The Fault-Tolerant Computing Symposium is the major international forum in computing system dependability. The symposium scope spans system, software, and hardware issues. This year, we introduce a new category of papers, called On-going Student Research. We invite students working in the areas of fault-tolerant and dependable computing to submit preliminary results and future directions of on-going research that will continue into the next century. Selected papers will be presented at the conference, and published in a separate proceedings.

We invite you to submit papers on the traditional areas of FTCS, as well as explore new dimensions. Major topics include, but are not limited to, Fault-Tolerant Architectures, Fault Tolerance in Transaction Processing, Fault Tolerance in Distributed and Real-Time Systems, Safety-Critical Systems, Fault Tolerance in High-Speed Networking, Fault Tolerance in Multimedia Systems, Fault Tolerance in Mobile Computing, Software Fault Tolerance, Testing, Validation, Verification, Dependability Modeling and Prediction, and Dependability in VLSI.