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DMS
2008
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13 years 6 months ago
Emergency Control in Shipyard Safety Systems
Large shipyards for gigantic cruise ships require a special attention to safety due to the huge number of workers involved and to the complex structure of spaces. A critical issue...
Augusto Celentano, Fabio Furlan, Stefano Burcovich
DSN
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
System safety as an emergent property in composite systems
Decomposition is used to manage system complexity, but is problematic for emergent properties such as system safety. Previously, we introduced Indirect Control Path Analysis (ICPA...
Jennifer Black, Philip Koopman
CDC
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Open and emerging control problems in tokamak plasma control
— The tokamak concept for magnetic confinement of fusion plasmas is now quite mature scientifically. This maturity is evidenced by the ongoing worldwide effort to design and cons...
M. L. Walker, Eugenio Schuster, Didier Mazon, Didi...
HASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Formal Support for Quantitative Analysis of Residual Risks in Safety-Critical Systems
With the increasing complexity in software and electronics in safety-critical systems new challenges to lower the costs and decrease time-to-market, while preserving high assuranc...
Jonas Elmqvist, Simin Nadjm-Tehrani
HYBRID
1998
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Formal Verification of Safety-Critical Hybrid Systems
This paper investigates how formal techniques can be used for the analysis and verification of hybrid systems [1,5,7,16] -- systems involving both discrete and continuous behavior....
Carolos Livadas, Nancy A. Lynch