The Thirteenth International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN2014)

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing in cooperation with the IEICE Communications Society Technical Committee on Information Networks and the IEICE Information and Systems Society Technical Committee on Dependable ComputingADSN 2014 will be held in conjunction with the 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2014), Madrid, Spain June 30, 2014 - July 3, 2014.http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es/icdcs2014 ADSN 2014 is the thirteenth edition of this International Workshop demonstrating its long-term continuity and continuously received recognition. The objective of the Workshop is to provide an effective forum for original scientific and engineering advances in Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks. Along with recent rapid growth of the Internet and ubiquitous networks, applications for autonomous decentralized systems are emerging in many important areas like transportation, automotive systems, smart energy grids and E-commerce to name a few. In these distributed systems and networks, heterogeneous requirements are independently generated and the requirements themselves are frequently changing. Assurance in these distributed systems and networks is defined as capability of guaranteeing functional and non-functional system properties such as dependability, security, timeliness and adaptivity to heterogeneous and changing requirements. The workshop theme is critical in meeting ever more demanding requirements for assurance in systems andnetworks. Technologies supporting assurance including integration of various fields such as real time, fault tolerance, autonomy, mobility and intelligence will have to be incorporated in complex distributed systems and networks.