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This conference looks to provide answers to a very important question, "How can we make the computer systems and communication networks that we increasingly rely upon more dependable?" The technical program of DSN 2003 lets researchers, practitioners, and users to learn the latest research results and the state of the practice in dependable systems and networks. This volume contains the papers and presentations of the DCC (Dependable Computing and Communications Symposium) and IPDS (International Performance and Dependability Symposium) tracks.