AMSD: a dependability roadmap for the information society in europe

System Dependability is the greatest challenge facing us before we can realise the potential of the Information Society in the 21 century. Unless we can build systems that we can trust to behave as we intended them to, we cannot risk creating a society where our economic well-being, our quality of life, our safety and our security depend on the correct and continuous interactions of millions of computer-based systems.