Representing design tradeoffs in safety-critical systems

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Representing design tradeoffs in safety-critical systems

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes archive
Volume 30 , Issue 4 (July 2005) table of contents

SESSION: Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS) table of contents

Pages: 1 - 5

Year of Publication: 2005

ISSN:0163-5948

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Jennifer Morris	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Philip Koopman	Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Different fault-tolerance strategies have been shown to be effective at achieving fail-safe behavior in a number of safety-critical application domains with different dependability, service, and cost requirements. A technique for comparing the domain profiles and their fault-tolerance strategies could assist architects of new safety-critical systems in choosing an appropriate fault-tolerance strategy. We suggest an approach using Kiviat graphs to visually represent the dependability, service, and cost profile of a system, and show how such a graph can be used to analyze automotive x-by-wire applications.

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