Proceedings of the Third international workshop on Views On Designing Complex Architectures (VODCA 2008)

The 3rd International Workshop on Views On Designing Complex Architectures (VODCA 2008) was held at the University Residential Centre of Bertinoro (CEUB), Italy, on the 30th and 31st of August 2008, as a satellite event of the 8th International School on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design (FOSAD 2008). Security and management of information are key issues in informatics, and they have been for several years among its fastest developing fields. Such a synergetic combination calls for a continuous attention of computer science researchers to the most recent developments in the area, in order to bring forth novel ideas and insights and thus to contribute to the growth of those fields. The VODCA workshop series aims to provide a platform for junior computer scientists to present their research views on all areas related to the design of complex architectures, with a special focus on the security and management of information. This volume contains the papers that were presented at VODCA 2008. After a regular refereeing process only 9 papers, out of 18 submissions, were selected for a presentation. In addition to the presentations of original research results, the programme included 2 invited lectures. It is our belief that workshops serve to foster and establish research collaborations in an attempt to share techniques and achieve cross-fertilisation. This could not be more true for a workshop like VODCA: We hope that the meeting helps participants to focus on original