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

Efficient reconfigurable system for home monitoring of the elderly via action recognition

22 October 2025

Our paper Efficient reconfigurable system for home monitoring of the elderly via action recognition by D. Deniz, J. Isern, J. Solanti, P. Jääskeläinen, P. Hnětynka, L. Bulej, E. Ros, F. Barranco has been accepted to Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Next D3S seminar by Jiří Klepl

23 September 2025

The next D3S seminar will be on Tuesday, September 23 at 14:00. Jiří Klepl will talk about Noarr for MPI.

AI Summer School 2025

21 July 2025

Join the AI Summer School 2025 in Ljubljana from 22–26 September to explore Human-AI Interaction, digital trust, and responsible AI. Interactive workshops, expert talks, and PhD networking opportunities.

More information and registration here

Interpreting Workflow Architectures by LLMs:

1 January 2025

Our paper Interpreting Workflow Architectures by LLMs: by M. Töpfer, T. Bureš, F. Plášil, P. Hnětynka has been accepted to Proceedings of ENASE 2025, Porto, Portugal.

Temporal Harmonization of Heterogeneous Software Logs: A Unified Model for Time-Series Analysis

1 January 2025

Our paper Temporal Harmonization of Heterogeneous Software Logs: A Unified Model for Time-Series Analysis by M. Abdullah, P. Hnětynka, J. Mahmud has been accepted to Software Architecture. ECSA 2025 Tracks and Workshops.

Towards Continuous Experiment-Driven MLOps

1 January 2025

Our paper Towards Continuous Experiment-Driven MLOps by K. Rajenthiram, M. Abdullah, I. Gerostathopoulos, P. Hnětynka, T. Bureš, G. Pons, B. Bilalli, A. Queralt has been accepted to Proceedings of CAIN 2025, Ottawa, Canada.