, and dependability in mobile, distributed and real-time systems, such as: dependability issues in network configuration, operation, and management; performance enhancement; guaranteeing stability and coherent behaviour in the presence of faults and inconsistency; service reliability and impact of faults on SLAs and QoS; real-time response of wireless, ubiquitous, optical communication networks, radio access and transport networks; fault management in high-speed networks; self-healing and self-stabilizing systems.