Workshop on proactive failure avoidance, recovery and maintenance (PFARM)

Proactive approaches to failure avoidance, recovery and maintenance have recently attracted increased interest among researchers and practitioners from various areas of dependable system design and operation. This first workshop aimed to provide a stimulating, and fruitful forum to foster collaboration among researchers working on proactive fault management, to discuss ideas, exchange experiences and to find new answers to the overall challenge of significantly improving system dependability in contemporary computing and communication systems.