Safety-Critical Systems: Prescient, Presignifying, Public-Good Systems
BibTeX
@MISC{Public-good_safety-criticalsystems:,
author = {Prescient Presignifying Public-good and Khurshid Ahmad and Ai Group},
title = {Safety-Critical Systems: Prescient, Presignifying, Public-Good Systems},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The emergence of safety-critical systems and their much desired institutionalisation involves domain- and applications-independent issues that, in some sense, can be related to the interdependent issues of knowledge, language, and ethics. The design, maintenance, upgrading and decommissioning of existing networks for carrying, for example, water, gas or oil, are good examples where the triumvirate, that of knowledge, language and ethics, makes its presence felt. Knowledge based on experience, complemented by archives of regulatory, legislative, learned and popular texts, has to be articulated across and within groups of wellmotivated individuals and organisations involved in making decisions regarding safe design, safe maintenance, safe upgrading and safe decommissioning in part, or in whole of an in-situ network. The safetycritical systems community should consider ways in which experiential knowledge of safe operation/design and so on can be collected and used in conjunction with a g...







