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On the provision of safety assurance via safety kernels for modern weapon systems

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dc.contributor Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
dc.contributor Computer Science (CS)
dc.creator Michael, J. Bret
dc.creator Nerode, Anil
dc.creator Wijesekera, Duminda
dc.date 2017-11-21T18:01:41Z
dc.date 2017-11-21T18:01:41Z
dc.date 2005-11
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-19T00:15:25Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-19T00:15:25Z
dc.identifier J.B. Michael, A. Nerode, D. Wijesekera, "On the provision of safety assurance via safety kernels for modern weapon systems," Proceedings of the Workshop on Software Assessment 5th, Chicago, Illinois, November 8, 2005, 4 p.
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10945/56228
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/55601
dc.description In this paper we discuss some of the challenges and approaches for providing safety assurance for modern weapon systems via software-based safety kernels. We argue that software-centric approaches for designing and verifying safety kernels are flawed. We claim that the design and verification of safety kernels for complex event-driven real-time systems is a matter of physics and dynamical system analysis of system design. We describe an approach for rapidly prototyping safety kernels (and plants and controllers) using an agent-based safety-kernel architecture. The approach utilizes multiagent modeling and hybrid automata.
dc.format 4 p.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.publisher IEEE
dc.rights This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
dc.subject System safety
dc.subject Safety kernel
dc.subject Hybrid automata
dc.subject Verification
dc.title On the provision of safety assurance via safety kernels for modern weapon systems
dc.type Article


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