Practical Elements of Safety Proceedings of the Twelfth Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Birmingham, UK, 17–19 February 2004

Practical Elements of Safety contains the invited papers presented at the Twelfth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Birmingham, UK in February 2004. The papers included in this volume focus on the themes of the identification and analysis of risk - using the UK railway as an industry...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Redmill, Felix (Editor), Anderson, Tom (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 2004, 2004
Edition:1st ed. 2004
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • List
  • Keynote
  • Dear Sir, Yours faithfully: An Everyday Story of Formality
  • Mature and Practical Formality
  • Safe Object-Oriented Software: The Verified Design-By-Contract Paradigm
  • A Rigorous Specification Technique for High Quality Software
  • Managing Risk in the Railway Industry
  • Development and Use of the UK Railway Network’s Safety Risk Model
  • Safety Decision Making for the Railway
  • Safety Integrity Levels
  • Methods of Determining Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Requirements - Pros and Cons
  • An Examination of the IEC 61508 Approach Towards Safety Integrity Levels and Modes of Operation of Safety Functions
  • The Human Side of Risk
  • Chasing Shadows: Science Journalism and the Politics of Risk
  • Completing the Human Safety Jigsaw
  • Assessment and the Derivation of Evidence
  • Evidence Gathering Using Static Code Analysis
  • Estimating PLC Logic Program Reliability
  • A Systematic Framework for the Assessment of Operating Systems
  • Safety Argument and the Law
  • The Changing Face of UK Safety Legislation
  • Turning up the HEAT on Safety Case Construction