Abstract Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) is a well-established and well-understood technique,
widely used for dependability evaluation of a wide range of systems. Although many …

Co** with evolution in automated production systems implies a cross-disciplinary
challenge along the system's life-cycle for variant-rich systems of high complexity. The …

The scale and complexity of computer-based safety critical systems, like those used in the
transport and manufacturing industries, pose significant challenges for failure analysis. Over …

This paper considers the design-phase safety analysis of vehicle guidance systems. The
proposed approach constructs dynamic fault trees (DFTs) to model a variety of safety …

Context: Managing Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) in software projects is
challenging, and projects that adopt Model-Driven Development (MDD) are no exception …

The ability to perform an effective and robust safety analysis on the design of modern safety–
critical systems is crucial. Model-based safety analysis (MBSA) has been introduced in …

There are many challenges which face designers of complex system architectures,
particularly safety–critical or real-time systems. The introduction of Architecture Description …

Architecture trade-off analysis methods are appropriate techniques to evaluate design
decisions and design alternatives with respect to conflicting quality requirements. However …

Systems and software architects require quantitative dependability evaluations, which allow
them to compare the effect of their design decisions on dependability properties. For …

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a method for assessing cause-consequence
relations between component faults and hazards that may occur during the lifetime of a …