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Welcome to the home page of the Dependable Systems Research Group (DSRG) in the Department of Computer Science at Clemson University. Our research mission is to enable the design, deployment, and management of unattended, long-lived applications at scale.

By unattended, we mean applications that are self-configuring, self-managing, and self-healing. By long-lived, we mean applications that execute as expected for months or years at a time without being brought down for maintenance. By at scale, we mean applications with large implementations, or more frequently, applications that are widely distributed.

The DSRG is part of the larger Software Engineering and Programming Languages group, involving professors Harold Grossman, Jason Hallstrom, Brian Malloy, John McGregor, Murali Sitaraman, and Steve Stevenson. The group is actively engaged in collaborative projects with researchers from Ohio State (Neelam Soundarajan, Anish Arora), University of Iowa (Ted Herman), Cleveland State (Nigamanth Sridhar), University of Texas at Austin (Mohamed Gouda), and Ohio University (Bill Leal).

On this site you will find information about some of our active projects, group members, laboratory facilities, and publications. We plan to update the site frequently, so check back often.

The research activities of the Dependable Systems Research Group are currently supported by the National Science Foundation (DUE-0633506, CNS-0520222), the NASA Space Grant Consortium, and the Clemson University Creative Inquiry program. We gratefully acknowledge these agencies for their support.