Safety critical systems challenges and directions

Safety-critical systems are those systems whose failure could result in loss of life, significant property damage, or damage to the environment. There are many well known examples in application areas such as medical devices, aircraft flight control, weapons, and nuclear systems. Many modern informa...

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Published inProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering pp. 547 - 550
Main Author Knight, John C.
Format Conference Proceeding Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 01.01.2002
IEEE
SeriesACM Conferences
Subjects
Aerospace control
Aircraft
Application software
Applied sciences
Computer science; control theory; systems
Exact sciences and technology
Information security
Modems
Pacemakers
Power system security
Social and professional topics > Professional topics > Management of computing and information systems > System management > Quality assurance
Software
Software and its engineering > Software creation and management > Software development techniques > Error handling and recovery
Software and its engineering > Software organization and properties > Software system structures > Software architectures
Software engineering
Software safety
Surgery
Weapons
Reactive system
Safety systems
Critical system
Information system
Dependability
Safety-critical software
Flight
Security of data
Software engineering
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ISBN158113472X
9781581134728
ISSN0270-5257
DOI10.1145/581339.581406

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Summary:Safety-critical systems are those systems whose failure could result in loss of life, significant property damage, or damage to the environment. There are many well known examples in application areas such as medical devices, aircraft flight control, weapons, and nuclear systems. Many modern information systems are becoming safety-critical in a general sense because financial loss and even loss of life can result from their failure. Future safety-critical systems will be more common and more powerful. From a software perspective, developing safety critical systems in the numbers required and with adequate dependability is going to require significant advances in areas such as specification, architecture, verification, and process. The very visible problems that have arisen in the area of information-system security suggests that security is a major challenge also.
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ISBN:158113472X
9781581134728
ISSN:0270-5257
DOI:10.1145/581339.581406