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 Michal Töpfer

3 November 2026

The next D3S seminar will be on Tuesday, November 03 at 14:00. Michal Töpfer will talk about Machine learning techniques in self-adaptive systems.

Mapping the Stochastic Penal Colony

25 June 2026

Our paper Mapping the Stochastic Penal Colony by R. Grimm has been accepted to Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency.

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.

ACF: Infrastructure for Debugging Long-Running Systems with Tracing and Unit Test Execution

1 January 2026

Our paper ACF: Infrastructure for Debugging Long-Running Systems with Tracing and Unit Test Execution by R. Vašut, P. Parizek has been accepted to 14th Workshop on Programming Languages and Operating Systems (PLOS 2026).

Characterizing Type Feedback in Just-In-Time Compilation

1 January 2026

Our paper Characterizing Type Feedback in Just-In-Time Compilation by S. Krynski, F. Říha, F. Křikava, J. Vitek has been accepted to 40th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2026).

Leveraging Copy-and-Patch JIT for Low-Overhead Dynamic Program Analysis

1 January 2026

Our paper Leveraging Copy-and-Patch JIT for Low-Overhead Dynamic Program Analysis by M. Kocourek, F. Křikava, P. Donat-Bouillud, J. Vitek has been accepted to Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Managed Programming Languages and Runtimes.