Foreword for the Industry Track

The DSN-2018 Industry track provides a forum for interaction between industry and academia, and presentation of the latest R&D and operational challenges, practical solutions, case studies, and field dependability data. Industrial practices often highlight new challenges, obstacles encountered when applying novel technology solutions and advanced current work in an industrial context, and real-world lessons about operation of dependable systems and networks. The objective of this track is to give the members of the industrial and academic communities the opportunity to unite to discuss hot topics regarding the present and future of dependable systems and networks, and to share experiences among different industrial domains and contexts. This year, we have accepted 11 short papers from among 28 submissions. The authors of the submitted papers have a wide geographic distribution covering China, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Morocco, Taiwan, UK, and USA. Each paper was reviewed by at least two members of the Industry Track program committee, following which we had online and email discussions among the PC members. Contentious or borderline papers were thoroughly discussed and sometimes received additional reviews. The accepted papers have been organized for presentation at the conference into 3 sessions: Modeling and Measurement, Detection and Remediation, and Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things.