Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems

✍ Scribed by Jong Gyun Choi, Poong Hyun Seong (auth.), Poong Hyun Seong (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 314
• Series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems provides some important coverage of reliability issues and their corresponding countermeasures in the field of large-scale digital control systems, from the hardware and software in digital systems to the human operators who supervise the overall process of large-scale systems. Unlike other books which examine theories and issues in individual fields, this book reviews important problems and countermeasures across the fields of hardware and system reliability, software reliability, verification and validation, digital systems, human factors engineering and human reliability analysis.

Divided into four sections dealing with hardware and digital system reliability, software reliability, human reliability and human operators in integrated large scale digital systems operation, Reliability and Risk Issues in Large Scale Safety-critical Digital Control Systems offers insights from professional researchers in each specialized field in a diverse yet unified approach.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Reliability of Electronic Components....Pages 3-24
Issues in System Reliability and Risk Model....Pages 25-46
Case Studies for System Reliability and Risk Assessment....Pages 47-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Software Faults and Reliability....Pages 81-103
Software Reliability Improvement Techniques....Pages 105-120
NuSEE: Nuclear Software Engineering Environment....Pages 121-135
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Human Reliability Analysis in Large-scale Digital Control Systems....Pages 139-161
Human Factors Engineering in Large-scale Digital Control Systems....Pages 163-195
HUPESS: Human Performance Evaluation Support System....Pages 197-229
Front Matter....Pages 231-231
Issues in Integrated Model of I&C Systems and Human Operators....Pages 233-240
Countermeasures in Integrated Model of I&C Systems and Human Operators....Pages 241-264
INDESCO: Integrated Decision Support System to Aid the Cognitive Activities of Operators....Pages 265-287
Back Matter....Pages 289-303

✦ Subjects

Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Numerical and Computational Methods in Engineering; System Performance and Evaluation; Nuclear Engineering; Control Engineering