Department of Distributed and Dependable Systems

School of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University

Our department is responsible for research and education in the advanced techniques for building reliable component-based software especially in the field of distributed and dependable systems, spanning from smart cyber-physical systems and IoT to cloud-based backends. Our research comprises advanced software architectures, adaptation, model-driven development, model-based testing, formal verification of software, performance measurement and modeling.

The vision pursued by our department is that of high-quality scientific research with strong industrial relevance, with the aim to enable rapid and cost-efficient production of complex and reliable software systems. To achieve this vision, our department actively collaborates on the national and international level with both academic and industrial partners.

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News From the Department

Next D3S seminar by Matyáš Brabec and Jiří Klepl

13 October 2026

The next D3S seminar will be on Tuesday, October 13 at 14:00. Matyáš Brabec and Jiří Klepl will talk about Fortran to CUDA & LLM-Guided High-Performance Optimizations (ICA3PP).

Implementing Set-Theoretic Types

1 October 2026

Our paper Implementing Set-Theoretic Types by M. Laurent, K. Nguyễn has been accepted to Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages.

Revisiting Row Polymorphism for Set-Theoretic Types

1 October 2026

Our paper Revisiting Row Polymorphism for Set-Theoretic Types by M. Laurent, P. Donat-Bouillud, F. Křikava, J. Vitek has been accepted to Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages.

The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Calculus

1 October 2026

Our paper The Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Calculus by T. Petricek, J. Verter, M. Fromm has been accepted to Proceedings of the 2026 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software.

Timeline: Adding the Time Dimension to Spreadsheets

1 October 2026

Our paper Timeline: Adding the Time Dimension to Spreadsheets by T. Petricek, T. Boďa has been accepted to Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages.

Accepted paper in Future Generation Computer Systems

22 June 2026

Our paper On Limits of LLMs in Adaptation of Ensemble-Based Architectures by Michal Töpfer, Tomáš Bureš, František Plášil and Petr Hnětynka has been accepted for publication in the Future Generation Computer Systems.