This book is now available; the bibliographic information is:

Structure for Dependability: Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective", (editors) D. Besnard, C . Gacek and C. B.
Jones, Springer, 2006, ISBN 1-84628-110-5

The publishers have kindly given permission for us to make extracts available on the DIRC WWW site. Extracts of the following chapters can be read on-line but the copyright of these and the full book rest with Springer.

Table of Contents

Chapter extracts:

1. The role of structure: a dependability perspective
2. The role of structure: a software engineering perspective
4. Time bands in systems structure
5. Procedures, programs and their impact on dependability
6. Cognitive conflicts in dynamic systems
7. Architectural description of dependable software systems
9. Ethnography and the social structure of work
10. Faults, errors and failures in communications: a systems theory perspective on organisational structure
11. Security implications of structure
12. The structure of software development thought
14. Qualitative analysis of dependability argument structure