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2006
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Architectural support for safe software execution on embedded processors
The lack of memory safety in many popular programming languages, including C and C++, has been a cause for great concern in the realm of software reliability, verification, and mo...
Divya Arora, Anand Raghunathan, Srivaths Ravi, Nir...
DATE
2007
IEEE
145views Hardware» more  DATE 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Using an innovative SoC-level FMEA methodology to design in compliance with IEC61508
This paper proposes an innovative methodology to perform and validate a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) at System-on-Chip (SoC) level. This is done in compliance with the...
Riccardo Mariani, Gabriele Boschi, Federico Colucc...
AMET
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Bid Evaluation and Selection in the MAGNET Automated Contracting System
We present an approach to the bid-evaluation problem in a system for multi-agent contract negotiation, called MAGNET. The MAGNET market infrastructure provides support for a variet...
Erik S. Steinmetz, John Collins, Scott Jamison, Ra...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
149views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 2 months ago
A hybrid actuation approach for human-friendly robot design
Abstract— Safety is a critical characteristic for robots designed to operate in human environments. This paper presents the concept of hybrid actuation for the development of hum...
Dongjun Shin, Irene Sardellitti, Oussama Khatib
SNPD
2008
13 years 9 months ago
An Approach to Modeling Software Safety
: Software for safety-critical systems has to deal with the hazards identified by safety analysis in order to make the system safe, risk-free and fail-safe. Software safety is a co...
M. Ben Swarup, P. Seetha Ramaiah