The traditional role of cars as a means of transport is now expected to undergo major
changes as a result of the emerging smart car industry, whereby connection to the Internet …

Future safety-critical systems will be highly automated or even autonomous and they will
dynamically cooperate with other systems as part of a comprehensive ecosystem. This …

Internet of Things (IoT) is a collection of smart objects which communicate with each other
within a network. IoT is everything which is connected to the internet to send and receive …

For safety critical systems like cars, trains, or airplanes quality assurance methods and
techniques are crucial for preventing situations that may harm people. The case of …

A highly sensitive and flexible piezoresistive sensor is fabricated by Spacial Confined
Forced Network Assembly (SCFNA) method in this paper. Polydimethylsiloxane …

As road vehicles increase their autonomy and the driver reduces his role in the control loop,
novel challenges on dependability assessment arise. Model-based design combined with a …

As automated driving vehicles become more sophisticated and pervasive, it is increasingly
important to assure its safety even in the presence of faults. This paper presents a simulation …

Self-adaptive approaches aim to address the complexity of modern computing generated by
the runtime variabilities and uncertainties. In this context, MAPE-K loop is considered today …

Context-aware applications present common requirements (eg, heterogeneity, scalability,
adaptability, availability) in a variety of domains (eg, healthcare, natural disaster prevention …

The availability of functionality is a crucial aspect of mission-and safety-critical systems. This
is for instance demonstrated by the pursuit to automate road transportation. Here, the driver …