Software diversity: Way to enhance safety?

✍ Scribed by G Dahll; M Barnes; P Bishop

• Book ID: 103968506
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 874 KB
• Volume: 32
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0950-5849
• DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(90)90100-6

✦ Synopsis

The topic of the paper is the use of diversely produced programs to enhance the safety of computer-based systems applied in safety-critical areas. The paper starts with a survey of scientific investigations on the impact of software redundancy made at various institutions around the worM. Main emphasis will, however, be put on the PODS/STEM projects, which have been perjbrmed at the OECD Halden Project in cooperation with the