Dependability in dynamic, evolving and heterogeneous systems: the CONNECT approach

The EU Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Project Connect aims at dropping the heterogeneity barriers that prevent the eternality of networking systems through a revo- lutionary approach: to synthesise on-the- y the Connectors via which networked systems communicate. The Connect approach, however, comes at risk from the standpoint of de- pendability, stressing the need for methods and tools that ensure resilience to faults, errors and malicious attacks of the dynamically Connected system. We are investigat- ing a comprehensive approach, which combines dependabil- ity analysis, security enforcement and trust assessment, and is centred around a lightweight adaptive monitoring frame- work. In this project paper, we overview the research that we are undertaking towards this objective and propose a uni- fying work ow process that encompasses all the Connect dependability/security/trust concepts and models.