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SAFECOMP
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Assurance of Automotive Safety - A Safety Case Approach
A safety case should provide a clear, comprehensible and defensible argument, supported by evidence, that a system is acceptably safe to operate in a particular environment. This a...
Robert Palin, Ibrahim Habli
ICST
2010
IEEE
13 years 3 months ago
Characterizing the Chain of Evidence for Software Safety Cases: A Conceptual Model Based on the IEC 61508 Standard
— Increasingly, licensing and safety regulatory bodies require the suppliers of software-intensive, safety-critical systems to provide an explicit software safety case – a stru...
Rajwinder Kaur Panesar-Walawege, Mehrdad Sabetzade...
SCS
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Pragmatic Approach to Reasoning about the Assurance of Safety Arguments
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...
Rob Weaver, Jane Fenn, Tim Kelly
SCS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Contract-Based Justification for COTS Component within Safety Critical Applications
Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) software components are being used within complex safety-critical applications. However, to use them with confidence, it is necessary to ensure tha...
Fan Ye, Tim Kelly
SCS
2004
13 years 5 months ago
The HEAT/ACT Preliminary Safety Case: A case study in the use of Goal Structuring Notation
The HEAT/ACT project consists of replacing the conventional mechanical flight control system of a helicopter with a fly-by-wire system. With such a project, the safety concerns ar...
Paul Chinneck, David Pumfrey, John McDermid
SAFECOMP
1999
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
A Systematic Approach to Safety Case Maintenance
A crucial aspect of safety case management is the ongoing maintenance of the safety argument through life. Throughout the operational life of any system, the corresponding safety ...
Tim P. Kelly, John A. McDermid
ISSRE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Using Fault Modeling in Safety Cases
For many safety-critical systems a safety case is built as part of the certification or acceptance process. The safety case assembles evidence to justify that the design and imple...
Robyn R. Lutz, Ann Patterson-Hine