Dagstuhl seminar report: security and dependability for federated cloud platforms, 2012

The Security and Dependability for Federated Cloud Platforms seminar [3] was held in Schloss Dagstuhl1, July 8-13, 2012. Schloss Dagstuhl, also known as the Leibniz-Zentrum fur Informatik, is a renovated castle located in the scenic countryside of Saarland, Germany. Dagstuhl offers a unique concept: 30-45 participants, all of whom receive invitations from Dagstuhl on behalf of the organizers, stay in the castle during the seminar (typically 3-5 days) enjoying all that the castle has to offer. Amongst other things this includes an impressive library, a music room full of musical instruments, an excellent restaurant, as well as a wine cellar where a variety of cheese, wine and local beer is available daily for the lateevening social meetings. The organizers of our seminar Matthias Schunter, Marc Shapiro, Paulo Verissimo and Michael Waidner targeted a four day event and gathered a mixed group of senior, established and promising young researches from all over the world. The program of the seminar was not set in advance, but most participants provided an abstract [3] and gave short talks on recent or ongoing work. The main purpose of these talks was generating discussion and collaboration among the participants. During some