Department of Computer Science, University of Idaho,
Moscow, ID, USA

Axel W. Krings is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Idaho. He received his Ph.D. (1993) and M.S. (1991) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and his M.S. (1982) in Electrical Engineering from the FH-Aachen, Germany. Dr. Krings has published extensively in the area of Computer & Network Survivability, Security, Fault-Tolerance, and Real-time Scheduling. In 2004/2005 he was a visiting professor at the Institut d'Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble, at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France. His work has been funded by DoE/INL, DoT/NIATT, DoD/OST and NIST.