Safety-critical Systems

• Preface. The Safety-Critical Systems Club. Current issues. Software in safety-critical applications - a review of current issues. Issues in the development of safety-critical systems. The JFIT safety-critical systems research programme: origins and intentions. Natural language processing for requirements specifications. ViewPoint-orientated development: applications in composite systems. The FOREST technique for system specification and validation. Requirements development for safety-critical systems - a total systems approach. A methodology for requirements management applied to safety requirements. Target qualities of safety professionals. Organisation of industrial training. The IEE draft policy on educational requirements for safety-critical systems engineers. Technology transfer through the teaching company scheme. An industry view of training requirements for safety-critical systems professionals. Safety-critical software professionals in the BCS industry career structure. Safety of medical robots. Engineering safety into expert systems. Safety-critical system monitoring using default-trained neural networks. The European approach to standards in medical informatics. Deficiencies in existing software engineering standards as exposed by SMARTIE. Risk and system integrity concepts for safety-related control systems. Towards safe road transport informatic systems. Defence standard 00-56: background and revision. Index.

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