American Journal of Software Engineering and Applications

Special Issue

Recent Trends of Safety and Reliability in Computer Based Safety-Critical Systems

  • Submission Deadline: Jan. 30, 2015
  • Status: Submission Closed
  • Lead Guest Editor: Lalit Singh
About This Special Issue
Adaptive systems dynamically alter their behavior to compensate errors or changes in the environment. As opposed to standard redundancy or shut-down mechanisms, dynamic adaptation facilitates intelligent and graceful degradation and survivability strategies, enabling the cost-efficient development of highly reliable and safe systems. Currently there are adaptive safety critical systems on the market with dozens of degradation levels. Safety-critical functions are introduced into a system to prevent, or stop the development of an accident. Safety-critical functions may range from simple physical barriers to very complex systems including a lot of software. The safety-critical functions can be of technical nature, but often administrative controls and human actions are included. Several international standards have been introduced related to design and evaluation of safety-critical functions.

Papers are invited for proposing effective methodologies, to address the safety and reliability issues in such safety-critical systems.
Lead Guest Editor
  • Lalit Singh

    Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India

Guest Editors
  • abhishek girg

    University of Mumbai, Mumbai, India

  • Ratneshwer Gupta

    Department of Computer Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

  • Prakash Tamboli

    Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

  • Hitesh Rajput

    Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India