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HASE
2008
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Aiding Modular Design and Verification of Safety-Critical Time-Triggered Systems by Use of Executable Formal Specifications
Designing safety-critical systems is a complex process, and especially when the design is carried out at different f abstraction where the correctness of the design at one level i...
Kohei Sakurai, Péter Bokor, Neeraj Suri
SCS
2003
13 years 5 months ago
Security as a Safety Issue in Rail Communications
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...
Jason Smith, Selwyn Russell, Mark Looi
SCS
2003
13 years 5 months ago
A Contract-based Approach to Designing Safe Systems
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...
Iain Bate, Richard Hawkin, John A. McDermid
SAFECOMP
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Using Formal Methods in a Retrospective Safety Case
Today the development of safety-critical systems is to a large extent guided by standards that make demands on both development process and system quality. Before the advent of the...
Lars-Henrik Eriksson
SAFECOMP
2007
Springer
13 years 10 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
ICSE
2007
IEEE-ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Languages for Safety-Critical Software: Issues and Assessment
Safety-critical systems (whose anomalous behavior could have catastrophic consequences such as loss of human life) are becoming increasingly prevalent; standards such as DO-178B, ...
Benjamin M. Brosgol
IFIP
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Contextual Inquiry in Signal Boxes of a Railway Organization
A number of selected field-study techniques have been validated in a case study in the domain of railway signal boxes. The context of this work is the endeavour of a human-centred ...
Joke Van Kerckhoven, Sabine Geldof, Bart Vermeersc...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Safety-critical interaction: usability in incidents and accidents
Recent years have seen an increasing use of sophisticated interaction techniques in the field of command and control systems. The use of such techniques has been required in order...
Philippe A. Palanque, Floor Koornneef, Chris Johns...