The design of complex Physical Protection Systems (PPSs) still raises some challenges
despite the high number of technologies for smart surveillance. One reason is the lack of …

Software-intensive systems become more and more important in safety critical applications,
mainly because of the rising number and complexity of embedded system. Many traditional …

Safety critical systems or applications must satisfy safety requirements ensuring that
catastrophic consequences of combined component failures are avoided or kept below a …

Safety-critical systems can be negatively affected by faults such as component failures or
environmental disturbances. One or more occurrences of such faults might lead to hazards …

The increasing complexity of modern software-intensive systems makes their analysis much
more difficult. At the same time, more and more of these systems are used in safety-critical …

In early design phases, it is vital to be able to screen the design space for a set of promising
design alternatives for further study. This article presents a method able to balance several …

Embedded Systems may have competing design objectives, such as to maximize the
reliability, increase the functional safety, minimize the product cost, and minimize the energy …

Embedded systems become a major part in many domains. This also involves systems
which might create heavy damages and injuries when they fail. However, because of the …

Although model-based approaches can yield very precises safety analysis, they are rarely
used in practice. The reason is, that most techniques are very difficult to apply and almost …

Even in the domain of safety critical systems, safety and reliability are not the only goals and
a developing engineer is faced with the problem to find good compromises wrt. other …