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System assurance involves assuring properties of both a target system itself and the system life cycle acting on it. Assurance of the latter seems less understood than the former, due partly to the lack of consensus on what a ‘life cycle model’ is. This paper proposes a formulation of life cycle models that aims to clarify what it means to assure that a life cycle so modelled achieves expected outcomes. Dependent Petri Net life cycle model is a variant of coloured Petri nets with inputs and outputs that interacts and controls the real life cycle being modelled. Tokens held at a place are data representing artefacts together with assurance that they satisfy conditions associated with the place. The ‘propositions as types’ notion is used to represent evidence(proofs) for assurance as data included in tokens. The intended application is a formulation of the DEOS life cycle model with assurance that it achieves open systems dependability, which is standardised as IEC 62853.
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This work is supported by the project TIGARS (Towards Identifying and closing Gaps in Assurance of autonomous Road vehicleS), a partnership between Adelard LLP, City University in London, the University of Nagoya, Kanagawa University, and WITZ Corporation. TIGARS is a part of the Assuring Autonomy International Programme (AAIP) at the University of York, UK, an initiative funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation and the University of York. The authors thank anonymous reviewers for helpful comments including pointers to related work, and members of the DEOS consortium for discussions on how to realise conceptual requirements in IEC 62853 in more concrete terms.
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Kinoshita, S., Kinoshita, Y., Takeyama, M. (2019). A Modelling Approach for System Life Cycles Assurance. In: Romanovsky, A., Troubitsyna, E., Gashi, I., Schoitsch, E., Bitsch, F. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11699. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26250-1_2
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