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Modelling Support for Design of Safety-Critical Automotive Embedded Systems

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Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security (SAFECOMP 2008)

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This paper describes and demonstrates an approach that promises to bridge the gap between model-based systems engineering and the safety process of automotive embedded systems. The basis for this is the integration of safety analysis techniques, a method for developing and managing Safety Cases, and a systematic approach to model-based engineering – the EAST-ADL2 architecture description language. Three areas are highlighted: (1) System model development on different levels of abstraction. This enables fulfilling many requirements on software development as specified by ISO-CD-26262; (2) Safety Case development in close connection to the system model; (3) Analysis of mal-functional behaviour that may cause hazards, by modelling of errors and error propagation in a (complex and hierarchical) system model.

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Chen, D. et al. (2008). Modelling Support for Design of Safety-Critical Automotive Embedded Systems. In: Harrison, M.D., Sujan, MA. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5219. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87698-4_9

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