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FM
2003
Springer
115views Formal Methods» more  FM 2003»
14 years 23 days ago
Model Checking FTA
Safety is increasingly important for software based, critical systems. Fault tree analysis (FTA) is a safety technique from engineering, developed for analyzing and assessing syste...
Andreas Thums, Gerhard Schellhorn
ICECCS
1998
IEEE
161views Hardware» more  ICECCS 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
A Method and a Technique to Model and Ensure Timeliness in Safety Critical Real-Time Systems
The main focus of this paper is the problem of ensuring timeliness in safety critical systems. First, we introduce a method and its associated technique to model both real-time ta...
Christophe Aussaguès, Vincent David
SAFECOMP
2007
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Modeling and Automatic Failure Analysis of Safety-Critical Systems Using Extended Safecharts
With the rapid progress in science and technology, we find ubiquitous use of safety-critical systems in avionics, consumer electronics, and medical instruments. In such systems, u...
Yean-Ru Chen, Pao-Ann Hsiung, Sao-Jie Chen
FTCS
1998
114views more  FTCS 1998»
13 years 9 months ago
Verification of a Safety-Critical Railway Interlocking System with Real-Time Constraints
Ensuring the correctness of computer systems used in lifecritical applications is very difficult. The most commonly used verification methods, simulation and testing, are not exha...
Vicky Hartonas-Garmhausen, Sérgio Vale Agui...
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