The hacker's dictionary
A translation approach to portable ontology specifications
Knowledge Acquisition - Special issue: Current issues in knowledge modeling
Safeware: system safety and computers
Safeware: system safety and computers
Logical foundations of object-oriented and frame-based languages
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Performance and reliability analysis of computer systems: an example-based approach using the SHARPE software package
Requirements analysis using forward and backward search
Annals of Software Engineering
Using FMEA models and ontologies to build diagnostic models
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Basic Concepts and Taxonomy of Dependable and Secure Computing
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
SAFECOMP'11 Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Computer safety, reliability, and security
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Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a widely used dependability and safety technique aiming at systematically identifying failure modes, their generating causes and their effects on the system. While FMEA has been mainly thought for hardware systems, its use is also advocated for software (SW-FMEA). This involves several major challenges, such as the complexity of functional requirements, the difficulty to identify failure modes of SW components, the elusive nature of faults. We present an approach for efficient and effective manipulation of data involved in the SW-FMEA process, introducing an ontological model which formalizes concepts involved in the analysis. The methodology provides a common conceptual framework supporting cohesion across different stages of a development life-cycle, giving a precise semantics to concepts collected in the artifacts of an industrial documentation process. This also opens the way to the implementation of a tool, built on top of a stack of semantic web technologies, for automating the SW-FMEA process. Results of the application of the methodology and the tool to a real scenario, in which activities and documents are regulated by well-established standards, are reported. The experience proves the suitability and the practical effectiveness of the approach, showing improvements on SW-FMEA practices.