{"title":"Why modern systems should minimize the use of safety critical software*","authors":"J. M. Covan","doi":"10.1109/HASE.1999.809503","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Many high consequence systems today are being controlled, or are under consideration for control, by software. Such systems are called high consequence because their failure could result in large numbers of fatalities or injuries, great environmental despoilment, or complete loss of mission or business purpose.","PeriodicalId":369187,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings 4th IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings 4th IEEE International Symposium on High-Assurance Systems Engineering","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HASE.1999.809503","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Many high consequence systems today are being controlled, or are under consideration for control, by software. Such systems are called high consequence because their failure could result in large numbers of fatalities or injuries, great environmental despoilment, or complete loss of mission or business purpose.