The Safety-Critical Systems Lectures Series


Contributions by

Jan Peleska

and many others whose names will be listed here during the next lectures.


Context of this Lectures Series

This is a series of lectures and seminars of our initiative Graduate Studies in Safety-Critical Systems. It is intended for an international audience of engineers working in the field, graduate students working on their Diploma, Masters, PhD of Habilitation degrees in computer science or electrical engineering. Due to the international character of the initiative, lectures will be held in English. At present, the lecture series is divided into three parts, each part planned as a two hours/week lecture for one semester:


Objectives and summary of the Safety-Critical Systems II Lecture

For the development of safety-critical systems, it does not suffice to know the safety-related technical aspects; it is of equal importance to justify that the complete development process - from requirements definition to acceptance testing - has been performed adequately. The term "adequately" refers to a whole range of aspects which are of both organisational and technical nature: The themes and questions sketched above will be presented and discussed in more detail in the Safety-Critical Systems II lectures. We will introduce the basic concepts of total quality management, introduce the most important standards for safety-critical developments in avionics, space systems, railways and medical systems and explain the common concepts underlying these standards. Reuse and extreme programming are discussed for potential application in safety-critical developments.

We would like to emphasise two aspects of these lectures: First, our research group has considerable experience in the practical application of these concepts in projects with our partners from avionics, railways and space industry. As a consequence, we may justifiably claim that we not only know how these concepts are meant to be applied in practice, but also know why and when they fail to produce the desired results. Second, IT experts wishing to work as project managers or as managers responsible for product quality should be familiar with the topics introduced in this lecture: The increasing amount of software in safety-critical systems requires that these developments should rather be managed by computer scientists than by electrical engineers.


Related Activities of Other Groups and Organisations


References

More references will be introduced during the lectures!



Exercises

Serie 1 (ps, pdf)

Serie 2 (ps, pdf)


Jan Peleska / Bremen Institute of Safe Systems BISS / < jp@informatik.uni-bremen.de> / 08-APR-2001