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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.4, 8.9, TC 5 International Cross-Domain Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, CD-ARES 2013, held in Regensburg, Germany, in September 2013. The 21 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the volume. The papers concentrate on the many aspects of information systems bridging the gap between research results in computer science and the many application fields. They are organized in the following topical sections: economic, ethical, legal, multilingual, organizational and social aspects; context-oriented information integration; data/information management as a service; context-oriented information integration and location-aware computing; security and privacy; risk management and business continuity; and security and privacy and location based applications. Also included are 15 papers from a special session on Human-Computer Interaction and Knowledge Discovery (HCI-KDD 2013).