[SystemSafety] Call4Papers Australian System Safety Conference 2014

[Martin, BJ]

www.assc2014.org<http://www.assc2014.org>
Key Dates

Abstracts   -14 Dec2013

Notification  -21Dec 2013

Submission  -22Feb 2014

Final Paper  -30 Apr 2014

Overview
The technical program will feature a rich variety of contributions that include one day of tutorials and two days of forum papers. Participants may anticipate high quality contributions from many different domains including aerospace, automotive, defense, mining, health care (e.g., patient safety, medical technology), rail, robotics, critical infrastructure systems (e.g., nuclear energy generation) and industrial control systems.
Engineering has been experiencing large technological revolutions, but the basic engineering techniques being applied in safety and reliability engineering, were largely created for a simpler, analogue world and have changed very little over the years (Leveson, N. Engineering a Safer World. 2011). Software Safety: New Challenges & Solutions is the theme for ASSC2014.
How should we as safety professionals re-think some of these analogue-world assumptions made concerning all aspects of safety and justify the use of some new/different approaches to building safer systems in today's complex software-driven, and human assisted environments?
The intent is to explore the challenges being presented to system safety (especially software specialist) engineers and to engage in discussion of (potential) approaches and solutions to those challenges.
Several seeds, or lines of enquiry, are indicative of likely interest for papers:
*         Safety analysis challenges and benefits of software intensive systems
*         What delivers most value on software safety - hazard analysis, language & code standards, domain knowledge, or strong operator integration?
*         Software safety assurance - what is sufficient?
*         Assurance of Non-developed or Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) products
*         Structured Software Safety Analysis Techniques and Measures
*         Does the application of software quality techniques and measures really imply software safety?
*         Assessing Software Safety Risk / Integrity
*         Should failure rates be assigned to software?
We are interested in industry cross-pollenization and looking for papers on automation in Rail & Transportation, Medical & Health, Defence & Aviation, Mining, and Oil & Gas.



Cheers,
BJ Martin
System Safety Capability Lead
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