Quality of Communication-Based Systems presents the research results of students of the Graduiertenkolleg `Communication-Based Systems' to an international community. To stimulate the scientific discussion, renowned experts have been invited to give their views on the research areas:

Formal specification and mathematical foundations of distributed systems using process algebra, graph transformations, process calculi and temporal logics
Performance evaluation, dependability modelling and analysis of real-time systems with different kinds of timed Petri-nets
Specification and analysis of communication protocols
Reliability, security and dependability in distributed systems
Object orientation in distributed systems architecture
Software development and concepts for distributed applications
Computer network architecture and management
Language concepts for distributed systems.