Safety and Reliability of Software Based Systems

Formal Methods and their Role in the Certification of Critical Systems.- Safety Cases - How Did We Get Here?.- System Safety - Challenge and Chance for Automotive Applications.- The SHIP Safety Case Approach: A Combination of System and Software Methods.- Decision Making and Planning by Autonomous Agents; A Generic Architecture for Safety-Critical Applications.- Safety Case Development: Current Practice, Future Prospects.- Assuring Confidence in Pharmaceutical Software.- Computer-based Safety Systems - The Elements of an Acceptable Safety Case.- An Assessment Methodology for Safety Critical Computer Based Systems.- The Safety of PES in the Offshore Industry.- The Role of Measurement in Software Safety Assessment.- "Unexpected (and Sometimes Unpleasant) Lessons from Data in Real Software Systems".- Improving C Code Quality.- Improving Reuse in Space (IRIS).- Software Based Systems Dependability Requirements in the Process Industries.- Applying the B-Method to Avionics Software: An Initial Report on the MIST Project.- Application of an Integrated, Modular, Metric Based System and Software Test Concept.- Railway Safety Cases.- A Comparison of Different Safety-Critical Approaches used in Industry.- Safety Cases for Software-Based Systems.- Object-Oriented Approach to Safety Analysis.- FMEA and FTA to Support Safe Design of Embedded Software in Safety-Critical Systems.- Use of Hazard Analysis Techniques During the Product Life Cycle: HAZOP and FMEA Compared.- Computer Risks and Some Legal Consequences.- Software Design-Faults Simulation.- A Framework for Certifying Critical Software Systems.- A Statistical and Automated Code-Based Fault-Tree Mitigation Framework for C++.- ARTIE: A Proven Correct Architecture for Safety-Critical Applications.- Author Index.