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Developments in Risk-based Approaches to Safety

Proceedings of the Fourteenth Safety-citical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 7-9 February 2006

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  • © 2006

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  1. Felix Redmill

    1. Redmill Consultancy, London

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  2. Tom Anderson

    1. Centre for Software Reliability, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne

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Table of contents (16 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Tutorial

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. People and Systems: Striking a Safe Balance between Human and Machine

      • Carl Sandom, Derek Fowler
      Pages 3-22

  3. New Approaches to Risk Assessment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Risk Assessment for M42 Active Traffic Management

      • Max Halbert, Steve Tucker
      Pages 25-45

    3. Safety Risk Assessment by Monte Carlo Simulation of Complex Safety Critical Operations

      • Henk A. P. Blom, Sybert H. Stroeve, Hans H. de Jong
      Pages 47-67

    4. So how do you make a full ALARP justification? Introducing the Accident Tetrahedron as a guide for Approaching Completeness.

      • Richard Maguire
      Pages 69-80

  4. Experience of Developing Safety Cases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Safety Case Practice - Meet the Challenge

      • Werner Winkelbauer, Gabriele Schedl, Andreas Gerstinger
      Pages 83-104

    3. Safety Case Development - a Practical Guide

      • Derek Fowler, Bernd Tiemeyer
      Pages 105-137

  5. Management Influence on Safety

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
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    2. Governing Safety Management

      • Andrew Vickers
      Pages 141-153

    3. Understanding the Risks Posed by Management

      • Felix Redmill
      Pages 155-169

    4. Common Law Safety Case Approaches to Safety Critical Systems Assurance

      • Kevin J Anderson
      Pages 171-183

  6. Software Safety

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Ada 2005 for High-Integrity Systems

      • José F. Ruiz
      Pages 187-198

    3. Safety Aspects of a Landing Gear System

      • Dewi Daniels
      Pages 199-213

  7. New Technologies in Safety-Critical Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. Optimising Data-Driven Safety Related Systems

      • Richard Everson, Jonathan Fieldsend, Trevor Bailey, Wojtek Krzanowski, Derek Partridge, Vitaly Schetinin et al.
      Pages 217-230

    3. Classification with Confidence for Critical Systems

      • D. Partridge, T. C. Bailey, R. M. Everson, J. E. Fieldsend, A. Hernandez, W. J. Krzanowski et al.
      Pages 231-239
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About this book

Developments in Risk-based Approaches to Safety contains the invited papers presented at the Fourteenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Bristol, UK in February 2006.

The papers included in this volume address the most critical topics in the field of safety-critical systems. The focus this year, considered from various perspectives, is on recent developments in risk-based approaches. Subjects discussed include innovation in risk analysis, management risk, the safety case, software safety, language development and the creation of systems for complex control functions.

Papers provide a mix of industrial experience and academic research results and are presented under the headings: Tutorial, New Approaches to Risk Assessment, Experience of Developing Safety Cases, Management Influence on Safety, Software Safety, New Technologies in Safety-critical Systems, Adding Dimensions to Safety Cases.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Redmill Consultancy, London

    Felix Redmill

  • Centre for Software Reliability, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne

    Tom Anderson

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Developments in Risk-based Approaches to Safety

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Safety-citical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 7-9 February 2006

  • Editors: Felix Redmill, Tom Anderson

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-447-3

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2006

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84628-333-8Published: 01 March 2006

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-84628-447-2Published: 28 December 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 292

  • Number of Illustrations: 68 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Software Engineering, System Performance and Evaluation

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