Developments in Risk-based Approaches to Safety: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Safety-citical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 7-9 February 2006
By Safety-Critical Systems Club, Felix Redmill, Tom Anderson

Publisher:   Springer

Number Of Pages:   294

Publication Date:   2006-06-21

ISBN-10 / ASIN:   1846283337

ISBN-13 / EAN:   9781846283338

Binding:   Paperback

Product Description:

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.