TY - GEN
T1 - Engineering safety information in software intensive systems
AU - Xia, Baiqiang
AU - Zhong, Deming
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Safety is crucial for software intensive systems. Safety-related accidents have resulted in great losses of human, system, environment and mission. However, safety concept is far long to be correctly understood and adequately engineered. Safety is more of a social problem than a technical problem, which addresses social risks instead of solely technical hazards. In engineering practices, most of safety-related work has been done under traditional reliability assumptions and approaches. This mismatch results into incomplete and inconsistent information of system risks, which accounts more for system accidents than implementation errors. This paper investigates the overall system properties, such as the corresponding underlying strategy in man-made system design, the basic characters of software intensive systems, and component-based safety-driven system engineering for these systems. It provides a broader view for system safety, which also give specific consideration for mission safety to assure completeness and consistency in engineering. Through injecting component-based ideas and approaches into safety-driven system engineering, a new approached is designed to engineering safety information in software intensive systems. In the end, a case studied shows the process and attributes of the approach.
AB - Safety is crucial for software intensive systems. Safety-related accidents have resulted in great losses of human, system, environment and mission. However, safety concept is far long to be correctly understood and adequately engineered. Safety is more of a social problem than a technical problem, which addresses social risks instead of solely technical hazards. In engineering practices, most of safety-related work has been done under traditional reliability assumptions and approaches. This mismatch results into incomplete and inconsistent information of system risks, which accounts more for system accidents than implementation errors. This paper investigates the overall system properties, such as the corresponding underlying strategy in man-made system design, the basic characters of software intensive systems, and component-based safety-driven system engineering for these systems. It provides a broader view for system safety, which also give specific consideration for mission safety to assure completeness and consistency in engineering. Through injecting component-based ideas and approaches into safety-driven system engineering, a new approached is designed to engineering safety information in software intensive systems. In the end, a case studied shows the process and attributes of the approach.
KW - Requirement engineering
KW - safety engineering
KW - software intensive system
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/80052501235
U2 - 10.1109/ICRMS.2011.5979360
DO - 10.1109/ICRMS.2011.5979360
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:80052501235
SN - 9781612846644
T3 - ICRMS'2011 - Safety First, Reliability Primary: Proceedings of 2011 9th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety
SP - 730
EP - 736
BT - ICRMS'2011 - Safety First, Reliability Primary
T2 - 2011 9th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety: Safety First, Reliability Primary, ICRMS'2011
Y2 - 12 June 2011 through 15 June 2011
ER -