The Safety of Systems: Proceedings of the Fifteenth Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 13-15 February 2007 (Safety-Critical Systems Club)

__The Safety of Systems__ contains the invited papers presented at the fifteenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Bristol, UK in February 2007. The papers included in this volume cover a broad spectrum of important safety issues. They provide a combination of industrial experience and recent developments, and are presented under the headings: Interdependence of Safety and Security, Demonstrating Safety, Safety Management, Trends in Safety Case Development, Lessons in Safety Assessment, and High Integrity from Specification to Code. Front Matter....Pages I-X Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Achieving Safety through Security Management....Pages 3-20 Towards a Unified Approach to Safety and Security in Automotive Systems....Pages 21-34 Dependability-by-Contract....Pages 35-51 Front Matter....Pages 53-53 Achieving Integrated Process and Product Safety Arguments....Pages 55-68 The Benefits of Electronic Safety Cases....Pages 69-82 Front Matter....Pages 83-83 A Longitudinal Analysis of the Causal Factors in Major Maritime Accidents in the USA and Canada (1996–2006)....Pages 85-104 A Proactive Approach to Enhancing Safety Culture....Pages 105-115 Comparing and Contrasting some of the Approaches in UK and USA Safety Assessment Processes....Pages 117-129 Front Matter....Pages 131-131 Safety Case Composition Using Contracts - Refinements based on Feedback from an Industrial Case Study....Pages 133-146 The Sum of its Parts....Pages 147-159 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 Independently Assessing Legacy Safety Systems....Pages 163-178 Safety Assessments of Air Traffic Systems....Pages 179-195 CARA: A Human Reliability Assessment Tool for Air Traffic Safety Management — Technical Basis and Preliminary Architecture....Pages 197-214 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 AMBERS: Improving Requirements Specification Through Assertive Models and SCADE/DOORS Integration....Pages 217-241 Formalising C and C++ for Use in High Integrity Systems....Pages 243-260 The Safety of Systems contains the invited papers presented at the fifteenth annual Safety-critical Systems Symposium, held at Bristol, UK in February 2007. The papers included in this volume cover a broad spectrum of important safety issues. They provide a combination of industrial experience and recent developments, and are presented under a variety of headings.