— Increasingly, licensing and safety regulatory bodies require the suppliers of software-intensive, safety-critical systems to provide an explicit software safety case – a stru...
Proof-carryingcode provides a mechanism for insuring that a host, or code consumer, can safely run code delivered by a code producer. The host specifies a safety policy as a set o...
In this paper, we propose a set of tasks that are relevant for the modular reuse of ontologies. In order to formalize these tasks as reasoning problems, we introduce the notions o...
Bernardo Cuenca Grau, Ian Horrocks, Yevgeny Kazako...
Organizations with different cultures will be increasingly required to interface with each other as legislation is introduced to ensure the interoperability of railway systems acr...
Transportation safety, one of the main driving forces of the development of vehicular communication (VC) systems, relies on high-rate safety messaging (beaconing). At the same time...
Panos Papadimitratos, Giorgio Calandriello, Jean-P...
The development of safety critical systems is guided by standards. Many standards require the development of a safety case to demonstrate the acceptability of Safety Critical Syst...
Preliminary work on the development of measures appropriate for the safety domain is reported. Measures are expressed in the style of the Practical Software and Systems Measuremen...
John Murdoch, Graham Clark, Antony Powell, Paul Ca...
Engineers who develop safety-related systems are required to work to remarkably high standards: SIL 1, the lowest classification recognised by the international standard IEC 61508...
This paper describes recently developed policy and procedures for safety management during system acquisition within the Australian government's Defence Materiel Organisation...
Assuring safety in the home network system (HNS) is a crucial issue to guarantee high quality of life. In this position paper, we first review our previous work, formulating three...