TUD
Technische Universität Darmstadt
TU Darmstadt is Germany's premier Technical University and especially for Computer Science. Within the CS department, the DEEDS (Dependable Systems and SW) Group specifically targets research for the development, assessment and validation of systems, services and protocols as an infrastructural basis for trustworthy systems and services. The group is internationally renowned for its dependability/security research and has garnered support from the European Commission, US NSF, US DARPA, Airbus, Audi, Saab, Volvo, Daimler Chrysler, NASA, IBM, Boeing, Microsoft and Intel among others. The group also leads the technical efforts for an existing FP6 IP on component based dependable embedded systems (DECOS) and as part of the Dependability/Security NoE ReSIST. The group is actively participating in FP7 Dependability and Security project such as Genesys, INCO-Trust, Think-Trust. The DEEDS prior EU involvements include dependability STREPS of NextTTA, FIT, Dbench, as well as extensive ongoing EC project review and evaluation activities. Based on its established competences in composite dependable & secure computing, TUD/DEEDS will contribute to the project in specifying, designing and assessing secure and trusted systems/services & infrastructures.

