Developments in risk-based approaches to safety
Subtitle: proceedings of the fourteenth Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 7-9 February 2006
By: Felix Redmill and Tom Anderson (eds.).
Contributors: Redmill, Felix.; Anderson, Tom, 1947-
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781846283338
Subjects: Industrial safety -- Management -- Congresses.; Automatic control -- Reliability -- Congresses.; Computer software -- Reliability -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
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.
Notes: "Safety-Critical Systems Club"-t.p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.