Cognitive systems engineering
Safeware: system safety and computers
Safeware: system safety and computers
An introduction to general systems thinking (silver anniversary ed.)
An introduction to general systems thinking (silver anniversary ed.)
Software—Practice & Experience
Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Cybernetics, Second Edition: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Hidden Implementation Dependencies in High Assurance and Critical Computing Systems
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Safety and Software Intensive Systems: Challenges Old and New
FOSE '07 2007 Future of Software Engineering
Dynamically Evolvable Dependable Software: From Oxymoron to Reality
Concurrency, Graphs and Models
A pattern system of underlying theories for process improvement
Proceedings of the 17th Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs
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Traditional accident models were devised to explain losses caused by failures of physical devices in relatively simple systems. They are less useful for explaining accidents in software-intensive systems and for nontechnical aspects of safety such as organizational culture and human decision-making. This paper describes how systems theory can be used to form new accident models that better explain system accidents (accidents arising from the interactions among components rather than individual component failure), software-related accidents, and the role of human decision-making. Such models consider the social and technical aspects of systems as one integrated process and may be useful for other emergent system properties such as security. The loss of a Milstar satellite being launched by a Titan/Centaur launch vehicle is used as an illustration of the approach.