| 1994 | Foundation of a German community within of the European network ENCRESS (European Network of Clubs for Reliability and Safety of Software-Intensive Systems) at the Institute for Safety Technology (ISTec GmbH) in Garching (near Munich); the foundation is part of the work carried out within the European Programme ESSI (European Systems and Software Initiative). |
| Goal | to support information exchange and cross-fertilization across National and European Communities working for Reliability and Safety of Software-based Systems. |
| Target members | All persons concerned with this topic, in particular developers, researchers, assessors and users, with industrial or academic background. |
| 1994 - 97 | co-ordination of the German community at the Institute for Safety Technology (ISTec GmbH) in Garching (near Munich). |
| since 1998 | the German community becomes Technical Group ENCRESS within the Technical Section Technical Computer Science of the German Computer Society (GI, Geselschaft für Informatik) as well as of the German Information Technicology Society (ITG, Informationstechnische Gesellschaft) within VDE (Verein Deutscher Elektrotechniker) |
| since 2002 | in addition to Section ENCRESS becomes also a Technical Group within the newly founded Division Safety & Security - Protection and Reliability of the German Computer Society |