Guidance on the assurance of machine learning in autonomous systems (AMLAS)

R Hawkins, C Paterson, C Picardi, Y Jia… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Machine Learning (ML) is now used in a range of systems with results that are reported to
exceed, under certain conditions, human performance. Many of these systems, in domains …

[PDF][PDF] The goal structuring notation–a safety argument notation

T Kelly, R Weaver - … of the dependable systems and networks …, 2004 - dslab.konkuk.ac.kr
In Europe, over recent years, the responsibility for ensuring system safety has shifted onto
the developers and operators to construct and present well reasoned arguments that their …

[PDF][PDF] Arguing safety: a systematic approach to managing safety cases

TP Kelly - 1999 - Citeseer
A safety case should present a clear, comprehensive and defensible argument that a system
is acceptably safe to operate within a particular context. However, many existing safety …

Medical cyber physical systems

I Lee, O Sokolsky - Proceedings of the 47th design automation …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
We discuss current trends in the development and use of high-confidence medical cyber-
physical systems (MCPS). These trends, including increased reliance on software to deliver …

Safety and assurance cases: Past, present and possible future–an Adelard perspective

R Bloomfield, P Bishop - Making Systems Safer: Proceedings of the …, 2009 - Springer
This paper focuses on the approaches used in safety cases for software based systems. We
outline the history of approaches for assuring the safety of software-based systems, the …

COVID-19 impacts construction industry: now, then and future

S Majumder, D Biswas - COVID-19: prediction, decision-making, and its …, 2021 - Springer
The construction industry is one of the most important industries for national development in
the world. It is an unorganized sector and most of the time human-driven; a large number of …

Weaving an assurance case from design: a model-based approach

R Hawkins, I Habli, D Kolovos… - 2015 IEEE 16th …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Assurance cases are used to demonstrate confidence in properties of interest for a system,
eg For safety or security. A model-based assurance case seeks to bring the benefits of …

Model based system assurance using the structured assurance case metamodel

R Wei, TP Kelly, X Dai, S Zhao, R Hawkins - Journal of Systems and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Assurance cases are used to demonstrate confidence in system properties of interest (eg
safety and/or security). A number of system assurance approaches are adopted by …

Resolute: an assurance case language for architecture models

A Gacek, J Backes, D Cofer, K Slind… - ACM SIGAda Ada …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Arguments about the safety, security, and correctness of a complex system are often made in
the form of an assurance case. An assurance case is a structured argument, often …

Model checking of safety-critical software in the nuclear engineering domain

J Lahtinen, J Valkonen, K Björkman, J Frits… - Reliability Engineering & …, 2012 - Elsevier
Instrumentation and control (I&C) systems play a vital role in the operation of safety-critical
processes. Digital programmable logic controllers (PLC) enable sophisticated control tasks …