The 1^st Workshop on Dependable Software Engineering being organised in conjunction with the 19^th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE 2008) aims to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners as well as suppliers, utility and regulatory bodies from different safety communities to share and discuss the ideas, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of Dependable Software Engineering (DSE).

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Model based approach
• Object oriented approach
• Quantitative Risk Analysis
• Economic problem of DSE
• Empirical approach for DSE

The workshop is organized as follows:

• Presentation session

The presentation session will include keynote speeches followed by the presentations. Participants interested in contributing through a presentation during the workshop are invited to submit a paper. Both regular papers (4-6 pages) and position papers (2-3 pages) are welcome. However, authors wishing to submit an extended-version of their paper to the special issue of the Journal of Systems and Software are encouraged to submit regular papers.

The papers will be reviewed, and the successful authors will have the opportunity to present for 15 to 20 minutes.

• Discussion session

Based on the presentations and discussions during the presentation sessions, the most common topics of interest will be identified and further discussed through coffee table discussions.

• Wrap-up session

Conclusions and future research agenda

Keynote speakers

• Doo Hwan Bae, KAIST, Korea
• Bjørn Axel Gran, IFE, Norway

The deadline for paper submission is extended to September 22nd, 2008