SCS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
2003
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...
SCS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Systems whose failure can lead to the damage of property or the environment, or loss of human life are regarded as safety-critical systems. It is no longer adequate to build safet...
SCS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
2003
SIL's (Safety Integrity Levels) are used by IEC 61508:1998 [1] to characterise the required functional safety of computer control systems. For example, SIL 4, the highest rat...
SCS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
2003
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...
SCS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
2003
We perform a Why-Because Analysis (WBA) starting from the information in the Executive Summary of the U.S. DoD Aircraft Accident Investigation Board report on the shootdown of two ...
SCS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
2003
The decomposition of complex systems into manageable parts is an essential principle when dealing with complex technical systems. However, many safety and reliability modelling te...
SCS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
2003
This paper describes a method for performing safety analysis on an Integrated Modular Avionics system in a manner which supports the incremental development and change of system c...
SCS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Architectural based approaches to designing software are motivating changes in the way software is developed for safety-critical systems. These new approaches allow developers to d...