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.