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Achieving Safety and Reliability with Computer Systems

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  1. B. K. Daniels

    1. National Computing Centre Ltd, Manchester, UK

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Software Specification and Design

    1. A Strategy for the Development of Safety Critical Software

      • J. Y. Bromell, S. J. Sadler
      Pages 1-13

    2. Formal Support for Development of Safety Related Systems

      • Janusz Gorski
      Pages 14-28

    3. Designing for Safety Using Ada Packages

      • I. C. Pyle
      Pages 29-43

  3. Software Verification, Acceptance and Certification

    1. Malpas — Verification of a Safety Critical System

      • J. T. Webb, D. Mannering
      Pages 44-58

    2. Acceptance Testing

      • J. B. Haynes
      Pages 59-65

    3. Experience in Developing and Certifying Embedded Software for Aerospace Applications

      • D A Rutherford, M Dewshi
      Pages 66-75

  4. Software Verification, Test and Analysis

    1. Fail-Safe Software — Some Principles and a Case Study

      • Wolfgang D. Ehrenberger
      Pages 76-88

    2. Verification — The Practical Problems

      • B. P. Phillips, S. G. Howe
      Pages 89-99

    3. Stem — A Project on Software Test and Evaluation Methods

      • P. G. Bishop, D. G. Esp, F. D. Pullen, M. Barnes, P. Humphreys, G. Dahll et al.
      Pages 100-117

  5. Software Reliability and Safety Assessment and Data

    1. The Musa Data Revisited: Alternative Methods and Structure in Software Reliability Modelling and Analysis

      • N. Davies, J. M. Marriott, D. W. Wightman, A. Bendell
      Pages 118-130

    2. Statistical Methods for Software Reliability Assessment, Past, Present and Future

      • A. Veevers, E. Petrova, A. C. Marshall
      Pages 131-140

    3. The Development of Techniques for Safety and Reliability Assessment: Past, Present and Future

      • C. J. Dale, S. Foster
      Pages 141-151

    4. A Model to Support the Collection and Analysis of Software Engineering Data

      • Niall Ross
      Pages 152-171

  6. Case Studies

    1. The Thorp Approach to Safe Control

      • B. R. Martin, R. I. Wright
      Pages 172-181

    2. Highly Reliable Microcomputer Systems for Railway Control

      • L. CegÅ‚owski, A. LewiÅ„ski
      Pages 182-188

    3. Lessons Learned from the Failure of a Computer System Controlling a Nylon Polymer Plant

      • I. Nimmo, S. R. Nunns, B. W. Eddershaw
      Pages 189-206

  7. Standards and their Application Towards Safe and Reliable Computer Systems

    1. The Work of the Technical Committee on Safety, Security and Reliability of Industrial Computer Systems: European Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems

      • Jean-Marie Albert Rata
      Pages 207-217

    2. Testing of a Hardware Unit of a Nuclear Power Plant Protection System — the IEEE 796 Bus

      • S. Bologna, M. Minichino, D. Del Corso, F. Maddaleno, E. Pasero
      Pages 218-231

    3. Beyond Good Practices — A Standard for Safety Critical Software

      • K Geary
      Pages 232-241
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About this book

The safe operation of computer systems, in both their software and hardware continues to be a key issue in many real time applications, when people, environment, investment or goodwill can be at risk. Such applications include the monitoring and control of high energy processes, of nuclear and chemical plants, of factory automation, of transportation systems, or funds transfer and of communication and information systems. This book represents the proceedings of the 1987 Safety and Reliability Society Symposium held in Altrincham, UK, 11-12 November 1987. It is thus part of the series of proceedings for Society Events, which in previous years have not addressed the topic of the Safety and Reliability of Computer Systems. The book is also part of another series of reports, and is closely related to the Elsevier Book "Safety and Reliability of Programmable Electronic Systems" which I edited in 1986, and the series of workshops known as SAFECOMP held in 1979, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986 which are referenced in some of the papers. The structure of the book represents the structure of the Symposium itself. The session titles, and the papers as selected represent the current practice in many industries. The trend is towards more industrial usage of Formal Methods, and tools to support these methods, whilst continuing to make best use of Software Engineering, Safety and Reliability Assessment, and accumulated experience.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Computing Centre Ltd, Manchester, UK

    B. K. Daniels

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Achieving Safety and Reliability with Computer Systems

  • Editors: B. K. Daniels

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3461-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Elsevier Applied Science Publishers Ltd 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-85166-167-1Published: 30 November 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-8050-7Published: 17 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3461-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 293

  • Topics: Mechanical Engineering, Statistics, general, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems

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